I've liked this movie ever since I was a child and saw it at the Memorial Drive-In in West Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1970s.
I was about seven or 8 at the time, and, I especially remember when Poe's wife, Lenore, sat-up in her casket after they discovered that she was still alive...and, her hair turned a complete-white due to the shock of being buried alive! This stuck with me throughout the decades, and, I was determined to find this movie, being a big Poe-Fan!
I just found this movie today, on YouTube, after connecting Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Walker, Jr. after remembering Walker in the early "Star Trek" episode "Charlie X" that I saw recently!?!? It's amazing how the memory works...you just gotta get it started again!
Years ago, before laws became more strict, animals like Burmese Pythons and such were allowed to travel to the US without a passport...this explains why they're in Virginia, and, how some were hired to do the 'water pit' scenes in this movie! Only kidding! :)
This was directed by one of the original directors of the television series "Bonanza" (1959), Mohy Quandour. The original "Joker," Cesar Romero, from the original "Batman" (1966), is also in this.
Of course, I didn't get the same fright from this movie that I did as a child, but, it's still good; especially that scene where Lenore sits-up in the casket. That 'white hair' thing is still shocking. Rumor has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned white after being beheaded!?!?
This is a contemporary tale of Edgar Allan Poe being placed into one of his own nightmarish stories; and, of how he controversially married his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, and, his horror writing became even more intense.
American Drive-Ins once had the greatest variety of films...EVER! :)
I was about seven or 8 at the time, and, I especially remember when Poe's wife, Lenore, sat-up in her casket after they discovered that she was still alive...and, her hair turned a complete-white due to the shock of being buried alive! This stuck with me throughout the decades, and, I was determined to find this movie, being a big Poe-Fan!
I just found this movie today, on YouTube, after connecting Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Walker, Jr. after remembering Walker in the early "Star Trek" episode "Charlie X" that I saw recently!?!? It's amazing how the memory works...you just gotta get it started again!
Years ago, before laws became more strict, animals like Burmese Pythons and such were allowed to travel to the US without a passport...this explains why they're in Virginia, and, how some were hired to do the 'water pit' scenes in this movie! Only kidding! :)
This was directed by one of the original directors of the television series "Bonanza" (1959), Mohy Quandour. The original "Joker," Cesar Romero, from the original "Batman" (1966), is also in this.
Of course, I didn't get the same fright from this movie that I did as a child, but, it's still good; especially that scene where Lenore sits-up in the casket. That 'white hair' thing is still shocking. Rumor has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned white after being beheaded!?!?
This is a contemporary tale of Edgar Allan Poe being placed into one of his own nightmarish stories; and, of how he controversially married his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, and, his horror writing became even more intense.
American Drive-Ins once had the greatest variety of films...EVER! :)