Ep 225 The Tomb of Ligeia

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It’s Poe Time! Join us as we venture out into the daylight and visit “The Tomb of Ligeia”. A film in which Captain Peacock serves the tea, whilst Slartibartfast and Doctor Who’s Nero have dinner; meanwhile Vincent Price auditions as frontman of The Byrds, and attempts to convince us that he could hurt a cat. The last of the Roger Corman / Edgar Allan Poe films finally sees the series move out of the studio for some beautiful location shooting in the English Countryside. A wonderfully distressed and melancholy Price is matched by two excellent performances from Elizabeth Shepherd as both feisty and romantic Rowena, and the foreboding, electrifying will of Ligeia. With support by an excellent cast of familiar British character actors, the film still ties in with the others in the series, with woozy dream (and dream-like) sequences, and the inevitable conflagration of the main setting. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers and join us.