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The Comedy of Terrors

1964 · 84 min

A creaky, gleefully macabre farce where hammy performances and slapstick death make for an easy, wicked chuckle.

Overview
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

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Tone
  • campystrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • greed
  • crime
  • betrayal
  • love
  • death
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror4
Humour8
Realism4
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy, horror, crime
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
Written by
Richard Matheson
Starring
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Alan DeWitt
Music
Les Baxter
Cinematography
Floyd Crosby
Runtime
84 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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