The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) — watch online on iFILM — is Roger Corman's final Poe adaptation for American International Pictures, with Vincent Price as Verden Fell, a man who buried his wife but did not let go of her.

Ligeia's parting words were a flat refusal to accept death. Fell eventually remarries, settling his new bride Lady Rowena into his crumbling abbey. She notices things: a black cat that watches without blinking, sounds from empty rooms, the creeping sense that the house is already occupied. Corman shot on location among real ruins in Norfolk rather than studio sets — the cold stone carries an atmosphere no painted flat could replicate. Price does the rest, playing obsession in a register too quiet to be dismissed. Stream The Tomb of Ligeia on iFILM.