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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@thatdawnperson Wow, baby Jack Nicholson.

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Three years after "Little Shop of Horrors," Jack Nicholson appears in another Corman film. From insane dental patient to . . . insane son of a sorcerer.

No one ever: “Roger Corman is too subtle”

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I guess Tor Johnson wasn't available? Who is this discount replacement?#monsterdon

"I cast magic missile"

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He fell down! Hahahahaha!

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He’s got a cool-looking armillary sphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillary_sphere
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This dude is SUPER ungrateful. Do you have any idea how expensive jellied spiders are in this economy? #monsterdon

This musical accompaniment is really working overtime to set the mood. To set some kind of mood, anyhow. I keep expecting the talking raven to be joined by a chorus of muppets.

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Whenever I think of Poe, I often imagine a whimsical xylophone

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"I haven't been down there in 20 years." Gezzus, I bet it's cob webby AF down there. #monsterdon

Why is this a comedy

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That's an impressive trained raven they're using in this flick.

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lenore painting is disrespectful to the deceased! #monsterdon

To you she was only a step mother, to me she was… [Borat voice] *MY LIFE!*

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does lenore have a big booty or gams that make ya go awooga or what is our motivation for missing lenore here #monsterdon

Wait

shit

The Raven (1963), not Frogs (1972)

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A raven is any of several large-bodied passerine bird species in the genus Corvus.

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Just got home, so close to being on time for #Monsterdon. Ah well, see y'all next week maybe!

Some humour you can't unhume.
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Ok, so the puppies are adorable, but once again, gravitas goes out the window XD

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(I know I'm WELL behind the rest of you now)

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IDK. I don't really understand the complaints. Within the constraints:

* Adapted from a poem that isn't all that long (and has even less plot, as it is mostly a reflection on the themes of death and loss).

* Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff all need roles (I doubt they cared so much about Jack Nicholson then).

* Roger Corman directing.

* Comedy, but also creepy.

I think it was a pretty solid movie. They had multiple, well-made and well-dressed sets (I wonder if they are re-used?) and some very expressive matte or glass-painting work.

And some film compositing -- did y'all notice the phantom Raven drawing at the beginning was behind a chair! That had to be a film-composite shot. Very nice work for 1963.

And they had to develop a story for a 95 minute feature film.

Not that it matters, but that movie was set 200 years before Poe wrote The Raven.
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Well, big thanks to @Taweret for another pleasant evening of obscure cinema. This was one I'd never seen before, and I'd mixed the name up with another Vincent Price movie with a giant raven (that I may have hallucinated entirely).

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Welp, that was another fun #Monsterdon!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for organizing #MonsterdonBingo, @JoeWynne for the drink recipe, and all of you for making it fun!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOfZlS48vw

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@kcarr2015 Oh! I assumed she just acquired a corpse.

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@ottaross lucky for him 'The 60s' happened to him and he learned how to act.
BY that I mean the Drugs, they happened to him.
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That was truly terrible. A made-for-TV movie. Corny writing. Goofy music. A shred of a plot. Boobs. Nobody gets hurt in the end.

Well played.

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@paco @catzilla

Faked her own death 🤷🏻‍♀️

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And thank YOU for watching, #monsterdon . Good luck, good riddance, good night!

I'm still kinda hung up on Leanore killing another woman to fake her own death.

I don't care how much cleavage she shows, that was not cool! 😬

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This is NOT Poe's Raven. The only thing these things have in common is the title.
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I enjoyed the sexy chaotic evil of Lenore and Vincent Price but man that film took it's time to go really nowhere

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GUYS I think Vincent Price can see me

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#monsterdon Shut your beak.. then proceeds to quote the raven. This was pretty bad, folks.. And they borrowed every musical trope from everything..

I guess that the magical duel was entertaining.. but there was a whole lot of bad music and hoking it up,..

james nicholson presents... is that a nepo baby i smell?

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Doctor Craven quothed the raven!!!

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The most whimsical fight to the death in cinema history #Monsterdon

Oh no - big fire over at the ol' matte painting!

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#monsterdon what this movie needs now is a nice warm glass of milk

#monsterdon Oh look, he's standing on a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore!

Erasmus is triumphant for some reason! Scarabus crumples to the floor, Lenore proclaims her delight at Erasmus's victory & tries to worm her way back into Erasmus's affections. The uncontrolled fire & architectural damage wrought be the wizarding duel pull down the castle around Scarabus and Lenore as Estelle, Erasmus, Rexford, and Birdlo Scooby-Doo/Super Metroid their way out of the collapsing structure. Now outside, they look back at the matte painting now engulfed in flames.

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Load bearing boss! (Though the fires were self-inflicted)

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Say what you want, this magician duel is better than watching Harry Potter and financing JK Rowling #monsterdon #TheRaven #TheRaven1963

okay, I was not expecting Dr. Kramer's dear departed idolized wife to have actually just left him and actually be one of the masterminds behind everything

That is a level of subtlety. I was not thinking this movie had

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Scarabus appears as the reanimated corpse of Erasmus's father from the first grave violation, and takes advantage of Erasmus's confusion to impale him upon a spear! Whoops, no, that was a scarecrow Erasmus.

Honestly this whole goofy scene is dragging on a bit. We get the idea, these two wizards enjoy showing off to each other and their audience while sitting in comfortable chairs.

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Auld Lang Syne?

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Ahh, the old 'dead dad throws a spear' trick

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nobody will buy the soundtrack to this film
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Vincent Price is a dummy filled with sawdust! I knew it!

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WHY IS THIS SCENE SO LONG?!
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This is a better magician's duel than anything fron that terf woman.

Though I don't think this was in the book.

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I just sat through a Fox News ad with Sean Hannity. THAT'S horror.

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it's a wizard-off
what a treat
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#monsterdon I see your shwartz is a big as mine!

In a sorcerers’ duel to the death, they get to sit in chairs. I like this.

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Ah yes! I have been waiting for the Wizard Laser Battle!!

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He brought blue finger lasers to a red finger laser fight. #monsterdon

Locks and stocks for Estelle.
8 feet from where she was previously tied up.
This seems tedious.
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[finger blasting intensifies]

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The rope usage is rather random on this set of prisoners.

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YES HE'S A RAVEN AGAIN

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"lol, that was some other dead body, I ran off with the old dude!"

Chaotic Evil, deffo

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I think the total lines women have had so far is about 25

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Lenore is the real villain in this film.

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Gee, women sure are evil

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I'm legit confused as to who Rexford is working for/with

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It really is incredible how bad Jack Nicholson is in this

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Not even feckless prince charmings deserve such a dickhead for a father. #monsterdon

Shit. He's alive

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I paid 4 bucks to rent this fucking movie

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"Where're we going?!"

"PLANET TEN!"

"Not without my father!"

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The 1973 porn version of this is so much better. #monsterdon

i don't think Poe had any of this in mind

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Good. Blackbirds and ravens are NOT the same #Monsterdon

Nichelson did his best work in Easy Rider. Everybody was wasted during that shoot

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Lorre's a better actor when he's hammered

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"Keep your door locked"

I'd sleep with a gun under the pillow too....

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It's considered impolite to reduce your guests to raspberry jam

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dont stick your fingers in him

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Confused Nicholson is the new Confused Perseus

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This movie is about masturbating, isn't it.
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