Roger Corman learned that there was an old barn in Orange County, CA that was about to be demolished. He was able to strike a deal that would allow him to burn the barn at night and film it. The resulting footage was so good that it was used not only in the climax of this film but in later "Poe" films as well.
This is the first title of a horror saga composed of eight movies that Roger Corman directed, all them based on Edgar Allan Poe's stories released from 1960 to 1965.
The stark landscape that Mark Damon rides through was the site of a fire in the Hollywood hills. Roger Corman had heard of the fire on the radio and went to the location the next day with his crew to do the shots of Damon.
Burt Shonberg's paintings were given to various cast and crew members after the film was wrapped. Roger Corman took the portrait of Vincent Price.
This film marked a major change in the career of Roger Corman. Instead of producing two low-budget black-and-white films for release as a double feature, "American-International" agreed that he could use the budget to produce one higher-budget movie, in CinemaScope and color instead.
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