Is he gonna stop griping about his damned equipment finally? #monsterdon

Egads! Was Dr. Bedlo just jellied!?

#monsterdon

I don't sit through commercials. I just won't want things with commercials...but this one's worth it...

...as I fall farther behind.

#monsterdon

Quothe the raven, "I am gore."

#Monsterdon

i regret to inform you: this magician absolutely does not know latin #monsterdon

"Are we still talking about THAT?" #Monsterdon #TheRaven

#monsterdon only one man is brave enough to give me the raspberry

he's so goopy!

#monsterdon #TheRaven1963

“Oh, dear. Raspberry jam!”

WTF is going on?!

#Monsterdon

lmao his magic words: "Carthago est delenda" (Carthage must be destroyed), "cave canem" (beware of dog)

#Monsterdon

@cd0 writer's barely disguised fetish again, I see

#Monsterdon

vincent price plays such a nice guy in this movie. i would have slapped this ex-raven's silly hat directly off his head and then chucked him in the nearest moat by now.

#monsterdon

"Be easy on him. This part is always reminiscent of Carrot Top."

#Monsterdon

*Brings out a clockwork atom bomb

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Surely THIS will prove that I am the ultimate magician!

Tonight's #Monsterdon brings about the same energy as a Venture Brothers story arc.

Vulcan magic!

#Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

We *were* mortal enemies. But the makeup-sex was amaaaazing. #monsterdon

They make pills for that, sir.

#monsterdon #theraven

#monsterdon I do like that his so important "Magic Equipment" is a standard stage magicians' wand.

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

💸 Low Budget Film School 🐦‍⬛

Don't fuss over special situations in the screenplay.

Like The Raven screenwriter Richard Matheson, who faked Latin incantations with well-known phrases like "I came, I saw, I conquered," "Beware of the dog," and "If you want peace, prepare for war."

#TheRaven1963

Dad, you know how you are when you're drunk

#monsterdon

IT'S A WIZARD OFF!

#Monsterdon

grabbing case Ah, now! Now we shall see who is the master!

clubs Karloff to death with the case

#monsterdon

As a method actor, Peter Lorre got absolutely fucking wasted before filming this scene. A master of the craft

#monsterdon

I feel bad about criticizing a film for having too much dialogue after recently criticizing one for having too little #monsterdon

Hand manipulations? Magic by gesture? Are they really talking about magic right now?
#Monsterdon

That set of stairs is not up to code … no hand rail
#Monsterdon
#TheRaven

He's not gonna let it go guys. #monsterdon

You know, Jack Nicholosn and Borris Karloff were in another movie in 1963. The Terror, though that one was not a comedy. #Monsterdon

This whole thing is like Walt Disney's Edgar Allan Poe: in Technicolor™︎

#Monsterdon

Two drinks in, Pete's lookin' to get transmuted into a penguin. #Monsterdon

Miraculous hand manipulations. 😏

#Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

you too, are a handsy man

no

wait...

#monsterdon

@paco
Is that a verb now? I like it!

@tuckerm @moira

#Monsterdon 🐦‍⬛ #TheRaven1963

Look, by my "miraculous hand manipulations" do you mean that thing I do with a pencil, or with a quarter?

#monsterdon

Nice entrance hall!

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐦‍⬛ 🕸️ 🏰 😱

"the gift of magic by gesture"

needs more raven #monsterdon

Karloff looks like the Pope

#monsterdon

yes, i too would like to hear about vincent price's miraculous hand manipulations.

#monsterdon

@otheorange_tag @_L1vY_ quoth Tinky-Winky, "nbhehemohe"

#Monsterdon

The Bad Hats convention.

#monsterdon #theraven1963

does the fact that one of the guys was a raven at one point have anything to do with anything #monsterdon

Peter Lorre is about to fuck up a big ol' turkey leg, I hope

#monsterdon

Peter Lorre looks so wronged

I can’t decide if it’s acting or he just doesn’t want to be on set
#Monsterdon

Most of the budget of this film was hats #Monsterdon

@Canageek Gravitas wasn't invented until 1973

#Monsterdon

..it was a graveyard smash

#Monsterdon

Karloff looks shorter than I remembered

#monsterdon

I think they just made this movie as an excuse for old friends to get together for dinner.

#Monsterdon

I have a bingo! Finally! #Monsterdon

If I could conjure food out of nothing with a wave of my hand I would do nothing else ever

#Monsterdon

We have a second female character! Is there a chance for a Bechdel pass?!?!?!

(no)

#Monsterdon

The matte painters union got tons of overtime on this one, I see.

#Monsterdon #TheRaven #VincentPrice

Truth Sauntering Down The Hallway To Shame Vincent Price
#monsterdon

Do they sell that gargoyle firepit on wayfair? #monsterdon #TheRaven #TheRaven1963

I'm afraid soul bondage is only reserved for kinky demons.

#Monsterdon

booooop
#monsterdon

Dr. Scarabus was the Fifth Beetle and he never got over the whole thing #Monsterdon

Borris Karloff being catty and sarcastic with Peter Lorre will never get old.

#Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

This is all about Wizards and Swinging, isn't it?

They'll all have coke spoons....

#Monsterdon

Not bondage, really. Just some handcuffs and light spanking.

#monsterdon

Bingo baby! #Monsterdon

Vincent making faces like he wasn't told Karloff was gonna be in the film

#Monsterdon

People are ahead of me again. Damn you Tubi ads. #monsterdon

Jack sounding very 14th Century Europe there...

#Monsterdon

I do appreciate a movie that understands that candle light is significantly less bright than electric and that you need a really huge number of candles to get decent illumination. Though why they went with blood red for them...

#Monsterdon

I could spell Nickolson's name right, but I don't respect him

#monsterdon

“I am shocked that you would harbor such a truthful fact about me!”

#Monsterdon

I know it's Jack Nicholson but I keep seeing Cary Elwes

#Monsterdon

"You can't handle the truth!"

#monsterdon

for this i put on my best yarmulke?

#Monsterdon

@moira He can only move diagonally indicates 2 dimensional thinking. #Monsterdon

Is this movie where Jack Nicholson learned to chew scenery?

#monsterdon #theraven

"Are you here for the conclave?"

#monsterdon

Beautiful matte paintings and sets #monsterdon #TheRaven #TheRaven1963

Kinda funny that the one who's actually named Craven is the braver of the two…

#Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

Jack driving the coach is how he got cast for The Shining. #monsterdon

the madness spell is of limited duration. But what about that castle? #monsterdon

All my crisps are gone now, can your gods stop that?!

#Monsterdon

I would love a round gargoyle indoor firepit.
#Monsterdon

Why can't I have a castle like this. Is that really so much to ask?

#Monsterdon

the perfect place to roast some marshmallows.

#monsterdon

It's a Mad Mad MAd Coach ride #monsterdon

Wow. The line around the castle. I could've cut it better with safety scissors

#monsterdon

“Please, Dr. Bedlo is my father, call me Rexford.”

#Monsterdon

Enter Boris Karloff!!!

#Monsterdon

Remember when movies were well lit?

I miss that.

#Monsterdon

I like that the castle has accessible automatic doors #monsterdon

Vincent is having such a good time, and is so timing-perfect on his cues (e.g. for all the overdubbed sounds there that they couldn't have heard on-site). His acting elevates what otherwise would have been an extremely dull film.

#monsterdon

And not much of an actor. Shatner has a greater range

#monsterdon

Corman didn't waste any budget on the matte painter.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon someone should turn this into a D&D one-shot.

Circus music because everyone knows being in a carriage driven by a madman is just hilarious #monsterdon #theraven

LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT'S SA-oh

...never mind. #Monsterdon

oooh they got the rubber squeaky rodents

#monsterdon

We're off to see the wizard 🎵
#monsterdon

Rexford is overcome with a maniacal fit as Grimes was before him! The carriage rocks wildly, Estelle is terrified as four horses and four humans careen along a narrow path high above a crashing sea.

The music, on the other hand, plays the scene along like a merry comedy.

The fit passes as Rexford and co approach a matte painting of a foreboding castle!

#monsterdon