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At the very tail end of their Edgar Allan Poe cycle of movies, which
started over a decade ago with House of Usher (1960, driected by
Roger Corman), AIP decided to give this to their (tv-)audiences,
little more than a re-telling of 4 of Poe's short stories (The
Tell-tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, The
Pit and the Pendulum) from a first-person point of view, executed with
gusto by Vincent Price.
The result is, at best, ambivalent: Price, a versatile if hammy actor,
does embrace the stories, infuses them with feeling, & really plays
the scenes out instead of just reading them. On the other hand, even that
gets tiring after a while, especially since it is four stories in a row,
all done along the same lines, so the novelty of Vincent Price
acting out prose soon turns into old cliché ... & it's of course not
made any better by the fact that at least 2 of the stories (The
Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado) are perfectly
adaptable into regular plays (be it for stage screen or whatever).
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