Redundant and unnecessary.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Long before Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, or Treehouse of Horror this 1962 Roger Corman effort attempts the unholy trinity anthology style by giving us three Edgar Allen Poe stories adapted for the big screen. Though Corman was no stranger to taking a few meagre pages and expanding them to feature length with previous films such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher, he wisely keeps the running time to roughly 30 minutes each here.The first story is an adaptation of Morella with Vincent Price brooding in his gloomy castle, pining for his long-dead wife and the daughter who's birth killed her. It's good, with some nice sets and morbid ham acting from Price.The second story bills itself as an adaptation of The Black Cat but seems a bit more like The Telltale Heart. In it Peter Lorre is a drunk who bricks up his wife and her lover (Price again) in his cellar so he can spend her money on drink. The cat imagery doesn't seem like it even belongs in this story but Price's over-the-top acting makes this one more comedic.Lastly, we have an adaptation of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, which is the weakest of the three. Here we have Basil Rathbone put Price under hypnosis at the moment of his death as a way of controlling his ghost for eternity. It's not very good and I was getting bored before the end.Overall, an okay movie but hardly the finest hour for anyone involved.

Three-part horror anthology: in "Morella", a young woman (Maggie Pierce) returns to her widowed father's mansion after 26 years, and finds him hostile at first, guilt-ridden later. But there is someone else in the house who has awaited her return all these years....Vincent Price has at least one great line ("I did bury her, but I couldn't leave her there! That would be deranged!"), and the payoff is illogical but effective. In "The Black Cat", a pathetic drunkard (Peter Lorre) finds out that his wife is cheating on him - and thinks of a drastic solution. This tale is mostly played for laughs (seeing Price tasting wine is Priceless!); it's a little too long, but inventively directed and has a clever twist ending (if you haven't read the story). In "The Case of Mr. Valdemar", a wicked hypnotist (Basil Rathbone) thinks he can trap the dying Price's mind in the exact moment of death forever. It's a great idea, and Price gives a moving performance, but the ending is king of weak. Overall, I think the second segment is the most successful one, but the entire movie is worth seeing. *** out of 4.

This movie has great acting. It also has great special effects. It also has great story lines. 6.9 is underrating this movie. I give this movie 9 out of 10. Because it is one of the scariest movies I have seen. If this horror film does not scary you then no horror film will. This is a bunch of short horror stories. I so mush more lines. I and am Running out things to say. The 3rd story in this film is my favourite story. My second favourite story is the 2nd story. My 3rd favourite is the first story. This is so scary you scream if you watch it alone. This is a great film. Make a point to see it. I need more lines. Great movie great movie great movie.

I saw Tales of Terror because I'm a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone and I like Peter Lorre too. I found the film very enjoyable if not a masterpiece. As a matter of fact two thirds of the movie is great, but I did find one segment lacking. That segment was Morella. It is not terrible by all means, it does have the best costume and set design of the film- though the whole of Tales of Terror is very handsomely mounted- and Vincent Price is great as ever in a role that suits him to the bone. But the story is all over the place and doesn't make that much sense, Leona Gage is bland in the title role and the segment is much too rushed so we don't feel much of the atmosphere. The Black Cat fares much better though, again it looks spookily sumptuous, and the writing is broadly droll, while the story still evokes a chilling atmosphere. Price is excellent once again, and Peter Lorre- these two are very memorable together- is in excellent scene-stealing form. The best of the three is The Case of Mr Valdemar, the closest in spirit to Poe's stories(with Morella being the loosest) and the most chillingly atmospheric, especially at the end. The story and writing convey the wittiness, intelligence and horror of Poe's writing very well, while Price gives his best performance of the three segments again in a role that really plays to his strengths and very rarely will you see Basil Rathbone as evil as he is here. Overall, a spooky, handsomely mounted and fun movie that just falls short of being a masterpiece. 8/10 Bethany Cox