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The Premature Burial

The Premature Burial

HorrorDramaMysteryThriller

6.3/10

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81 min

Release Date: 1962-03-07

Overview - An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

Production Companies

Santa Clara ProductionsAmerican International Pictures

Overview - An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

User Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

6.5/10

She wheels her wheel barrow, through streets broad and narrow... The third in Roger Corman's cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations sees Charles Beaumont & Ray Russell on script duties and Ray Milland star. The story follows Milland's cataleptic Guy Carrell, whose fear of being buried alive like his father drives him to build a tomb that should ensure against such a disaster occurring... Pul...

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Reno

Reno

7/10

> An intense thriller from the outside, but full of suspenseful events! A very surprising mystery-thriller from the 60s that I usually won't write reviews for the old flicks, but for this one an exception. The film was based on the book of the same name that sets in the early 19th century. Since it was a short tale the film was just a 80 minutes long. It looked like the film 'Take Shelter', but...

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Wuchak

Wuchak

5/10

_**Nice foggy moors, but the premise is odd and the story too one-dimensional**_ A British aristocrat during the Victorian Era has catalepsy and is therefore obsessed with the fear of being buried alive (Ray Milland). His lovely new wife urgently tries to help him (Hazel Court). Heather Angel plays his sister, Richard Ney a colleague and Alan Napier his wife’s father, a doctor. "Premature ...

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/10

Very loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this is quite a decent - if somewhat claustrophobic - drama that centres around "Guy" (Ray Milland) and his paranoia of being buried alive. The start of the film involves the exhumation of his father's coffin - and here we clearly see evidence that the occupant wasn't quite dead when he was put into the ground. Needless to say, his son becomes just a...

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