Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

dusitmark Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre AND Basil Rathbone... you'd think you wouldn't even need a script or a story, right? Legends of mystery, horror and comedy all together for a satire of their own onscreen lives! And if you plow through almost all of the reviews here on IMDB you'd be hopped up for a ribald comedy and a satisfying yarn, to feast on...Unfortunately what you get instead is a terrible story featuring four bored and uninspired actors who trudge slowly from unfunny scene to unfunny scene. A funeral parlour knocking off the locals to stay financially afloat... How could you possibly mess that idea up? Well, somehow it's managed and the result is a dire look at past masters struggling to maintain their dignity as the story starts off lame and grinds to a halt immediately.I waded through this torture only because of the acting legends in it. Everything else was as painful and as excruciatingly awful as movie making can get.You'll think less of the cast after watching this and that's a shame.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I like the work of Vincent Price, as any avid horror fan would do. However, I have not seen "The Comedy of Terrors" before recently, and I wasn't even familiar with its existence. I found it, saw that Vincent Price was in it, so of course I had to sit down and watch the movie.This is a dark comedy with a twist, and the movie is driven by both having a fair enough storyline, which differs from Vincent Price's usual work, but also by having a good gallery of characters.While this is not the best of Vincent Price's work, for sure. the movie did still entertaining enough. And it was interesting to watch him in a movie such as this."The Comedy of Terrors" had a good cast ensemble, which performed quite well and brought their characters to life nicely on the screen.Hardly a Vincent Price classic movie, but still entertaining enough for what it turned out to be.

classicsoncall See this one for the players and not the story, unless of course you can deal with the over-acting and nonsense elements of the picture. I love all the principals individually and consider Karloff, Price, Lorre and Rathbone as icons, each in their own way. Allowing director Tourneur to have his way with them so to speak might have produced extraordinary results in a straight horror film, but it appears the point here was just to have some fun and not take things too seriously. The Joe E. Brown cameo was an interesting touch and I would have been disappointed if he hadn't done his trademark 'Heyyyy'. Overall however, this doesn't pass the 'must see' test for fans of the principals unless one is a completist. I will say this though, for Boris Karloff, this is one he could have mailed in and no one would have been any the wiser. He just about slept through the whole thing!

thewelshkaibigan I must say that the combination of Vincent Price and Peter Lore works big time. I really enjoyed the comedy that ran throughout this film. To be honest I wish that Hollywood would make a lot more films like this rather than just rehash old movies as they seem to be doing these days. These old films really show of the actors. Vincent Price gave everything you expected of him. Peter Lore care a virtuoso performance and the we have the legend that is Boris Karloff in the background. I have to say that Basil Rathbone's character did get a bit annoying. The not dying I could understand in a movie such as this but the quoting from plays really was annoying plus, at the end, he didn't actually do much. So, anyway, watch it and make up your own mind. I guess those of a certain age my enjoy it, younger people maybe not, but who knows. Worth a watch anyway, just to find out.