dusitmark Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre AND Basil Rathbone... you'd think you wouldn't even need a script or a story, right? Legends of mystery, horror and comedy all together for a satire of their own onscreen lives! And if you plow through almost all of the reviews here on IMDB you'd be hopped up for a ribald comedy and a satisfying yarn, to feast on...Unfortunately what you get instead is a terrible story featuring four bored and uninspired actors who trudge slowly from unfunny scene to unfunny scene. A funeral parlour knocking off the locals to stay financially afloat... How could you possibly mess that idea up? Well, somehow it's managed and the result is a dire look at past masters struggling to maintain their dignity as the story starts off lame and grinds to a halt immediately.I waded through this torture only because of the acting legends in it. Everything else was as painful and as excruciatingly awful as movie making can get.You'll think less of the cast after watching this and that's a shame.

Rainey Dawn It's been a long time since I have watched this film - all I remembered was that I liked it - then I re-watched the film recently and I have to say this really is a good dark comedy.Price is quite humorous as the drunken undertaker Waldo Trumbull along with his lock-picking side kick Felix Gillie played by Lorre. Price and Lorre prove to the viewers they are quite the comedy duo.Jameson plays Amaryllis Trumbull the wife of the staggering drunk Waldo. She will either have you laughing or irritated with her opera singing! Karloff has a way of stealing the scenes as Amos Hinchley. Karloff is quite good in this comedy - he proves he could have done comedy just as well as horror. A great performance by Karloff.And poor Mr. John F. Black he is a man that cannot die - I don't know to feel sorry for him being supposedly dead over and over or to feel happy for him that he is still alive. LOL -- Rathbone plays Black quite well.Yes if you like older dark comedies then you are sure to enjoy this film. For a fun double feature: I would recommend The Raven (1963) to watch with The Comedy of Terrors (1963)... both movies are dark comedies and star the threesome Price, Karloff and Lorre.9/10

lemon_magic "Comedy of Terrors" isn't quite as amazing as you'd think it would be with such an all star cast, but on the other hand, it's still pretty good. I think modern audiences who are accustomed to the rapid-fire gag delivery of Zucker Brother movies might find this one a bit pokey, but that turns out to be part of the movie's charm: It takes its time with the setups to each major zinger, and allows plenty of time between the one-liners so the audience can relax and enjoy the setup.Vincent Price shows once again that he can do a comic character very well indeed, especially when the character doesn't have a single redeeming feature. And it's fun to watch "Waldo Trumbull" get comeuppance after comeuppance as his lazy,mean ways inevitably backfire on him - especially at the end. Boris Karloff steals every scene he is in, and basically steals the movie itself with his rambling, disjointed eulogy for the guy whose name he can't remember. It really is a wonderful moment, worth the entire movie to see. The movie also keeps things fresh by keeping a cat around to act as a "straight man" for some of the goofier stunts and Three Stooges inspired moments. I'm not sure what the deal is giving a cat named "Orangey" film credit as "Rhubarb" and then calling him "Cleopatra" in the movie itself - probably an in joke by the movie's cast and crew.Anyway - a lot of fun if you like this sort of thing, but don't be expecting "Monty Python" or "Airplane!" - this is all about mood and setting and slow burns and good actors playing bad people.

vincent-bernd So this film is not the greatest film ever made. This is no Casablanca or Lawrence of Arabia,this is a film for those who love film history and nostalgia of horror cinema from Vincent Price's House of wax to Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. There is no doubt that this film has an all star cast. Another film which had Rathbone,Price and Boris Karloff was Tower of London, which was about Richard Duke of Gloucester and how he became king of England through murder and manipulation. The film was a great showcase of talent by all three actors. So now for this film, This film starts off with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre finding out that they have run their funeral parlor into the ground,and need to come up with cash to pay their landlord played by Bail Rathbone. So to do this they go out at Midnight to kill a former colleague of Price's. This does not go as planed however and soon Price decides to Kill Rathbone,the only problem is he never can die. The humor of the film is dark and it is what we expect from the masters of horror. I would have been happier had they been able to have had peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in this film,but I would have to see House of the long shadows for that to happen. So this film is not Ben Hur or To Kill a Mockingbird,but it is made for the fans of the Gothic horror and who loved the classics like Nosferatu or Phantom of the opera. I enjoyed this film so much because it brings back a time when you could see a movie that did not have to be great,but you could have fun watching it and this film succeeds in that portion. The acting as I said was good. The cat in this film is the beloved Orange from breakfast at Tiffany's. The atmosphere is dark and murky and the sets and art direction really show good background ,and foreground in the film. So is this a good enough film to take its place with Dracula or Frankenstein? No,but it is a fun ride.