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The Premature Burial

Movie
1962
1h 21m
NR
English
Horror
User Score: 
6.3
Critic Score: 
61
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An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
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The Premature Burial

NR
Movie
1962
1h 21m
English
Horror
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
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6.3
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CRITIC SCORE
61

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Ray Milland
Guy Carrell
Hazel Court
Emily Gault
Richard Ney
Miles Archer
Heather Angel
Kate Carrell
Alan Napier
Dr. Gideon Gault
Directed By: Roger Corman
Written By: Charles Beaumont (Screenplay), Ray Russell (Screenplay)

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christopher_brink says...
12 years ago
Milland was too old for his role, but the film certainly has the Corman touch.
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Bronson87 says...
11 months ago
This had a very promising beginning - I love gothic horror, and when you start a movie in a foggy cemetery, I'm all in - trouble is, the film has a hard time holding the tone. Do we get a creepy old mansion, a thunderstorm, and some murder? Yes. Trouble is there is no tension here. I felt like I was watching a period drama and not a horror movie. There was a dream sequence that could have been good, but it was clear the entire time that it was a dream, as if the audience would have been too stupid to understand otherwise. Could have been a nice fake-out moment. I really can't put my finger on what the weak link was here: the score, the acting, the camera work, all of that? So, much great horror from this era, not sure what went wrong here. I'd still recommend this to fans of gothic horror, though keep your expectations low. Turn off the lights, make some popcorn, hope for a thunderstorm, and try to enjoy it.
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ux21 says...
4 years ago
Another one of Roger Corman’s E. A. Poe adaptations, unfortunately this is probably the weakest of the bunch (there’s still one left i haven’t watched yet). Not the tightest script here - even at its short ~75 minutes running time this feels kinda slow. Also, there’s no Vincent Price this time, whose performance could have transcended the mediocre screenwriting here. Instead we get another golden-age veteran actor, Ray Milland, who gives the material his best shot but seems rather miscast in his role.
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John Chard
6 years ago
She wheels her wheel barrow, through streets broad and narrow...


The third in Roger Corman's cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations sees Charles Beaumont & Ray Russell on script duties and Ray Milland star. The story follows Milland's cataleptic Guy Carrell, whose fear of being buried alive like More
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Reno
6 years ago
> An intense thriller from the outside, but full of suspenseful events!

A very surprising mystery-thriller from the 60s that I usually won't write reviews for the old flicks, but for this one an exception. The film was based on the book of the same name that sets in the early 19th century. Since More
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Wuchak
3 years ago
_**Nice foggy moors, but the premise is odd and the story too one-dimensional**_

A British aristocrat during the Victorian Era has catalepsy and is therefore obsessed with the fear of being buried alive (Ray Milland). His lovely new wife urgently tries to help him (Hazel Court). Heather Angel pla More
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