BethanyApologies and Vincent Price
October 25th 2008 15:08
We recently had someone suddenly move in with us, and the time I would have spent here has been spent with her, or my step-dad who's suddenly in poor health. I really appreciate everyone who stops by on a regular basis.
On a far less serious note, I wanted to talk about Vincent Price. One of the things I bought for myself was a Vincent Price movie collection, it's got 6 different movies, all of them the kind of delightfully cheesy horror movies- The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Theater of Blood, for example.
And all of Vincent Price's characters were so charismatic- he had this gift of making a guy both truly evil and accessible, making you want to know him. I've watched a lot of these movies, sometimes I'll get lucky and a channel will run all his old movies- I'm gonna have a Halloween party, and we're going to have a Vincent Price fest.
If, somehow, you've never seen a Vincent Price movie, there's a few that I could recommend that you try first. I saw him in all sorts of things as a kid, he's been in Columbo and he was in Mission Impossible, he was in the very beginning of Edward Scissorhands, so I likely saw him once or twice. But my real introduction to him was the movie House on Haunted Hill, which I saw on VHS having been recorded off of TV. Ah, the days of VHS, eh?
He's done some more serious work, as well- I've heard Laura is his best work, but I haven't been able to get hold of that film. Some of these older ones, they haven't turned them into DVD's yet, and the ones that are DVD's you have to hunt down online, just about.
Masque of the Red Death is a good introduction to Vincent Price in what Stephen King once labeled 'Poe-pictures'. If you've read a lot of Edgar Allen Poe- and believe me, I have- you'll be interested to see how many different stories they pluck plots from and combine in the Poe-Pictures. Masque of the Red Death is a good example of this particular habit, and it's as good a start as any of them. Tales of Terror and Twice Told Tales are also a good way to dip your toe in, I think, but I have an absurd fondness for short stories and films. Keep an eye out, in the first Tales of Terror, for a story called Black Cat. It combines the Edgar Allen Poe story of Black Cat with Cask of Amontillado, and it's one of my favorites from that set of shorts.
Once again, I apologize to those who read regularly who keep checking in to find out I haven't done anything. Things are starting to settle down, and I'm hoping to get a lot more done. I've got a back log of movies I was going to watch this month, so I'll probably be talking about horror for a while yet.
On a far less serious note, I wanted to talk about Vincent Price. One of the things I bought for myself was a Vincent Price movie collection, it's got 6 different movies, all of them the kind of delightfully cheesy horror movies- The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Theater of Blood, for example.
And all of Vincent Price's characters were so charismatic- he had this gift of making a guy both truly evil and accessible, making you want to know him. I've watched a lot of these movies, sometimes I'll get lucky and a channel will run all his old movies- I'm gonna have a Halloween party, and we're going to have a Vincent Price fest.
If, somehow, you've never seen a Vincent Price movie, there's a few that I could recommend that you try first. I saw him in all sorts of things as a kid, he's been in Columbo and he was in Mission Impossible, he was in the very beginning of Edward Scissorhands, so I likely saw him once or twice. But my real introduction to him was the movie House on Haunted Hill, which I saw on VHS having been recorded off of TV. Ah, the days of VHS, eh?
He's done some more serious work, as well- I've heard Laura is his best work, but I haven't been able to get hold of that film. Some of these older ones, they haven't turned them into DVD's yet, and the ones that are DVD's you have to hunt down online, just about.
Masque of the Red Death is a good introduction to Vincent Price in what Stephen King once labeled 'Poe-pictures'. If you've read a lot of Edgar Allen Poe- and believe me, I have- you'll be interested to see how many different stories they pluck plots from and combine in the Poe-Pictures. Masque of the Red Death is a good example of this particular habit, and it's as good a start as any of them. Tales of Terror and Twice Told Tales are also a good way to dip your toe in, I think, but I have an absurd fondness for short stories and films. Keep an eye out, in the first Tales of Terror, for a story called Black Cat. It combines the Edgar Allen Poe story of Black Cat with Cask of Amontillado, and it's one of my favorites from that set of shorts.
Once again, I apologize to those who read regularly who keep checking in to find out I haven't done anything. Things are starting to settle down, and I'm hoping to get a lot more done. I've got a back log of movies I was going to watch this month, so I'll probably be talking about horror for a while yet.
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