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The King is dead! This is one of those movies that I like to watch but only when the mood strikes me. It runs like a play shot on film sometimes and maybe that has to do with the fact that the story is very Shakespearian in nature. Vincent Price plays Richard who will do anything to become King of England after King Edward V dies. Richard soons starts killing off anyone that stands in his way, but it comes with a price. He starts to see the ghosts of the victims he kills and they taunt him and predict his future death...or is it just his guilty concious playing tricks on him.
Vincent Price plays one of his most evil roles and he does such a good job at it. He even kills off two little boys, which was pretty rare to see on film back then. He also weilds a sword in battle, which I don't think Price does in any other film. I don't give this film to high of a rating because it's pretty cheap looking. The outside shots of the Castle look like paper models and you can tell some of the set is from the movie Pit and the Pendulum, which was shot just a year before this one. Speaking of Pit and the Pendulum, there is a sceen that has Anne calling to Richard and it leads him to her coffin where he thinks she has been laid to rest. But soon the coffin lid opens and out pops the ghost of Anne. It is so similar to the way it was done on Pit and the Pendulum it's kind of funny.
Another interesting note about this film is the fact that it is a Roger Corman/ Price film that actually doesn't end in a blaze!!!
