Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Brilliant and touching

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre AND Basil Rathbone... you'd think you wouldn't even need a script or a story, right? Legends of mystery, horror and comedy all together for a satire of their own onscreen lives! And if you plow through almost all of the reviews here on IMDB you'd be hopped up for a ribald comedy and a satisfying yarn, to feast on...Unfortunately what you get instead is a terrible story featuring four bored and uninspired actors who trudge slowly from unfunny scene to unfunny scene. A funeral parlour knocking off the locals to stay financially afloat... How could you possibly mess that idea up? Well, somehow it's managed and the result is a dire look at past masters struggling to maintain their dignity as the story starts off lame and grinds to a halt immediately.I waded through this torture only because of the acting legends in it. Everything else was as painful and as excruciatingly awful as movie making can get.You'll think less of the cast after watching this and that's a shame.

The four veteran stars of 1963's "The Comedy of Terrors" may have been beyond their physical peaks, but their thespian and comedic skills remained undimmed in this often delicious black comedy. With a penchant for the bottle and disdain for his comely wife, Vincent Price chews his pithy lines and appears to be enjoying himself immensely as a funeral parlor director, whose business has fallen on hard times. Price has hired an incompetent coffin maker and bungling ex-con, Peter Lorre, who has developed a crush on Price's wife, a frustrated opera singer with a glass-shattering high note. Once owner of the funeral parlor, Price's demented father-in-law, Boris Karloff, mutters to himself while dribbling food and forgets the names of the deceased during his incoherent eulogies. Price's landlord, Basil Rathbone, indulges in fits of Shakespearean oratory and suffers from occasional lapses of consciousness that resemble death. All four stars, who together or apart have appeared in countless film classics, both horror and non, have their moments in this short, but delectable film, which was directed by Jacques Tourneur, who directed such classics as "Cat People" and "Out of the Past," and written by Richard Matheson, whose work included episodes of "The Twilight Zone," "Thriller," and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour." The low-budget American-International film is set in a vaguely Gothic locale somewhere in Europe in an undetermined past era; fog enshrouds the graveyards, horses still rule, and the local gravediggers, like Joe E. Brown, speak in an unidentifiable Eastern European accent. Anachronisms abound; the delightful Joyce Jameson as Price's neglected wife sports a platinum blonde coiffure that is pure 1960's. Desperate as his business slows and the landlord presses for back rent, Price advances from petty coffin recycling to drumming up business in a more sinister manner. Soon, the tall lanky Price and the short squat Lorre prowl the countryside in their horse-drawn hearse in search of customers. Unfortunately, things go awry, and therein lies the fun. "The Comedy of Terrors" will delight fans of old horror films, and is a must-see for those who relish campy turns by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.

It's a horror comedy. Not really but a satire that takes place in the mid to late 19th century. Their time was so different than the 21st Century that creates a unique motion. Less horror, more comedy. The man who stole the show was no other than Vincent Price, from the Dr. Phibes fame. His dark humor realized me that he influenced some of the actors such as Robert Downey Jr. if I aren't wrong but no one can compare his 'Priceless' acting. The comedy was such that somebody could realize the definition of a 'pure black comedy'. Yes there are lots of movies out of it but this one gave me a real laughter than I have imagined. Most of the actors, the comic timing is given by Peter Lorre and Joyce Jameson. I wished it would have been a remake to suit more out of it. The story was really attractive as well as the characters even the dialogues. It had created a realistic statement (literally). Even it is film from the 1960s but a versatility is always a mark of this movie. Hat's off to the renowned Vincent Price- The Legend . 7/10

So this film is not the greatest film ever made. This is no Casablanca or Lawrence of Arabia,this is a film for those who love film history and nostalgia of horror cinema from Vincent Price's House of wax to Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. There is no doubt that this film has an all star cast. Another film which had Rathbone,Price and Boris Karloff was Tower of London, which was about Richard Duke of Gloucester and how he became king of England through murder and manipulation. The film was a great showcase of talent by all three actors. So now for this film, This film starts off with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre finding out that they have run their funeral parlor into the ground,and need to come up with cash to pay their landlord played by Bail Rathbone. So to do this they go out at Midnight to kill a former colleague of Price's. This does not go as planed however and soon Price decides to Kill Rathbone,the only problem is he never can die. The humor of the film is dark and it is what we expect from the masters of horror. I would have been happier had they been able to have had peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in this film,but I would have to see House of the long shadows for that to happen. So this film is not Ben Hur or To Kill a Mockingbird,but it is made for the fans of the Gothic horror and who loved the classics like Nosferatu or Phantom of the opera. I enjoyed this film so much because it brings back a time when you could see a movie that did not have to be great,but you could have fun watching it and this film succeeds in that portion. The acting as I said was good. The cat in this film is the beloved Orange from breakfast at Tiffany's. The atmosphere is dark and murky and the sets and art direction really show good background ,and foreground in the film. So is this a good enough film to take its place with Dracula or Frankenstein? No,but it is a fun ride.