The Haunted Palace (1963)

Roger Corman's 'The Haunted Palace' is a gothic horror film centered on a man possessed by his warlock ancestor. The narrative does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes, focusing instead on supernatural dread and inherited madness.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film adapts H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and elements from Poe. While it introduces new characters and alters plot points, no established character from the source material is portrayed with a different gender in the film.

The film adapts H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," whose characters are implicitly or explicitly white. The 1963 movie cast white actors in all major roles, consistent with the source material's racial context. No character established as one race was portrayed as a different race.