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Alan Smithee posted:I've....never seen a Vincent Price movie Fuckin' post/username combo.
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Jun 21, 2023 11:10
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Alan Smithee posted:I've....never seen a Vincent Price movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaFDZfz8Lc
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Jun 21, 2023 14:19
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Price is great, I love Witchfinder General and his Poe stuff (and really need to check out Phibes) but man I just couldn't vibe with House on Haunted Hill. It was really disappointing because I know some people in this thread absolutely love it, but it just did nothing for me. If any big fans can articulate why they love it so much, I'd be interested to read it!
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Leatherhead posted:Price is great, I love Witchfinder General and his Poe stuff (and really need to check out Phibes) but man I just couldn't vibe with House on Haunted Hill. It was really disappointing because I know some people in this thread absolutely love it, but it just did nothing for me. It's just a really well written whodunnit with a lot of fun characters. I first saw it in high school; it was the end of the year and one of my science teachers put it on. We were a bunch of cynical teens but it hooked almost everybody, there's just something about it. People starting laughing at the ending with the skeleton but when Price shows up again we were totally hooked again. I think that's the movie in general - a lot smarter than you'd think at first glance or from just reading a plot synopsis. I also think the old lady gliding into the room is one of the greatest jump scares of all time. Something about the timing of it or the music sting or the lighting. I could rewatch that scene alone 100 times.
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I love Vincent Price, man. It would basically be impossible for me to make a top 5. That said, don’t sleep on The Tingler, probably the best and smartest of William Castle’s gimmick movies. Also the only one where Price drops acid. Also the entire Poe cycle is worth a look, Masque is my favorite, but for a good time check out The Raven, which has a wizard battle between Price and Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre as a talking bird, and young Jack Nicholson as the romantic lead. Script by Richard Matheson, who wrote like half the Poe cycle
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The Haunted Palace is another good Price/Corman Poe Cycle movie, even though it's actually one of the first Lovecraft film adaptations and just uses the name of a Poe poem. You get Price in a dual role which is fun.
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Benito Cereno posted:The Raven, which has a wizard battle between Price and Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre as a talking bird, and young Jack Nicholson as the romantic lead. Theres no way this movie can live up to the one my head is generating from these details
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The other day I learned that the Hillside Stranglers, who abducted victims by posing as undercover cops and using fake badges to lure women into their car, pulled over Peter Lorre's daughter in 1977. They planned to kill her the same way they'd done with all the other victims but when they looked at her driver's license they realized she was Peter Lorre's daughter so they let her go because they didn't want the media attention. So Lorre's career, which included playing a serial killer in M, ended up saving his daughter's life from actual real life serial killers.Phy posted:Theres no way this movie can live up to the one my head is generating from these details You would think that but actually yea it does
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Just saw the Talk to Me trailer at Cineworld ahead of The Wicker Man rerelease, so looks like it's getting a UK release thankfully. Had to look away as it looked like it was giving away too much.
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Jun 21, 2023 19:51
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Is there never going to be the equivalent of the horror star again? Karloff, Lugosi, Lee, Cushing, Price, those types. Even the guys like Englund or Tony Todd who were considered the modern versions never really became popular personalities outside of their respective characters, though they played a lot of bit parts in other stuff, but I can't even think of a modern version of those guys now. Same deal for scream queens. All the celebrated ones are the same ones from 30-40 years ago, and are now seen more at conventions than in movies.
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Origami Dali posted:Is there never going to be the equivalent of the horror star again? Karloff, Lugosi, Lee, Cushing, Price, those types. Even the guys like Englund or Tony Todd who were considered the modern versions never really became popular personalities outside of their respective characters, though they played a lot of bit parts in other stuff, but I can't even think of a modern version of those guys now. Same deal for scream queens. All the celebrated ones are the same ones from 30-40 years ago, and are now seen more at conventions than in movies. I imagine part of that is the stifling studio system of the time. You could argue actresses like Maika Monroe and Jocelin Donahue are modern scream queens.
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david_a posted:I imagine part of that is the stifling studio system of the time. You could argue actresses like Maika Monroe and Jocelin Donahue are modern scream queens. Emma Roberts, Lucy Boynton and Sophia Lillis are also in that proto-Scream Queen category. I’m having a harder time with dudes though. Dan Stevens has done 3-4 at least and is generally great, but I think that dude just really likes working rather than he is necessarily a horror guy so to speak.
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Patrick Wilson. Jenna Ortega. Mia Goth. Going back a bit you have Freddy Englund, Tony Todd, Sid Haig. Doug Jones deserves to be a household name for horror fans. There won’t be the same kind of hyper focused careers but that’s a good thing. Studios don’t have as much control over actors and they don’t get type cast as much. Bela Lugosi died miserable that he was never able to break out of the horror genre. I dunno. If you don’t count Englund and Todd then that’s in his you perceive them I guess. The older guys who came before our time seem larger than life and iconic because of the time and distance. We’re not watching them toil or whatever. They’re respected veteran actors with huge filmographies and a ton of name notoriety from fans. Duh. Bruce Campbell. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Muthafuckas act like they forgot about Jenna Ortega (and Mia Goth) E: f,b
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I do think your Robert Englunds and Bruce Campbells are mostly equivalent to Lugosis, Karloffs or Christopher Lees of the past in that they're all mostly famous for one or two roles. Sure, they all did a variety of things over the years but 90% of the world knows Robert Englund as Freddy, or Karloff as Frankenstein, Lee and Lugosi as Dracula, etc. Price is the unique one I think. He became a horror icon by creating a screen presence/persona that was all his own, it wasn't just about one or two specific characters. There hasn't been anyone like him since but I don't know if there really had been before either.
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Basebf555 posted:Price is the unique one I think. He became a horror icon by creating a screen presence/persona that was all his own, it wasn't just about one or two specific characters. There hasn't been anyone like him since but I don't know if there really had been before either. I think the closest you come with a modern equivalent is Nic Cage, though of course he's not known as a horror icon specifically.
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It should have been Jeffrey Combs, but we live in a sin-cursed world.
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It’s Patrick Wilson and Lin Shaye.
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Nic Cage has enough horror under his belt that he's that to me. There's a reason they're adding him specifically and not Red Miller or The Janitor to Dead By Daylight.
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Leatherhead posted:It should have been Jeffrey Combs, but we live in a sin-cursed world. Yeah Combs has the same gift Price did of absolutely elevating any he's in, he should be way more well known
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Yeah Combs has the same gift Price did of absolutely elevating any he's in, he should be way more well known Tony Todd has this gift too.
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Stephen Lang is quietly racking up a few horror flicks
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Samara Weaving is racking up some good numbers
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Anya Taylor Joy is kind of a high class horror lady, I'd love to see her have fun in some gory trash.
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Grendels Dad posted:Anya Taylor Joy is kind of a high class horror lady, I'd love to see her have fun in some gory trash. Watch The Menu BAM gottem just kidding I liked The Menu  Alan Smithee posted:I've....never seen a Vincent Price movie 
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I think it was somebody in here who recommended this book? Anyway, I started reading it and it's pretty bitchin' so thank you for the recommendation.
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I'm gonna make sure the October Challenge includes a Vincent Price related challenge this year.
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Takes No Damage posted:Watch The Menu BAM gottem just kidding I liked The Menu Don't forget Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice 
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:I think it was somebody in here who recommended this book? Yeah I mentioned it offhand. It’s way better than anything under the “Blumhouse Books” imprint has the right to be, but then I suppose that’s the Datlow magic baby!!!!!
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Someone repost that list of the votes. I need it.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I also think the old lady gliding into the room is one of the greatest jump scares of all time. Something about the timing of it or the music sting or the lighting. I could rewatch that scene alone 100 times. It really is uniquely unsettling. I had been watching a ton of the Vincent Price Roger Corman movies, which have a fantastic mood but aren't really scary, so I was a bit bored with this one until that scene happened. Genuinely scared me.
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What are some good entry-level horror films for almost-teens who are starting to get interested? I mentioned the classic slashers (with Jason, Freddy, etc), plus Exorcist, Evil Dead (not sure if this one's too hardcore for almost-teens), and The Descent. I'm also lacking in contemporary starter recommendations; the most recent one I can think of is Jeepers Creepers... maybe Deadstream.
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Argue posted:What are some good entry-level horror films for almost-teens who are starting to get interested? I mentioned the classic slashers (with Jason, Freddy, etc), plus Exorcist, Evil Dead (not sure if this one's too hardcore for almost-teens), and The Descent. I'm also lacking in contemporary starter recommendations; the most recent one I can think of is Jeepers Creepers... maybe Deadstream. Gremlins!
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Argue posted:What are some good entry-level horror films for almost-teens who are starting to get interested? I mentioned the classic slashers (with Jason, Freddy, etc), plus Exorcist, Evil Dead (not sure if this one's too hardcore for almost-teens), and The Descent. I'm also lacking in contemporary starter recommendations; the most recent one I can think of is Jeepers Creepers... maybe Deadstream. It Chapter 1 Psycho Goreman The Fear Street Trilogy Army of Darkness Krampus Trick r Treat It’s kinda mid but scary stories to tell in the dark night be okay. I’m not a huge fan but kids love those Insidious movies.
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Argue posted:What are some good entry-level horror films for almost-teens who are starting to get interested? I mentioned the classic slashers (with Jason, Freddy, etc), plus Exorcist, Evil Dead (not sure if this one's too hardcore for almost-teens), and The Descent. I'm also lacking in contemporary starter recommendations; the most recent one I can think of is Jeepers Creepers... maybe Deadstream. Sit them down with a box set of Supernatural S1 and come back in 48 hours. I've been rewatching it for the first time in probably close to 15 years and it not only holds up, it was real horror in a way that later seasons weren't so much. And they deliberately set out to cover all the bases of modern horror in the same way The X-Files covered Forteana.
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If you do that they’ll start to write stories about those brothers fuckin
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CelticPredator posted:If you do that they’ll start to write stories about those brothers fuckin Nah, it'll be a musical and it won't happen for another nine or ten years so there's plenty of time to escape.
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