The Haunted Palace

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

Main Details

  • Released in 1963
  • Color
  • Running Time: 87 Min.
  • Production Co: American International Pictures (AIP) | La Honda Productions
  • Distribution Co: American International Pictures (AIP) (1963) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Roger Corman
  • Written by Charles Beaumont, Francis Ford Coppola (uncredited), based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
  • Starring: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell
  • Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Roger Corman, James H. Nicholson, Ronald Sinclair
  • Original Music by Ronald Stein
  • Cinematography by Floyd Crosby
  • Film Editing by Ronald Sinclair

Plot Summary

  • Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.

Also Known As

  • El Palacio encantado (Argentina / Venezuela)
  • La Città dei mostri (Italy)
  • Die Folterkammer des Hexenjägers (Germany)
  • Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace (USA) (promotional title)
  • Det Forheksede slot (Denmark)
  • Linnan kauhut (Finland)
  • La Malédiction d'Arkham (France)
  • El Palacio de los espíritus (Spain)
  • To Palati tou tromou (Greece)
  • Skri av fasa (Sweden)
  • Spökslottet (Sweden) (subtitle)
  • O Stoiheiomenos pyrgos (Greece) (reissue title)
  • The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (USA) (original script title)
  • The Haunted Village

Taglines

  • A warlock's home is his castle...Forever!
  • What was the terrifying thing in the PIT that wanted women?
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