Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by Sidney Salkow, Roger Corman
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Actor: Beverly Garland, Brett Halsey, Richard Denning, Sebastian Cabot, Vincent PriceDirector: Roger Corman, Sidney Salkow
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 209 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
DVD Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
As another reviewer mentioned, one of the Tales of Terror is actually a combination of "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado". I read both stories in my English classes, and then show the video and have the students write a compare/contrast paper. It's a lot of fun right around Halloween, and helps us get into the mood for the holiday. We all especially love the end, when Peter Lorre's head is being tossed back and forth between his wife and Fortunato. Great stuff! DVD Review: A HORROR Fan delight
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1960's, Roger Corman directed and produced many of Edgar Allan Poe's novels and short stories to the silver screen. The cast were usually Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone with a few appearances by Boris Karloff (The Raven is one of those and is worth every penny if you find it).
This double feature of Poe Tales are suited for these masters of fright and their wonderful acting talents.
Those fans of modern day splatter horror may not get these semi bloodless thriller. However these tales of mayhem may grow on you
Without a doubt, worth every penny to keep in any horror collection
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
DVD Review: "The Black Cat" segment is also "Cask of Amontillado"
Summary: 4 Stars
Vincent Price & Peter Lorre have great fun in "The Black Cat" segment which also intertwines the plot of "The Cask of Amontillado"- Price's Fortunato insults Lorre's Monstressor by sleeping with his wife, who gets walled up with Price and... well, there's where even more fun begins!
"Morella" and "M. Valdemar" are also good scary fun, but it's "The Black Cat" that makes the show. Alas, I have not yet seen "Twice Told Tales".
DVD Review: Love Vincent and Peter
Summary: 5 Stars
I had Tales of Terror on VHS when I was a kid and have looked for it everywhere on DVD. The Black Cat is the best of the three. Peter Lorre and Vincent Price are brilliant. I hadn't seen twice told tales before, it's campy, but the old horror quality of the film and Vincent make-up for it.
Definitely a must for fans of Vincent, Peter, Edgar Allan Poe, and anyone who loves old style horror!
DVD Review: Don't miss
Summary: 5 Stars
the black cat...
It's a must see... The actors are amazing... Funny and scary...
Description of Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
TALES OF TERROR: This triple treat of terror is a three-episode treat dripping with murder necrophilia dementia live burials zombies and the terrifying performances of some of horror s greatest spooks Vincent Price Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone resulting in nothing less than "juicy entertainment" and "spine-chilling cinema" (Cue)!TWICE TOLD TALES: It's spine-tingling terror in triplicate! "Virtuoso of horror" (Los Angeles Times) Vincent Price dials up the depravity in this spellbinding trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "all-chiller" (LA Herald-Examiner) classics! Featuring "a demented genius! Poisonous plants! Oozing blood! [And] a corpse in a wedding gown" (The Film Daily) Twice Told Tales spins three diabolical nightmares of madness mayhem and murder most foul!System Requirements:Running Time: 209 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?NR UPC:?027616920720 Manufacturer No:?1008028When you've got Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Peter Lorre all in the same movie, how can you go wrong? Tales of Terror is a trio of Edgar Allen Poe stories, starring three of horror's greats and produced and directed by the immortal Roger Corman. The first story, "Morella," involves a girl (Debra Paget) who returns to her isolated, spooky family home to see her estranged father (Price) for the first time in 26 years. He's let the housekeeping slide a bit--cobwebs abound and, oh, yes, his dead wife is still upstairs. Peter Lorre joins the fun for "The Black Cat," a piece with comic flavor that allows Price to show his rarely seen silly side, and then it's Basil Rathbone's turn to be creepy in "The Case of M. Valdemar," the tale of a mesmerist who decides to experiment with the unknown (bad idea). The movie is well paced, and makes good use of comedy without undercutting its chills. It's a rare treat to see this many masters of the genre working together and so clearly enjoying themselves. Don't miss it. --Ali Davis
After the horror-triptych format proved a box-office winner in Tales of Terror, Twice Told Tales repeated the idea. this time not with Edgar Allan Poe stories, but the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Good idea, as Hawthorne delivered some eerie stories in his time, but the execution here is less than scintillating. The first story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," is the most entertaining of the bunch, in part because Vincent Price (the star of all three stories, natch) and Sebastian Cabot appear to be enjoying the premise: two old friends discover a Fountain of Youth elixir. This will come in handy in erasing their own wrinkles and gray hair, as well as reviving the corpse of Cabot's long-dead bride. but be careful what you wish for. The second is "Rappaccini's Daughter," with Price as an overly protective father with a novel way to keep his daughter from the sins of the flesh. It is fatally dull, and the final segment, a severe condensation of Hawthorne's novel "The House of the Seven Gables," is even more annoying, although at least it moves along a bit. The story does offer foxy scream queen Beverly Garland in her prime. Journeyman director Sidney Salkow is responsible for the deadly pace, which leaves only Vincent Price as the reason to watch the proceedings. He's just dandy, but the Roger Corman films of the same era are the ones to see. --Robert Horton
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