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A very good film and very underrated
Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 14 July 2022 01:05
I don't consider The Haunted Palace one of Vincent Price's or Roger Corman's best. I do put Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher and especially Masque of the Red Death above it, but it is a very good film and worth checking out. It does get a little ponderous at times in the middle and while eerie in tone the music score is over-the-top. However it is well photographed and has beautiful sets. The writing has some fun and macabre moments and the story delivers its suspenseful atmosphere and creepy scares wonderfully even if the enacting terrible revenge angle is familiar territory. Corman's direction is secure also. The acting is very good. Debra Paget before she retired is beautiful and not too bland. Lon Chaney is wonderful, and his entrance is one of The Haunted Palace's creepiest moments. Even better is Price, he is in a double role here and he is deliciously evil. All in all, very good and very enjoyable, I just wish that it had more attention. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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The Haunted Palace review
Posted : 12 years, 4 months ago on 30 December 2011 01:07
This is one of my favourite Vincent Price films and I think a lot of it has to do with that fact that it's a combination of two stories by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. Joseph Curwen is a Worlock whom is experimenting with raising the dead at his palace and trying to create a super human race by taking peoples souls, mainly woman. The town of Arkham doesn't like this and soon burns Joseph Curwen alive. Joseph places a curse on the town and 110 years later his great-great grandson, Charles Dexter Ward, returns to the town to collect the deed on the very same palace. The towns people believe Joseph Curwen has come back and soon Charles is changing after the very first night in his new home. Joseph Curwen is trying to get into his body to come back from the dead and continue his experiments and take his revenge on the towns people. But it doesn't go as planned...
There's so much to like about this movie. The music is great, the acting is awesome, Debra Paget is hot, and the set of the palace is beautiful! Personally I think this is Vincent's best performance. The movie does run a bit slow near the end but I love it none the less. Some of Vincent's best lines are in this movie. There's a sceen where he is entering his wife's room and she asks what he is doing and he says; "Merely exercising my husbandly prerogative." Haha, brilliant! This was my 2nd Vincent Price film I saw and it got me hooked from then on.
There's so much to like about this movie. The music is great, the acting is awesome, Debra Paget is hot, and the set of the palace is beautiful! Personally I think this is Vincent's best performance. The movie does run a bit slow near the end but I love it none the less. Some of Vincent's best lines are in this movie. There's a sceen where he is entering his wife's room and she asks what he is doing and he says; "Merely exercising my husbandly prerogative." Haha, brilliant! This was my 2nd Vincent Price film I saw and it got me hooked from then on.
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