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The Haunted Palace

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Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) curses a New England village just before being burned alive. More than a century later, Curwen's kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward (also Price) arrives in town and moves into Curwen's old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.) helps Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) adjust to their new home. The ancient curse, however, takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.
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Keith Phipps The Dissolve 10/22/2013
3.5/4
Though a fine movie in its own right, The Haunted Palace feels a bit too familiar for its own good at times. Go to Full Review
Jorge Loser Espinof 05/16/2024
4.5/5
The Haunted Palace stands as a hallucinatory cross between the worlds of Gothic curses and castles and the new sensibilities of cosmic science fiction... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Alberto Abuín Espinof 04/17/2020
An elegance that unites Lovecraft with Poe, also marking it with Vincent Price's marvelous composition. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 10/31/2013
2.5/4
[NEW 2024 REVIEW] Slack storytelling and an unsatisfying ending make this the weakest picture in the Poe-Corman-Price series. Go to Full Review
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy 10/31/2011
8/10
The apex of Corman's skill for reworking AIP's standing Gothic sets to get the maximum possible bang for his buck. Go to Full Review
Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com 01/27/2008
68/100
Corman's widescreen framing, the blazing Technicolor photography, and the effectively maximized production values created a convincing, if twisted, world. Go to Full Review
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Richard W 06/13/2024 I liked it,very atmospheric,great sets ,cool castle great acting very haunting , the ending could have been a little better ,but overall well done .that's if you like 1963 horror b movies See more Andrew L 08/30/2023 Price and Chaney are wonderful in this film, but once again, this movie was advertised as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, yet it has absolutely nothing to do with Poe. Much of this movie is taken from various works of HP Lovecraft strung together See more sean s 06/09/2022 Most of these Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft based Roger Corman movies from the 1960s are pretty great for the time that they were made. There is usually a fair amount of fog, cool sets and costumes included. Basically, a man inherits the family estate in a haunted New England town where his ancestor was burned alive for being a warlock. I saw this as a kid and was really freaked out by the little girl with the silly putty eye sockets, which is really silly looking by today's standards. See more 10/16/2020 Posiblemente una de las mejores adaptaciones de la obra de Lovecraft (que no de Edgar Allan Poe), y que aunque quizás no alcanza la locura que las obras del americano tenían, si se hace un poco destacar en otras cintas de casas encantadas. Esto es mayoritariamente, claro está, por la presencia del siempre inigualable y divertidisimo, Vincent Price, que se come la pantalla con patatas en cada plano que aparece (que son practicament todos). Bastante recomendable sobretodo dentro del catálogo Cormaniano. See more 10/10/2019 beautiful sets new england - arkahm See more 06/27/2019 Vincent really plays at his best here. I also love the music. The entire movie is somehow like a dream. Some great cam-work! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) curses a New England village just before being burned alive. More than a century later, Curwen's kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward (also Price) arrives in town and moves into Curwen's old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.) helps Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) adjust to their new home. The ancient curse, however, takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.
Director
Roger Corman
Producer
Roger Corman
Screenwriter
Charles Beaumont
Distributor
American International Pictures
Production Co
Alta Vista Productions, La Honda Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 28, 1963, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 21, 2016
Runtime
1h 25m
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