The Comedy of Terrors
About The Comedy of Terrors
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
The Comedy of Terrors (1964) is a comedy crime film directed by Jacques Tourneur. The film is filed under cat, funeral, new england, and poison.
Vincent Price stars as Waldo Trumbull, Peter Lorre as Felix Gillie, Boris Karloff as Amos Hinchley, and Joyce Jameson as Amaryllis Trumbull. Released in January 1964, it runs 84 minutes.
The screenplay is by Richard Matheson. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.
The Salvation, Phantasm, and The Premature Burial make useful companions to The Comedy of Terrors, all filed under 19th century, coffin, and undertaker. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 172 votes.