THE RAVEN (1963)

If you want a movie with the best guys in horror starring, this is it. But it’s not a horror movie, it’s one of the first horror comedies. Roger Corman had been making movies out of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories for a while, and decided to do something to poke fun at them. So he got Richard Matheson (who wrote a lot of the best TWILIGHT ZONE episodes) to write it, and got Vincent Price (who’s in a lot of the other Poe movies), Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff to star in it. They’re all hilarious! Price and Lorre especially. Jack Nicholson shows up looking like he’s my age or something! It’s got nothing to do with Poe’s poem, but it’s about a war between three magicians, and it all builds up to a showdown at the end. I love it!