Review of The Comedy of Terrors (1964) by D M — 27 Feb 2011
I am glad the filmmakers put the word "comedy" in the title because I'm not sure I would have know it was a comedy any other way. Price and Lorre are undertakers who have been forced to make their own business by killing in between Price's wife's horrible singing and his father-in-law, Karloff, muttering nonsense. They decide to bump off their landlord, Rathbone, who has a bad habit of not staying dead.
Despite the references to Poe's work, this film never gets off the ground. It's bad, and not so-bad-it's-good bad, just bad.
This review of The Comedy of Terrors (1964) was written by D M on 27 Feb 2011.
The Comedy of Terrors has generally received positive reviews.
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