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The Haunted Palace

Released Aug 28, 1963 1h 25m Horror List
75% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 66% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
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 Though a fine movie in its own right, The Haunted Palace feels a bit too familiar for its own good at times. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 22, 2013 Full Review Jorge Loser Espinof 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] Rated: 4.5/5 May 16, 2024 Full Review Alberto Abuín Espinof An elegance that unites Lovecraft with Poe, also marking it with Vincent Price's marvelous composition. [Full Review in Spanish] Apr 17, 2020 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy [NEW 2024 REVIEW] Slack storytelling and an unsatisfying ending make this the weakest picture in the Poe-Corman-Price series. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 31, 2013 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy The apex of Corman's skill for reworking AIP's standing Gothic sets to get the maximum possible bang for his buck. Rated: 8/10 Oct 31, 2011 Full Review Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com Corman's widescreen framing, the blazing Technicolor photography, and the effectively maximized production values created a convincing, if twisted, world. Rated: 68/100 Jan 27, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Richard W 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 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/13/24 Full Review Andrew L 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 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/30/23 Full Review charles f Haunted and enjoyable, Price is magnificent and Paget is lovely. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review joe m Decent Roger Corman production, "The Haunted Palace" is more HP Lovecraft than Edgar Allen Poe as it tells the tale of Charles Dexter Ward (Price), accompanied by his beautiful wife (Paget), who comes back to Arkham to claim the ancestral home where his great great grandfather was burned to death over 100 years ago. Decent premise and good acting, including an underutilized Lon Chaney Jr, though the whole film is not overly scary. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review sean s 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. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review martin a A great story, a man inherits a castle 100 years after the owner, his uncle was burned alive for evil practices. The spirit of the murdered man possesses the young man and gets him to kill all of his enemies who took part in his murder Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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