Mario Bava anthology horror flick for AIP has that beautiful Bava colour with blues and reds, plus some decent stories. The first one involves a maid who pinches a ring off an old dead lady and lives to regret it (it's a little Tell Tale Heart). The second has a girl receiving scary phone calls and seeking help from a presumably lesbian friend. The last is like a minor Roger Corman Poe entry with Mark Damon as a noble visiting a castle led by Boris Karloff. It goes on for far too long and would have worked at half the length.
This was a good, solid film - maybe I would have loved it more had I watched it at a formative age.
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