The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors

1964 · 84 min · EN · 6.5 (173 votes)
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · Starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Powers · Music Les Baxter
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An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

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A darkly humorous and campy romp through a New England funeral home. It's a macabre, yet surprisingly melancholic, look at desperation and the absurdity of death, with a steady, deliberate pace.

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