The Raven was successful in 1935, something Roger Corman and Vincent Price didn't manage 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven had a script by Richard Matheson, who, as Wikipedia notes, said, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it." Matheson's error stemmed from taking the material too lightly; it’s because Raven '35 tr…