{"id":18082,"date":"2025-10-30T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:07:02","slug":"the-haunted-palace-1963-roger-corman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18082","title":{"rendered":"The Haunted Palace (1963, Roger Corman)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“One becomes accustomed to the darkness here.” Another year, another lovely Corman\/Price\/Poe movie, this one with some Lovecraft mixed in. The Raven<\/a><\/em> came out in January, The Terror<\/em> in June, X<\/a><\/em> in July, and this in August – Corman was a powerhouse in ’63.<\/p>\n

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Vince prepares the waffle iron:<\/em>
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110 years after Vince got burned as a witch, his descendant (also Vince) comes looking for his haunted palace inheritance, along with his useless woman Debra Paget (of Tales of Terror<\/a><\/em>, Lang’s Indian Tomb<\/em> star). They find Lon “The Wolf Man<\/a>” Chaney claiming to be the caretaker, but he’s standing in the dark and has cleared out none of the cobwebs.<\/p>\n

Elisha debuts his famous wide-eyed stare:<\/em>
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Possessed Vince with Lon and their bald friend:<\/em>
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Ancient Vince had possessed the Necronomicon (this is a good movie to watch right after The Ninth Gate<\/a><\/em>) and his vengeful spirit still lives in the basement. With Chaney’s assistance he possesses Current Vince and summons hellfire against his enemies’ families who all still live in town – first Leo Gordon (villain of Riot in Cell Block 11<\/a><\/em>) then the great Elisha Cook Jr. (in his first of many demonic and scary-house movies). The only normal guy who advocates against revenge and mob violence is Dr. Frank Maxwell (also the only normal person in The Intruder<\/a><\/em>), but you can’t stop mob violence – at least the townspeople pause outside the castle to call Vince’s name a couple times before they charge in and set the place on fire.<\/p>\n

How people in New England say “let’s do this”<\/em>
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“One becomes accustomed to the darkness here.” Another year, another lovely Corman\/Price\/Poe movie, this one with some Lovecraft mixed in. The Raven came out in January, The Terror in June, X in July, and this in August – Corman was a powerhouse in ’63. Vince prepares the waffle iron: 110 years after Vince got burned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,316,2799,172,894,46,886],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-elisha-cook-jr","tag-lovecraft","tag-mob-violence","tag-roger-corman","tag-vincent-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18103,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}