The Haunted Palace

The Haunted Palace
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byRoger Corman
Screenplay byCharles Beaumont
Based on
Produced byRoger Corman
Starring
CinematographyFloyd Crosby
Edited byRonald Sinclair
Music byRonald Stein
Color processPathécolor
Production
company
Alta Vista Productions
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • August 28, 1963 (1963-08-28)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,200,000 (US/ Canada)[1][2]
184,700 admissions (France)[3]

The Haunted Palace is a 1963 gothic fantasy horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer. Directed by Roger Corman, it is one of his series of eight films based largely on the works of American author Edgar Allan Poe.

Although marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace", the film actually derives its plot from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novella by H. P. Lovecraft.[4] The film's title is derived from a 6-stanza poem by Poe, published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story.

  1. ^ "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  2. ^ "Poe & Bikinis". Variety. 9 October 1963. p. 17.
  3. ^ Box office information for Roger Corman films in France at Box Office Story
  4. ^ Hallenbeck, Bruce G. (2009). Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008. McFarland & Company. p. 142. ISBN 9780786453788.