Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Just what I expected

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Here we have yet another film I have not seen in years, watching it again after all these years I found the film quite good - even better than I recalled it to be. Three stories based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales - all three a excellent! Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - I quite enjoyed Sebastian Cabot heartbreaking performance as Dr. Carl Heidigger. It is a sad romantic tale of a man who was to be married but his wife died the night before the wedding. He remained in-love with her for 38 years. One night he and his long time friend Alex Medbourne (Price) discover a secret - a type of fountain of youth. That same night Dr. Heidegger also discovered another secret - a 38 year old dark secret.Rappaccini's Daughter - Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini (Price) wife was an adulteress - he only wanted to protect his daughter from the pains of adultery and to make sure she did not make the same mistake her mother did. Rappaccini's Daughter, Beatrice (Taylor), falls for a young man and he falls for her. But how can they marry when Beatrice can kill him with one touch of the poison her father inoculates her with? The House of the Seven Gables - Gerald Pyncheon (Price) and his sister Hannah Pyncheon (deWit) have inherited the haunted house and a family curse. There is more to their inheritance than this if they can find the vault. But will Mathew's ghost allow them to? All three of the tales are good but of the three it is Dr. Heidegger's Experiment that I found was the best, saddest and most horrifying of all.9/10

Sidney Salkow directed these three adaptations of Nathanial Hawthorne stories starring Vincent Price & Sebastian Cabot: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" - A rejuvenation formula has unforeseen consequences in this nicely produced but routine story, with Price & Cabot in good form at least."Rappaccini's Daughter" - A man with an elaborate garden poisons his daughter so that she will never leave it, though it doesn't go according to plan... Ineffectual and forgettable."The House Of The Seven Gables" - A cursed family home brings about its inhabitants destruction in this ho-hum version; not bad, but not particularly memorable either.

"Twice-Told Tales" is a movie composed of three timeless shorts based on horror tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne with Vincent Price.(1) "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": In 1859, Alex Medbourne (Vincent Price) and Dr. Carl Heidigger (Sebastian Cabot) have been best friends for decades. Carl has been grieving the loss of his beloved bride Sylvia Ward (Mari Blanchard) for thirty-eight years, on the eve of their wedding, and misses her. In a stormy night, her crypt opens and Carl and Alex find her corpse preserved. Carl notes a drop of liquid on her coffin and he collects a sample. Carl discovers that the water is a virgin spring and he restores his and Alex's youths. Further, he resurrects Sylvia with the water and plans to immediately marry her. However, he discovers a dark secret about Alex and his beloved Sylvia. This is a tragic and dramatic story about the dream of the fountain of youth and restoration of the eternal youth, obsession and betrayal, with great special effects for a 1963 movie. (2) "Rappaccini's Daughter": In Padua, the young Giovanni Guasconti (Brett Halsey) meets the gorgeous Beatrice Rappaccini (Joyce Taylor) in the garden and they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Giovanni learns that Beatrice is cursed, poisoning everyone and everything that she touches with her hands. Further, she was inoculated with a potion of poisonous plants by her insane father, the brilliant scientist Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini (Vincent Price) that wants to avoid that she makes the same mistakes her mother did, abandoning him. Giovanni meets Dr. Giacomo and opens his heart about his love for Beatrice, and the scientist promises to let him be closed to Beatrice forever.This is another tragic and dramatic story about impossible love and madness visibly inspired in "Romeo and Juliet". (3) "The House of the Seven Gables": In 1841, Gerald Pyncheon (Vincent Price) arrives with his wife Alice Pyncheon (Beverly Garland) to The House of the Seven Gables, where Gerald's sister Hannah Pyncheon (Jacqueline deWit) lives. The Pyncheon family has been cursed for one hundred and fifty years, when the blacksmith Mathew Maulle (Floyd Simmons) was murdered and buried below the house. Gerald comes to the house to seek a vault with the family fortune, and Alice is haunted by ghosts in the moment that she arrives in the house. This is another tragic story of greed, injustice and curse, with an ambitious man returning to the family house and awaking powerful forces from the past. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Nos Domínios do Terror" ("In the Domain of the Terror")Note: On 12 April 2015, I saw this movie again.

One year after Roger Corman's "Tales Of Terror", the incomparable Vincent Price starred in another ghoulish and great Horror anthology, namely Sidney Salkow's "Twice-Told Tales" of 1963. Price is one of my favorite actors of all-time, and while this is not one of my favorites of this great Horror icon's films from the early 60s, it is yet another excellent Price film from that time. The film is divided into three Gothic tales, all three starring Price, all three based on the writings of the magnificent Nathaniel Hawthorne, all three compelling, atmospheric and wonderfully eerie.The first segment, "Dr Heidegger's experiment" is about the classic topic of resurrection and eternal youth. Dr. Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) and Alex Medbourne (Vincent Price) have been best friends for all their life. On Carl's 79th birthday, the two walk in the tomb of Carl's former fiancée Sylvia (Mari Blanchard), who has died decades ago, the night before their wedding. When they open the coffin, they are astonished to see that Sylvia's corpse has not aged a bit...The second tale, "Rappacini's Daughter" is the most macabre of the three. After being left by his wife, the scientist Rappacini (Price) has chemically modified the body of his only daughter Beatrice (Joyce Taylor). Due to his obsession to 'protect' her, he has turned his daughter into something poisonous. While Beatrice is still beautiful on the outside, the poor girl's pure touch is lethal to animals and men alike. When young medical student Giovanni (Brett Halsey) moves in next door, he immediately falls in love with beautiful Beatrice... This second segment is both macabre and sad. It gives Price the opportunity to appear at his maddest, and yet his character is not necessarily purely villainous, but merely a tormented man whose pain has driven him into insanity.When the second segment is the most macabre, the third tale, "The House of the Seven is the one with the most uncanny Gothic atmosphere. Terriffically set in an eerie old mansion, the story is about an old curse that has been infested on a family for a long time. In the 1690s a curse has been spelled over the House of Pyncheon by Matthew Maulle, who was executed as a witch because a Pyncheon, who was the magistrate at the time, wanted Maulle's property. 150 years later, Gerald Pyncheon (Price) returns to the 'House of the Seven Gables' , well-aware that all of his male ancestors have died horrible deaths there, but even more keen on finding a lost family treasure...All three stories are atmospheric and gloomy, and while the first one, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is slightly lesser to the others, it makes a great first segment in the anthology. Vincent Price shines in all three of his roles as always. To me personally, Price is arguably the greatest Horror-icon of all-time, and my all-time favorite actor. The supporting performances are entirely very good, especially beautiful Joyce Taylor is great in the second segment. Eerie settings, colors that are sometimes lush and yet uncanny, great photography and a nice score build up a gloomy atmosphere. "The House of the Seven Gables" had already been filmed in 1940, also starring Price, a film that I am more than a bit curious to see. All things considered, "Twice-Told Tales" is great Gothic Horror cinema that should not be missed by any lover of Horror, and especially a must-see to all my fellow Vincent Price fans! Highly recommended!