Tales of Terror

Tales of Terror
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRoger Corman
Screenplay byRichard Matheson
Based on"Morella"
"The Black Cat"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced byRoger Corman
executive
Samuel Z. Arkoff
James H. Nicholson
Starring
CinematographyFloyd Crosby
Edited byAnthony Carras
Music byLes Baxter
Color processPathécolor
Production
company
Alta Vista Productions
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • July 4, 1962 (1962-07-04)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.5 million[1][2][3] or $1 million[4]
64,396 admissions (France)[5]

Tales of Terror is a 1962 American International Pictures comedy horror film[1] in colour and Panavision, produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, and Roger Corman, who also directed. The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson, and the film stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone. It is the fourth in the so-called Corman-Poe cycle of eight films, largely featuring adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories and directed by Corman for AIP. The film was released in 1962 as a double feature with Panic in Year Zero!.

  1. ^ a b Spotlight: Tales of Terror from Turner Classic Movies
  2. ^ Roger Corman & Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime, Muller, 1990, ISBN 9780091746797, p 84
  3. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. 9 Jan 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
  4. ^ "Poe & Bikinis". Variety. 9 October 1963. p. 17.
  5. ^ Box office information for Roger Corman films in France at Box Office Story