The Comedy of Terrors

Horror farce in which a 19th-century New England undertaker resorts to murder to try to revive his ailing business. When he falls on hard times, he decides to generate his own customers, aided by his bumbling assistant. But his loved ones soon begin to suspect that something is amiss., A gathering of some of the genre’s greats (Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone) in a spook-spoof involving the funeral business. Joe E. Brown, Joyce Jameson. Richard Matheson script., With a year’s rent due and no bodies to bury, undertaker Trumbull has to start killing to find some clients. Comic horror with a great pedigree; the cast includes Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone., Richard Matheson wrote this funny horror spoof about an undertaker who decides to drum up new business. Cinematography by Floyd Crosby; score by Les Baxter., A horror spoof in which a funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business – and the fact that they haven’t died yet doesn’t seem to dissuade him.