Roger Corman

Roger Corman’s directorial debut. During the Civil War’s waning days, the Confederate Army conscripts five convicted killers, offering them full pardons provided they intercept a Confederate traitor traveling with a fortune in stolen gold.

A man (Vincent Price) believes his family is cursed with madness as his house crumbles around him.

A nobleman (Vincent Price) is convinced his late wife (Barbara Steele) is haunting him.

Tales of Terror is an uneven film. Director Roger Corman and screenwriter Richard Matheson give us three stories culled from the works of Edgar Allan Poe: one good, one bad, and one that’s just okay.

Richard III (Vincent Price) grows madder and madder as he murders his way to the throne of England.

Recently turned into a raven, a magician (Peter Lorre) talks a fellow magician (Vincent Price) into helping him exact revenge on the magician (Boris Karloff) responsible.

A young French soldier (Jack Nicholson) pursues a mysterious woman to a Baron’s (Boris Karloff) castle.

A man (Vincent Price) returns to the house inhabited by his ancestor, a warlock burned alive 100 years ago.

A prince (Vincent Price) revels in debauchery while a plague ravages the surrounding countryside.

A nobleman (Vincent Price) becomes obsessed with the idea that his dead wife still lives.

The leader (Peter Fonda) of a chapter of Hells Angels finds himself questioning his life after a trip to recover a friend’s (Bruce Dern) bike leads to tragedy.

Hurt plays a scientist in the year 2031 whose latest creation, an ultimate weapon for the military, inadvertently creates a hole in time that transports him and his futuristic car to 1817’s Switzerland where he meets Mary Godwin and learns that Victor Frankenstein and his monster are very much real.

Seeking to lure Sidney Prescott out of hiding, Ghostface carves his way through the cast of a horror movie based on her life.