The Raven
1963 · Movie · G · 86 min · ★ 6.3 · 83% critics
A troubled magician, trapped in the form of a raven, seeks help from a retired sorcerer who knows how to break powerful curses. Their search for answers leads them to a rival wizard’s eerie castle, where spells, rivalries, and darkly comic misadventures collide in a playful twist on classic gothic horror.
Based on The Raven
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Details
- Years
- 1963
- Release date
- 1963-01-23
- Language
- English
- Rated
- G
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (279 votes)
- Box office
- $1,499,275
- Budget
- $350,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a light, campy horror-comedy with familiar gothic trappings and a lot of magical one-upmanship; Not for you if you want serious Poe or sustained scares like House of Usher.
Pros: classic horror icons together; playful spooky atmosphere; amusing magic duels | Cons: humor can miss; thin stretched story; not very scary
Themes
- magic
- castle
- sorcery
- parody
- sorcerer
- duel
- based on song, poem or rhyme
- horse carriage
- raven
- wizard
- magician
Cast & crew
Vincent Price
as Dr. Erasmus Craven
Peter Lorre
as Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
Boris Karloff
as Dr. Scarabus
Hazel Court
as Lenore Craven
Olive Sturgess
as Estelle Craven
Jack Nicholson
as Rexford Bedlo
John Dierkes
as Roderick Craven
Connie Wallace
as Maid
- WB
William Baskin
as Grimes
- AS
Aaron Saxon
as Gort
Directed by Roger Corman