@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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so Hollywood is just made of nepobabies and prostitutes¹

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

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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.

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

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That was a long walk for a pun on quoth the raven nevermore.

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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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And we end on a sitcom sting. Yeesh. #Monsterdon

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!

Carnival music for the closing credits, okay #Monsterdon

I liked The Pit and the Pendulum better. #Monsterdon

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

This is fine. #Monsterdon

Come everyone! The Masque of the Red Death isn't far from here. It's a much better film; we'll be safe there

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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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Man. Fuck Corman for putting a BIRD in the scene with all this live fire everywhere :/ #Monsterdon

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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He's summoned the Puppy Bowl! #Monsterdon

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

In my experience wizard battles are usually carried out with snarky Tumblr DMs. #Monsterdon

DISCO WIZARD #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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OH MY GOD HE LIT HER HEAD ON FIRE, I- oh

>_> #Monsterdon

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 wish they'd stop trying to be funny. It's just kind of embarrassing. #Monsterdon

"What about mother? She wants you home!"

"Why"

"I don't know-"

Neither do I, man. Neither do I. #Monsterdon

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

"I cast magic missile"

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Hit him with the ol' Vincebeam. #Monsterdon

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

"Go get some more!"

"Where?"

Walmart, duh. #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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"I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Mike Wallace. I'm_" *gunshot* #Monsterdon

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