Though it was the last of Roger Corman's eight films based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, The Tomb of Ligeia remains one of the finest in the bunch easily standing in the same territory as The Fall of the House of Usher and Masque of the Red Death. The final result has the feel of a scary supernatural take on Hitchcock's Rebecca. Tomb succeeds on a variety of levels including Robert Towne's excellent script, the use of widescreen photography, fantastic sets and locations that add to the scary atmosphere, and a great performance by Vincent Price. Here, Price plays a brooding widower (with a curious eye malady) whose obsession with his late wife takes a terrifying turn for the worse once he takes a new wife. Elizabeth Shepherd is also good as the frightened, but curious, bride who finds herself stalked by one of the nastiest cats in cinema history. In one excellent sequence, the evil black feline lures Shepherd deep into the maze-like catacombs of their abbey home while Price's voice-over reveals details about his late wife, Ligeia. The camera work by Arthur Grant is top-notch with outdoor lensing bright, but suitably grey and gloomy. Dark interior photography adds to the chilling atmosphere.