The Premature Burial poster

The Premature Burial

Within the Coffin I Lie...ALIVE!

6.3(151)19621h 21m3

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$1.3M
Language
French
  • nightmare
  • cat
  • poison
  • cemetery
  • coffin
  • marriage
  • spider
  • victorian england
  • murder
  • crypt
  • fear
  • dog

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Roger Corman

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical7 Mar 1962
    • PhysicalNRMCA/Universal Home Video #82068 [VHS] 51 minutes1 Jan 1994
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical2 Oct 1968
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1629 Nov 1963
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical22 Aug 1962
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical7 Nov 1964
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical17 Jun 1963

Frequently asked questions

The Premature Burial was released on 7 March 1962.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    10/5/2015

    6.5/10

    She wheels her wheel barrow, through streets broad and narrow... The third in Roger Corman's cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations sees Charles Beaumont & Ray Russell on script duties and Ray Milland star. The story follows Milland's cataleptic Guy Carrell, whose fear of being buried alive like his father drives him to build a tomb that should ensure against such a disaster occurring... Pulpy, Gothic and at ti…

  • R

    Reno

    7/4/2016

    7/10

    > An intense thriller from the outside, but full of suspenseful events! A very surprising mystery-thriller from the 60s that I usually won't write reviews for the old flicks, but for this one an exception. The film was based on the book of the same name that sets in the early 19th century. Since it was a short tale the film was just a 80 minutes long. It looked like the film 'Take Shelter', but while progressing i…

  • W

    Wuchak

    3/25/2022

    5/10

    _**Nice foggy moors, but the premise is odd and the story too one-dimensional**_ A British aristocrat during the Victorian Era has catalepsy and is therefore obsessed with the fear of being buried alive (Ray Milland). His lovely new wife urgently tries to help him (Hazel Court). Heather Angel plays his sister, Richard Ney a colleague and Alan Napier his wife’s father, a doctor. "Premature Burial" (1962) was t…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    11/19/2024

    6/10

    Very loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this is quite a decent - if somewhat claustrophobic - drama that centres around "Guy" (Ray Milland) and his paranoia of being buried alive. The start of the film involves the exhumation of his father's coffin - and here we clearly see evidence that the occupant wasn't quite dead when he was put into the ground. Needless to say, his son becomes just a bit worried that th…

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