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Beautiful, moving film.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I have no interest in classic literature so I don't know much about Edgar Allan Poe.After watching this, I can confidently say he wasn't much of a writer.I remember reading The Tell Tale Heart and this story is weirdly similar.So some people are on a fox hunt and of course the only female gets separated from the group.She falls off her horse onto a grave and then screams and faints when she sees Vincent Price.One of the men hears her scream and comes to see what happened and it turns out that he knows Price and thought the property he lived on was long abandoned(even though Price has several employees and a constant stream of visitors).The woman wakes up and while Price carries her inside he tells her that he "lives at night" even though it is currently day time and he is up during the day for the rest of the movie.Less than five minutes after fainting at the site of Price, the woman wants to marry him.Ugh.There's a black cat that you will quickly realize is not just a cat.It's in the castle all the time and minutes after telling a servant to kill it, Price calls it a stray.The woman says Price is morose and he later says it too but I think they meant to say verbose because this guy will not shut up.To top it all off, the end was extremely predictable.Three stars.

The films that immediately come to mind when considering Roger Corman's considerable cycle of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations are undoubtedly titles such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) and The Pit and The Pendulum (1961), both starring Vincent Price as a man psychologically torn by a past event or his looming fate, and both featuring the Gothic, set-based atmosphere that is now so celebrated by movie fans. The Tomb of Ligeia may be one of Martin Scorsese's all- time favourite horror movies, but it has been strangely, and unfairly, overlooked in the horror cannon.Price once again plays a man, Verden Fell, haunted by the death of his wife. While out fox-hunting one day, the young and boisterous Lady Rowena (Elizabeth Shepherd) comes across Verden in a graveyard, apparently looming over the grave of his wife, the mysterious Ligeia, and forced to wear protective glasses due to his failing eye sight. Rowena takes pity on him, and witnesses his psychological torment first hand, which is mainly due to the presence of a threatening cat and the idea that his dead wife is haunting him from the grave. The two eventually marry, but Rowena finds herself the subject of increasingly strange goings-on.Ligeia is noticeably different to the other entries into the Corman- Poe cycle, mainly due to it's use of exterior filming. While this causes it to lose the claustrophobic, and beautiful, sets of the likes of Usher and Pendulum, it makes for a spookier atmosphere. Price is excellent as always, as is Shepherd, but the blooming romance between their two characters suffers from a distinct lack of chemistry and the niggling problem of the glaring age-gap. However, Ligeia was written by Chinatown (1974) scribe and all-round Hollywood titan Robert Towne, so the absorbing dialogue more than makes up for the awkwardness between the two leads. Certainly a different experience, but Ligeia is up there with the very best of Corman's output.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Vincent Price plays Verden Fell, a reclusive man who is still mourning his wife Ligea. He one day meets and marries the Lady Rowena(Elizabeth Shepherd) in hopes of putting the past behind him, but finds that her memory is too strong and goes back to his old ways, staying in an old ruined abbey by her tomb, much to his new wife's regret. Events will soon spiral out-of-control as it seems a supernatural menace has indeed taken hold...Last of the Roger Corman directed Edgar Allan Poe adaptations is well-produced but too slow and overly familiar to succeed, since this just seems like a rehash of earlier plot elements from various Poe stories.

Slow, lumbering - yet stylish - horror movie which doesn't quite get going for a full hour.For me it was like wading through treacle. It picks up pace in the later stages but by that time I wasn't really bothered how it ended or what happened to the characters.Vincent is his usual self, and Elizabeth Shepherd plays the woman interest. Elizabeth is beautiful but her presence on screen is rather weak.Yes, there's lots of cats jumping and scratching but they weren't scary. Just 4/10 but it really wasn't that good.