Although the posters try to pass this film off as the latest Price/Poe, Edgar Allan's contribution is actually confined to just an opening quotation.
Easily the least of the films made by Vincent Price during his time in Britain, it's a poky little shambles that only Price's presence and Les Baxter's score indicates that AIP were involved, while Gordon Hessler's direction completely lacks the flair that Price's former collaborator Roger Corman brought to his adaptations of Poe.
The actual howl of the Banshee is satisfyingly spine-chiing, while the supporting cast contains the truly remarkable presence of a very young Michael Elphick, sixties sexploitation star Essy Persson and veteran silent diva Elizabeth Bergner as a crazy old head of a collection of Druids.
(The credits, by the way, are visibly the work of an ironically uncredited Terry Gilliam.)
Easily the least of the films made by Vincent Price during his time in Britain, it's a poky little shambles that only Price's presence and Les Baxter's score indicates that AIP were involved, while Gordon Hessler's direction completely lacks the flair that Price's former collaborator Roger Corman brought to his adaptations of Poe.
The actual howl of the Banshee is satisfyingly spine-chiing, while the supporting cast contains the truly remarkable presence of a very young Michael Elphick, sixties sexploitation star Essy Persson and veteran silent diva Elizabeth Bergner as a crazy old head of a collection of Druids.
(The credits, by the way, are visibly the work of an ironically uncredited Terry Gilliam.)