based on th Eager Allen Poepoem Dr Erasimus Craven(Vincent Price) is visited by a talking raven.The raven ask Dr Craven for help to make a formula so Dr Craven goes down into his fathers old lab and fallows the resiped to the formula .The raven drinks the formula and gasp the raven tuns into Dr Adolphus Beldo (Peter Lorre) Dr Beldo tells his story to Dr Craven he says that Dr Scaribus(Boris Karloff) turned him into a raven he also says that Dr Cravens original wife Lenore Craven(Hazel Cort) thought dead is working with Dr Scaribus so Dr Craven Dr Beldo Dr cravens dater Estelle Craven(Olive Sturgess) and Dr Beldos son Rexford beldo(Jack Nickilson) go to Dr Scaribuses castle. At first Dr Scaribus seems friendly but then they find out that the powerful magician is evil. he kidnaps his visitors and locks them in his castle dungeon the he trse to kill Estelle and turnes dr beldo into a raven again. Dr Craven challiges Scaribus to a dule a film made in 1963 staring Vincent Price,Peter Lorre,Boris Karloff,Hazel Court,Olive Sturguss and Jack Nickilson in The Raven 
