The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)

Relatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.

Director:

Del Tenney

Writer:

Del Tenney

Stars:

Helen Warren, Roy Scheider, Margot Hartman

Cast

Cast overview:
Helen Warren	...	Abigail Sinclair (as Helen Waren)
Roy Scheider	...	Philip Sinclair (as Roy R. Scheider)
Margot Hartman	...	Vivian Sinclair
Robert Milli	...	Bruce Sinclair
Hugh Franklin	...	James Benson
Linda Donovan	...	Letty Crews
Dino Narizzano	...	Robert Harrington
Candace Hilligoss	...	Deborah Benson
J. Frank Lucas	...	Seth Lucas
George Cotton	...	Constable Winters
Jane Bruce	...	The Cook
Paul Haney	...	Chief Constable Barnes
William Blood	...	Minister (as Williiam B. Blood)

Storyline

Rufus Sinclair was a cranky old millionaire with a terrible fear of being buried alive. After his apparent death, clauses in his will meant to prevent his being buried alive are violated by his uncaring family, and soon a masked figure begins prowling the family's Connecticut estate, slaughtering the family members one by one in a variety of separate, horrible ways.

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Plot Keywords:

will | death | fear | crypt | dead woman | 

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Taglines:

More terrifying than FRankenstein...More deadly than Dracula...The creature that undrapes the passions of the living! (original poster)

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

May 1964 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tumba Maldita

Filming Locations:

Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$120,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Deal Productions, Iselin-Tenney Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Candace Hilligoss got Roy Scheider his part in this film.

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Goofs

It was revealed later that the killer drank tea from a decanter and pretended it was whiskey while he remained sober.However, on the night of his mother's murder, he drank whiskey from the same decanter as he policeman. So they would both have had to have been passed-out drunk, since it was whiskey.

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Quotes

Bruce Sinclair: The night is fraught with incense.

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Connections

Featured in Son of Svengoolie: The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964) (1981)

User Reviews

Viewer Beware!

I watched this on AMC this morning. That is, I watched until the reading of the will scene which had two glaring errors in it that discouraged me from watching any further. The lawyer can't manage the line "in his employ" and pronounces it "in his employee". This scene was not retaken, showing how cheaply the film was made. Also, the prop used for the will is quite plainly a copy of the American Constitution like you can find in any Washington D.C. souvenir shop. If that's not enough to take you "out of the story", I don't know what is. Roy Scheider should have tried to have every copy of this film destroyed. It wouldn't have cost much.