In Victorian England Verden Fell (Vincent Price) is obsessed with his dead wife Ligeia. He meets and falls in love with Rowena (Elizabeth Shepherd). She helps him get over his obsession and they get married. But it seems Ligeia's evil spirit is alive and refuses to let Verden go...
The last of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe series starring Vincent Price. It's beautifully filmed in England and has some beautiful settings--but (like the rest of the Poe series) nothing really happens. It's a 30 minute movie stretched out to 90 minutes. To pad the movie there are countless times Verden goes on and on about Leiga; Rowena has at least TWO long, pointless dream sequences and she also walks around the spooky house at night a number of times.
What prevents this from being totally boring is the cinematography, the acting by Price and Shepherd (both are great), beautiful costumes and sets, a few nice shock cuts and a very lively ending. But really-nothing happens until the end. Still this is worth seeing for horror fans. And, for a Roger Corman film, this is pretty restrained.
The last of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe series starring Vincent Price. It's beautifully filmed in England and has some beautiful settings--but (like the rest of the Poe series) nothing really happens. It's a 30 minute movie stretched out to 90 minutes. To pad the movie there are countless times Verden goes on and on about Leiga; Rowena has at least TWO long, pointless dream sequences and she also walks around the spooky house at night a number of times.
What prevents this from being totally boring is the cinematography, the acting by Price and Shepherd (both are great), beautiful costumes and sets, a few nice shock cuts and a very lively ending. But really-nothing happens until the end. Still this is worth seeing for horror fans. And, for a Roger Corman film, this is pretty restrained.