3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story “The House of the Seven Gables”, The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister.

Twice-Told Tales (1963)
  • Rating: (812 votes)
  • Tagline:A trio of terror! »
  • Runtime:120 minutes
  • Director: Sidney Salkow
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon
    Vincent Price
    Beatrice Rappaccini
    Joyce Taylor
    Dr. Carl Heidigger
    Sebastian Cabot
    Giovanni Guasconti
    Brett Halsey
    Alice Pyncheon
    Beverly Garland
    Jonathan Maulle
    Richard Denning
    Sylvia Ward
    Mari Blanchard
    Prof. Pietro Baglioni
    Abraham Sofaer
    Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister
    Jacqueline deWit
    Lisabetta, the landlady
    Edith Evanson
  • Genres:Horror, Mystery, Romance
  • Producer:
    Robert E. Kent
    producer  
  • Plot: 3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister. Written by Dylan Conner, Donna Jolly
Twice-Told Tales
  • User's comment:Unusual Vincent Price trilogy by funkyfry

    Excellent little drive-in thriller thinly disguised as a literary adaption. Seeing all-time screen scream queen Beverly Garland share the screen with the master Vincent Price is a joy to fans of hammy acting everywhere! Richard Denning is also there with very strange hair and his usual straight mannerisms.

    Some pretty weird, morbid tales, done with some intelligence while still giveing lots of opportunities for gore of the hanging skeleton variety. I especially liked the second story, with the killer plant, as I thought it was a refreshing idea and that the colors in the garden were quite nice. A worthy competitor to AIP's other excellent trilogies of terror.


  • Quote: Beatrice Rappaccini: Your daughter is a fine specimen, too, isn't she father? A specimen of the most deadly thing that was ever given life.
  • Also known as: Életrekeltett mesék (Hungary - imdb display title), Das Gift des Bösen (West Germany - imdb display title), L'esperimento del dott. Zagros (Italy), Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales ( - undefined), Nights of Terror ( - undefined), Nos Domínios do Terror (Brazil - cable TV title), Synetairos me to Diavolo (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), The Corpse-Makers ( - undefined),

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