The Tomb of Ligeia

Verden Fell, a grieving man of means, is haunted by memories of his late wife Ligeia. When he meets Lady Rowena Trevanion, who bears a striking resemblance to her, the two marry. Settling with him at his neglected abbey, Rowena soon finds her husband's strange behaviour and the hold his first wife's memory has over him impossible to ignore. Something of Ligeia lingers in the old building, and Rowena comes to suspect that her predecessor's presence is far more immediate than a widower's sorrow. The film was directed by Roger Corman, his sixteenth feature in chronological order, arriving between The Masque of the Red Death and The Trip. It was adapted for the screen by Robert Towne and Paul Mayersberg, with Pat Green, Samuel Z. Arkoff and David Deutsch producing.

Vincent Price plays Verden Fell, and Elizabeth Shepherd takes the dual roles of Rowena and Ligeia. The supporting cast includes John Westbrook as Christopher Gough, Derek Francis as Lord Trevanion, Oliver Johnston as Kenrick and Richard Vernon as Dr. Vivian. The story draws on Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the same name, blending gothic drama with horror across its eighty-one minute running time.

Reception was moderately positive rather than enthusiastic. Critics gave it 6.1 out of 10 from fourteen reviews, while audiences on IMDb rate it 6.4 out of 10 from roughly seven thousand six hundred votes and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from around one hundred ninety votes, suggesting a reasonably consistent middling verdict across both groups.