THE PREMATURE BURIAL (1962)

  It's hard to watch this one with the knowledge that it was originally going to star Vincent Price and not imagine it would have been improved by his presence. That's not to say that Ray Milland doesn't do a good job it's just hard for anyone to top Price in these Roger Corman directed Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and that inevitably leads to some minor disappointment while viewing.    

 The story itself deals with a guy(Milland) whose family has a history of being buried alive so that's his greatest fear. Guess what ends up happening to him?

 This was the 3rd Corman/Poe film and the only one not to star Vincent Price. 

Corman's Poe adaptations:

1960 - HOUSE OF USHER

1961 - THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

1962 - PREMATURE BURIAL

1962 - TALES OF TERROR

1963 - THE RAVEN

1963 - THE HAUNTED PALACE

1964 - THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

1964 - TOMB OF LIGEIA

                                                 Known in France as THE OBSESSION:

Weird British double feature where everything is rated X!