@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

He fell down! Hahahahaha!

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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)

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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@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!

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!

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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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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#monsterdon I see your shwartz is a big as mine!

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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"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

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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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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Did he really say "veni vidi vici" as the spell?

That's hilarious.

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DUDE I COPIED YOUR DEAD WIFE, CAN'T YOU JUST BE CHILL ABOUT IT? #monsterdon

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I love the clothes, though...

"lol, I reanimated your dead wife to be my servant.....aren't I a card?!"

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I was hoping the door would open to Jabba the Hut's place

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@paco You sure? I thought that was Castle Two Point Perspective

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I should acknowledge that I'm not a fan of Nichelson because he's a scumbag

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Imagine Nicholson all hopped up on caffine and sugar.....#monsterdon

Now! That's What I Call Matte

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Early Nicholson psychotic turn, which he perfected later in his career ...

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Roger Corman could talk anyone into any film with that warm, velvety voice of his

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"She favors him."

"I favor curry."

"I curry favor!"

[rimshot]

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Parents: Is this better or worse than trying to get a toddler out the door?

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Vincent Price: “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good FINGER BLASTER at your side, kid”

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foley department going apeshit this whole movie and the best they could do for the finger lasers is "fffff" #monsterdon

The comedy twist on a classic horror is peak Corman

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"You rang, sir?"

"Yes, Grimes, prepare the coach for immediate departure."

This Grimes is not the Grimes who dallied with Elon Musk, this is a different Grimes. Do not do a wrong Grimes.

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Second grave violation about five minutes after the first one. Heck of a track record in this film so far!

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what about what is going on is related to ravens anymore? #monsterdon

So, I looked up Karloff to find out what terrible, degrading movies he did at the end of his career, and you're not going to believe this....

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If people find Peter Lorre as a raven annoying, you should try him as a bug. 😁

In Quest for Glory IV, if you find the hidden thief guild, the former leader who's name coincidentally happens to be Lorre and who happens to speak with the same inflection and style as Peter Lorre can be found having been cursed into this form:

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@jonny

Low inheritance tax at this time.

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Roger Corman: Naturally an adaptation of one of the most popular gothic poems of all time must concern itself primarily with the politics of half-rate wizards. #Monsterdon

This feels like a Venture Bros episode but with all Wizards

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@paco the film notes did say "Comedy"

so, here's that

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Whoa - shazam and it's Peter Lorre. Ha! A long stretch from Casablanca. lol

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A little thin on plot and motivation in this flick so far. It's just a step or two removed from a Walt Disney.

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You can get a doctorate in sorcery?

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you go down into your cellar and it turns out you have all the witch food the raven wants and this is unconcerning to you. the music is saying comedy but vincent price has been mind controlled by this raven and the appearance of comedy is just vincent price's psyche rationalizing and comforting becoming a human marionette #monsterdon

proper potion noises there....

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"Oh my box of living eyes!"

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Collective nouns for a group of ravens include a "conspiracy", a "treachery", a "rave" and an "unkindness"; in practice, most people use the more generic "flock

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This is beneath Vincent Price. Not as bad as that Brady Bunch episode, but still. It's embarrassing.

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