Favorite Vincent Price movie?

[Lethe]

Poll question: Favorite Vincent Price movie?

just curious....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. House of Wax, but "Masque Of The Red Death" was really, really atmospheric.

It's not "House Of Wax" or "The Tingler" or "The Fly," but it ROCKS.

:toast:

[Lethe]

3. it's a great movie

i just watched it again a couple days ago.

it gets into some themes of death, religion, power and how humans relate...definitely more existential than the usual Corman Poe adaptation

the interesting thing about Price's character is the fact that he started worshipping Satan based on logical reasons derived from empirical evidence of the world around him (or so he claims)

and Hazel Court is dishy!

[many a good man]

2. The Tingler

"Scream! Scream for your lives!!!"

[Lethe]

4. and as a bonus you get to see Vincent Price tripping acid

there was a youtube video that has the clip but i couldn't find it :(

[nuxvomica]

7. +1

I couldn't sleep for days after seeing that on Chiller Theater.

[Lethe]

8. did you get to see it in the theater?

i hear in some theaters they rigged the seats and gave random audience members an electrical shock at the scariest scenes

[nuxvomica]

11. I didn't but my mom did

She said they had something running along the floor and a nurse in the lobby with a stretcher. The premise is so wonderfully original and abstract for a horror movie. It scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[Lethe]

12. that is awesome!

i loved the scenes where VP seems sinister but is only trying to scare his wife for scientific purposes. (the dialog between them is fantastic)

also, like i mentioned, the acid trip scene.

and of course, the only colored scene in the movie, which totally caught me by surprise. (it is really shocking if you don't know it's coming)

and a bit of trivia....his research assistant is actually played by Darryl Hickman, who starred with Vincent Price in Leave Her To Heaven with Gene Tierney. (he's a little kid in that one)

[Pharlo]

5. I liked pretty much all of his work. I was particularly fond of his E.A. Poe works:

Masque of the Red Death
The Raven

But, my absolute favorite was 'A Comedy of Terrors'.

[Lethe]

9. i haven't seen Comedy of Terrors yet

thats one of the few movies of his i havent viewed yet.

tales of terror with a drunken Peter Lorre was hilarious.

[csziggy]

15. For me it is a toss up between "Comedy of Terror" and "The Raven"

"Comedy of Terror" is fun because it is so campy/funny.

But how can you beat Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson all in the same movie together? Add in all the schtick between the actors and the familiar stock footage, and "The Raven" is a classic.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. I liked the Dr Phibes movies

The good Doc was so good at coming up with truly creative ways to off his enemies.

[Lethe]

10. that is one of my favorite all time movies

because it's so bizarre.

i mean, can you imagine presenting that script to a producer and them saying, "sounds good lets make it!"

it would have never gotten made in todays world, only in the bizarro AIP world.

i hear the Saw movies got their inspiration from the Phibes movies (only seen Saw 1, didn't like it because of plot holes)

[Forkboy]

16. there was a plot in Saw?

I'll be damned. :)

[oedura]

13. The Fly (nt)

...

[TreasonousBastard]

14. "The Last Man on Earth" which is forgotten mainly because...

"Night of the Living Dead" came out and stole its thunder.

Other than that, the Phibes movies were just so much bizarre fun.

[Forkboy]

17. I can't pick.

The Fly is a classic, I love both of the Poe movies he did, the Phibes movies are fucked up, The Last Man On Earth is truly cool, and The Tingler is a great cornball B-movie. There's more good ones like The Oblong Box, The Monster Club, Comedy of Terrors...he was fucking Egghead in Batman fer crying out loud!

I loved the guy.

I'm stumped. :shrug:

[michreject]

18. Witchfinder General

AKA "The Conqueror Worm".

[Moondog]

25. Definitely.

Price at his best.

[michreject]

27. Puritans at their best

Bind a Woman's arms and legs. Throw her in the lake. If she drowns, she's a witch. If she floats, she's not.

[blogslut]

19. Edward Scissorhands

A wonderful last performance.

[travelingtypist]

20. I don't remember the name of it.

It was about trying to find eternal life or something. He puts a guy in a chair, locks him in, puts the key in a vase close enough for the guy to kick the vase over, which he does and there's scorpions inside it that sting him to death.

Sound familiar to anybody? I think I was 11 or 12 and I stayed up all night for the first time watching movies.

[Lethe]

24. I think that was Dr. Phibes Rises Again

if i remember correctly

[travelingtypist]

28. You did remember correctly.

Thank you!

[mockmonkey]

21. Theater of Blood

I like the humor in it. I also like the Phibes movies for the same reason.

[AngryAmish]

22. Disorderlies

[Mudoria]

23. Witchfinder General

[timtom]

26. Masque of the Red Death

of course.

[BuelahWitch]

29. I enjoyed Laura, Dragonwyck, House of Wax and The Raven so far

I have House on Haunted Hill in my Netflix Instant queue. When I'm not so broke I'll watch some more of his stuff that's available for download on Amazon, but not on Netflix, like Comedy of Terrors
LOVE Vincent Price!