The Raven
Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Beware? Very helpful dad. Almost like the writers wanted some vague useless foreshadowing.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

I'm totally using "hard place to keep clean?" next time I need to passive-aggresively point out that a place looks like shit.

Robert Link
Robert Link
phaedral

This was my first PeterLorre movie. I probably didn't see anything else with him until I was 20.

Ben Ramsey
Ben Ramsey
ramsey@don.monster

β€œWe’re out of dead man’s hair.”

β€œWell, get some more!”

β€œDo you think we have a Dead Man’s Hair Mart on every corner?”

#Monsterdon

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"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!")

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

They are starting the movie with a recitation of the Edgar Allen Poe poem. Not sure where this is going.

Ben Ramsey
Ben Ramsey
ramsey@don.monster

I tried making @JoeWynne’s #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, β€œTastes like mouthwash.”

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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John M. Gamble
John M. Gamble
jgamble@fosstodon.org

@klu9

#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.

Mme Zabet
Mme Zabet
mmezabet@craftgoblin.club

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 !

#Monsterdon #TheRaven #VincentPrice

healyn
healyn
healyn@normal.style

Spielberg probably watched The Raven and realized, "that's it! That's the ending to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!" #monsterdon

Brad
Brad
bk1e

I don’t think James H. Nicholson and Jack Nicholson are related. Nicholson is a pretty common name.

John M. Gamble
John M. Gamble
jgamble@fosstodon.org

#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.