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

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Magic doodle!

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So, we're going to read the Raven while showing stuff from the Fall of the House of Usher?

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No picture of Vincent Price?

Oh well, he hasn't been in that many movies, I get it

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Psychedelic poetry!

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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, “Tastes 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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alas no bingo for me tonight

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@apLundell @TerryHancock ABSOLUTELY. Both of those are delights.

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Dave Fleischer's animated take on The Raven: he's a vacuum cleaner salesman in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BX7x_IDU6A

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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!

see ya next time I hope

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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.
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@paco @TerryHancock well that's what you need to do if you want Karloff in 1963 #accommodations
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@JoeWynne @claralistensprechen5th Yeah! It's literally a barn he filmed burning down. It got used in a BUNCH of his movies.

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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!

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@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla The rubber bat #monsterdon

@SordidAmok I like both.

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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

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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 !

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Wonder how often they had to cut away from the raven defecating on the set.

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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

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@Cherizilla

Oh yeah. Now I ‘member.

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

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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.

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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!

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@ramsey with them running around some of the house brought that's Scooby-Doo episod to mind a couple of times during that movie.

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You see. Boris doing the outstretched arms thing is funny because Frankenstein. #Monsterdon

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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

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"And that was the only time Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson ever appeared on screen together", you thought to yourself. Well, you thought wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(1963_film)

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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!

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Remember, all jokes should be told three times. Something constant in this film.

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@trixter @Taweret good plan 👍

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That’s another #Monsterdon in the can! It was indeed a film of suspect quality, which is why we all gather here on Sunday nights.
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This is really silly but Price looks like he's enjoying himself so it's fine I guess! #Monsterdon

And this concludes a #monsterdon thread for “The Raven”!

This movie was Comedic. Tragically so.

I mean, really, you never should trust Peter Lorre. He ALWAYS betrays you...

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I almost forgot about bingo! Looks like I got one!
(Assuming that space in the middle is Free Space?)

Thanks, @Cherizilla !

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more circus music ugh

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There's no way they're gonna survive this!! #monsterdon

This hardly can be considered an ending.
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@ramsey That would be a kinder ending than Vincent's wizard closing his beak forevermore! #Monsterdon #TheRaven1963

Well, thanks @Taweret for hosting, @miru for the stream, and President's Choice dill pickle chips for helping me get through this. Good night everyone!

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And now the circus music is back.

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This wasn't one of Richard Matheson's better scripts I'm afraid #monsterdon

OMG WE MADE IT

I wasn't sure there for awhile

Monsterdon, the trauma bonding of Mastodon 😂

Thanks everyone! And thanks so much to @Taweret for hosting!

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That certainly was one of the movies of all time.

Thanks as always for organizing @Tawaret@timeloop.cafe !)

The didn't even credit the Raven!!! Outrageous!
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Love the final shot of this film. Nice job, Vincent.

And that was a load of fun, even if it was not the best of films. Really enjoyed all of you hangin' out with me tonight.

Special thanks to everyone who made this extra great, not the least of which is @Taweret for running the event weekly!

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See you next week, I hope!

Carnival music for the closing credits, okay #Monsterdon

We even get a Romper Room swirly visual ending! With Raven and circus music.
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well

there was a raven

so guess they got that part right at least

(it's been so long since I read it I don't actually remember shit about it lol)
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Oh no, you’re not going to blame this… this THING on Edgar Allan Poe!!!! #Monsterdon

Well that was something. Time for a goblet of warm milk nightcap #monsterdon

"Shut YOUR beak, Human!"

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Yay the Raven is back

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@lysdexic Instead of #monsterdon, this is more of a Monsterdon't. 😃

Y'know there's still time to jamify a person or two

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@brooke don't we all? Apart from Vegans

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The protagonists escape, Scarabus and Lenore argue in the wreckage of their castle mostly just to show that they survived and are unhappy with each other now.

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Oh, I got bingo a while back. Forgot to say.

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According to trivia, Jack Nicholson got shat upon the most by the bird. Well deserved. #monsterdon

Pricezilla vs MechaKarloff
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#Monsterdon DOESN'T ANYBODY DIE IN THIS MOVIE!?

Oh yes, stone is very flammable as we all know #monsterdon #theraven

boooooooo

they're aliiiiiiiive

whyyyyyyyy

booooooooooooooooo

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whoa, at the last minute the castle transformed into the barn that burns to the ground in every Roger Corman movie with a fire!

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Are you telling me wizard school doesn't teach ANYTHING about putting fires OUT?

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@cd0 They had to use up the rest of them before the movie ended I guess
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The grandmaster’s only mostly defeated? #monsterdon

A lot of wood in a stone castle suddenly appears.
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Sure let them both burn alive

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That castle is made of the same stuff that the Federation uses to build the bridge on their vessels.

Very flammable.

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Is this actually a Vincent Price movie that doesn't end in Vincent going completely binkybonkers?

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WAY TOO MANY TACKY SOUND CUES OMG.
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THERE IT IS

THAT FUCKING BARN

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Scarabus: "If I'm going out, I'm going out with my face buried in tits, dammit!"

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This is 1963, years before Pong made its debut, but they're pretty close in this showdown.

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Who wore it better? #Monsterdon #TheRaven

You can see the wires on the chair

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It would have been nice if anything had set up Erasmus as a hidden magical badass instead of a bumbler who could only rise to the challenge when his daughter was threatened. It's like that scene with him zapping the mind-controlled groundskeeper (?) was written as the setup for a different climax.

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Daaaaahling #Monsterdon

ah, we're back to force lightning.

BORING

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back to where we were before the duel
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Oh the blue / green Emperor Palpatine finger beams are back again

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force lightening again

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Seven minutes to reach minimum safe distance

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The Raven: Vincent Price Fingerblasts Boris Karloff for Ninety Solid Minutes #Monsterdon

Craven's crew should have lost their shit when he magicked up a fancy little parasol

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Moar finger blasting! MOAR!!!
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