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The Premature Burial

Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar-winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to build himself a tomb with a view, equipped with everything he can think of to escape death. But it's when his long-suffering wife convinces him to destroy the tomb that he finds himself in the gravest danger! Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Year: 1961
Genre: Horror Movies, Based on...
Country: USA
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Ray Milland, Richard Ney
Duration: 81 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains medium level violence.
Location in store: Horror Classic

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