Beware? Very helpful dad. Almost like the writers wanted some vague useless foreshadowing. #monsterdon
"What is that picture of that woman doing here?"
"That sir is no woman, that is my wife!"
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The director was like "A tall guy, and a short guy! It's comedy gold!"
This guy just keeps dead bodies lying around all over his house.
If I came back from the dead I'd be vague about things, it would be my right as I see it
You'd think your dead father could take a moment to say "hi"
Corpse hand grabs Price's collar:
"YOU SHOULD'VE VISITED MORE, SON. IT'S LONELY DOWN HERE."
KISS HIM!
#monsterdon
on the lips!
I'm totally using "hard place to keep clean?" next time I need to passive-aggresively point out that a place looks like shit. #monsterdon
Whoa buddy. Get your "hand magic" ready privately and on your own time. #monsterdon
@phooky would watch
#monsterdon OMG... Its Withers!!! #bg3
That corpse looks really good for being 20 years dead.
half rate wizards = half rate super scientists....and some social embarrassment caused by drinking... very Venture Bros
VINCENT PRICE in: DOMESTIC SORCERY #monsterdon
@dbendit We are vegetarians, so we use coconut hair.
#monsterdon 20 minute dissertation on whether hand magic or equipment magic is better
All I'm saying is that voice sounds like a New York gangster Sorcerer, so restoring him could be dangerous.
"Why should he mind?" He'd mind if he knew what an ungrateful little snot you are. #monsterdon
In 'Merica it's Peter Truck! #Monsterdon ... give it a minute
This was my first PeterLorre movie. I probably didn't see anything else with him until I was 20. #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial Is that like "couldn't tell the spanish inquisition vs. the puritan witch hunts?"
βWeβre out of dead manβs hair.β
βWell, get some more!β
βDo you think we have a Dead Manβs Hair Mart on every corner?β
@SordidAmok The i's have it! #Monsterdon
Vincent Price can't cook under this pressure, he is not The Bear
A+ alchemical laboratory!
(I only have a PhD in chemistry because you can't get one in alchemy anymore)
The band is really trying to inject some comedy into this comedy
lol, "troubled horse"
Bojack Horseman?
#monsterdon So many houses of that time had mad doctor's labs in the basements.
I already have many questions. I don't believe this movie will answer any of them.
So be so rich you just 'forget' a whole subbasement to your castle...
Imagining waking up one day and now longer having your mammalian genitals but some Avian weirdness?
Is... Is this SUPPOSED to be a comedy? #monsterdon
Vincent Price always reminds me of Scott Thompson.
#Monsterdon
@srol About 90% of it is Price talking to a bird, yes. π
I mean technically he doesn't stay a bird.
Ravengram for Vincent Price #Monsterdon
??? The Raven is Lou Castello?
"The young do not understand grief, Estelle. To you she was only a stepmother; to me she was..."
*Vincent Price takes a huge swig of warm milk from a dark red glass goblet*
"...my life."
("It's pronounced \"wife\", Mr. Price." "I'll say it howsoever I wish to say it, you sniveling peasant!")
@wohali I wish someone would bring ME a goblet of warm milk. #Monsterdon #TheRaven1963 OK that is a gorgeous raven! No don't let it in, Vincent!
Pardon me, sir, do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior? #monsterdon
was Vinnie really that tall or was Lurch the cameraman?
quothe the raven "dang dog we really are going to space out the entire poem and only have dialogue that is in the poem so that means about 1 word per minute" #monsterdon
BIRB!
Oh no is our hero a brocade-pajama'd doofus
They are starting the movie with a recitation of the Edgar Allen Poe poem. Not sure where this is going.
Magic doodle!
So, we're going to read the Raven while showing stuff from the Fall of the House of Usher?
Psychedelic poetry!
I tried making @JoeWynneβs #Monsterdon drink of the week, but I think I failed.
I don't have any highball glasses, for one, but when I poured it over ice in a regular glass and then attempted to float the Chambord on top, it was a disaster. It went straight to the bottom. I handed it to my wife, and her first response was, βTastes like mouthwash.β
I tried again, this time without pouring over ice, but same result. I can't float the Chambord (it spills all down the shot glass).
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alas no bingo for me tonight
@apLundell @TerryHancock ABSOLUTELY. Both of those are delights.
Dave Fleischer's animated take on The Raven: he's a vacuum cleaner salesman in this one
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thank you @Taweret, @Cherizilla, @JoeWynne and all you delightful #Monsterdonians everyone let's drink a toast to the great Jim Jr., raven actor extraordinaire!
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Can we have a good Vincent Price movie next time? Like maybe the other one with peter Lorre. That has a great scene about wine.
#Monsterdon
@paco @TerryHancock well that's what you need to do if you want Karloff in 1963 #accommodations
#Monsterdon
@JoeWynne @claralistensprechen5th Yeah! It's literally a barn he filmed burning down. It got used in a BUNCH of his movies.
#Monsterdon
Yeah, I was going to dump on the music, but I started wondering if there was enough to dump on... there seemed to be an awful lot of musical passage quoting (or "borrowing").
And a couple of passages where I wondered if they didn't have the money, so they just got someone to noodle on a Hammond B3 organ.
Hah! The Raven returns! Saw that coming, very clever trick!
@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla The rubber bat #monsterdon
@SordidAmok I like both.
I did have a few more squares to mark on my card, and I'm very tempted to check that Re-Used Corman Footage box but I confess I'm not at all familiar with all his works to make that call.
@jonny @Tengu @combatwombat OMG how have I not seen this before
Well, ok, even you give a pass on the "just for laughs" misogyny and racism (I only counted three egregious ones, which is pretty good for a film made in the 60s), it somehow wasn't *quite* bonkers enough to push it into being really, really good. Like, I can see where they were going with it, but they just did not get there. I'm glad I watched it, but I wouldn't watch it again XD
Thanks for hosting, @Taweret !
Wonder how often they had to cut away from the raven defecating on the set.
Well... that was ... uh... something. #monsterdon
Spielberg probably watched The Raven and realized, "that's it! That's the ending to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!" #monsterdon
@paco @Cherizilla "No brain cells were harmed in the watching of this film" EXCUSE ME?
_EXCUSE ME?!_
I've got a hangover from this movie and I haven't even been drinking I THINK I KNOW BRAIN HARM WHEN I FEEL IT
I donβt think James H. Nicholson and Jack Nicholson are related. Nicholson is a pretty common name.
And so Dracula is once more defeated, the end #Monsterdon
Wait wrong medium
@davesdogmaggie Sir, this is a #Monsterdon.
@Cherizilla No brain cells were harmed in the watching of this film. None were improved either.
Thank you everyone! This one wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but it is mine. I like the droll cheesy stuff!
Thank you @Taweret for hosting once again. See you all next week!
@ramsey with them running around some of the house brought that's Scooby-Doo episod to mind a couple of times during that movie.
You see. Boris doing the outstretched arms thing is funny because Frankenstein. #Monsterdon
I know we love a good bad movie, but I do feel that had the makers taken the plot seriously, we would have had a good movie with some good plot twists.
Well, if they had the budget for it, of course.
Wow, this was BAD. Like, real bad. I like the other Corman-Price ones, I've seen them all, but the comedy bit here simply did not work.
Thank you all for joining and surviving tonight! This was a hard one
Thanks @Taweret for hosting
"And that was the only time Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson ever appeared on screen together", you thought to yourself. Well, you thought wrong
If it wasn't for #Monsterdon I would have turned this off after like 20 minutes. Group watch made it a decent evening even with a bad movie.
Hey, that was great!
Remember, all jokes should be told three times. Something constant in this film.
Thatβs another #Monsterdon in the can! It was indeed a film of suspect quality, which is why we all gather here on Sunday nights.
#TheRaven
This is really silly but Price looks like he's enjoying himself so it's fine I guess! #Monsterdon
I mean, really, you never should trust Peter Lorre. He ALWAYS betrays you...
I almost forgot about bingo! Looks like I got one!
(Assuming that space in the middle is Free Space?)
Thanks, @Cherizilla !
more circus music ugh
There's no way they're gonna survive this!! #monsterdon
This hardly can be considered an ending.
#monsterdon
#theraven1963
@ramsey That would be a kinder ending than Vincent's wizard closing his beak forevermore! #Monsterdon #TheRaven1963
And now the circus music is back.
This wasn't one of Richard Matheson's better scripts I'm afraid #monsterdon