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The Comedy of Terrors

Name: The Comedy of Terrors
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Crime
Released: 1964
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown

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.

1964 · Directed by Jacques Tourneur · 84 min · Comedy · Horror · Crime · 10 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Richard Matheson
Cinematography: Floyd Crosby
Edited by: Anthony Carras
Music: Les Baxter
Production design: Daniel Haller
Produced by: Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson

Cast

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull
Peter Lorre as Felix Gillie
Boris Karloff as Amos Hinchley
Joyce Jameson as Amaryllis Trumbull
Joe E. Brown as Cemetery Keeper
Beverly Powers as Mrs. Phipps
Basil Rathbone as John F. Black
Alan DeWitt as Riggs
Buddy Mason as Mr. Phipps
Douglas Williams as Doctor

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Alta Vista Productions
Themes: funeral, cat, poison, coffin, undertaker, new england, troubled marriage, 19th century

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