This pic still holds up after all these yrs.
Ambience reigns supreme;Price is priceless !
Corman outdid himself : he would never top himself in this Poe genre;
...everything came together...the creative dream sequences,the paintings,the suspense looms everywhere;
-as a postscript,the Tarn is effective and the creaking & breaking up of the house remains w\one all these years(alm.50 !).
I likewise concur. The suffocatingly gloomy and depressing atmosphere of profound dread and decay really gets under the viewer's skin. Moreover, Vincent Price is superb in the lead. Nice moody score by Les Baxter, too.
"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"
I agree about the mood music. Some of the time it was like the romantic film music of an earlier period. But it altered to creepy pieces at the right moments during the movie.
shareLes Baxter excels with\for the music;
at times, he underplays it,and that works most effectively.
I can hardly believe how this and Mask was ever made at all, in the sense of gloomy atmosphere. It's so extraordinary, can't think of anything alike to be made ever again. Just brilliant two films.
This must have been a cemetery for the... Spanish conquistadores!