Dark of night, check.
Thunder, check
Waist high fog, check.
Ruined old cemetery, check.
Curse, check.
Lovecraftian legends, check.
Vincent Price, check.
Here we have a classic horror from cult master Roger Corman, based loosely on a piece by Edgar Allan Poe. Ancestral curses with a touch of reincarnation...
Vincent Price is Vincent Price, in a dual role as Charles Dexter Ward, a man who inherits his family's ancestral home, and Joseph Curwen, a warlock who was burned alive a hundred years before. Ward is tormented as he slowly becomes possessed by Curwen's evil spirit for dark purposes.
The film's Gothic setting, with the eerie mansion and perpetually dark, perpetually fog-shrouded landscapes, creates a timelessly creepy atmosphere. There's some great opening credits too. It's just the thing for Halloween season.
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