3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister.
Written by Dylan Conner, Donna Jolly
Beverly Garland claimed having seen Vincent Price expertly spotting parts of the prop furniture on the set of the film. When the shooting ended, those pieces of furniture "mysteriously" vanished.
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Goofs
Boom mic visible:
In the 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment' segment of the film, while Vincent Price and Beverly Garland are having a conversation in front of the portrait of Garland's character, the shadow of a boom microphone can clearly be seen moving back and forth above and between the shadows of Price and Garland.
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Quotes
Beatrice Rappaccini:
Your daughter is a fine specimen, too, isn't she father? A specimen of the most deadly thing that was ever given life. See more »