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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: When a landlord is forced to pay a year's back rent ASAP, he has to maintain a high turnover of tenants. To do this, he has to be creative in 'disposing' of clients... ...The Comedy of Terrors ( The Graveside Story )
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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At last I have now got a copy of this film; I have seen it quite a few times on tv but now I can watch it whenever I like. I am always amazed when I find someone who has never seen or even heard of this, as it is so funny.
Set somewhere in New England in the latter part of the nineteenth century Vincent Price has taken over the proprietorship of a funeral parlour from his father-in-law, played by Boris Karloff. For his assistant he has Peter Lorre. With business being slow there is only one answer, drum up your own trade, but things are never that simple. With Price drinking all the time, trying to poison his father-in-law and despairing of his wife's singing, he doesn't ham up his role as he does do magnificently in other movies. Instead the hamming up goes to Basil Rathbone in a fantastic cameo role of Mr Black. Mr Black is a cataleptic and just when you think he is dead, up he pops again. Added to this he keeps spouting random lines from 'Macbeth', bringing in an unforgettable performance.
If you have never seen this before then you don't know what you are missing, this is a brilliant black comedy.
Set somewhere in New England in the latter part of the nineteenth century Vincent Price has taken over the proprietorship of a funeral parlour from his father-in-law, played by Boris Karloff. For his assistant he has Peter Lorre. With business being slow there is only one answer, drum up your own trade, but things are never that simple. With Price drinking all the time, trying to poison his father-in-law and despairing of his wife's singing, he doesn't ham up his role as he does do magnificently in other movies. Instead the hamming up goes to Basil Rathbone in a fantastic cameo role of Mr Black. Mr Black is a cataleptic and just when you think he is dead, up he pops again. Added to this he keeps spouting random lines from 'Macbeth', bringing in an unforgettable performance.
If you have never seen this before then you don't know what you are missing, this is a brilliant black comedy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Great horror-style comedy with struggling undertakers Vincent Price and Peter Lorre with Boris Karloff.Money,lust and alcohol all play a part in this murderous plot with veteran Basil Rathbone stealing the acting honours with his near cameo part.A late-night giggle.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I love this film because it reunited vincent price,boris karloff and peter lorre that was really good because these are three of my fav actors.Now this is totally different to any vincent price film because it is so funny and all his other films are serious and scary and this one is so funny.Anybody who loves these actors or whose new to seeing these actors this is a great place to start. More info about it.
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The Comedy Of Terrors - Terribly funny!
Legends Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone on the same bill? This was a film I just had to watch! Read more
Published 24 days ago by Victor
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A glorious tour de farce with the best acting/actors playing it up for real. Truly a classic, immortal! it will be great forever...
Published 6 months ago by Mr. K. White
Dead Funny
Unscrupulous undertakers Waldo Trumbull(Vincent Price) and Felix Gillie(Peter Lorre) never let the fact that their clients are still alive hinder them, believing that giving the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett
Absolutely Brilliant!
I can't stop laughing at this film and can't praise it highly enough. It's extremely well crafted and wonderfully executed. Read more
Published 14 months ago by A. McGrath
A Comedy of Terrors
This is a very funny film that I remember from childhood. Watching it again after many years was not quite as funny as it seemed the first time round, but funny all the same.
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