bitch got what every plastic surgerized MAGA nazi Barbie and their patriarchy at home deserves.

still hate this fucking music.

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That bat couldn't've been rubberier

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I GROW VEARY OF THIS MOVIE

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so George Lucas stole that Emperor scene from Roger Corman and this movie?!?!?

#Monsterdon #TheRaven #EmpireStrikesBack

the wizard duel of composited laser mattes #monsterdon

"You are not alone in guilt, sir: I too have failed at the task of living."

BIG MOOD

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“Are we going to have some torture?”
Yes, it’s called Roger Corman’s The Raven. #Monsterdon

completely lost. who is doing what. that's the real lenore right? not even bewitched just divorced? #monsterdon

Be careful, its 50 feet straight down and then you hit stock footage. #monsterdon

so in this universe magic is real but only magic by gesture is real, and the raven was just a drunk guy who taped some sparklers to a globe, so really it's a universe where magicians drunk with power are above the law and go around jellying people and keeping their relatives corpses in their living rooms for some reason #monsterdon

Any wizarding duel that features a slide whistle is all right in my books.

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(Interesting that the place settings at Scarabus's table feature the same dark red glass goblets as held Erasmus's warm milk in the opening scene. Guess all the sorcerers in this neighbourhood shop at the same IKEA.)

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Oh, you’re interested in his wondrous hand manipulations, are you? #Monsterdon

I would not try a single drink in this man's house.

#Monsterdon

Try sneaking without the tuba

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Jack Nicholson crazed and scaring a woman is how I recognise him

#Monsterdon

He tried to kill us and he was the victim of diabolical mind control. And we don't have the tiniest bit of curiosity about that and so we're going to go now.

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Is that Jack Nicholson?

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really normal to have your dead father and wife in the basement

#Monsterdon #TheRaven

whatching Peter Lorre in this, i totally understand now why Marty Feldman had a career and why Krickfalusi drew and had Ren (of Ren & Stimpy) speak the way he did.

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Edgar Allen Poe: [cue the zany xylophone]

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Price just casually floating the idea of violating a familial grave. As one does.

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20 years? Those are long-lasting eyeballs!

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Can you even imagine living in a house with a sub-basement this large and _not_ storing in it a pipe of Amontillado of dubious origin??

(For a sub-basement, this room is impressively dry and dusty. Excellent foundation sealing, sump pump, and HVAC/dehumidifier loop, really.)

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@Zerofactorial No one ever expects the TUBA SOLO.

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Quoth the raven, “oh, never mind”

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the tapping ia freaking me out and that raven is ginormous

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I heard it was unlike the poem, but I was not prepared for our forlorn protagonist to be a wizard with an adult daughter who wasn't even young when he fell in love with Lenore

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGO #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO GO!!!!!

@forestine Arthritis-friendly duel! 🤣

Each trying to get the other off of his lawn.
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@TerryHancock

@SordidAmok #monsterdon

Nevermore! However, it suggests a way this movie could be better: a soundtrack by AC/DC!

The magic duel was entertaining. And the band really tried.

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@ramsey Wait. What?! There is a Scooby-Doo episode with him?
(After internet search)
Oh hell yes! (It's just the opening scene)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlEpVjtOLOU
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so Hollywood is just made of nepobabies and prostitutes¹

(am going with the Maya Angelou use of the word, btw)

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Oh thank God, it's over

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Final high score. That was a silly movie.

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@jonny Had they fully leaned into the camp, it would’ve been better.

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Jack Nicholson at 26yrs old must've reconsidered the whole acting thing for a few years after that.

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That was the worst and silliest Vincent Price movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched the Scooby-Doo episode he’s in.

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and so jack nicholson swore off large, out-of-the-way, many-roomed buildings for the rest of his life-- oh. oh wait.

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Tarantino totally ripped this off for the end of Kill Bill Part 2

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this duel must be what all the budget for the movie went into

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Apparently, Lorre and Nicholson didn't like each other

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"One cannot fight evil by hiding from it."

Whew! A word for modern times.

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vincent price got his ass outlined #monsterdon

Pretty sure Lorre was actually drunk when they filmed this

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Scarabus reaches upward, grabs ahold of a bell pull suspended in thin air, pulls it twice, and summons... Lenore!? No! A merely similar-looking young lady, just as quickly dismissed again as she was first summoned!

The twists and turns of this movie, really. It's like an itchy snake on a turntable set to 78rpm.

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Quality matte painting there.....lol

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like i guess being haunted by your wife is one of the main things in the raven so i guess the igor guy having his wife be into his son (???) is like lenore's counterpart, like in a freudian sense "lenore is dead so she cannot seduce our offspring and i will not be killed" being haunted by the raven is not as bad as being the raven #monsterdon

Laserbeam ex digito #Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

shooting friggin space lasers…

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Sir, magic missile is a level 1 spell. You should also be able to cast it.

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What the hell is this ?!?
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where does vincent price even live why does he have all this stuff #monsterdon

@pngwen @arrjay
Ok, but I am neither scared nor laughing.

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Seems to me that The Raven is supposed to be scary. But this Abbot and Costello routine is strange.

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@healyn how did they get the raven to just hold his mouth open like that, brilliant acting #monsterdon

Price is making a meal out of bumping into that big brass telescope every time he crosses the room!

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That bust of Pallas should be way more pallid. #Monsterdon

The book he’s holding is goofy, but the one on the lectern looks authentically old. #Monsterdon

"your goblet of warm milk" as if it needs to be a goblet specifically

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nobody declaims poetry like Vincent Prince, NOBODY!

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do not do a wrong Frogs

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i skipped the first two minutes to catch up and it turns out that's basically how long it takes to read the raven right #monsterdon

Quick end of summer getaway. Hanging out with Mom, bingeing on Vera and Grantchester, and overeating on desserts. So, no #Monsterdon for me tonight. Enjoy The Raven!

What if Vincent Price’s part was originally written for Bugs Bunny?

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@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla The script.

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Not that plot points are important (as I have been clearly reminded),

but somebody turned the butler into an axe-murderer. And, if he succeeded, he would have killed both men. But then Scarabus seems to have wanted Craven's magic.... So was he going to get that from Craven's corpse?

One minute he wants to kill him, the next minute it's essential he lives. I dunno, man.
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I understand that some folks preferred Maximum Overdrive. It did have more action. I guess I'm just a sucker for respectable actors absolutely debasing themselves.

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@Lazarou @saucerlost @Taweret In west rural England, born and raised, in a chamber was where I spent most of my days

(okay young Will Smith as a rapping raven would be kinda sweet)

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@flowerpot Actually, that’s the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon series “The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo,” where he narrates every episode.

He was also in an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You as himself, in the 70s, which is the episode I was thinking of.

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Pacing was erratic and they should have just said to hell with it and really leaned into the camp - or maybe, with the early 1960s studios that *was* leaning into the camp.

Puppies were a nice touch, though.

No coffee, no smoking.

#Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

@flowerpot
No important characters were permanently harmed in this story. 🤦‍♂️

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HE SAID THE TING! This movie sucked.
I love Vincent Price, but even he and the great raven actor couldn't save this nonsense.
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the movie wasnt necessarily good but it had a lot of fun and a very fashionable vincent price so that's a win for #monsterdon compared to some of the movies we've watched

The music was done by AI Simulators. Mostly tuba simulators.

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@dbendit

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An hour thirty come and gone. Forget it Jake, it's #Monsterdon.

Thanks once again to @Taweret for hosting.

Have a great week Beautiful Mutants!

Erasmus darling! Now that you won I'm totally into you! #monsterdon

This is fine. #Monsterdon

lenore really blew the chance to play bewitched, like literally if you fainted and came back a few minutes later and your voice was all quiet and nice it would have worked #monsterdon

I feel like I'm watching the denouement of a Simpsons special, I don't know why

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I still don't know how everyone else didn't get bored and leave during the wizard duel

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That was an intensely silly duel, but also way more creative than I've seen in any other fantasy movie.

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I’m really glad Craven rejected Lenore there at the end.

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#monsterdon Does anyone else think this is a terrible movie?

Imagine this battle with special effects

and pacing

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two old men play PvP scribblenauts for the um love of their wife? or daughter, or something #monsterdon

So far we have:

transformation
mind control
branding iron
rope bondage
stocks

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WAIT! Lenore is down with killing her own daughter? she is the worse, isn’t she.

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We could be watching The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T right now

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If sparkling astrolabe persists, consult a physician. #monsterdon

"You're defending yourself you coward"???

Wait I'm just supposed to sit here and let you hurt me? That's bravery?
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(Serious worry for just a second: Peter Lorre's face is awfully close to that spinning sparkler contraption with no eye protection. Those magnesium sparks are no laughing matter.)

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this is like that movie where they puttered around for an hour preparing to go to the moon.

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I feel this movie would work a lot better at 1.5X speed. #monsterdon

i would be less chill about a wizard having a servant woman who looks exactly like my wife being just a coincidence #monsterdon

Cucked by Dr. Scarabus! #Monsterdon

I used to have that castle! There was a trap door for He-Man to fall into

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