Name: The Comedy of Terrors
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Crime
Released: 1964-01-22
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown

1964·Comedy·1h 24m

7.0

★

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.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

funeral

cat

poison

coffin

undertaker

new england

troubled marriage

19th century

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Cast

Vincent Price

Waldo Trumbull

Peter Lorre

Felix Gillie

Boris Karloff

Amos Hinchley

Joyce Jameson

Amaryllis Trumbull

Joe E. Brown

Cemetery Keeper

Beverly Powers

Mrs. Phipps

Basil Rathbone

John F. Black

Luree Holmes

Black's Servant

Paul Barselou

Riggs (uncredited)

Harvey Parry

Man Knocked Down on Street (uncredited)

Crew

Jacques Tourneur

Director

Richard Matheson

Screenplay

Les Baxter

Original Music Composer

Floyd Crosby

Director of Photography

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Producer

Daniel Haller

Production Design

Daniel Haller

Art Direction

Richard Matheson

Novel

Richard Matheson

Associate Producer

Harvey Parry

Stunt Double

Les Baxter

Conductor

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Presenter

Popular Reviews

32 reviews

skinnyzyo

7.0★ · 03/28/26

I love silly Vincent Price

StorminPRO

7.0★ · 03/10/26

Much preferred this to Tales of Terror, which is similar and nearly has the exact same cast

Soob.iez

8.0★ · 02/27/26

don’t caress it climb it! 🧗

Kenny

8.0★ · 11/11/25

If I don’t jump up from my coffin reciting Macbeth you know I’m dead
Vincent Price in this is so me; I’m also an alcoholic funeral director in crippling debt

Gille: “*It is better in the dark.”
Trumbull: “What is, decapitation?”*

Maranda

6.0★ · 10/21/25

I love Vincent price but I fear I love Rhubarb more