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Quality free version available on Youtube with brief host commentaries (intro, mid-break & outro)


The hosts are amusing and their commentaries are good (albeit simply borrowed from IMDb Trivia). Here's the link: ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdr1-Jh8Mb4

The sets & costumes are colorful, although the former sometimes look artificial. The alluring redhead, Jane Asher, was Paul McCartney's girlfriend in the 60s.

The movie's based on the Poe yarn, has a good Gothic mood and heavy subtext, but I found the story relatively dull. I prefer director Corman's "The Terror," which came out the year before and was considerably cheaper. "Cry of the Banshee" (1970) treads similar terrain and is overall on par; although it lacks the finesse of this movie, it comes across more authentic.

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