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."
Awww, much less so after the first couple of moves.
@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
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
@YsengrinWolf @Taweret If you hallucinate bad movies regularly you're going to really fit in here
anyway good job team
another movie launched into space and in this case NONE TOO SOON
and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting
@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.
@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."
@Lazarou @saucerlost @Taweret mission accomplished lol π
I assume tonight's #monsterdon was the origin of the famous movie-makers' clichΓ© "They'll fix it in post."
The Raven isn't my favorite by Poe, but it shouldn't have been dragged down to that
@_L1vY_ @kcarr2015 it was the 14th Century, they were just lying around #Monsterdon
@jgamble
Duelmaster, the movie!
@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!"
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....
I only recognized Nicholson when he started giving that confused expression. His mouth has a very distinctive shape. π
" 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."
@kcarr2015 Right? The movie kind of glossed over that part.
#Monsterdon
They killed the castle with fire...but the baddies survived in comical form...but they all lived happily ever after and...uh...what was the point of all this again?
THE END
Edgar Allen Poe is rolling in his grave...which I am sure is somewhere on Vincent Price's property.
This was certainly the most Saturday Morning Cartoon #Monsterdon we've had to date, but it sparked great Joy nonetheless. Thanks for the selection @Taweret !
@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 iβm 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!
Did we learn anything here tonight? #Monsterdon
#monsterdon The Brotherhood, AKA:
At the end of the day, you just canβt be Vincent Price when it comes to hand stuff #Monsterdon
They didn't die? WTF. Go to hell movie.
#Monsterdon #TheRaven
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
Richard Matheson wrote it? Oh dear!
Wasn't it a duel to the death?
AHHH HOW CAN HE SEE ME
...Vince. C'mon. #Monsterdon
This was a pretty big hit for AIP. Thanks #monsterdon Take care. See ya soon.
Warm milk is the secret
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EXPOSED LATH IN MY CAAAAASStttttlllleeeeee....
Scarabus & Lenore going out like Jaime & Cersei, as the prophecy foretold
New invention: Flammable stone! So many uses!
There's the barn fire. #Monsterdon #TheRaven
lol, Lenore is such Chaotic Evil
take me home
vincent price
to the place
made of foam
painful talking
mad voiceovers
take me home
to the foam
The movie is trying to burn itself down to make it end faster!
Sadly battle is *not* over...
#monsterdon
Dr. Craven doing the old wax-on wax-off move.
Vincent Price uses limp wrists!
Battle is over!
#monsterdon
Vincent's Wile Coyote umbrella is Priceless. badum cha!
It's your own castle you're destroying dude
8 minutes left and not too soon
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
You know what they say, people who live in flammable houses shouldn't cast fireballs
He is The One.
@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?)
is he setting the stone on fire with egg yolks?
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
"Look at all those chickens" --Jack Nicholson
Unfortunately, Scarabus dropped the chandelier with the dummy on it instead
How long must this duel go on ....
Pierced by the image of his father. Very Freudian. #Monsterdon
time travel good uses: anything else
time travel incredible uses: showing this movie to edgar allen poe #monsterdon
#monsterdon Wow, Poe was an incredible writer.
He looks throne for a loop
And now The Matrix is shamelessly ripping off Roger Corman.
#monsterdon
Will there be any dialog in the rest of this movie?
Coreman was so cheap he didn't even claymation the monsters
Oh.. is that bat going to turn into a mummy?
#Monsterdon
Auld Lang Syne playing with the confetti. Surprisingly good music bit.
Quoth the raven, βzany scoreβ
#monsterdon
wonka's gonna be mad they stole fizzy lifting drinks
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
It is decreed that all wizard battles must have zany zany music.
A wizard's duel where they're seated *is* pretty cool, though.
Erasmus's Instant Plates #Monsterdon
Edgar Allen Poe: βAnd then Lenore and Estelle stood next to each other for 15 minutes and didnβt talk to each otherβ
the cheaper a bat prop looks, the greater my delight
lololol it's the rubber bat from everyone's favorite Dracula adaptation(s)
THE RAVE 'n
"One of us must perish"
counterpoint: Why not both?
#Monsterdon
jazz hands battle! #monsterdon
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π¦ββ¬TRIVIA EVERMORE π¦ββ¬
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."
orb pondering at 50 paces - GO!
βI wiggle my fingers at you!β
βNo, I wiggle my fingers at you!β #Monsterdon
Hand manipulations? WTF kind of movie is this?
WTF is Lenore doing with Estelleβs hair when they put her in the stocks?
Bedlo immediately gets sucked into a 707.
Unfortunately, as you know daughter, all my magic is hand-based.
Ew dad, don't say it like that.
#monsterdon
Think we can all agree that Lenore is a babe #monsterdon
He should know about being "ungrateful". #monsterdon