Birds don't like milk, they don't 'mammal'

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"Ten thousand raven's and I get Henny Youngman." #monsterdon

sort of ruins the atmosphere of the poem for the protagonist to just go like "come on" to the raven #monsterdon

Oh Christ, it speaks

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Startled Price is comedy gold

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Feather duster!

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I want to be a Vincent Price Wizard, conjuring corvids in my study...

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We have to start with a reading of Poe. As law requires. #monsterdon

@claralistensprechen5th @JoeWynne The Raven got attacked three times on the way to Craven's castle/mansion/whatever by, uh... hawks, I think? It's not on screen but those are bird attacks talked about in dialogue as having happened. Up to you if you want to count it, but I'd say it's in bounds.

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@phooky wow this is wild. Coppola's first film maybe? #Monsterdon

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One last item now that participants have given their opinions on its quality.

🐦‍⬛ The Raven was reputedly produced at a cost of about $350,000. (Probably went mostly for salaries of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre)

💰 It's now known as one of Corman's biggest box office hits, grossing $1.5 million. (several bazillion in today's dollars)

That's ⭐⭐⭐⭐ in profits for Corman, The Master.

@TerryHancock
I didn't know anything about this movie, but I sorta got into it once I realized no one on the production (except maybe the effects guys) was taking the plot seriously, and it was a silly and satirical horror.

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@claralistensprechen5th

I'll give you that one: "The footage of the burning interior of the castle was reused from Corman's 1960 film House of Usher."

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Awww, much less so after the first couple of moves.

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@TerryHancock sonny tufts once famously described his second movie, _government girl_, as being about as funny as three caskets

three caskets are _definitely_ funnier than this film

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ngl team failed comedies are absolutely the hardest thing for me to get through, i came REAL close to tapping out for a while there

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@YsengrinWolf @Taweret If you hallucinate bad movies regularly you're going to really fit in here

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anyway good job team

another movie launched into space and in this case NONE TOO SOON

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

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@YsengrinWolf @kcarr2015 The woman in the coffin had a pretty horrified expression, though. I blame Lenore. #Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

Les Baxter and his Band of Disaxter.

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@YsengrinWolf it wasn't just the raven.... #Monsterdon

@apLundell Book report: "This book report is about Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven.' The book starts off with a man turned into a very annoying bird demanding to be turned back to a human via a magic potion. A big guy gets mind controlled and attacks everyone, then they all go to this castle and talk to the wizard who-"

"Johnny, I want to see you after class."

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@Lazarou @saucerlost @Taweret mission accomplished lol 🎉

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I assume tonight's #monsterdon was the origin of the famous movie-makers' cliché "They'll fix it in post."

The Raven isn't my favorite by Poe, but it shouldn't have been dragged down to that

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@_L1vY_ @kcarr2015 it was the 14th Century, they were just lying around #Monsterdon

@jgamble
Duelmaster, the movie!

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@blogdiva I keep imagining this Nicholson origin story of him in acting classes and the teacher finally losing their temper at how hopelessly bad he is, and Nicholson flying off the handle and making the Here's Johnny face, and the teacher going, "YES! THAT'S IT! NOW YOU'RE ACTING!"

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The highlight was the confetti bomb. #Monsterdon

I was promised 270% more raven than was delivered. Not cool movie. At least we got the Eternal Duel of Wizard Finger Lasers.

As always, thanks @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Looking forward to next week! Surely it has to go up from here....

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I only recognized Nicholson when he started giving that confused expression. His mouth has a very distinctive shape. 😆

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" Bernhart states that, while working for Baxter on recording a score for a Roger Corman film, it was apparent that Baxter could not conduct competently and "couldn't read the scores."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter

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@kcarr2015 Right? The movie kind of glossed over that part.
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well i liked it. i think it's cute and campy.

*i-was-saying-boo-urns-dot-gif*

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@dbendit Desecration is when you heat a castle until the holy water evaporates? @rljenk see, studying dad jokes DOES pay off #Monsterdon

Really!? #monsterdon

Woof. What stinker. #monsterdon

idk what exactly happened there with the stream at the end but i’m not sure it would have made any sense even if it worked perfectly, thanks all for another great #monsterdon and to @Taweret as always for hosting!

Well that was fun, folks! I really enjoyed that! And with a Matheson screenplay, how could I not?

It's great when the movie is silly and everyone involved knows it.

Anyway, same time next week! Have a great night!

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Did we learn anything here tonight? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The Brotherhood, AKA:

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

At the end of the day, you just can’t be Vincent Price when it comes to hand stuff #Monsterdon

They didn't die? WTF. Go to hell movie.
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Everyone knows castles explode when the owner dies #monsterdon #theraven

Huh! Screenplay by Matheson.

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and talking direct to the camera for a finisher...

Thanks @Taweret and #monsterdon gang for your comments!

Everything wrapped up neatly and no Sea

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Quoth the raven, "That's all folks!"

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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Wasn't it a duel to the death?

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AHHH HOW CAN HE SEE ME

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there sure was a lot of wasted acting talent in that movie

ty for joining, everyone!!

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This was a pretty big hit for AIP. Thanks #monsterdon Take care. See ya soon.

Warm milk is the secret

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WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EXPOSED LATH IN MY CAAAAASStttttlllleeeeee....

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Scarabus & Lenore going out like Jaime & Cersei, as the prophecy foretold

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New invention: Flammable stone! So many uses!

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

There's the barn fire. #Monsterdon #TheRaven

take me home

vincent price

to the place

made of foam

painful talking

mad voiceovers

take me home

to the foam

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The movie is trying to burn itself down to make it end faster!

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Sadly battle is *not* over...
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Love all this digital lighting animation.

Get it? Digital?

Aw to hell with all of ya.

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Dr. Craven doing the old wax-on wax-off move.

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Vincent Price uses limp wrists!
Battle is over!
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Vincent's Wile Coyote umbrella is Priceless. badum cha!

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It's your own castle you're destroying dude

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8 minutes left and not too soon

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While we've been watching this, generations of people have been born and died, when this is over we'll go stand up creakily, wander outside, and the world will have changed! We'll finally have hovercars and a woman president

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You know what they say, people who live in flammable houses shouldn't cast fireballs

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He is The One.

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@otheorange_tag The wizard duel scene is sooooooooooo long #monsterdon

Price looks awfully smug for someone with a flower pot on his head.

(Yes I know it's supposed to be a Fez. Do you really think Corman would have paid for one?)

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is he setting the stone on fire with egg yolks?

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Alrighty then, she now claims to be THE Lenore. Marking that card for a 3-way bingo!

The film's bird budget is out of control #monsterdon

Unfortunately, Scarabus dropped the chandelier with the dummy on it instead

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How long must this duel go on ....

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Pierced by the image of his father. Very Freudian. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Wow, Poe was an incredible writer.

He looks throne for a loop

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And now The Matrix is shamelessly ripping off Roger Corman.
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Will there be any dialog in the rest of this movie?

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Coreman was so cheap he didn't even claymation the monsters

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Oh.. is that bat going to turn into a mummy?
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Auld Lang Syne playing with the confetti. Surprisingly good music bit.

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@wohali

Quoth the raven, “zany score”
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wonka's gonna be mad they stole fizzy lifting drinks

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you know Vincent Price will win because better hat #Monsterdon

Follow the bouncing ball

Oh god they actually played Good Old Summertime

This movie is way ahead of me

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It is decreed that all wizard battles must have zany zany music.

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A wizard's duel where they're seated *is* pretty cool, though.

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Edgar Allen Poe: “And then Lenore and Estelle stood next to each other for 15 minutes and didn’t talk to each other”

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the cheaper a bat prop looks, the greater my delight

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lololol it's the rubber bat from everyone's favorite Dracula adaptation(s)

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THE RAVE 'n

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"One of us must perish"
counterpoint: Why not both?
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jazz hands battle! #monsterdon

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The acting raven thought Jack Nicholson was a very fine actor...to poop on.

Nicholson: "I would look down when the Raven flew off my shoulder, and it would be covered in poop. I hated that bird."

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“I wiggle my fingers at you!”

“No, I wiggle my fingers at you!” #Monsterdon