It feels a little unfair to find faults with a movie made 50 years ago, especially as one knows that this movie was highly thought of in its time. On the other hand - there are many movies which are even older than this one, that do not come out as dated as this one...
_Everything_ was of a quality that simply should not have been accepted today: the make-up of the actors, the props, the cobwebs, the skeletons, the walls of the castle... It was all so plastic - so obviously painted and fake. This destroyed the illusion. And the "ghostly wailing" was ridiculous beyond belief...
Still, Vincent Price is always Vincent Price - he was always so good as these creepy and mystical, but still aristocratic and attractive, characters... The young man ought to have been played by some bigger, stronger and more forceful man, though, and Madeline by someone more soulful and innocent-looking...
The Poe story in itself is very good of course, and it makes up for many of the silly blunderings in this movie, as the movie is still quite faithful to it.
_Everything_ was of a quality that simply should not have been accepted today: the make-up of the actors, the props, the cobwebs, the skeletons, the walls of the castle... It was all so plastic - so obviously painted and fake. This destroyed the illusion. And the "ghostly wailing" was ridiculous beyond belief...
Still, Vincent Price is always Vincent Price - he was always so good as these creepy and mystical, but still aristocratic and attractive, characters... The young man ought to have been played by some bigger, stronger and more forceful man, though, and Madeline by someone more soulful and innocent-looking...
The Poe story in itself is very good of course, and it makes up for many of the silly blunderings in this movie, as the movie is still quite faithful to it.