Ray Milland stars in this Roger Corman directed version of the Edgar Allan Poe story as a wealthy man with a morbid and all-consuming fear of death and being buried alive welcomes his beautiful fiancée(Hazel Court) to his castle. Happy at first, his fears soon return, and after falling into a cataleptic state, learns that being buried alive wasn't the only thing he should have been watching out for...
Oddly dull and slow film has some atmosphere but feels flat, and doesn't make an effective use of its source material. Was filmed earlier as a good episode of the Boris Karloff hosted series "Thriller", with the same title and premise! A misfire in the Corman produced Poe adaptations of this period.
Oddly dull and slow film has some atmosphere but feels flat, and doesn't make an effective use of its source material. Was filmed earlier as a good episode of the Boris Karloff hosted series "Thriller", with the same title and premise! A misfire in the Corman produced Poe adaptations of this period.