Yapım :1963 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Horror Süre : 87 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.4/10 IMDB ID: tt0057128
A.K.A Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace : USA), promotional title ()
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward : USA), original script title ()
The Haunted Village : , ()
Oyuncular Vincent Price - Charles Dexter Ward (Joseph Curwen)
Debra Paget - Ann Ward
Frank Maxwell - Ian Willet/Dr. Willet
Lon Chaney Jr. - Simon Orne
Leo Gordon - Edgar Weeden/Ezra Weeden
Elisha Cook Jr. - Gideon Smith/Micah Smith
John Dierkes - Benjamin West/Mr. West
Cathie Merchant - Hester Tillinghast
Milton Parsons - Jabez Hutchinson
Bruno VeSota - Bruno, the bartender
Bilgi :Nel New England, un gentiluomo (Vincent Price) prende possesso del palazzo di un antenato, da poco ereditato. La gente del posto accoglie con diffidenza il nuovo arrivato, ancora memore delle sventure causate dal predecessore. Infatti, il castello emana influssi criminali e lo sventurato apprende, in seguito, che tutto è legato ad un antenato bruciato sul rogo per stregoneria. "The haunted palace" è il titolo di una poesia di Edgar Allan Poe, ma il film è tratto dal racconto "Lo strano caso di Charles Dexter Ward" di H. P. Lovercraft.Loosly based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", this fright flick opens with a warlock(Vincent Price)placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Generations later, the warlock's descendent(also Vincent Price)returns to the village to pick up where his ancestor left off.Charles Dexter Ward travels with his wife to Arkham to inspect a large house he has inherited. It was once owned by his great grandfather Joseph Curwen, a disciple of the devil, who cursed the local villagers as they burned him at the stake. Everyone is hostile to Ward, blaming the curse for the number of mutants in the village. Indeed, Ward's arrival allows Curwen to take over his body and restart his evil ways by revenging himself on the descendants of those who killed him
