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The Tomb of Ligeia (1965) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 26, 2003
Running Time
1 hour, 21 minutes
Country UK
Studio American International Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Tomb of Ligeia
• Edgar Allan Poe's The Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
• Das Grab der Lygeia (1965)
• Das Grab des Grauens (1965)
• Last Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
• Ligeia (1965)
• Tomb of the Cat
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Genre: Horror, Ghosts, Suspense, Marriage
Tagline: Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the "female thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat!
Plot: Oscar-winning scribe Robert Towne (CHINATOWN) wrote the screenplay--based on Edgar Allan Poe’s story "Ligeia"--for this moody, macabre romance starring Vincent Price. A fox-hunting accident introduces vivacious Lady Rowena (Elizabeth Shepherd) to brooding neighbor Verden Fell (Price). They fall in love despite his penchant for sitting around his gloomy, cobwebbed abbey, obsessing over Ligeia, his dead wife. After they return from the honeymoon, Rowena finds life at the abbey pretty distressing, as the spirit of Ligeia keeps appearing in, among other guises, the form of a malicious black cat. It all leads to a kinky, ghoulish climax, with plenty of shocks, mesmerism, implied drug addiction, and necrophelia along the way. This was the last of the string of color Poe adaptations made by King of the B's Roger Corman. Stunning outdoor photography by Hammer Films veteran Arthur Grant gives it a more realistic look than most of Corman’s pictures, and Shepherd is a great heroine, delivering a mature and sexy performance. Price is unusually restrained as Verden, helping to make this more of an in-depth, Freudian study of obsession as opposed to the usual straight-up gothic horror that fans may
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 Stylishly made with great production design, this has good gothic mood and decent performances; but this old fashioned horror is just too talky and dull to really work.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
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| Directed by |
Roger Corman
The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, Pit and the Pendulum |
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Robert Towne
Chinatown, Days of Thunder, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes |
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The Lord of the Rings, North Sea Hijack, Room at the Top | | | Richard Vernon
Goldfinger, A Hard Day's Night, The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Frank Thornton
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Carry On Screaming! | |
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