The Raven: Vincent Price Fingerblasts Boris Karloff for Ninety Solid Minutes #Monsterdon

I bet the drugs on this set were incredible. #monsterdon

Erasmus's Noclip Curse #Monsterdon

Clearly he learned wax on, wax off from Mr. Miyagi. #Monsterdon

"We need something sexy in this movie."

"There is nothing sexy about this movie."

"We could throw in someone dressed like Robin Hood."

"Perfect."

"Let's add some more video of surf."

"I can surf."

"I think the movie can write itself."

"To the beach!"

"And beyond!"

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"Heeere's Johnny, I'll be your Uber driver tonight"

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Pew pew.
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loving Vincent's laser finger

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This dialogue flows as gracefully as boulders down a mountainside >_> #Monsterdon

That awkward moment when someone you met at a convention remembers you and you're totally drawing a blank.

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OH GOD IT'S PETER LORRE #Monsterdon

WTF the raven talks?!?!?

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"I brought you your goblet of warm milk, father"

Thank you. And the silver platter of Oreo cookies? #Monsterdon

i don't member any kinda VR painting app in the raven #monsterdon

This is a PRIDE COFFIN, BITCHES #Monsterdon

I think if I were tasked with converting The Raven to a workable film script, (And the studio wouldn't let me shoot it absolutely straight as a very slow art piece) My first thought would be to make the incident in the poem one of several escalating incidents.

His family tries to help him, but every time he's left alone he broods over Lenore and starts ranting at a bird that might or might not be real.
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Me: “Bartender! A round of warm milk for everyone!”

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@Louisa
deep into VRchat peering, long i sat there scribbling, leering
pouting, screaming at a bird whose failson's at my daughters door
but the silence keep being broken, by the jam the rugs were soaked in
and the loudest words then spoken were the cackle of my cucked lenore,
then i whimpered, and she murmured back the words "a bore"
merely this, and what a chore

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They say corvid's can remember individual people, so I'm assuming that particular raven didn't let his agent book him on another Roger Corman picture for the rest of his career.

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@SordidAmok mmmmmmmm

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@diazona @saucerlost @Taweret well that ear worm will be keeping me awake tonight.... #Monsterdon

@catzilla I'm just showing off because it's one of the few #monsterdon films where I was paying attention during an important plot point.

Haters gonna hate, but thank you #monsterdon for giving me the excuse to watch this delightful flick I haven't seen in decades. Peace and love.

music by lex baxter. so we know who to blame.

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American International Pictures presents "Edgar Allen Poe's defamation lawsuit"

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

still hate this fucking music.

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Yeah, that umbrella's gay enough for Vincent Price. #Monsterdon

FINALLY we get to casting Fireball. He's just been wasting spell slots this whole time. #Monsterdon

That bat couldn't've been rubberier

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I GROW VEARY OF THIS MOVIE

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Man. I know I haven't played in a while, but Planeswalker duels are a *lot* different than i remember. #Monsterdon

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

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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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Four people strapped to slabs of rock and forced to watch a madman prepare their torture

At long last, I can relate to this film.

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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.

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Try sneaking without the tuba

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

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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

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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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this movie's take on the raven is "what if the raven cucked you and fucked your wife"!?!?!?! #monsterdon

First you must slice open the web layer like cellophane. It keeps your ancestors fresh and sassy.

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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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Of course, I'd happily listen to Vincent Price read the phone book, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Monsterdon

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO #Monsterdon

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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

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

Still, it was better than Maximum Overdrive, by a country mile

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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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Some actors don't have a gift for comedy, and they were in that movie

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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

Poe didn't have children, so there were no descendants to sue Corman for making this

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lenore was that b* rapping at my chamber door, quote the jam puddle "brrrrglrr" #monsterdon

"We'll have to try it."

Yeah, after all, all work and no play makes... Well, you know. #Monsterdon

Pretty sure Lorre was actually drunk when they filmed this

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He gets the case back and just brains Scarabus over the head and walks out. #Monsterdon

You know the magical equipment is all sex toys

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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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Enter Boris Karloff as Dr. Scarabus, a charming and jolly host sincerely enchanted by the arrival of unexpected guests!

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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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I think Pete had more dignity when he was being pantsed by Bugs Bunny. #Monsterdon

Yeah, probably don't wanna mention the box of eyeballs to the Raven. Save that for lunchtime. #Monsterdon

...Rabbit's LOG?

Bunny lumberjack maybe? ...Bunberjack. #Monsterdon

So he goes into the basement, I can only assume we'll be meeting Death of Rats next. SQUEAK. #Monsterdon