The Comedy of Terrors
Certified Crap. CrapScore 61, rated by 1 admin.
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A financially desperate undertaker decides to manufacture demand, only to encounter a customer who refuses to remain conveniently dead. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone make the macabre business plan wonderfully theatrical. Richard Matheson's wit gives the nonsense a firm structure.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 2.5/10
- Plot
- 8/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 8/10
- Rewatchability
- 8.5/10
“The funeral business has encountered an unusually persistent customer.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 61
Synopsis and movie facts
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
- Released
- 1964
- Directed by
- Jacques Tourneur
- Running time
- 84 min
Starring
- Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull
- Peter Lorre as Felix Gillie
- Boris Karloff as Amos Hinchley
- Joyce Jameson as Amaryllis Trumbull
- Joe E. Brown as Cemetery Keeper
- Beverly Powers as Mrs. Phipps
- Basil Rathbone as John F. Black
- Alan DeWitt as Riggs
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 29486. Review uses a different release year; the catalogue follows the canonical TMDB release date.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the entire cast, Matheson's script and the repeated attempts to keep Rathbone in his coffin.
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