 The film strikes a good balance between narrative and action, and Vincent Price is, well, priceless as Ward/Curwen.The supporting cast is solid and the art direction by Daniel Haller is really quite good for such a low-budget film.Roger Corman did an admirable job as the first American feature-film director to stake out some cinematic high ground for the cosmos-crushing adaptations of [H. P. Lovecraft] to follow."