Tales of Terror

Year: 1962

Director: Roger Corman

Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget

IMDb: tt0056552

Theme / prize: retrospectief Roger Corman

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.