# Good horror anthology movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217 "2020-04-20T20:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/21 "2020-04-21T16:56:56Z")
It’s not a great movie, but a bit of fun: _Into the Badlands_, with Bruce Dern as a bounty hunter in the Old West, tying several stories together. A supernatural and possibly undead bounty hunter. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/22 "2020-04-21T22:02:57Z")
Three by Corman should be mentioned – **Poe’s Tales of Terror** stars Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Peter Lorre. With that lineup, it should’ve been better. (The same three were in his movie **The Raven** , which is Great, but only because it doesn’t take itself seriously at all.) The film actually uses _four_ Poe stories, because one of them combines two different ones. . _Morella_ – Remember this story of Poe’s? It’s another of his reincarnated dead wife stories. You probably won’t remember this adaptation, either, although it has a lot more action than the Poe story . _The Black Cat_ Peter Lorre plays a drunken husband (of a shrewish wife with a black cat) who confronts a wine connoisseur in a duel of “name that wine”, at which the drunken Lorre comes off much better than anyone expected against “Fortunato Luchresi” (Played by Vincent Price, imitating Ernie Kovacs as “Percy Dovetonsils” – If you’re familiar with Poe, you know where this is going) They go to Lorre’s house, where Luchresi falls for the wife. The two of them have an affair, and when Lorre’s character – who’s named “Montresor”, for cryin’ out loud – find out he chains them both up and bricks them in, so you get The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado mixed together. Of course, the cat gets walled in, and its cries alert the police to the crime. . [i[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar\* – starring Basil Rathbone. Rathbone actually did an audio recording of this story, which is much better than this awful adaptation (even though Richard Matheson scripted it). Price played the decomposing . Valdemar, and his final dissolution was with a heated mixture of glue, glycerin, corn starch, and make-up paint, which apparently almost burned him.It doersn’t look all that great. > **[Tales of Terror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Terror)** > > Tales of Terror is a 1962 American International Pictures horror film 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 featu... **Twice-Told Tales** Every now and then somebody tries to cash in on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s weirder stories, trying to make them horrors. They actually tried putting in a Hawthorne-Poe horror Museum in Salem, MA (where Hawthotne lived for a while, and worked in the Customs House. It failed. This was an attempt to use Hawthorne as a basis for his cheapo horror flix instead of Poe, as Corman was doing. It starred Vincent Price, Beverely Garland, and Sebastian Cabot. SEbastian Cabot? Mr. French? That’s the kind of horror we’re talking here. > **[Twice-Told Tales (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales_(film))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Twice-Told Tales is a 1963 American horror anthology film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Vincent Price. It consists of three segments, all loosely adapted by producer/screenwriter Robert E. Kent from works by Nathaniel Hawthorne. > Each of the three sequences is introduced by Vincent Price (in a voice-over). Price also stars in all three narratives. > Two elderly friends, Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) and Alex (Price), meet to celebrate Hei... **An Eveninmg of Edgar Allan Poe** – basically a one-man show, with Vincent Price very dramatically telling three Poe tales. It’s much better than you’d think, and easily the most faithful rendering of Poe on the screen, even though these aren’t standard dramatizations. Definitely worth a look. > **[An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Evening_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe is a 1970 film which features Vincent Price reciting four of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, directed by Kenneth Johnson, with music by Les Baxter. > The stories included are: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Sphinx", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Pit and the Pendulum". ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/23 "2020-04-21T22:09:56Z")
Double POst ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/24 "2020-04-22T06:42:17Z")
> [@Cabbage](#): > > If you like older movies Dead of Night is one of the classic horror anthologies. > > [Dead of Night (1945) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037635/) Great suggestion, considering your sig 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/25 "2020-04-22T12:09:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Double POst Shouldn’t that be “Double POEst”? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/26 "2020-04-22T13:00:57Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > I would suggest **Southbound** - a 2015 anthology horror movie - is worth a watch. Particularly since it is a modest 90 minutes long. > > It has five stories which run into each other. The first and final parts are clearly connected while the middle three parts seem to share a common world with those two. I came here to say this too. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217/27 "2020-04-22T18:23:50Z")
I’ve seen both southbound and cats eye, and enjoyed both quite a bit. I should’ve included those in OP as anthologies I’ve seen that I was impressed with. I’m going to slowly work my way through the rest of the recommendations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-horror-anthology-movies/852217.md?page=1)