Stephen Griffin
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first heard Jul 2026
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It wasn't actually written for Vincent Price.
It was written for Richard Chamberlain.
Exactly.
But unfortunately, because it was a Roger Corman horror Edgar Allan Poe film, it had to have Vincent Price.
They tried to make him look younger.
That quote, by the way, was from Robert Towne, who wrote the script.
He went on to write Chinatown.
He won an Oscar for Chinatown.
So Roger Corman was well known for plucking obscure writers and directors and giving them a chance.
So that's what happened with that.
The Tomb of Lygia was the last of the Cormann Poe pictures and really atypical.
All the others were very much studio bound.
Roger Cormann had his own sort of self-imposed rules.
He decided that Poe wrote from the unconscious and therefore he
He thought that the film should all be shot in a studio, even the exterior.
So they had a kind of synthetic look in a strange way.
They didn't look real.
But this one, he threw everything out of the window and decided to make a location picture shot in daylight.
I think because he fell in love with England.
The film he made before this was also made in England.
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