Edgar Allan Poe 6 Films - Collection 2 ( Phantom of the Rue Morgue / Premature Burial / The Masque of the Red Death / The Tomb of Ligeia / The Oblong Box / Buried Alive (Lost Girls) )

Edgar Allan Poe 6 Films - Collection 2 (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Phantom of the Rue Morgue / Premature Burial / The Masque of the Red Death / The Tomb of Ligeia / The Oblong Box / Buried Alive (Lost Girls)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
504 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1954 - 1990 and produced in:
South Africa ( Africa, Middle East )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Roy Del Ruth
Roger Corman
Gordon Hessler
Gérard Kikoïne

Written By:
Edgar Allan Poe
Harold Medford
Charles Beaumont
Ray Russell
R. Wright Campbell
Robert Towne
Lawrence Huntington
Christopher Wicking
Jake Chesi

Actors:
Karl Malden ..... Dr. Marais
Claude Dauphin ..... Insp. Bonnard
Patricia Medina ..... Jeanette
Steve Forrest ..... Prof. Paul Dupin
Allyn Ann McLerie ..... Yvonne
Anthony Caruso ..... Jacques the One-Eyed
Veola Vonn ..... Arlette
Dolores Dorn ..... Camille
Merv Griffin ..... Georges Brevert
Paul Richards ..... Rene the Knife-thrower
Rolfe Sedan ..... LeBon
Erin O'Brien-Moore ..... Wardrobe Woman
The Flying Zacchinis ..... Acrobatic Act
Ray Milland ..... Guy Carrell
Hazel Court ..... Emily Gault
Richard Ney ..... Miles Archer
Heather Angel ..... Kate Carrell
Alan Napier ..... Dr. Gideon Gault
John Dierkes ..... Sweeney
Dick Miller ..... Mole
Clive Halliday ..... Judson
Brendan Dillon ..... Minister
Vincent Price ..... Prince Prospero
Hazel Court ..... Juliana
Jane Asher ..... Francesca
David Weston ..... Gino
Nigel Green ..... Ludovico
Patrick Magee ..... Alfredo
Paul Whitsun-Jones ..... Scarlatti
Skip Martin ..... Hop Toad
Robert Brown ..... Guard
Julian Burton ..... Señor Veronese
David Davies ..... Lead Villager
Gaye Brown ..... Señora Escobar
Verina Greenlaw ..... Esmeralda
Doreen Dawn ..... Anna-Marie
Brian Hewlett ..... Senor Lampredi
Vincent Price ..... Verden Fell
Elizabeth Shepherd ..... The Lady Rowena Trevanion
The Lady Ligeia ..... Christopher Gough
John Westbrook ..... Lord Trevanion
Derek Francis ..... Kenrick
Oliver Johnston ..... Dr. Vivian
Richard Vernon ..... Peperel
Frank Thornton ..... Minister at Graveside
Ronald Adam ..... Livery Boy
Denis Gilmore ..... Lady Rowena's Maidservant
Penelope Lee
Vincent Price ..... Julian
Christopher Lee ..... Dr. Newhartt
Rupert Davies ..... Kemp
Uta Levka ..... Heidi
Sally Geeson ..... Sally
Alister Williamson ..... Edward
Peter Arne ..... Trench
Hilary Heath ..... Elizabeth
Maxwell Shaw ..... Hackett
Carl Rigg ..... Norton
Harry Baird ..... N'Galo
Godfrey James ..... Weller
James Mellor ..... Holt
John Barrie ..... Franklin
Ivor Dean ..... Hawthorne
Robert Vaughn ..... Gary Julian
Donald Pleasence ..... Dr. Schaeffer
Karen Lorre ..... Janet
John Carradine ..... Jacob Julian
Ginger Lynn ..... Debbie
Nia Long ..... Fingers
William Butler ..... Tim
Janine Denison ..... Shiro
Arnold Vosloo ..... Ken Wade
Ashley Hayden ..... Boze
Stefa Popic ..... Amy
Hayley Dorskey ..... Sue-Sue
Roslynn Farrell ..... Tina
Dee Dee Eybers ..... Yvonne
Isabel Kastrikis ..... Rita

Synopsis:

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
An insane zoologist uses his trained ape to commit a series of grisly murders in turn-of-the-century Paris.
Premature Burial (1962)
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the 'Red Death' plague that stalks the land.
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
The Oblong Box (1969)
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Buried Alive (1990)
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
After several women are murdered, the police are baffled who the suspect is. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is something that is stronger and more deadlier than man.
Premature Burial (1962)
The wealthy cataleptic painter Guy Carrell believes that he overheard his father, who also had catalepsy, crying in the crypt of his family when he was a kid and is obsessed by the fear of being buried alive. He leaves his fiancée Emily Gault and lives alone with his sister Kate Carrell in the family manor. However Emily seeks him out and convinces Guy to marry her, despite the disapproval of Kate, promising that she would never bury him without the certainty of his death by her friend, Dr. Miles Archer, and her father Dr. Gideon Gault. After the wedding, Guy does not travel in honeymoon to Venice, as he had promised to Emily, and builds a crypt with safety devices to avoid that he is trapped alive inside. However Emily and Miles convince him to demolish the building. Guy has nightmares and visions with the gravediggers and weird events happen in the mansion. He decides to prove that is cured of his fear and opens his father grave, but someone has moved his skeleton and Guy is diagnosed of heart attack. However he is catatonic indeed and is buried alive as he has always feared. Will be the end of Guy? Who might have caused the shock on Guy?
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Prospero asks to burn down the village and he is offended by the villagers Gino and his father-in-law Ludovico. He decides to kill them, but Gino's wife, the young and beautiful Francesca, begs for the lives of her husband and her father and Prospero brings them alive to his castle expecting to corrupt Francesca. Propero worships Satan and invites his noble friends to stay in his castle that is a shelter of depravity against the plague. When Prospero invites his guests to attend a masked ball, he sees a red hooded stranger and he believes that Satan himself has attended his party. But soon he learns who his mysterious guest is.
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Erudite recluse Verden Fell is truck by a meeting with lady Rowena, daughter of country lord Trevanion, who reminds him of his late wife, Ligeia, both being somehow associated with a black cat and the wild fox the lord loves hunting. They fall in love, marry and resolve he leave the ruined abbey where he buried Ligeia. However Rowena's devoted gentleman friend Christopher Gough discovers it cannot be sold as Ligeia was never declared legally dead, making Rowena's marriage involuntarily bigamous. After a hypnotic session shows Ligeia possesses Rowena, strange things keep happening. Verden relapses in gloom and seclusion, but Christopher gets his loyal old manservant Kenrick to assist in an exhumation. In the abbey, things turn to a spectacular, dramatical conclusion for all concerned, yet not quite.
The Oblong Box (1969)
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, the aristocrat Edward Markham is disfigured by sorcery in Africa by the natives. His brother Julian Markham brings him back to the Markham Manor in England and keeps him prisoner in the attic. The mad Edward asks his lawyer Trench and his partner to bring the African sorcerer N'Galo in secret to heal him but Julian does not allow any contact with his brother. Trench and N'Galo simulate the death of Edward to remove him from the attic in a coffin. However, body snatchers bring his body to the unscrupulous Dr. Newhartt for his research. Edward offers a large amount to Dr. Newhartt to stay hidden in his house and wears a crimson hood to hide his face. When Edward goes to the town, his mask brings problem to him and he begins a series of murders. When he finally meets N'Galo, he finds why the natives have deformed him and he seeks revenge.
Buried Alive (1990)
The story involves a young psychologist whose arrival at the creepy Ravenscroft Institute for troubled girls is followed by the disappearance of several students. Tormented by a series of grotesque nightmares involving a deranged killer, the heroine eventually learns of the bizarre goings-on within the school's hallowed halls. Some oddball touches and outlandish performances from Robert Vaughn and Donald Pleasence (in a bad wig) make this film just campy enough to be entertaining. Alert viewers can spot John Carradine in his final role.

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Mysterious killings on the Rue Morgue dazzle the police and terrorise the minds of frightened citizens. The monstrous and brutal nature of the murders point towards a supernatural murderer.
Premature Burial (1962)
Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell, despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligea, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligea continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die.
The Oblong Box (1969)
Sir Edward Markham is the victim of a voodoo curse which has caused his face to become horribly disfigured. He is kept captive in the attic of his house by his brother Julian. Sir Edward escapes, moves in with an unscrupulous doctor who hires grave robbers to steal bodies for his research, wears a red hood over his face, and kills a good number of townspeople before the surprise ending.
Buried Alive (1990)
When a highly-strung science teacher arrives at Ravenscroft Reform School for Girls, she becomes disturbed by some mysterious disappearances. Haunted by dreams of someone being walled up alive, she consults the school doctor and discovers the school was once a lunatic asylum. With Donald Pleasence, John Carradine and Robert Vaughn.

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