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The Comedy Of Terrors [DVD]

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Vincent Price (Actor), Peter Lorre (Actor), Jacques Tourneur (Director) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown
  • Directors: Jacques Tourneur
  • Producers: Anthony Carras
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Optimum Home Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: 12 Jan. 2009
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001KWHOEW
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,142 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Horror comedy starring Vincent Price and Peter Lorre. When business gets slack and money gets a bit tight at Hinchley and Trumbull undertakers, Waldo Trumbull (Price) decides that the time has come to do something about it. He and his assistant, Felix Gillie (Lorre), go out at night with the intention of creating some business of their own. The film also stars the legendary Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone.

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delivers a number of hearty laughs along the way --Blu-ray.com

grand slapstick, and the performances are funnier the more often you see it --DVDLaser

You can't go wrong with the creepy combo of Price, Lorre, Rathbone, and Rhubarb the Cat! --StaciWilson.com --This text refers to the Blu-ray edition.

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5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb!!!!
By BlackBrigand TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 6 Mar. 2016
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Back in the 1980s I replaced most of my collection of 8mm movies with VHS and I have been going through a same process of upgrading to DVD for the last few years. This has given me the excuse to revisit many films that I have not seen for some time. This film is not one of them...it has been a firm favourite since 1961 and I have watched this movie again virtually every year since.

Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone show their supreme talent for tongue in cheek comedy delivering a gently humorous macabre horror spoof of the highest quality.

A drunken Vincent Price runs his father in law's funeral parlour in 19th Century New England, with his hapless assistant Peter Lorre, his ancient father in law Boris Karloff and his wife Joyce Jameson. When business is slow, Price devises a means of drumming up business...murdering a few clients. Price and Lorre play off each other perfectly as a macabre Laurel and Hardy with Rathbone providing hilarious cameos as a victim who refuses to die. Watch for the brilliant cameo by Joe E Brown.

Sadly this was Lorre's final film, he died two months after completion; Karloff only made a couple of further movies during his retirement back in Britain.

Even my wife likes this film and she absolutely hates horror movies, it stands alone as either a classic horror or a classic comedy.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe comedy of terrors
By Sarah Moorin on 7 Mar. 2010
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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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5.0 out of 5 starsClassic Horror Comedy
By M. Dowden HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 6 April 2010
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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.
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By Mr. K. White on 15 Nov. 2011
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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...
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Comedy of Terrors
By Ken McCormac on 23 Jan. 2010
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 starsDecent enough and an all star cast to boot.
By Colonel Decker on 10 Dec. 2014
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What a superb cast- Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone- writing from Richard Matheson and directed by Jacques Tourneur. The acting is superb as you would expect from such a team. This is more of a comedy than a horror, indeed there is nothing horrific about the movie. Unfortunetly the jokes don't always work and the plot is ultra thin, However take this as a theatre play which it is certainlly made this way, and just enjoy the fact that we had these great actors all in one film. Writer Matheson would later go on to say after the films disappointing box office return that the title pulled customers away from the movie- neither underlining that it is horror, or comedy.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFor the last time...
By Autonome on 28 Feb. 2013
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It would be the last time that genius actors Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff would star together, following their amazing success in "The Raven" and "Tales of Terror".
Richard Matheson was very keen to write a sequel to "Comedy..." but unfortunately the poor box office success of the film didn't warrant it. On top of this, Peter Lorre died on March 23 1964, almost exactly two months after the release of this film.
But I tell you, this infernal trio left on a high. "The Comedy of Terror" is an amazingly funny, extremely well-performed film, but the actors had their job made tremendously easier by the jewel script of Richard Matheson. The minor flaws we had spotted in "The Raven" have all but disappeared here and Matheson writes a completely bonkers plot, with outrageous pieces of dialogue. Once the script is written, Matheson can unleash his actors in front of the camera and it is a complete riot. The three most impressive in this team work are probably Boris Karloff, subdued and objectively "absent" as the ancient of the family (whom he was), Basil Rathbone, who spends the movie trying NOT to be dead by uttering MacBeth quotes without interruption and the insanely beautiful and funny Joyce Jameson, the lungs who wish they were an opera singer. The cat is also very good. Price and Lorre do their Laurel-Hardy type routine with genius but people around them are as good as they are so: sit back, enjoy and lament the fact that they don't do it this way anymore...
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