The Premature Burial (1962) on Netflix
NR19621h 21mDramaHorrorMystery
In Victorian England, Guy Carrell's dread of being buried alive nearly keeps him from marrying Emily Gault. Once married, he builds an elaborate vault to guard against the fate he expects.
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Plot summary
Guy Carrell, a British aristocrat, lives with his sister Kate and is certain he will one day be buried alive, a fear he blames on the cataleptic disease that runs in his family. He tells his fiancée Emily Gault about his father's tomb and the scream he believes he heard from it as a boy; Kate says it was imagination. Emily marries him anyway. At the wedding celebration a song on the piano throws him into a swoon, and that night his dog is found in the garden apparently struck by lightning and then rises unharmed. Convinced he nearly buried the animal alive, Guy grows more obsessed and constructs a burial vault fitted with safeguards, including a poisonous elixir, while Emily and his colleague Miles Archer watch his health with alarm.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Premature Burial (1962)
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- Roger Corman wanted Vincent Price for his third Edgar Allan Poe film, but Price was under exclusive contract to American International Pictures, so Corman cast Ray Milland in the lead instead.
- On the first day of shooting, American International Pictures' James H. Nicholson and Sam Arkoff turned up to tell Roger Corman they were making the film together again, having convinced Pathé to hand it back to AIP by threatening to pull all future lab work.
