Twice Told Tales

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Summary: Vincent Price, hes the man
Review: Being a fantasy and Science Fiction film fan, i have to put this
one close to the top. Great to see Sebastien Cabot and Vincent
Price together in the first of 3 short stories. The costumes,
the color, the music and the mood makes it a entertaining film.
Sure, its not like todays film with blood and guts, and special
effects galore...but it still pleases if you have a good imagination.

Rating:
Summary: 3 is being generous
Review: in the 8 midnight movies releases the class acts are theatre of blood and it! the terror from beyond space... there are also a few mediocrities, twice told tales being the most mediocre of the mediocrities
this must have been the longest price horror film ever made...
As the back of the box says it was made in a busy year for price along with the haunted palace, diary of a madman, the raven and comedy of terrors, which are all better than this one (cept the raven which is a dire spoof)
of the three stories there is very little drama or tension or even the glorious photography and colours of the price/corman films... only the final story offers any real drama, the other two being more whimsical than usual for this type of film. I now know why i never heard of this one before, is staid, arch, dull, run of the mill etc etc.
Why then am i giving it 3 stars and better films like the dunwich horror the same? well it gives what it promises, three price stories and even though they aren't great, they pass the time... and finally, i gave it 3 cos i'm nice, but go buy 'it! the terror from beyond blah blah' and 'theatre of blood' first

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Summary: Twice watched flick
Review: Nice flick, and yes, reminicent of Corman in a slightly more straightforward way. Not only does it lack Corman's dreamy camerawork, but the picture also seems by bits to be suffering from too much bright lighting, where there should be shadows and mid-tones. The film is well presented, the copy is very good, with probably the best picture / sound quality available. Definitely not terryfying to modern viewer, but worth buying, if you have all the Corman films, and still want more!

Rating:
Summary: On the original movie.
Review: Scoff all you want to about whether or not this movie is scary by todays terms. I haven't see the DVD but I saw the original movie back in 1963 as a six year old. First movie I think I ever saw in a theater and it gave me nightmares for YEARS. I have searched for this movie for years in ANY format to see (as an adult) what so terrified me in my youth. After 40 years I have finally found it available in a format I can purchase and view - and have just ordered it. After a long search, glad I finally found it.

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Summary: A movie to ghosts!
Review: Silvya died for years, but two people go into the crypt and find some water that brings dead, old and rotten things and people back to when the were alive or young. But if you smash its bottle, things and people become old and dead again and then the water is all gone. Rappicini's daughter discovered poision and evil flowers that makes the chemistry of your blood evil and Rappicini's father makes a amidote, which will cause to cure the evil chemistry in your blood, but it will kill you, too. Alice has a killer husband, who tried to kill her to death and in The House of Seven Gables, there is a ghost who keeps calling Alice and a witch in the haunted house tells her to get her husband out or else he'll die with blood on his lips! Then a skeleton hand chokes the evil husband to death, the The House of Seven Gables breaks down.

Rating:
Summary: worth watching
Review: The movie suffers ironically from the "House of Green Gables", the most well known story in the movie. It dragged along, even Beverly Garland and Vincent Price's charisma couldn't hold the story together and that's saying a lot.
But I do recommend it. The first two stories were imaginative and well done.

Rating:
Summary: On the original movie.
Review: The movie suffers ironically from the "House of Green Gables", the most well known story in the movie. It dragged along, even Beverly Garland and Vincent Price's charisma couldn't hold the story together and that's saying a lot.
But I do recommend it. The first two stories were imaginative and well done.

Rating:
Summary: worth watching
Review: The movie suffers ironically from the "House of Green Gables", the most well known story in the movie. It dragged along, even Beverly Garland and Vincent Price's charisma couldn't hold the story together and that's saying a lot.
But I do recommend it. The first two stories were imaginative and well done.

Rating:
Summary: Twice-Told Tales Worth Seeing Once.
Review: This film takes its title from Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories, and is really three short films, all of which keep your interest, yet none of which one really needs to see that often. The first deals with raising the dead, the second weaves a tale of poison plants and forbidden love, the third is loosely based on House of the Seven Gables, and all have (none too) unexpected outcomes. The stories are well-acted, there is an acceptable amount of atmosphere, and fans of Vincent Price may well raise the rating by a star, but they are just a tad tame. They are literate and entertaining but ultimately nothing special. Each may have worked a little better as a separate film scripted by Richard Matheson, to flesh out the scenarios and heighten the chill factor.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting Tales with Vincent Price
Review: This is a screen adaptation of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", "Rappaccini's Daughter", and The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Director Sidney Salkow's telling of these tales is pretty dry stuff. However Vincent Price is always a pleasure to watch and he has a great cast to work with including Sebastian Cabot, Bret Halsey, Richard Denning, Mari Blanchard, Beverly Garland and Edith Evanson. The sets by Charles Thompson, art designs by Franz Bachelin and colorful cinematography by Ellis W. Carter were very effective. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" was my favorite tale. This is a good DVD.