Land Of The Creeps Episode 431 : Vincent Price Spotlight

Once upon a midnight dreary. I was pondering that rather faded cliché, the devil made me do it. How that tired old phrase, has been used in infinite variations to explain some cruel and irrational and benign human beings. The fear of possession by some brutal and savage demon lurks there in the shadowed cavern of our minds, along with other dreads. Fear of the dark, fear of solitude, fear of death.

I imagine they all fit within that greatest of all fears, the fear of the unknown. But then I think that in these modern times there is so little left of the unknown. Is not the dark merely absence of light? Solitude, nothing more than sanctuary away from a crowded world. And death, well, it is inevitable, yet there be few among us who have not led it a merry chase.

Welcome to Land of the Creeps Horror Podcast. I'm your host Greg Amortis calling in from North Caggy Lackey. That's North Carolina to all you Northerners. This is episode 431 of LOTC. baby and if you're new to the show welcome i hope you will enjoy what you've heard and are about to hear and you got 430 more episodes to catch up on so lots and lots to get into super excited tonight we got a special

I guess Spotlight, we'll call it. And we're going to be talking about one of the legendary maestros of theater and cinema. theatrical and cinema and it's none other than mr vincent price uh so we're going to be talking a lot about vincent tonight as well as his movies we're going to rank our top fives we'll do it in a round robin style Uh, so that is the way it'll roll tonight. And then we'll get to you, the listeners, your calls that came in as well.

So lots of fun stuff to get to. So without further ado, let's welcome in the crew. Go out first to outside of Philadelphia, PA. Welcome in the Encyclopedia of Knowledge himself, Mr. DVD Infatuation. It is my buddy, my friend, my pal. Dr. Shock, Dave Becker. What's up, Dave? Hey, Greg. Great to be here. And this is, you know, Vincent Price is one of the icons of horror. You know, whenever you're going to, if we were to make a Mount Rushmore.

of like horror actors. I mean, a lot of times we talk about filmmakers, you know, with John Carpenter and then some people would put Toby Hooper, some would not, some would put Wes Craven, some would not. And even when it comes to acting, You get that way. You know, some people think you got to choose. Do you do Karloff or do you do Lugosi? But I think Vincent Price would be there.

pretty much on everybody's that's my guess anyway because he was such a he's synonymous with the genre i mean i was looking up uh i on my dvd profiler i put in vincent price to see what i had available 74 titles came back and i think maybe seven or eight of them were not horror

Maybe 10 of them were not horror. Every single other one was a horror film, or at least what would be a thriller film. But I think almost all of them would be classified as horror. He's just one of those actors, and he definitely... deserves a spotlight. I think we had talked Vincent Price before, but it has to be, I think it was my first episode ever.

I think it might have been the first time. So we're going back to 2013. Right. The last time we, at least that I was part of a Vincent Price retrospective. So it's definitely, it's time to do it again. yeah absolutely and you could do this numerous times like it just doesn't have to be one every five or six years like it it's so many titles that you could talk about so many ways and he's so deserving of spotlighting so yeah we could do

this like literally every month and do that for a full season or a full year and you still wouldn't exhaust probably half of what he's done right uh so yeah and that was um episode 12 of lotc way back uh uploaded on 2013 when we did the vincent price and we had adam green and laura Ortiz on that show as well so yeah way back then and then we did Corman Poe and Price back on episode 114 so yeah and I have a feeling some of those movies are going to be talked about again tonight

I'm sure. So good to have you on, Dave. Let's go ahead and go up to Canada, right around that Ontario area, and welcome in, out of the butchery himself, it is the butcher man himself, Bill the Butcher Van Vagel. Fresh off his birthday. Happy birthday, my friend. Hope you had a great one. Yes, happy birthday. Welcome to the show, my friend.

Well, thank you. And I want to thank everybody that reached out and said happy birthday to me. It's always nice to feel wanted. And I definitely did. So thank you. I felt like belting out Twisted Sister. You got the price you got to pay and all the games you want to play. But I thought I'd spare the audience that. Well, thank you. I am so glad that Vincent Price, he is my favorite.

all-time horror actor and when i went under his imdb uh cv it went down like he's got i don't know 140 150 credits or whatever but he did It's amazing when you go on his profile, how much he did that wasn't horror. I'd say two thirds of it wasn't a lot of TV work, a lot of bit of film noir.

a lot of mystery he's the reason that he's the reason that greg wiped out on the waves in that brady bunch episode that's right the tiki one oh yeah but there's like there's it's amazing when you actually i hadn't actually

on through his profile on imdb and it's amazing how many tv appearances he did and you know this is we're talking about a man that was he comes off as gruff and scary or whatever behind the scenes he's artistic he's refined he was an expert in art and did art he was an expert in cooking

and and did some very high-end uh food for guests when they came to his house we're talking about somebody that was i wouldn't say high society but somebody that knew how to hang with them and so like he's off the camera i heard nothing but praise it for him And so I counted up. I had seen of his horror films that I would qualify as horror. I had seen 28 of them. There's only three of his major ones that I haven't seen. And I'll get to that. Yeah.

couple of them were older and i haven't seen or they were compilation ones or whatever but he is very diverse And so anybody that's maybe new or somebody who's maybe in their twenties listening, congrats for listening. Dig deep. Don't let black and white scare you because half of his good stuff is in black and white. Yep. So let's, I can't wait to dig into this. That's a juicy apple.

And how about them apples? So let's go. That's right. Let's head over to the Twisted Temptress herself. The love of my life. Wendy. No, it's Pearl. I've got to do the shining. I've just got to do it every time. I was going to say, who is Wendy? What the hell? You didn't let him finish. All right. I just want to take this bat. I'm just going to bash your brain. Wendy, which I'm going to get you for dinner after we're done. Yeah.

that's right wendy's it's pearl man i love my wife and love welcome to the show well thank you and hi everybody hi i am so excited we've been surprised i've been listening to him all day and i can hear his voice even just when i close my eyes of course i was listening to thriller just to hear that last part

Which we will play that on the show somewhere, somehow, sometime. Stay tuned and you will hear that clip because we've got to play it. Or perhaps an intro. We'll be doing a lot of Vincent in here somewhere. Yep. You'd think Greg Amortis had the laugh. Oh, no, no, no, my friend. He has the laugh.

I remember when Halloween came around, I made a tape of sound effects and songs. And of course, Thriller was on there and Monster Mash and all that kind of stuff. And I just had it sort of playing out the window with a speaker. you know, for the neighborhood and the kids and everything. And my older son got terrified at Vincent Price's monologue.

and thriller right nothing else bothered him not even the not even the chains and the ghosts and the sound effects of the screams or witch cackles or anything like that that monologue by vincent price scared the hell out of him wow

That's so awesome. All right, so I think we'll get our shots in. I do want to apologize once again, listeners. I was feeling a lot better since last episode, and then yesterday I took a turn to the dark side again, and I'm starting a little nasally. I don't know what to...

fudge and pearl still a little under the weather so if i sound a little off i apologize but i'm trying but we're gonna do some shots here and i'm gonna do a shot of liquor that'll hopefully make it leave quicker so let's do this uh jim beam and honey white label In my LOTC four-faced shot glass, of course. Dave, what you drinking tonight? I got my old alive. I got my Jamaican me crazy.

And if you head over to the Land of the Creeps store, you can buy you a Dave Dr. Shock shirt, right, Pearl? Yeah. With a cup of coffee. It's a making me crazy one. There you go. Exactly. And I noticed a couple, well, I know for a fact two people who bought the Don't Misuse the Bailer t-shirt.

I got a CJ. I don't know if that one's been advertised or if that was just between us on message, but I don't know for sure. It is available out there. It's available. Don't misuse the Baylor with Dr. Shock. So if you want that shirt, you can head over there too. And I do want to see, because I...

I know Jay the Dead did purchase one, and I've got to see him wearing that. He has not shown it. He and Joel. Yep, Gilman. Gilman and Joel each bought one, yeah. I was going to say, Pearl, you have to design one with him and some roast beef that says thinly sliced, please.

Yeah, I got to do that one next because the next one is sandwich and seagull. Just have me holding the severed head of the customer who asked for that. I love it. Just be careful how you phrase I love roast beef. That's right. That's right. Oh, yeah. So, Jamaican Me Crazy Coffee. Bill, what you drinking?

uh i've got uh cranberry squirty juice mixed with some kind of strawberry rock star and uh today was i think the first time all season i was able to wear shorts oh wow i'm very yeah it's been like Like 65 degrees, 68 degrees. You've got to be getting excited, Bill. Your vacation's coming up soon, isn't it? Oh, we've already got it booked July 8th, baby. All right. Nice.

couple weeks away i literally have not wore jeans but like twice in the last two months so that's all i wore for the last two months no jeans for a gregor mortis i'm a short wear uh oh cool we got all that uh cranberry and Oh, boy, you're going to be regular tonight. All right, so let's head over to Pearl. What's you drinking tonight, love? I got well-chilled strawberry and peach.

welch's strawberry and peach there you go that's not liquor listers uh so here we go let's chug it down three two one chug oh that burns a little bit more since my yeah

Woo. Yep, yep, yep, yep. I can definitely tell there's some flimmage going on. Ew. I'm taking the lid off of this because that shit burned me too. Ooh. It was funny, Dave, when you were telling that story about you played the music outside and you scared the... neighborhood kids whatever ella's got a uh alexa in her room and sometimes if i'm for shits and giggles for fun i'll say 2 30 in the morning please play zz top or something

But the other day I put, I said, make, I wanted spooky sounds. So I said at, you know, 1.14 a.m., play moaning sounds. And it said, we are not allowed to play adult content. I was like, really? All right, well, cool. You said ghost moon. That's ghost moon. I did that over my parents. Because they had one of those things set up. I said, Alexa, set a 2 a.m. alarm with a witch's cackle. Yeah.

And I don't know if it worked or not. I haven't heard. Nice. All right. Well, Pearl's got a few fun facts about Mr. Vincent Leonard Price. Let's head over there. Pearl, what you got a few facts on over there before we get? to our top fives. Well, it being about, obviously, Vincent Price, well, we know he was born May 27th, 1911. So he's known for his campy villain roles.

in over a hundred films his presence in both theater and television his diabolical laugh his distinctive voice his diverse talents quirky personality his fun spirit he was a prankster sometimes showing up in costume at film screenings just to prank moviegoers. He was an art historian, a gourmet chef, an avid book collector, and a comedic. He even had a look-alike puppet of himself in an episode of Sesame Street.

In the 80s and 90s, he had a comeback with Michael Jackson's Thriller and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. His role in Edward Scissorhands was intended to be larger, but he was ill and he had his emphysema and Parkinson's. Before he died, he said one of his favorite roles was the voice of Professor Ratten in Disney's Basil, The Giant Mouse Detective in 1986, which two songs... from there were written just for him, and he had died on October 25th, um, 25th, 1993. 93, yeah.

Yeah, here's the thing with Vincent, right, love? And I loved what you said there. Have we seen that Disney? We have not. We haven't, have we? No. The Great Mouse Detective, is that the one? Yeah. Yeah, I gotta see that. Yeah, I definitely gotta see that. It's called Basil the Giant Mouse Detective.

Okay. I need to see that, man. She's spot on. She's spot on with all this. The fact that, Bill, you mentioned earlier, too, about being the gourmet chef and everything. Like, I don't think this man... could do anything wrong. Like everything he touched was like professional. And we'll talk about this somewhere in the show. I know how that he was notorious for his acting roles. Like he would literally learn everybody else's lines.

as well as his like this guy had to have such a memory bank yeah i will be throwing some fun facts throughout the show nice so we'll be throwing over the thing with him is he was very professional from what i gather very professional You know, he was a professional to the 10th degree, but he wasn't an ass about it. Like he was very humble, like the new actors who, you know, might be a bit intimidated or you could tell like he really got, like, I don't know if he was a method actor.

but he really got into his roles. yeah i don't think so i think he was he was acting before the method was uh was something uh that that started i want to say around the 1950s when you know james dean and marlon brando and montgomery clift We're like Paul Newman. They were the method actors and they started around the 50s. So Vincent Price sort of predates that. But he almost carried himself that way.

Yeah. Well, he was very, like you say, very professional. Took everything very seriously, even if he's not in a great movie. He's a lot like Bela Lugosi in that way. Even if he's not in a great movie, he's giving it his all. You know, he's going to do the best he can with the material he has. I love that. All right, well, cool. What we're going to do, listeners, we're going to do our top five Vincent Price films, and we'll rank these five to one. We'll do round robin style meaning.

our lineup will be dave dr shot becker then we'll go to bill van vagel then we'll go to pearl and then myself and we'll continue until we get to our number ones with pearl sprinkling some fun facts in between as well as then getting to you

the listener so this is this is gonna be fun so buckle up buttercups we're getting ready to get into mr vincent price born in st louis missouri but talked like he was british like i love it dude he had to send it just that distinguished voice that that powerful

voice that amazingly beautiful voice i would say any other thing i could say about him i love you vincent price uh so let's go ahead and get into this we're going to start it right up with number five and we're going to head over to dr shot dave becker dave What is your number five Vincent Price?

movie and we'll call it dave at least let me get one in that you haven't said yet so please i'm sure you know with vincent price that's the thing there's so many yeah that there could be no crossover my guess is there'll be some And especially when we get later in the list. But I think there's a chance that with some of us, there'll be no crossover between our lists. I mean, I could have legitimately done a top 15.

I mean, yeah, I could have sat here and said, okay, I could have gone last and said, okay, anytime someone picks one of my movies, I'll drop it and pick another one. And I'd still be happy with the list. Sorry, Dave, I interrupted your moment. No, no problem. No, I was just...

Just getting started, so no problem at all. Okay, I saw, did end up watching a few I had not seen before. And I wanted to see if there was any worth drawing attention to, you know, that sort of impressed me. And there was one. It's actually one I thought I had seen before. but i had not and it's part of the uh vincent price collection that uh was it Screen Factory put out. Shout Factory. Shout Factory had put out, and this was on the volume three. It's a movie from 1963 called Diary of a Madman.

directed by reginald laborg give you the quick synopsis for it here an evil spirit uh leaves this is from imdb uh an evil spirit leaves the body of his human host a criminal on death row um this was based on a story written by and I hope I'm pronouncing this right, Guy de Maupassant? Sure. Guy de Maupassant, yeah. Yeah, okay. He was a...

Well, he was an author who did a lot of short stories. Obviously, he was born in France. He lived from 1850 to 1893. He, like I said, really sort of specialized in short stories. But what... What a dark life this guy led. I mean, you know, you think like Poe. Oh, God, why am I not blanking on his name? The other big author, Christ. Lovecraft? Yes, Lovecraft. Thank you. Jesus, God. You can call me Jesus and God all you want.

But, you know, Poe and Lovecraft definitely had their dark side and their issues in life. This guy, though. Well, first off, one thing I thought was rather interesting. He was one of a number of Parisians. who hated the Eiffel Tower. He would often eat lunch in the restaurant at the base of the Eiffel Tower not because he liked the food but because it was the only place he didn't have to look at the Eiffel Tower.

in the city and he wrote he he put his name to this like letter that that they they ended up publishing i think they sent it to the minister of public works they did not want it built um and they had it published in 1887 but anyway and this is from wikipedia and i and i I was listening to what I did was after watching the movie, I was playing the commentary.

And the guy was talking about this. And I was sort of half listening because I had other things going on. And the things he was saying, I said, wait a second, is he still talking about that author? Holy cow, what a life this poor guy led. And just to give you an idea, it says, in his later years, he developed a concept.

constant desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death and paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth. It has been suggested that his brother, Herve, also suffered from syphilis and that the disease may have been congenital.

On January 2, 1892, Maupassant tried to take his own life by cutting his throat. He was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy in Paris, where he died on 8 July 1893 from syphilis. He ended up writing his own epitaph i have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing so this was not this was not a happy man

But anyway, back to Diary of a Madman. What I thought was interesting about this. So anyway, yes, Vincent Price plays a magistrate, a court magistrate. And he's a very good man. He's a very, very just.

magistrate and there's a guy on death who killed four people that he didn't know had nothing to do with any of them just randomly killed these four people and he's going to go talk to this guy to figure out you know what's going on here you know what what happened so is visiting this guy and the guy said look there's this this this creature he said or being

that has attached itself to me, the Horla. H-O-R-L-A is what it was, the Horla. And it caused me to commit these murders. It wasn't me. It was the Horla. And I just want to warn you about this. And the magistrates, look, I didn't... accept this during the court i'm not going to let you you know i i just can't accept a plea of insanity it's not insanity this thing is real it has attached itself to me and sure enough at one point the eyes it's an effect that they put in here There were the eyes...

like laid up green and all of a sudden this guy starts to attack vincent price vincent price knocks him down the guy hits his head he's dead um they come you know the guards come rushing in like hey it was a you know it was it was a self-defense they were going they were they were preparing to take him to the guillotine anyway this guy was like on his way to be executed anyway

So one of the guards said, hey, you just saved us some time. But anyway, Vincent Price, he meets a woman. They have a relationship. They're following the character. But then this horla attaches itself to him.

And the best way to describe what this horla is, is imagine... the the entity from it follows if it can talk and occasionally possess your body um and he doesn't see it it's invisible but there's a scene where he throws something at it and a bounce off so there's like an actual being that you can't see and it sort of taunts him and eventually occasionally possesses his body and he will commit horrible murders that he will not remember because it was not him

committing them and that is this like if there was these great scenes where he's sitting in his study and all of a sudden like these bay doors leading outside open up and close and then the thing starts to talk it's like this thing just sort of wanders in and out talking to him and it is creepy it is very creepy what it does you know what this makes him do and just the fact that this thing is is around and it could be any be there at any time you can't

see it but it does mock him it does talk to him and it does sort of say hey i'm gonna have you kill this person oh you don't think you will and vincent price like he figures he's going to kill himself at one point he picks up a gun well this thing knocks the gun out of his hand It's just, it's a very well to like Vincent Price is playing a character where he gets to be evil when this Horla has taken.

possession of his body um but for the most part he's playing like a decent man um he even wants to confess to these crimes and the whorla is not going to allow it um Yeah, it was very interesting. I thought it was a very interesting story. It's one that, like I said, I had not, I thought I had seen it before, but I had not seen it before. So I would definitely recommend, if you have not seen, checking out Diary of a Madman.

Love it. Good choice. I need to revisit this one. I have not seen this for many years, Dave. And listening to you talk about it, man, I started remembering clips and everything, which was awesome, dude. Yeah, and it was made during the time he was also doing... all of those uh you know corman poe adaptations it's 63 um so he was either either getting ready to do those or he was already started doing some of those so it's right in the and it doesn't have it has sort of that feel it has

sort of the set pieces that you would expect to see there and even that same gothic sort of feel. Nice. It's been many years since I've seen it. Yep. Great choice. But I do remember enjoying it. And the thing that anybody who wants to get into prices, when you kind of get into a roll with them, starting in the late 50s to the mid 70s, you know, there's a certain feel to it.

films unfortunately sometimes they kind of bleed together so you got to re-watch them just to make sure you know which one is which Well, there you go. Fantastic movie. I like it. Yep. I love it. I will have to go check it out. And not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman, by the way. Great album, though, by the way. He was the original God, not him. That's right. He was Ozzy.

Before Ozzy was Ozzy. So there you go. I love it. Well, there you go. 1963 Diary of a Madman from Dr. Shockless. Head to you, Bill. What's your number five? I will now thank Dave for leaving me a little bit of cheese. Choose mine.

This was a fun exercise because, as I said, I had seen a whole bunch. I saw a few that I hadn't seen before, but this one I knew I wanted on my list, and it was just a matter of where. And this is one of those films that when somebody says, oh i want to get into vincent price i kind of direct them to this one because it's not one that's on everybody's radar and honestly probably 75 of our audience

never seen it or heard of it but it's not obscure this is 1954's the mad magician and the mad magician is one where both eli roth and herschel gordon lewis Oh, and a nod of thanks to this one. Because for 1954, there are a few moments of sheer terror. And here's the IMDb description. Oh, it's a very in-depth one. An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen.

by his rival. Is this Wizard of Gore? No, but this was Wizard of Gore before. What it's about is Vincent Price plays a magician. the great galico don galico but what had happened was he was working under another bigger name magician and his job was basically to create the the things that he goes on with what is it the the magician tricks that was his job he creates them he formulates them he does them up in the in the studio and he has them ready for the bigger name

But he wanted to step out on his own. And so he goes to a theater, rents it out. He's got this one big trick involving a cutting of... some audience member and he does his first show. He's nervous. It's his first one to go do. It's kind of a little bit like a wizard of gore, just in terms of the size of the audience and that kind of thing. He has a successful time. Well,

The magician who's his main employer got wind of this and sent his businessman and him in there and said, shut her down. This trick is now my property. I will make it big. And Vincent Price is pissed off because this was his chance to kind of... from the shadows and become the magician with the tricks and the illusions that everyone wants to see so let's just say he didn't take too kindly to it and so when they

get to his apartment and there's a little bit of a scuffle involving one of the members of the crew that was coming to get him. Something comes off. I'm going to leave it at that. Let's just say that there are elements to this that are scary for 1954. uh the ending i can see giving legitimately giving adults nightmares if you're so uh set in your way and you're sensitive to that

So you get Vincent Price. And the other thing I like about this is it shows practical makeup and effects using changes in appearance that alters the storyline. And ultimately you get... to come up with the conclusion of is in this story is vincent price is he a hero is he a tragic hero or is he an enemy

Watch it and figure that out. This is one of those movies that's very comforting watching it in black and white. I think this is way more effective as a black and white film than it would be in color. There's strong makeup use and it also shows Price's versatility. Now I know Vincent Price, one thing you'll find out if you dive into him is he can ham it up with the best of them. But when he wants to act, he can act. And he shows a little bit of both ends of that.

scale in this film it's tightly written it's compact what is it about 80 minutes maybe an hour 12 72 minutes the other interesting part of it is there's a crime that occurs And there is a bit of a police serial involved in here where there's a police officer that's chasing down what has happened and trying to figure things out. So this is 1954. The rudimentary science of crime finding is beginning here.

So they're learning this new technique called fingerprints. So when they go to check on certain elements of the crime, the cop on the beat wants these experimental... procedure of collecting fingerprints and the boss is like this hasn't been proven he goes i know this hasn't been proven but at least it can help us get us on our way there and the ending is genuinely tense as i said it's only 72 minutes but

This is, sometimes I wonder, some of those over bloated films that are two hours and 14 minutes, watch this film and see how you can have a nice, tight story that you get everything you need. in 75 minutes the mad magician is available on youtube i'm sure it's available on uh one of those i don't know if it's on shutter or it would be on pluto or any of those but seek it out

Because it's really a darn good little film. Nice. I have never seen it. I don't think I have either. Pearl, have you seen Mad Magician? I have not. Yeah, this is the first time I've actually heard of it, to be honest with you. I know what you're going to be watching in bed tonight, right? Right, yeah. It's Wizard of Gore before Wizard of Gore, yeah. The other actor in this that you'd be notable is Eva Gabor.

even gabor comes on because she's you know and when she ever actually is always a bit of a hotsy totsy and she plays that up in this film nice I like it. The Mad Magician, 1954. So check that one out. I'll be looking for it, so I need to check it. So cool. Thank you, Bill. All right, Pearl, we're going to your number five. My number five. Uh-oh, here we go. She's already gave me the one. up bill oh better not be a seven-way tie or i'm fucking shitting right now no it's just a four oh nice four

No, I'm just kidding. But it is a tie. She's not kidding about that. My first one is House on the Haunted Hill. Nice. where Rich Oddball Frederick Lauren has a proposal for five guests to stay at his haunted mansion. if they show up and they survive the night with filled with scares they'll each receive ten thousand dollars with the guest of honor his estranged wife annabelle with who with her secret lover has schemed

to scare Lauren's associate and into shooting a potentially crazy millionaire. However, the spooks and shocks threw the wrench into the plan. I love this one. It was, it was diabolical. It was creepy, had a dark atmosphere.

there's a remake of course we all know the 1999 remake but this one was better i love it in black and white i i love how he was so in tune he knew what he was doing and he just went with it so that was my first choice nice second choice is house of wax wax scoper henry is horrified when he learned that his business partner matthew plans to

torch their wax museum to collect an insurance policy. Miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew, he re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when he appears on Henry's new wax sculpture, occurs at the same time that a number of corpses are vanishing from the city. Same. This one...

Personally, I always wanted a house of wax on my own, so I totally get it. And I was so into the movie, watching him again with his conniving and diabolical ways and that laugh that he does. Yeah, I was told. I'll tell you, the remakes are not bad either, I'll be honest, on both of these movies. Big fans of these. I'm sure these will probably pop on other people's lists before we're done tonight, but Too Heavy Hat.

Heavy hitters right off the bat. I was going to say, Pearl came out swinging. Holy cow. She's hitting parks. And you got Charles Bronson in House of Wax. That's right, you do. I was going to say, but Bronson doesn't have much to say in this film. Yeah. He didn't need to, though. It's kind of like, too, was he not in, he was in that episode of Twilight Zone, too.

With Elizabeth Montgomery. I don't know if y'all seen that one or if it's been many years ago talking about Charles Bronson. What year was House of Wax? House of Wax was 53. Yeah. thing that pearl didn't mention was it the the 3d element yeah yeah I always remember with the guys playing in front of the theater with the stick with the ball or whatever. Yeah, that paddle ball thing. You can tell it's distinctly there just for the 3D. There's no other reason.

the reason for it but it's kind of funny that in 1953 You know, they're pulling this gag out, man. That was clever. They were trying to... It's funny how 3D just goes in phases and then fizzles. And then it'll be gone for about 15 years. And someone says, let's try and bring it back, and then it'll fizzle. Yeah.

No, it happened in the 50s. What was it? Hitchcock did Dial M for Murder in 3D, which is a great movie that had no business being 3D. No. There was nothing in that movie that screamed 3D. um because hitchcock i don't even think he cared i think they just made him make it in 3d i don't think he even cared about it but you know he i mean he tried different things but you know having things like i remember watching space hunter adventures in the forbidden zone in the theater

and they're firing lasers like straight into the camera. It's moving too fast. You can't even see it. It's like going to watch Star Wars. You just see the stars coming at you. Yeah, it does. I mean, a couple things were pretty cool. A spaceship came out of the screen. settled on some guy's head that was in the fifth row. But other than that, you know, it wasn't all that, it was...

It gave me a headache, those damn glasses. But anyway, yeah, but House of Wax, yeah, that was an early one for 3D. Andrew DeToff, who was the director, only had one eye. So it's ironic. He directed a movie that he could never.

experienced the effect because he only had one eye oh man so he could he could never see if the 3d was working he had no concept of it wow um yeah and it's it's a uh it's the one that really cemented price as a horror icon as a horror star it was that when he had done things earlier you know like the um the the invisible man sequel and um you know he had been in a few things earlier um but he was appearing in everything

earlier. He was doing film noir. He was doing... Was The Fly before The House of Wax? I don't believe so. I think the fly was after House of Wax. Yeah, I think House of Wax was first. Not 100% of that, but I'm almost positive that the fly came... 1958, so it would have been five years later. Yeah, so it was like five years after the House of Wax. Even yours, I think the Mad Magician you said was 54, right? Yep. Yeah, so this was the one that sort of set him on the path to be...

in horror movies because it made so much money. But you can also argue this is the role to kind of typecast him. Oh, yeah. Well, as a horror... Because from here on, 70% of his films were... Yeah, absolutely. Prior to this, you know, you get a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Exactly. Nice. I love it. So, 59, House on Haunted Hill, and 53's House of Wax, number five for Pearl. Let's go to my number five, and I'm going to a film that...

Absolutely adore, and I'm going to say that about every one of them on my list. There's a reason it's top five. So you're going to hear me say, this was one of my favorite films. Well, no shit, Sherlock. But anyways, this one is one of my favorite films and have been since day one. when I saw it, but it's 1964 and it takes place in 1968.

You're like, what are you talking about? Oh, it's the story of Dr. Robert Morgan. That's right. It's 1964's Last Man on Earth. This movie, in my opinion, is a masterpiece of stroke from Vincent Price. a lot of him. chewing up screen time uh he plays this doctor who uh a plague has took over the world as we know it in 1968 and it supposedly had happened around three years earlier around 1965.

is when this had originally kind of happened uh but we're into 1968 and he he's going out daily to kill vampires is basically what he's doing these undead people and we know that they're vampires because that they can't be in sunlight. We know they're vampires because they don't like garlic. We know they're vampires because they don't like mirrors.

But with that said, did we know they were vampires in the movie? We just knew they were undead people, but he would hunt them down. And then at night he would come home and he would park himself in his house and hide out.

And there's some scenes. Well, Greg, doesn't everybody decorate their doors with garlic? Absolutely. They should. I mean, hell, the Frog Brothers told you to do it in Lost Boys. I mean, come on. And it's a relatively inexpensive decoration. That's right. I mean, hey. And an easy way to.

They keep the Jehovah's Witnesses. That's right. It's just like mothballs. It's like the modern-day mothballs. Just put garlic out. But this movie, man, is so intelligently scripted. And what I love about it, too, is, and there is the remake I think most of us know about. Now, this one.

is from richard matheson i am legend and we know the i am legend with will smith which i think is a really good film i think it's really good uh can't forget omega man omega man as well but i just really enjoyed this story i love watching vincent price just

eat the screen a lot of times he's just talking to the screen and and uh to himself and then there's the story you know where the dog comes into play and you know he has this flashback with his wife who had succumbed to this this plague and some things happens there and it's just a really clever story i really enjoy it if you have not seen omega man or you have not seen i am legend you know watch m2 but i just really thoroughly enjoy this one 86 minutes long uh 1964

This is just such a really fun film to watch for me. It could have been my number one easily. And my top five is that way. I could have switched any of them and been okay. But I'm going with it. It's number five, 1964, The Last Man on Earth. I remember reading Richard Matheson talking about that movie, and he was good friends with Vincent Price. I mean, they know each other pretty well. He actually went to studio and said, please do not cast Vincent Price.

in this movie he's completely wrong for the role um i think prince of price you know did a good job and i don't i don't remember reading about if matheson ever uh said he made a mistake with that but he did initially think that he did not he wrote it with a younger man in mind i think is what it was um my favorite's always going to be omega man because that's the one i grew up on but i will admit that what they do with

the uh the night walkers whatever you know like the is in the omega man i don't think it works as well as the ones in last man on earth and even in i am legend because i don't know that we needed to know quite as much about them that takes that makes them a little bit less effective i think it's a lot better you know i mean last minute on earth has a very

Night of the Living Dead quality to it at times. You know, with them banging on the door and the one guy who we used to know calling his name. That, to me, is creepier than what we had gotten in Omega Man. I still love Omega Man because... a big charlton heston fan and i liked those scenes where he's like playing chess with that bust of caesar and you know and he's got that great apartment there and he's you know protecting himself um and i am i am legend

I thought might have had some of the creepiest scenes of all three of them in it. I thought that, you know, some of those like when he's hiding that that first night and he hears everything going on outside and really good stuff. But yeah, I agree. I think this is. I haven't seen a version of it that I didn't like, that I would not recommend.

Yeah, this is one I go to with some regularity. Now, Dave might know this. I have a question. Did this fall out of copyright? Because it seems to be available everywhere. Yeah, I think it did. I think it's in the public domain.

Now, because you're right, because it seems like it'll appear on some of those 20 movie sets or the 50 movie sets. Every time you go into the Walmart $5 bin, there's always Last Man on Earth. And there's been a whole... bunch of different versions of it that have come like like night of the living dead which was in public domain just because of a copyright error um i'm thinking it might have it looks like maybe vinegar syndrome or criteria somebody went in there and cleaned it up a bit

The criterion did that with Never the Living Dead, too. I mean, they didn't have to because there's so many versions of it out there and it's a little risky, but they did it and put out the definitive version. So, you know, public domain doesn't always preclude.

a major label putting out a quality release. Like the one scene in that film, everybody talks about the scenes where they're outside the door. Exclude, not preclude, exclude. And those are cool scenes. My favorite scene in the whole film.

is when he goes to the dump and he has the bodies that each night he goes and he meticulously gets them and dumps them and pulls them over. And you're like, he does it so methodically. And that's the thing about this movie is that we feel... about these bodies the same way he feels but then that's ultimately

what will be his downfall because he's looking at them as like we would look at the the creatures of night of the living dead but they're not that there's more to them than that and you don't find that out and well you know you find that out as the story goes on And that's ultimately where it goes. And I thought that was a really interesting aspect to this, where we're looking at them as just monsters.

like he is and every time he shoots okay good and there's another one down but there's more to them than that and you you figure that out as the story goes on and i thought that was a really cool aspect and that might be one of the feelings of omega man is that we they show us that like right up front yeah because we're seeing them have conversations and they seem to be organized and you know all that other stuff

takes away a little bit from it. But in this movie, it works perfect. And I think in I Am Legend, it works really well too. Although that one's even a little bit different. And this goes to me, the depth of Price's films, because I'll say right now, it didn't make my list. but I absolutely adore this film. Right. It did not make my list either, but it's such a good film. And I want to have Mr. Kyle Bishop answer this. Does he consider this a zombie film?

That would be interesting because I think they are very much... They are very much vampires, and that's what Richard Matthews, that's what he set them up to be, is to be vampires, but they are very zombie-like. They're almost like the vampires you get in Steakland. At a very zombie-like. The reason I ask is, it was about a month or month and a half ago, we did the vampire episode. And I don't think anybody mentioned the film.

Because do you think of this as a zombie film? Do you think of this as a vampire film? Or do you just think of this as a survival film? It is a vampire film, but it's not a go-to vampire film where it's going to hit you immediately. At least it never hits me. I love the film, but you don't get that Christopher Lee vibe.

from this film. Nice. You can call Greg. I love it. There's our number fives and we're going to head over to Pearl's because she's going to do a couple fun facts and then we'll get into our number four. So Pearl, what you got on fun facts of Vincent Price? Well a fun fact is we know he was a gourmet chef but he also wrote several cookbooks. He also had a male older book club specializing in mystery and detective novels. He published a visual autobiography called I Like What I Know.

1959. He was a member of the board of directors for the Los Angeles County Museum. He curated the Vincent Price collection of fine arts for Sears, making art accessible to a wider audience. was appointed to the indian arts and crafts board by dwight d eisenhower and he and his second wife mary donated a collection of priceless art work to the

East Los Angeles College establishing the Vincent Price Art Museum. Then he voiced the curator of the song The Black Widow from Alice Cooper 1975's album Welcome to My Nightmare. This was part of his art and culture. There you go. Some fun facts from Pearl. I remember reading that about Vince with the art.

Can you imagine walking into Sears and going, oh, I need some. I need some drapes. I need some. Oh, here's a $300 art piece. Right. I think I think they went to him and said, you know, could we can we. you know, use you as like the spokesperson for our art line that they were going to sell. And he went, well, only if I can pick the art because this stuff you got is like pure shit. I mean, I wouldn't doubt if he contributed some of the pictures. He contributed all.

All of them. He would not put his name on it if he did not personally approve or select. I don't know that he selected them all, but he approved them all. He might have even painted the odd one. Maybe. I love it. Cool, Pearl. Thank you for that. All right, let's get into our number fours. Let's go to you, Dr. Schott. What you got for number four? All right, number four. And I'm not going IMDb this time because I have this out on the blog. This was the last final entry. And the Corman.

poe price film it is uh 19 was it the final i think it was the final at least as far as the poe series went and that is the tumor legia um okay and this is my uh snob 19th century British nobleman Verdon Fell, played by Vincent Price, has just laid his beloved wife Ligeia. Elizabeth Shepard to rest, burying her in a consecrated plot on the grounds of his crumbling abbey. Yet in spite of her recent demise, Phil is convinced the Lady Lygia is still alive.

and will likely live forever. A short time later, Phil meets Lady Rowena Trevannian. also played by Shepard, who, aside from her physical resemblance to Legia, has a personality very similar to that of his late wife. Fel and Rowena eventually marry, but from the moment the new bride takes up residence in the Abbey, she is tormented by a mysterious black cat.

and experiences a series of nightmares all of which suggests that the spirit of ligeia is haunting her from beyond the grave unlike the previous poe films you know which were had these great set pieces i mean these gothic set pieces

Corman took the cameras outside for a fair portion of the tomb of Legia, starting with the opening scene where they're burying her. It gets the movie off to a pretty... pretty eerie start when a black cat leaps onto Legia's coffin and the coffin has a glass pane at the top of it so you can see Legia's face. through this well the moment the cat's paws touch the coffin Legia's eyes immediately pop open

So, you know, Vincent Price's character throws open the coffin and he's checking for signs of life. It's only to see that she's, you know, still pretty dead. Her eyes opened. It was a muscular contraction that opened her eyes is what they they.

figure out um even though it was shot in the daytime it this scene kind of gives you the creeps um and another change of pace from a lot of the corman uh earlier uh poe films is the main set for the tumor legia Isn't this like mansion or this... sumptuously decorated estate uh it's a dilapidated old abbey with dark musty rooms and a lot of cobwebs the exteriors for this were shot i was really interested to find this out at the ruins of the castle

acre priory in norfolk england now i visited i didn't visit this particular abbey but i visited a place called castle rising that was in norfolk england which was um uh when

Edward III banished his mother, who was implicated in the death of Edward II. He banished her to Castle Rising. And there are still tales that you can hear her wailing for her lover. Her and her lover are the ones who... basically did edward the second in um and they say you could still hear her crying in castle rising um and and that is also dilapidated i mean there was like we're we're when we were touring that castle we're looking up and we're saying okay well we were

in like what would be the main dining room, but we're looking up and we're not seeing like a roof. We're just looking straight up. We're here at one point while this castle was still, that floor collapsed into the dining room.

um and you know that it's all dilapidated like you can see the you see the sky through half of the rooms and things like that but there's a lot of those there's a lot of those throughout england but also in uh in norfolk and i would really have liked to have seen this uh this priory

sounds really good man if you see it in this i mean it really gives it that it evokes a a sense of decay that really enhances the the themes of like death that run through this film price gives uh you know his typical great performance and the last 30 minutes are going to get the hairs on the back of your neck standing up um this finished off the cycle in what what might be the most frightening of all of them and that's saying something because i think

that there are other ones that uh may be a little better but i think this one might be the most frightening i love it man the tomb of la gia and you got to say it like that you just can't say to me

of Legia. The tomb of Legia. There you go. That gives you that traumatic sound. Yes, it does. I'm glad I didn't say it every time while I was... talking about it i love it dude i love it 1964 man i love that film dave and is there anybody that can carry those cool shades yes i know it's like it's like that was that was like even though the set in the 19th century they're sort of giving you a a little hint of modern times and that with those shades he's wearing

But Tumalegia, I love this. Originally, it was on my list. Spoiler, it didn't make it. Originally, it was on. Something else bumped it. But again, he is so deep that this easily could have been my number one. Like, like these, like, there's so many of them that are so good. And this is one of those ones that where it kind of builds, like you don't get like a slashing murder off the top. You get a girl falling off a horse.

and then you get everything but it starts so ominously with him overlooking the grave of his ex-wife or his wife and it's it really builds and that and the the gothicness of that castle i think the fact that it's like a broken down kind of degrading castle really helps the atmosphere

atmosphere absolutely cool all right let's get to uh bills number four what you got brother all right this is one i didn't know would uh if anybody would have taken already but this is a film that if you're familiar with price or you want to just dip your toe into it don't start here first it is a film that price described as his probably least favorable experience as an actor and not because he didn't think it was written well but because it was getting into

areas of darkness that he wasn't that comfortable with but it is one of his most iconic roles it is the conqueror worm aka witch finder general from 1968. He plays Matthew Hopkins, who is, I think it's set in the 1800s, 1850s, that kind of thing. He went around rural England, and it was... a witch finder he would go around with his horses and his merry men and find people in small villages around the northeastern part of england or the wherever it was he went it was his job in the name of god

to eliminate all of the witchcraft but my gosh talk about a dark film this is the darkest film you will ever see him do it's It's not uncommon to see Vincent Price play the heavy.

What isn't common is seeing him play downright dirty and mean. And he is mean in this film. You kind of think about Vincent Price in a way like, you know, House on Haunted Hill and these kind of things. Yeah, he's a bit of a bad guy, but he's a... lovable bad guy he ain't lovable in this film there is a scene when we talked about favorite deaths this one at the there is a scene involving a so so-called witch

in the last 20 minutes that will make the hair stand up in the back of your neck. And Vincent Praise did not like... the final product the tone that it was because it was getting into the late 60s early 70s slasher influence and you can see it in it it has a meanness to it like anybody who's listened to me knows i sometimes love mean film this is the closest thing benson price ever came to a mean film but the acting is good i mean you've got rupert davies ian ogilvy hillary heath

really strong actors in this but this isn't one you're gonna walk away with and just go okay it's like watching the bat no this ain't the bat this is witchfinder general And so be prepared, but it is a damn good movie. Yeah, this one's definitely. If you haven't checked out Witchfinder General, a.k.a. The Conquering Worm, The Conqueror Worm.

Check it out. Yeah, I love this movie, man. We talked about this one. When did we talk? Was this on the witch episode we did? One of them, yeah. It was a few years back. Yeah, I've always enjoyed this movie a lot, especially when you start talking to Vincent, man. He's got a certain look in his eye in this film. You don't see very often. Absolutely.

Love it. Great choice. With the Wishfinder General, and maybe you talked about this already, the fact that he wasn't really, him and the director didn't get along. No, and this is Michael Reeves, who tragically died, what, by about 30, 32? Yeah, he only made a couple movies. But he made it known he did not want Vincent Price. He wanted Donald Pleasance for this part.

but it was AI and they had Price under contract. So when Price flew out to England and when Michael Reeves met him on the set, he said, I didn't want you. I wanted Donald Pleasance. So there was this tension between them. They did not get along. That sort of helped define Price's performance. It's a very different performance than he normally gives. Much darker.

um and that is why i think it's because of that tension between him and the director throughout the shoot but if i recall in in retrospect after a couple years had passed vincent looked at it again anew Yes, yes he did. And understood the vision. Well, he understood what was going on and he actually sent the director a note saying, I understand why he did this. And Michael Reyes replied, I figured, I knew you would. And it might have been that he was creating that tension.

just to get that performance out of Vincent Price. But the bottom line was he did want Donald Pleasance. And could Donald Pleasance have done it? Yes. But I think Vincent Price brings something to it as well that really makes it one of his most interesting films, I think. I mean, the other thing about Pleasance is I love Pleasance as an actor, but he's not an imposing man.

Whereas Vincent Price can be imposing. Physicality, yes, I agree with you. And it fits the role. Nice. All right, well, 1968. Witchfinder General. Pearl, what you got for number four? Three-way. No, just three. It better not be a time. My number four is an adaption.

a four classic not only narrated but performed by the great vincent price you get the tall tale heart the pit and the pendulum the sphinx and cast of the arm i can't even say it the auto thank you that for those of us who just simply love getting lost and just

hearing him speak about this i mean if you choose not to even watch it but just to listen makes this perfect just i recommend doing both watch it or listen to it and you will see every bit of each tale as it goes because his voice is incredible can't go wrong with Edgar Allan Poe's stuff

And it's an evening with Edgar Allen Poe, right? Yeah, okay. Evening with Edgar Allen Poe. Yes. Evening with Edgar Allen Poe. And it's not that long. It's like an hour. It's an hour. It was made for TV. It was made for TV. Yes, it was. Wow. sitting on a stage basically. Yes it is. Yeah.

Yeah, this is the one that we talked about. I think you chose this one. We did Edgar Allan Poe or something, and I feel like, Dave, I think you chose this one or something. I did, yes. Yeah, cool. And that's 1970. Yeah, I agree with Pearl. If you haven't seen this one, man, wow. Definitely check this out. It's so...

God, it's so good. And I'd never heard of it until you talked about it, Dave, on that episode. And I was like, oh, what is he talking about? And I was watching it. I'm like, oh, God, this is actually really, really interesting. So cool. All right, evening. You get a great actor.

reciting you know poe yeah on stage and and uh just doing it so good i mean even that little spider one which is sort of a throwaway little comedy one um he he does such a he does such a great job with that yep absolutely All right, cool. Good choice, love. For number four. All right, so my number four, I'm going to go to 1961. And I'm going to a Roger Corman film. And it is an Edgar Allan Poe film, of all things. And I'm going to The Pit and the Pendulum. This movie, man.

Oh my gosh, dude. We've got, you've got a torture chamber. You've got the iron maiden. You've got the freaking swing on pendulum. You've got so much good stuff in this one. Uh, but the stars of this one, John Kerr, basically, uh, Setup of this one is John Kerr plays Francis Bernard. His sister has gone missing, and he shows up at Nicholas's house, which is played by Edgar Allan Poe.

By the way, the sister is Barbara Steele. So he comes to investigate where his sister's at. And we got Edgar Allan Poe's character. who is a little shady, right? He's not wanting to quite reveal. He says that she died of a blood disease or something. And then it's later asked again at a dinner table. And he says, nah, the doctor said, no, she died of a heart attack. And he's like, Or no, she said...

yeah yeah and that's what happened and then eventually vincent price takes him down to the torture chamber and says that she had become infatuated with the with this chamber and how that uh yeah that's what it ended up happening she locked herself into the iron and I had to perish but you know what really happened we'll find out later on but man this movie's fun I love Edgar Allen Poe in this one or Edgar Allen Poe Vincent Price in this one man he plays such a great character I love

barbara still of course man amazing actress and just the cast is so strong in this one and it's dark man i love the the scenes with the pendulum swinging back and forth getting closer and closer man it's just tense building uh once again the cast is really good in this one and uh it's just a really good story i love that uh roger corman you know directed this one you can see his flair in it for sure uh really really really

really good one it's 1961's the pit and the pendulum just that's a great one too and um you know barbara steel once again establishing herself which i mean black black sunday is

For me, when I think of Barbara Steele in horror, that's the first one I go to is Mario Bava's Black Sunday. She was stunning in that, but she's stunning in this too. Just has a very memorable sort of... a final moment in this movie she does and and dude i'm telling you that torture chamber is amazing man i just oh i would love to have that you've got anthony carbone as the doctor and yeah he's in so many films

If you look at his, you know, his curriculum vitae and stuff. Yeah, strong. I love the atmosphere. It's got that gothicness too. And a nice swing of the pendulum. Yeah, yeah. Cool, yeah. The way that thing keeps swinging back and forth and you just know it's coming. How would you compare this to the Stuart Gordon version? I don't know, because I really love the Stuart Gordon, too. Yeah, I do, too. Jeffrey Combs. And a lot of it is because of...

Lance Henriksen. Yeah. His performance in that movie is just amazing. Agree. I think I still lean towards this one for Corman, but good stuff, man. All righty. So that is our top fours out of the way. Pearl, you got some fun facts again? Yes, I do. Okay, he has started an egg-throwing fight while making a guest spot as a villain called Egghead on the television series Batman. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah.

He's notoriously known to be superstitious. He once joked that he kept a horseshoe, a crucifix, and a masusa in front of his door. His ashes were scattered off of the California coast of Malibu together with his favorite gardening hat. His grandfather invented baking powder, which secured a family fortune. He and Peter Lor... famously joked about staking bella lugosi's body at the funeral and when they saw him that he was buried with his cape they said do you think we should Just in case.

And he would often cook meals for his co-stars. I love it. Could you imagine being at the graveside of Bela Lugosi and seeing that cape on him? You would kind of want to say, maybe we should steak him just one good time. Well, would you? go by Bella's grave at night. I know, right? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Where's he buried, by the way? Does anybody know? I don't. I'm not sure. Somewhere in Romania. I'm not sure. Yeah, right. I'm not 100% sure. I'll look it up. I was just curious because of it.

I'd love to go to visit the gray site of Bela Lugosi. I would love to visit the gray site, of course, of Vincent Price as well. Right. I can actually... California? Was he in California somewhere? I thought he was in California. I thought we took a picture of him. I'm sure it's in California. It was. Somewhere in California, around the L.A. area. I could actually drive about 10 miles and visit the grave of Edward Van Sloan. Really?

Yeah, he is buried in Bluebell, Pennsylvania, which is where I had gone to college when I went to Monaco, which is in Bluebell. He is buried in a cemetery in Bluebell, so I can actually drive and see the grave of Edward Van Sloan. Nice. Perfect. And, Pearl, you found the gravesite of Vincent Price.

No, Bella Lugosi. Oh, Bella Lugosi. I'm sorry. Where was it? Holy Cross Cemetery. Holy Cross Cemetery, which is in something Heights, California. Lucinda Heights, California. Lucinda Heights, California. Yeah, because Vincent Price's actress were... Buried, yeah. It was spread, yeah.

Cool. All right. Well, cool. All right. So there's some fun facts. And now we're into our top threes. I'm excited, man. We're getting to the heavy hitters, which they're all heavy. But let's go to Dave. What you got from number three? So my number three. I already touched on one of the Corman Poe series. Now, it is one I think is one of the scariest, if not the scariest, but it is not my favorite. My favorite is the one I'm going to mention.

it is from 1964 it is the mask of the red death you know this one um he plays prince prospero And it was a bit of a departure for Price. You know, in movies like The Pit and the Pendulum in the Fall, The House of Usher, he's kind of this tortured soul. or this pitiful man who saw the end of the world, gloom and doom around every corner. Prince Prospero in The Mask of the Rest's death, though, is entirely evil.

And it gave him a chance to really prove to the world just how great he was at being bad. He could play bad just as well as he could play depressed. He is the Prince Prospero is the tyrannical ruler of a land being overrun by a deadly disease, one that locals refer to as the Reg Death, offering a safe haven from the Reg Death.

death, Prospero invites every nobleman in the kingdom to stay with him in his castle where they can wait out the illness while attending an extravagant masquerade ball. Along with the nobility, Prospero also invites a beautiful peasant girl named Francesca played by Jane Asher. whose father, Nigel Green, and sweetheart, David Weston, are imprisoned in his dungeon. But things aren't necessarily as they seem in Prospero, who also happens to be a disciple of Satan.

may have ulterior motives for allowing so many into his home at one time. He's very sarcastic in this one, and he is a very bad man. I mean, Prince Prospero is a very bad man. And we learned just how bad he is in the opening scene where he pays a visit to a village. He's visiting a village. And soon after getting there, he is insulted by two peasants and promptly orders his guards to put them both to death.

Just then, Francesca, who lives in the village, runs forward and pleads for their lives, begging Prospero to show mercy. Sensing that he might have a bit of fun at Francesca's expense, Prospero says he'll spare only one. and that she must choose which of the two will live and which one will die. One of the men is Francesca's father. The other is her lover. So it's like, how is she going to choose? How is she going to choose? to further complicate the matter if she refuses to choose.

He's going to kill them both. It's at that exact moment that the Red Death is discovered in the village, and it causes Prospero to cut his stay short. He gets the hell out of there once that's revealed. But he's hoping to continue the game later that evening.

So he orders his men to bring Francesca and the other two back to the castle. Then instructs the soldiers to burn the village to the ground, leaving dozens of men, women, and children to watch as their entire world goes up in flames. It's an introduction. to a truly sinister character, one whose vicious nature we will eventually see magnified even more as the movie progressives. You can always sort of rely on Corman.

uh to have the lush wardrobe the great set pieces um strong atmosphere gothic atmosphere and this is no exception that you get that in this as well uh that plus price giving one of his most menacing performances really make this a standout in the series, and probably it is my favorite of the series. Tuma Ligeia would be a close second, but this is my favorite because of that.

I love it, man. It's a really good film, man. Really good. And we talked about this one. I can't remember when, but I remember we talked about it. Yeah, really good film, man. I'm glad you chose that one. You know what my takeaway from that movie is?

what's that never dress up as an ape or it gets rather hot is that what happens but the other thing about this is yes vincent price is really good in this but hazel court i think is is she's beautiful and she does a good job but jane asher i think almost steals this film yeah and jane asher is just in between little uh dalliances with paul mccartney she did a good job on this

yeah i love it well cool uh once again it's 1964 is the mask of red death if you've not seen it check it out so let's go to bill bill what is your number three well

When I did this list, I didn't know where I was going to put this film. I know, like... my four and five were pretty floatable you know but my top three i knew my top three and i just had to figure out you know because i like to i did a list like this similarly a few years back but i went in with a clear head did it how i wished so this one is one that i hold dear and it's one that was the last film that keith moon ever watched before he died oh wow and that is the abominable dr fibes nice

Dr. Fibes is one of those characters that if they were to reboot, I'm shocked this hasn't been updated because you could easily... get somebody like Eli Roth or somebody of that nature to use his or her imagination to come up with some creative ways of coming up with this. Because this is another film that Eli Roth would have watched to inspire some of his films. The Abominable Dr. Fives from 1971. I'll give you the description. Doctor, scientist, organist.

And biblical scholar Anton Fibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considered responsible for the death of his wife. So what happens in this film is at the beginning, we see someone in a cloak and an outfit and they are playing the organ, a beautiful organ, pipe organ, gorgeous. That thing would be worth it. ton of money if it was still around today and a a magical band that's playing in the background that's like robotic that's way ahead of its time it's really cool and what happens was

Fibes' wife went in for surgery and she died on the operating table. And there were nine doctors that were somehow involved in the operation. between doctors and nurses and people around and she obviously didn't make it what happens on his way and dr fives was uh away i think he was in switzerland or somewhere he was in europe and on his way back his car went off a cliff

Or did it? I don't think I'm giving much away by saying it really didn't. And Dr. Fibes goes out to revenge his wife's death, or I guess you could say avenge. his wife's death by going out and killing off every one of the doctors or nurses involved but he did it in a fashion using biblical uh stories biblical writings and each one of them

happened in a manner that it would have happened back in Jesus's time. And it was, he had to get really creative in some of these. It comes from the 10 curses visited upon the Pharaohs in Exodus. So if you go to the Bible.

and you read Exodus, you can legitimately follow this story. So I know like Mr. Rawlings, he can probably give a whole sermon on this because it is based on... reality uh vincent price is in this also strong role by joseph cotton a veteran actor been around for a long time but i love i love any film when i see terry thomas Terry Thomas is one of those actors. No matter what film he's in, he somehow dies. I cannot see Terry Thomas without thinking of it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

He was in one of those, was it Vault of Terror? One of those amicus? He's been in a lot. Yeah, he was in another classic British comedy called School for Scoundrels. He's been in a lot of things, but I just... see him as that that guy who was unfortunate enough to pick up um uh milton burrell and uh

and ethel merman on the side of the road and it's a mad mad mad mad world it's such a funny a funny part and um yeah every time i see him i kind of i kind of perk up as well but i i love terry thomas and and this is one of those films where you can tell he was hamming it up a bit but having a blast doing it because a lot of practical makeup and effects and altering of his face and altering of his voice and when he's

praying to his wife or talking to her as she's dead. The picture on the wall, it's Caroline Monroe, who is the wife of the picture there. And did you catch the name of the band playing in the background? I did not. It's Dr. Fibes' Clockwork Wizards. Somebody should start a garage band, the Clockwork Wizards. I'm sure there is one out there, I bet. I'm sure there is. The fact that this is in this movie, I bet you there's a dozen of them. None of them know.

about the others right but there's there's something to price being a calm cool collected killer he never seems rushed he's always in control even when you hear sirens in the background he's like okay time to go like you never see him sweat and you can ultimately say that this film is a love story and on imdb they don't say horror as the first uh tag they say dark comedy

Because it is a very, like if you look at this in the sense of, you know, like a take on society, you know, a slice of 1970. It's an interesting film if you don't even take it as a horror film. But, you know, it shows the competence slash incompetence of the police. They always seem to be a step behind. They can't find what they're looking for. Some of these kills get ultra creative. I won't get into them because...

I want you to discover them. But there's one involving vats of blood. I love every time I see it. So Dr. Fibes, I know it'll probably come up again. I'll keep my comments to a minimum. But I goddamn love this film, Dr. Fibes. 100%. I'm right there with you, buddy. All right, well, let's head over to Pearl.

Pearl number three. My number three. A vampire invites a horror writer to a secret club where monsters gather to drink and dance. And he soon regulates the amused man with three tales of terror involving a lonely creature, Hunter of the Undead. in a mysterious village. This is the Monster Club. With a very thankful

Donald Pleasant and of course John Carradine and many more. This is the one where Vincent Price is part of the wraparound, right? Yeah. Okay. I love it when they're breaking down the family tree of... monsters yeah that's i love that i do too this one's so much fun i mean it's kind of it's kind of just like a active monster match

but i i highly recommend it it's very amusing it has little spooky moments i mean i actually think it's one that kids would have fun with yeah so i highly recommend this one yeah i mean because you love anthology films and you love monsters and all these different things this is a just a very

common sense movie for you because it's right down your alley. Well, yeah, it kind of had the flair of Mad Monster Party. Yeah. I like it. This is one that I watched for the first time last week. I had never seen it before. Yeah. But I said, I guarantee, I think Vincent Price had two or three anthologies, and I was just trying to figure out which one would be on your list. Yeah. Yeah. 1981, Monster Club. I think it's probably PG.

right probably maybe uh let's get to my number three which i'm just gonna say ditto because my number three is 1971 the vulnerable dr fives as well bill and uh just For every reason you mentioned, like that movie to me is like a chef kiss to the sky masterpiece. I will just say my favorite scene is the bees. I just got to say bees. Crossover. Yeah.

Would you have had the steady hands to be able to do the final thing that he had to do? No. No. I could have done none of these, but I love the movie, and I love watching Vincent Price. Man, I love this character. I love... you know the the vengeance and the revenge to sought out and i just i love the story of this one and the makeup effects are really good in this one it's just a really

really fun enjoyable film to watch and and enjoy the ride of vengeance there and see what happens dude there's so many good moments in this and you know what i like about it is as it ends all these traumatic things have happened and the musical is somewhere over the rainbow. Yeah. I love it. Well, there you go. That is our top threes. Let's go to Pearl. Pearl, you got any more fun facts? I do. They say he had to do about 10 takes.

For the last scene of the sci-fi horror, The Fly, due to the fact that he just kept laughing so much. Him and his co-star... Oh, God, I can't remember what the co-star is named. He's a big actor, too. They just... Because they hit... They couldn't stop laughing. They just could not stop laughing. I wish those outtakes still existed. I would have loved to have seen that. That would have been awesome. I would have loved to have seen it.

Okay, during the 1970s, Price said that George C. Scott was his favorite current actor, although Cary Grant, then retired, was his all-time favorite actor. Nice. His father, president of a company that made jelly beans. And jawbreakers. As well as what I said prior to... Price's baking powder that his grandfather made, it was sold to Royal. So now we know that every time we eat candy from the company Royal or Jelly Beans, it's associated with Vincent Price.

Ooh, there you go. Let's all buy a bunch of royal candy and just eat it up and think about Vincent. Right. We're eating the body of Christ, but we're eating the body of price. I was waiting for somebody to come in on that. I was like, yeah, I gave y'all a softball throw here. I'm not the most religious guy, but I wouldn't go that far.

I'm guessing Royal Crackers. There you go. Nice. Okay, he was the visual inspiration for the original illustration of the comic book superhero Doctor Strange. Totally can see that. i know me too and he were obviously we all know this he provided the voiceover for michael jackson's song and music video thriller at the time he was offered the choice either upfront salary of 20 000

or a percentage of the album's sales. He shows the payment up front. Derler went on to become the highest selling record of all time. Oh, you. No wonder he went downhill fast. That's just like the Night of the Living Dead. blunder of not copyrighting it. That, yeah, George Romero. What were you thinking? This song is played a gazillion times a day. The thing you gotta recognize is when he did that, he was in his mid-60s.

I guess he didn't really need the money. It's not like he needed millions of dollars, but still. You don't know how it's going to sell, but 20 grand just to talk for 20 minutes? Sure, yeah, no problem. I read somewhere where Steve McQueen did the same thing with The Blob. they offered him a percentage or $2,000 he said just give me the $2,000 and I think it went on to make like

several, at least a million and a half or something like that. He would have gotten a lot more money if he had agreed with him in 2000. But yeah, you never know. You never know. I mean, how many times has someone said, no, give me a percentage of the profits, and then they end up owing money or something. It's a bomb. It ends at the $5 bid at Walmart. Yeah, exactly. And they're going.

and they're going in there with like $300 to buy it just so they can get a 13 cent royalty check or something. Or it goes to Netflix and sits there in a streaming site and you didn't get shit. Yeah, exactly. What a rip-off that stuff's becoming for these artists. I remember, what was it, Snoop Dogg said, hey, said my song got 13 million downloads. Well, I sure as hell ain't seen any millions of dollars from this song.

about Seinfeld episodes where he used to get cramps in his wrist from signing seven-cent checks. Right. Yes, exactly. I remember hearing Tony Danza talk about it when he was on the Howard Stern show, and they were saying, don't you get royalty checks from taxi? And Tony Danza said, yeah, well, you know what that is. You get 75 checks for three cents each. Any more fun facts, Pearl?

Not at this moment. Okay. All right. So we're getting to our top twos. Let's go to number two, Dave Becker. All right. Well, here's where it gets a little anticlimactic because my number two is the same as Greg's and Bill's number three is the abominable Dr. Fibes. And what draws you to that film, Dave? Well, there's a lot of things. First off, it's the most bizarre role that Vincent Price has ever played.

um he's a musician driven to the brink of madness by the death of his wife victoria um and let me tell you something if if if my wife if if if my if i'm married to carol monroe and she's taken away from me

I'm hunting them damn doctors down myself, too. There is no place they could be safe if they're going to do that. If it's Calum Monroe... oh my god i think she's like one of the most beautiful i mean that's why hammer that's one of the great things about hammer horror is that she was part of it and she's stunningly beautiful you know what's funny is you see vincent price had some pretty wonderful co-stars oh yeah i don't think i don't think i've ever seen him once in a love scene no that's true

That's true. I think maybe once or twice, but not often. Well, she's already dead when the movie starts. I mean, he's got her in a coffin there. But yeah, I'm telling you, the doctors that did that, you know, a climb up into the into the nostril of the Sphinx, you son of a bitch. I'm hitting your ass down. He's not going to be safe anywhere. But anyway, so he's going out. That's what he's doing. We've already established that. The nine doctors and surgeons who took it.

I'm not going to get into the kills either. The one that gets me is the first one with bats. Bats creep me out. And I'm telling you, that started it off in really creepy fashion for me. Or do you like the one towards the end with rats? Oh, I'm not a fan of them either. But, you know, it was the bats that started to get me. They're very clever. I love it. I love how they base them on the plagues.

from Exodus, from the plagues of Egypt. I thought that was really pretty cool too. But rising above it all is, of course, Vincent Price. Despite his lack of dialogue, but he plays this. sort of, he's having a great time carrying out these heinous crimes in almost total silence. You know, the car accident left him unable to speak.

So he created a contraption that plugs into his throat and mimics his voice, allowing him to talk. So we hear Vincent Price's voice in the movie, but only when he's home. When he's out killing, he's not saying anything. And from the moment he first appears on Scream, he's sort of flailing away at this pipe organ. And you get, okay, this guy's a little unhinged.

And he's having so much fun in this role. He's always been able to sort of merge this sophistication with the macabre. And he's played some great characters. None quite as menacing. And quite as mad as the mad Dr. Fibes in this movie. Yeah, this is just awesome. I mean, it is my second favorite Vincent Price film.

That's right. I love it. I was going to say, and for that kind of film, it's weird to say, but it's a comfort film for me. Like, it really is. Yeah. It is, because everyone seems to be having such a good time with making it, yeah.

yeah i love it great choice all right bill what you got for number two my number two was dave's number three and that is the mask of the red death nice to me that is my favorite of the poe adaptations and i think this one shows him with his acting chops to a horror audience that might have not seen them before if they didn't watch his film noir stuff it's brilliantly shot like oftentimes when you think of Roger Corman you think

of you know underwater horror or just cheapo gangster films and sci-fi knockoffs and and yeah he did all that but when the man had a bit of a budget and had an idea He knew how to craft a film. The brilliant red in this. With Price being Prospero, and he's always a little bit... not on the right side of the morality but he had his own version of morality as a character and the acting you know in this with patrick mcgee nigel green

They were both really, really strong in this. I like the mean streak in it. And I actually Googled who was the actor who was the mysterious red figure. Because if you listen to the voice, it does sound a little bit like Christopher Lee. So I looked into it and it isn't. And the other thing is, is there's seven rooms that they go through. and each room represents one room closer to hell.

and that's kind of what the analogy is if you watch it all because there's that back room you can't get into and that and and it starts from there and you've got some morality there you've got a bit of a love story there you've got an evilness there and this brilliant red like it's more brilliant than the giallo films you've got the inevitability of death you've got materialism and you've got monies that

You can't get out of the lower classes. And he decides just to just let them basically die out from this plague. My question to you, Dave and Greg and Pearl, would you consider this a satanic panic film? Like one of the first. He is like a satanic. He's a Satan worshiper sort of in this movie. So you can certainly make a case for it. I agree. This is, this is one that, you know, I'm not a gatekeeper at all. Watch whatever the hell you want. But if you want to see him as an actor.

This is the film to watch. I can agree with that. I think he definitely showed his a step above even like a theatrical or his theater presence. Like this became a movie. presence and he definitely he's just relishing the evil yeah what it is yeah and i think he probably liked it too honestly like i don't think he ever mailed in a performance but i think he stepped it up for this one i'll totally agree

All right, number two in his pearl. My number two, a magician, Eris Craven, is still deeply depressed two years after the death of his beloved wife, Lenora. One day he visits Bello who's been transformed into a raven after losing a duel with Dr. Scarabus, an evil wizard. After Kraven transforms Bello back into a human, Bedlow claims to see Lenora's ghost in the Scarabot's castle, prompting the two to head to Scarabot's castle to seek Kraven's lost love. And this is The Raven.

Nice. I love it. This is a fun one. This is a lot of fun. And it's got young Jack Nicholson. Yeah, 26-year-old Jack Nicholson. He said this movie had the one co-star he hated working with. The Raven because it kept shitting on him. Pearl is like, I'm not going to speak for you, love. But I know your love for the actual raven, not just the movie. I'm talking about the bird raven.

So I can imagine, you know, Dave talking about shitting on somebody. I'm sure you've seen plenty of Raven shit around because you've. Yeah. I know you talked about your hometown, you know, back in. in the day you know having that rave in the net yeah you learn to uh quickly move duck and

I wonder if it likes sandwiches. They like everything. I was going to say, ravens are pretty much scavengers, aren't they? They are, but... they're also very grateful they'll reward you they'll fight well let's just say they'll steal other people's money and bring it to you so you can give them something

Oh, cool. You can purposely put puzzles in front of them just to see if they'll figure it out, and they will. You can do things to put a... piece of food in a jar and put a rock and they will figure out a way to take that out and get that food wow you know they're they're very smart animals i love them but but yeah it was funny with this movie you see the bird like panicking even on the fire scene you see like you know he's trying to hold on to it Boris Karloff and and him fighting

together as wizards. That scene at the end was using her powers. I just kept laughing and laughing. I could not take it serious. This one's got as much comedy in it. This is when they started to get more comedic. I mean, this is, you know, like... you'd watch like pitting a pendulum in the fall the house of usher the earlier ones they're taking portions of

Poe's story. They just took the name and ran with it. There's nothing about the poem The Raven in this movie at all. It was just so much fun anyways. I had a blast with this one. So I do recommend one watch. Yeah, the battle, I was laughing because I was watching it. I forget what I was doing. I came home and Pearl was already watching it, but I'm watching the battle, and they're going back and forth, sitting in like a chair, a throne chair. Like, Bella's throwing...

Or Boris is throwing stuff at him, like, you know, making him do something. And here goes Vince. He's... I don't want to say it because I don't want to give it away. Let's just say some of the things. And one of them is where he makes the floor open up and he goes down. And you see kids start. flapping his wings like a bat and he floats back up. Now, is this the one where Peter Lorre is turned into a... Mm-hmm.

Yeah. A burden? Yep. Okay. He has a line in this, like they were saying, drink some milk. He goes, milk? How vomitable. Oh, isn't there one line where he goes, nobody told me being a bird would be so tiring. I know. Yeah. Love it. Oh, my God. Such a fun film, love. This was one of the films I watched for the first time. I just hadn't seen it. It's goofy. If you're expecting blood and guts, you're not getting it in this film.

But that wasn't exactly up his alley. He loves goofiness. Oh, he loves being a ham. anything else on that one love no i'm good all right so 1963 the raven for pearl uh mine's already been mentioned by pearl earlier my number two is 1959's house on haunted hill directed by William Castle. And it's just that story, as Pearl mentioned. I mean, it was $10,000 on the line, and Vincent Price playing that.

that eccentric millionaire dude i love love love love love this movie man i think the little tricks that william castle's doing with the skeleton floating and the different things i thought were clever i really enjoyed the remake i'll be honest with that one too but this one is so much fun it's like a staple when i think of vincent price in my head i close my eyes i'm like vincent price

House on Haunted Hill, my number one of the two movies that always pop into my brain instantly. It's just etched in me. I don't have to watch them ever again. I know them so much from in and out, but I would love to just sit back and watch these again like on a... This is one that you could watch numerous times. It never, to me, gets old. Was this one after the Tingler? Tingler, yeah, I believe Tingler, because this was 19...

1959 and the Tingler. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was after the Tingler. Yeah, because the Tingler actually... I'm just wondering, you know, obviously Castle liked them and chose them for whichever one came out. They were both released in 1959. I don't know which one...

Something tells me that Tingler was first, but maybe not. I might be wrong about that, but I always thought that Tingler came first. Yeah. Like, I almost wonder if while he had Vincent, he just shot both of them, like, back to back. Right. He may have. I mean, that's notorious for...

uh william castle for sure i can't wait till one of the callers talks about the tingler oh my god i know hey a little side note uh spoiler that'll be coming up on jay the dead's new horror movie podcast for one of my segments really soon the hell with shock man now you'll be the tingler all right but no it's house on honey hill man this is just like a halloween staple this is a watch on a sunday afternoon staple like i said when i think vincent price this

movie instantly pops to my brain this is a good one to watch with your 10 year old oh yeah you can watch it with any kind of thing yeah it's a good gateway to horror because it has enough tinge of horror with the skeletons and the ghosts and the different things going on but yet at the same time you know it's still entertaining so yeah it's got enough hamminess that it's not you know won't scare the bejeebers exactly exactly there you go so uh pearl fun facts

Fun facts it is. In October 2013, Price was honored as being Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month. In October 10, 2021, he was portrayed as Maurice LaMarche in The Simpsons.

Treehouse of Horror, Season 33, Episode 7. He was also made an honorary member of the Hollywood Cricket Club in the 1950s, despite of the fact that not playing a single game after Boris Karloff an actor he admired asked him if he would like to join he also appeared in eight movies with the title with with the word house in the title price sorry second wife mary grant gave birth to his daughter victoria price in april

27 1962 as early as the late 50s he became one of the hollywood's strongest supporters for human equally he he had appeared in three oscars Best Picture nominees, The Song of Burnett, Wilson, and The Ten Commandments. He also used to be a teacher in New York City. Boom. Mic drop.

It's Price the Legend. I was going to say, can you imagine going to university and he's your prof? Oh, please. Please let me have been there, dude. I would have been there. Yeah, but you know he's going to be pretty strict. Well, yeah. You're sitting there, okay, who are we getting this? Are we getting Prince Prospero? Are we getting Fibes? Oh, God. You made me cough up a lung there today. Good one. I love it. All right. So we're to our number one, listeners. Number one.

ones this is what we come for and we're going to dr shock dave becker what is your number one vincent price film Well, this is also going to be anticlimactic. My number one was Pearl's number five and Greg's number two at his house on Hornet Hill. I'm Frederick Lauren. And I've rented the house on Haunted Hill tonight so that my wife can give a party. A haunted house party. She's so amusing. There'll be food and drink and ghosts.

and perhaps even a few murders. You're all invited. If any of you will spend the next 12 hours in this house, I'll give you each $10,000 or your next of kin in case you don't survive. But here come our other guests. This has always been my favorite Vincent Price film.

you know and and william castle was he used to do promotions for for a lot of his movies we've talked about this there was one where he handed out certificates for a thousand dollar life insurance policy in case anyone in the audience died of fright

You know, I watched the movie The Tingler. He had something put under the seats, you know, to sort of buzz people. For this movie, for House on Hornet Hill, he rigged a skeleton in certain theaters to fly over the audience at a certain point in the movie. And everyone...

seen the movie knows what we're talking about um uh but when it came to this film he didn't really need a gimmick because he had a pretty strong draw already with vincent price i think here he this is one of his juiciest performances he is just This is millionaire Frank Lauren or Frederick Lauren. I'm sorry, Frederick Lauren. And he's got these five people. You know, he's invited them and he's going to give them $10,000 if they spend a night in this haunted house.

And it's a party for his wife, played by Carol Omart. And she's now, I think of this movie with her, but she was also in Spider Baby. She was one of the relatives trying to take control of the estate. in Spider Baby also. And I liked her in that as well. But you've got this collection of people from different walks of life who all can use the money.

and you know they they just have to the doors are bolted shut at midnight and they're not going to open again till 8 a.m and and anyone who's who makes it um you know they're they're going to get the money and everyone thinks it's an easy payday except the guy who owns the house watson pritchard played by elijah cook jr he opens this movie i love that opening that he gives uh where he's just saying that the ghosts are moving to starring tonight, restless.

May I introduce myself? I'm Watson Pritchard. And just a great, sets the stage perfectly. And then you get Vincent Price coming in, introducing everybody. And he keeps talking about, oh, my wife. She's so amusing. He's just so sarcastic whenever he's talking about her. And the scenes of them together are really strong. This also has one jump scene that takes place in the jump scare.

a scene where they jump scare that takes place in a basement that i think now i'm just starting to know what's coming and i'm not jumping anymore and it's when this character turns around and sees something i'm telling you it is enough it is a really good But, you know, and the character that Price is playing, it's very mysterious. You know, he's got this, like I said, he's got this wit, this sarcasm about him. And we're never quite sure what he knows and what he doesn't know.

because there's a lot going on. And he's assembled these people for a reason. um but we start to wonder is the house getting the better of him too at one point or is he the one pulling the strings or is he just as helpless as everybody else you know we it kind of keeps us guessing right up to the end um

And the mystery, though, is just one single part of this movie that I think is a very entertaining one. It is my favorite Vincent Price. If anyone said, you know, pop in any Vincent Price movie you want. this will be the first one I'm always going to go to. Yeah, it's one of those movies that you can honestly say I can recommend.

to anybody and not have to faint or be like, oh, you can say, watch this movie and everybody will enjoy it, man. Fucking A, dude. House on Haunted Hill. Let's go to Bill. Bill, you're number one. Numero uno, number one is one nobody's mentioned. No. And I've never done my top 100 or 200 like Dave has of either movies or horror movies. If I'm doing a list of top 100 horror movies, this might crack the top 10.

The reason I love this film, one of the reasons is it's essentially an allegory of his life as a professional actor. It gives a little bit of his acting skill. and blends it with hamminess. And you could also argue one of the first proto slashers. I absolutely adore Theater of Blood. This, my just reward. The whole world knows that it is mine by right. But you deliberately withheld it from me. You deliberately humiliated me before the press, my public and my peers.

It was the culmination of your determined denial of my genius. We've denied you nothing. For 30 years, the public has acknowledged that I was the master. and that this year my season of Shakespeare was the shining jewel in the crown of the immortal bard. Quite insane. He must be, Tony. But you. With your overweening malice, give the award to a twitching, mumbling boy who can barely grunt his way through an incomprehensible performance.

No, no, it is mine. I knew this was going to be your number one. I cannot watch this film without smiling. The outline for those that haven't watched it before, a Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. so vincent price plays a veteran actor in england in the early 70s and the only roles he takes are shakespearean

And they have like a critic circle award for, I don't know, for all of England or for London proper. And each year they hand him out to top actor, actress, film, or sorry, a play. And he... feels he was shafted by this circle of critics who never chose him. And one of the reasons they never chose him is all he did was Shakespeare, Price, playing Edward Lionheart.

feels that he is the ultimate barb bard he is the bard he is the one that kind of started theater and it's the one that you should be paying attention to the most so he did othello and merchant of venice and etc etc And he goes on to fake his death and take out each one of the critics, similar to Fibes, that never gave him the award, but the way he does them.

are so creative and he has his partner in crime diana rig who you all know from some other things but the other part is the the ensemble cast ian hendry It's just brilliant. Robert Morley. I don't think anybody with a dog will ever forget the scene with Robert Morley. Mike O'Shea as the inspector. Like it leaves. clues along the way and if you're paying attention as it goes you pick up on those clues for example and i love the opening scene

The opening scene is great, but in the opening scene, there's a poster where they go, where there's a Edward Lionheart poster against the wall and the officers are like, oh, I remember this guy. And then they just kind of leave it. Dennis Price is brilliant in this film. And the other thing I get out of this is trampoline fencing looks like fun. Up and around on that thing. But there's tons of dark humor. And the ending is very...

let's say, Korman-esque. Very dramatic. But the makeup, the way in which the kills are done, the, you know, the tongue-in-cheek humor of this film.

I absolutely love this film. The end said, you know, tons of dark humor at the end. I quoted it. He goes, after the final conclusion has ended, the police are out there watching the... uh the remnants of what happened and ian henry goes as usual he overacted but he didn't know how to make a dramatic exit for a film that's supposed to be showing what it shows it still had tongue firmly planted in cheek i cannot recommend this film enough and if anybody hasn't seen it

It's just a ton of fun. It's a really good one. I mean, this could have made my list as well. It's a damn good movie. So check it out. It's readily available. I watch it on archive.org. But I mean, it's probably on YouTube. It's probably on Dailymotion. Maybe Shudder has it. I don't know. And I imagine that it's probably not that expensive to get off for a DVD or Blu-ray. Maybe we'll ask... Justin if they've done a really good version of this I don't know

I'm sure they have. Nice. I love it. Theater of Blood, 1973, and now we're to Pearl's number one. Love, what you got? My number one has been mentioned, and it was Dave's number four. Oh. The Tummo Ligella. All right. The Tummo Ligella it is. There we go. Man need not kneel before the angels, nor lie in death forever.

but for the weakness of his feeble will bless me benediction and i mean i agree with everything that dave has said prior about it and i love the scenes of the castle you know of course we know that It's an adaption from Edgar Allen Pulse from 1838. I love this movie because of the hallucination from it. You don't know if it's really happening, if he's going crazy, if the cat's really like a reincarnation of his first wife. Right. You know, we do...

We know that lady, Renona, whatever her name is. We know that she's marrying him for the money. And that is probably why she's getting spooked by the cat. But, I mean, it was one of the ones I enjoyed the most. So, that's why it's my number one. Very cool. I love it. It is the Tomb of Lazia. Would you call that a love story?

It gets as close to a love story as these type of movies are going to get, I guess. Like a broken love story. I think you can make a stronger case for something like, even though it's a little... the house of usher yeah but even though that one's really even creepier if you think of that as a love story Dr. Fibes is of sorts. Dr. Fibes would be one as well because of his wife. He keeps her body there. I love it. Good call, Pearl. 1964. The Tomb of Lagia.

Yeah, I wasn't going to say it that way. Of course you wouldn't. She's looking at me every time I say it. I had a hard time saying her name in the first place. She's looking at me like, all right. All right, cool. Good choice. Love for number one. Got anything else on it, babe? All right, well, let's go to my number one, and it's been mentioned as well, and it's 1953.

unclimatic uh house of wax i absolutely love this one 3d or not i don't care it startled you a seeing me here that's an understatement i thought you were dead jared is dead i am a reincarnation when i read this letter and saw your signature i thought somebody was playing a joke on me I still don't understand how you escaped from the fire. It's a mystery to me too, Mr. Wallace. As for my hands, they are no use to me now. As a sculptor, I can't control them, but they serve for ordinary functions.

You're beginning again? With the help of my pupils, yes. I'm rebuilding my exhibition from the ground up. I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death. I just really enjoy the story. I love the, as Pearl mentioned, the wax figures. We'll call them figures because that's what you call it, Bill. Figures.

And Diane Rigg, by the way, The Worst Witch, her favorite role, or my favorite role of her in it, by the way. Anyways, back to this. I love House of Wax, man. I have... since day one i think the effects in this one's really good i think vincent price is really strong in it give or take the 3d i don't care because it's non-existent in this it's just a gimmick but uh it's just a really really really good story andre

uh directed and man man the musical score in this is great um black and white or colored whichever version you want to watch looks awesome it's so fun vincent price at his best uh just crushing it in this character man i love it love it love it i'm such a sympathetic character at the beginning you feel so bad for him yep over over what happens and and it's it's just great how he turns that around

You and then all of a sudden you're you're you're seeing him as as a much different sort of character As the movie goes on but in that opening scene you your heart's bleeding for this guy. Yeah Over what happens and it's because because of his jackass partner. I always wondered if Steven Spielberg was inspired from Raiders of the Lost Ark, you know, the scene...

Oh, at the end with the melting. Well, they are wax. I'm pretty sure they're wax at the end. So, you know, it's possible. It's one of those films that, again, it's a gateway film. like it's not scary scary but it is scary enough that it's horror i can see a kid being scared by this oh absolutely yeah get a gateway horror yeah get an 11 year old to watch this yes could you imagine It's April 16th. It's 1953. You're in LA at Paramount Theater. It's midnight.

and you're watching the film premiere of this movie, and you've got Broderick Crawford, you've got Gracie Allen, Eddie Cantor, Rock Hudson, Judy Garland, Shelley Winters, Ginger Rogers, all of them in the crowd watching this movie. That's awesome. What? What a roll call of celebrities. It would be a good film to bring a date to because she'd be jumping in your lap half the time. Yeah, and then they said that Bela Lugosi's sitting outside with a cape.

and dark glasses. Man, dude, what the flying hell. God to have been in those days. This was around the time I guess he was working with Ed Wood? He was. He was needing money bad. Oh, yeah. I know it was late 50s. that he was doing like plan nine and things like that but i even think even in the earlier get it's getting close to that it might have been around the time of bella lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla

Yeah. Which is one of those movies that Ed Wood looks at and goes, damn, I'm glad I didn't make that one. Yeah, they actually said that the guy was out there with the gorilla suit on with Bela Lugosi during that. That is rough because you had two guys who were basically doing Martin and Lewis without being Martin and Lewis.

you know and one then one of them went on to be a pretty interesting filmmaker who was the guy oh god why am i blanking on his name but anyway the one who was the d martin guy went on to make some low budget films um that that were pretty good gone with the pope was one of them i can't remember his name now off the top of my head and i'm sure people are screaming at me but Duke Mitchell.

He went on to be a pretty good filmmaker in his own right. But Martin and Lewis, they tried to buy this film so they could destroy it. Like their manager, they had their manager make an offer to buy this film and destroy it because they were afraid it would be a... with them. Yeah. But even in that movie, Bela Lugosi is giving it his all. He did, like he always did. He is still acting like this shit actually makes sense.

And the stuff he's saying actually matters. He's saying, nope, I'm going to give it my all. And that's what Vincent Price did, too. I have seen some not great Vincent Price films. I saw one today, as a matter of fact. I'm just going to throw it out there, Madhouse. Okay. It's a bad movie. It could be one of the worst movies of the 70s that I've ever seen. But yet, Vincent Price is still giving it all. And it also has Peter Cushing.

Now Peter Cushing is not necessarily, I didn't get the feeling he was giving it his all, but it was a very small role. He wasn't in a lot of scenes in the film. The acting in the movie is not bad. It's just everything else sucks. The story doesn't make any sense. And it's another one centering on film.

and um and performance um but just a just a smoldering turd um but yet vincent price is still giving it his all he's giving you know and and he even he you know he even like this was not and not his favorite of the movies that he was in But he was just sort of living out, getting to the end of his AI contract, American International. And he said, OK, fine, I'll do it. And then I'm out. Then leave me alone. Because that would have been about the same time he did Fibes Rides again.

Yeah, Fibes Rises again. This was right after it because his co-star in that one that he did not get along with was also in Madhouse. they actually sort of patched up their relationship because they got the script like they got the script on a friday and they were shooting on a monday and they're looking through it and this other guy's like i gotta rewrite this dialogue this is dreadful

He goes, no human talks like this. I got to rewrite the dialogue. And Vincent Price said to him, hey, can you rewrite mine as well? Because I can't say this shit. Well, you know, it's funny, Dave. You said a smoldering turd. Yeah, I find it underwhelming, but I'll take it over Night Beast. Well, I...

I don't know. You know what? I don't know that I've seen Night Beast because if it's worse than this, I don't want to see Night Beast. This is literally like one of, as it stands now, one of the worst 70s movies I've seen in a long time. Wow.

Well, there you go. That is our number ones, listeners, five to number one. All righty, so what we're going to do right now, let me read out the top fives again, and then I'm going to go to Pearl, and she's going to give us some more fun facts before we get to it. So let's run down our top fives. Dr. Shock came in with, let's do it five to one. Number five was 1963, Diary of a Madman. Number four was 1964, The Tomb of Lajia. Number three was 1964, The Mask of Red Death.

Number two was 1971, The Abominable Dr. Fibes. And number one, 1959, House on Haunted Hill. Bill came in with number five being 1954, The Mad Magician. Number four, 1968, Witchfinder General, a.k.a. the something worm. The Conqueror Worm. The Conqueror Worm or whatever. Yeah, there you go. And number three was 1971, The Abominable Dr. Fibes. Number two was 1964, The Mask of Red Death.

And his number one for Vincent Price is 1973's Theater of Blood. Now, Pearl, she comes in with a tie for her number five, 1959 House on Haunted Hill. as well as 1953's house of wax uh number four was 1970 an evening of edgar allen poe as told by Vincent Price. Number three was 1981's Monster Club. Number two is 1963, The Raven. And number one... 1964, the Tomb of Lazia.

And then myself coming in with number five was 1964's The Last Man on Earth. Number four was 1961's The Pit and the Pendulum. Number three, 1971's The Abominable Dr. Fibes. Number two was 1959's House on... haunted hill and number one for myself was 1953's house of wax so i hope you wrote all of those down if not go to land of the creeps.boxspot.com

Click on the show notes, and I'll have them all right there written down so you can get it read. Or just rewind. Or rewind. However you want to do. And there was crossover, obviously. Some of them are on, like, multiple lists. But not as much, I mean, there's a good number of titles there still. Even with, you know, even with the crossover, everybody I think had one that was unique, at least one that was unique to their list, if not more. Yeah.

exactly yeah i love that yeah all right so let's go to some fun facts from pearl then we'll get what the next episode's about and then we'll get to you the listeners voicemails so pearl what you got for some fun facts in his early career roles he didn't Producers often avoided casting him because he was 6'4 and very much taller than their leading man. So it was a no most of the time. Kind of like Christopher Lee. Yeah.

Vincent likes to tell stories and one of his favorite stories that he used to like to share was about a middle-aged woman who came up to him while on a flight to Barcelona for a fantasy film festival. She was quite excited and said, oh, sir, could I please have your autograph? I can tell you how many years I've enjoyed your films, Mr. Karloff. Always a perfect gentleman and not wanting to disappoint her. He brought back Boris Karloff to life.

and gave the autograph, even though 15 years after the actor had died. He won $32,000 in the appearance of a game show called The $64,000 Question. He also, he often expressed an interest in doing Shakespeare. That's why Theater of Blood was one of his favorite roles. He was awarded a star in the St. Louis Walk of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri in 1989.

Brian Scott, find it. Right? Right? Yep. His likeness appeared in such Milton Bradley's games such as Hangman and the shrunken head apple sculpture in the 70s. I don't know that one. Right? Jesus God, did I just have a random synapse fire. I remember that goddamn apple thing. Holy shit. I have not thought about that thing probably since I saw it in the 70s. But I remember that and I always thought it was a little bit creepy. Now you know why. Holy cow.

The last film he saw in cinema was, get this, Aladdin. He loved it so much but was sad because he predicted that his yet-released film, The Thief and the Cobbler, would not draw any favorable attention. He passed away less than a week before Halloween, fitting considering his status as a horror movie icon. And last but not least, his nicknames. the king of the grand ganol the merchant of menace the renaissance man bing vincent too the master of horror and the candy kid

The candy kid. There's some cool, fun facts for you listeners. And I got to go find that commercial for that damn apple. I got to, too, because I've never heard of it. I don't even know what it is. Oh, my God. I remember seeing that thing. I remember seeing that damn thing. Oh, those apple heads were so. So creepy. Alright.

Awesome. All right. So now we're going to go to, well, let's go to Dr. Shock first, Dave. Let's go ahead and let the listeners know what the next episode will be about. And then we'll get to you, the listeners. You got it. And a lot of people, you know, I mean, the way things. are going you would assume our next episode is going to be our top five of of 1995 and you would be right

That is our next episode. It is the top five of 1995, and we do have a special guest. The special guest for this episode is John Barnhart. Nice. First time joining us for this. Yeah. First time guest. And we will be going over the top five of 1995. God help us all. That's right. There you go, Bill. You know what the next one's about now. Time to start digging.

Oh, we got to definitely dig. Get out the backhoe. You're going to have to really dig deep for this one. This is definitely going to be those dig deep. Just to let the audience know, I went to my letterbox to see what I had seen in 1995. I've only had Letterboxd for the last five years or so. I had a total of four films. Wow. Yeah, we're in trouble.

Yeah, this one's going to be a slog. Get ready for the first five I see. Yep, that's the list. There you go. Exactly. So go ahead and start calling now, 1-804-569-5682, and we'll play your voicemail. on the episode and let us know what your top five horror movies of 1995 was. And Pearl already said, Tales from the Hood's out. I know there's one that you all will like. Oh, Embrace of the Vampire will be watched. Absolutely.

Look at those goddamn heads. I heard you sent a picture. Now you tell me. Tell me those things don't look awful. Pull back the curtain listeners. Dave's looking at a picture of the shrunken or the heads thing. I remember those things. Look at them. Jesus Christ. That person. i mean if you if you went to like like what was it like a beetle juice when the head shrunk that's not as creepy as these things and this is for kids

These ones look like you're actually literally going to get voodooed on or something. A craft for the whole family. Are you kidding me? Well, this is kind of like, you know, like you used to get science sets, science kits. Well, no, let's get kids. Sit in the kitchen table and make shrunken heads. We've got Spencer Price's quote on the front.

Create your own collection of delightful shrunken heads. All that's needed is an apple in your imagination. There you go. Wow. And a keen sense of the macabre, obviously, because these things. Somebody needs to search these out and see if you can find one. How anybody came out of the 70s without thousands of hours of therapy is beyond. But I'm willing to bet if you can find an unopened

Still sealed. Probably worth a couple hundred bucks. God, yeah. I bet it would be. Well, they are. They're on eBay, but they're minimum $350. Okay. There you go. Wow. And I'm guessing there's no actual apples inside because I'm sure that the maggots would have taken over by now. That would be nasty. It's only people 50 plus that would even apply to these things because nobody under 50 would know who Vincent Brace is. Exactly. Right.

all righty well cool let's get to our listeners calls we're going to go first to patrick uh gunner our buddy patrick wrote in his and here is his top five starting with number one house on haunted hill number two house of wax number three abominable dr fives number four edward scissor hands number five the fall of the house of usher

Oh, that's a good one too. Yeah. Nice. Yep. And he said, I could have gone on for days, but these are just off the top of my head. Thanks for the entertainment as always. So thank you, Patrick, for sending in your voice mail, my friend. So let's get to our first call. here. Let's see who we got. Okay, we are talking about probably one of my favorite actors ever, Mr. Vincent Price.

I recently shared on the Facebook page my crown jewel autograph that I have of Vincent Price. I hope people got to check that out. I wish I could say that I'd met Vincent Price, but I did not. My dear friend of mine, who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago, his brother was Vincent Price's mailman.

told me about that and said, if you have a picture of a visit price you'd like to get signed, I could send it to my brother and he would have Vincent sign it for you. And so that's what I did. And that's how I wound up getting that absolutely great autograph. of one of my favorite actors and i was really jealous because my friend had about 26 autographs at benson price because he kept sending pictures over to his brother all the time yeah so that collection wound up with his son and

His crown jewel actually was not Vincent Price, but he actually had an autograph of Spencer Tracy. I don't know how he got that. Anyway, on to Vincent Price. He's done so many movies. I know horror is the main thing people think of when they think of Vincent Price, but he was so well-rounded. He could do comedy. He could do drama. He could do it all.

I mean, for Christ's sake, the guy was in the Brady Bunch, and he killed it on the Brady Bunch, too. The Hawaii episode, people should check that out. And he did The Muppet Show. Fantastic. And he was very well-rounded. He was an artist. He loved cooking. I mean, he just was a man who enjoyed life, period. All right. I know I'm probably going to get cut off, but I'm going to just keep going until I do get cut off. So my top five, and this could change at any time.

I'm going to start with an anthology, one called Twice Told Tales. And that was a good surprise. And Peter Lorre, you know, he had different stories in there. I found that on the Midnight Movies collection on DVD, and it was one of my favorites. Number, I'd say number four would be The Comedy of Terrors. I really enjoyed that film, Roger Corman, where he got Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff together.

And it was a really, really fun movie. And he was the way. And he got cut off. So we got a bench. We got a bench. The first one out of the box, a bench already. Let's go to his bench. Ben slapped upside the head. It's been a while since that happened to me. Anyway, left off with the comedy of terrors. And yeah, I really enjoyed that. And sorry, sorry, Bill.

Here's a tie with it. The Raven. Another horror comedy. And it also had him and Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson and Peter Rory. Okay. Number... three for me would have to would probably be um the house on haunted hill i mean that was probably one of william castle's best films ever and Price was just so fantastic in that film. Well, the whole cast was great, but he definitely sold a show with that one. Number two, Theater of Blood. Yes.

Price and Diana Rigg. I love the groovy hairdresser scene that he got to do with his real-life wife, Coral Brown. uh that was a that was a fantastic that was a fantastic scene but my number one is probably with the cormon pope films the tomb of lygia uh that That film, I mean, he was just so brilliant, and the whole film was mesmerizing. If you haven't got a chance to see that, I'd definitely recommend that one. Okay.

I hope you guys have a great show of talking than surprise. Can't wait to hear what everybody has to say. And I will talk to you next time. Take care. Bye-bye. Very cool. I love it. Great list, and wow, having Vincent Price's autograph is really, that's something special. I am so glad he brought up a comedy of terrors. I really enjoy that. I think that's my favorite of his flat-out comedy films. That and, well, like you're saying, The Raven, the two of them together are sort of the comedy.

entries but uh yeah absolutely yeah because i mean in a comedy of tears boris was on his last legs yeah he did a lot of scenes where he was sitting or he had minimal lines and and he played it off as kind of being a drunk kind of thing but i i find it i like it just a hair better than the raven just because it's crazy scenarios and trying to break into houses and it's just crazy all right he called back one more time let's see what he's got

I'm calling back because I forgot that I need to wish a very heartfelt happy birthday to our fearless leader, Greg Amortis. Greg, happy birthday. Thank you. The butcher man himself, Bill Landvagle. Happy birthday to you too, sir. Greg, in your honor, I will be re-watching John Carpenter's Halloween. And Bill, in your honor, I will be re-listening to Rush's 2112. Excellent. And I'm going to have a great time doing both. Not at the same time, but anyway. Also, I want to follow up on...

I know Raghu called multiple, multiple times on this last episode. And I just wanted to, since he is forever in search of the... non-porn dong theater. I just wanted to give him a recommendation if he hadn't already seen it. And Dave, I would not be surprised if you had this movie in your collection. It's Ken Russell's Listomania. Starring Roger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman, and an uncredited appearance by Oliver Reed.

For Raghu's Dawn Theater, I highly recommend that. It's a very, very trippy film. Let's do this. Hope you guys have a great rest of your show, and I will talk to you next time. Take care. Let's just say that Roger Daltrey breaks. It's not a Bronco that he's riding to break, but it is something else. And it is something that Raghu would absolutely...

get a kick out of. It's funny when he said, it's funny that when he said, Bill, I thought he was going to say, I will watch a guinea pig film. No, boy, no. Come on. I mean, we can honor you, but we're not going that far. Yeah. I love it. All right. Let's see here. Let's go to our next call. Let's see. We have got this one.

What's up, guys? This is Keith Christian calling from South Louisiana. It's been a minute since I've called into the podcast, and I just wanted to call because I've been listening to the podcast again and I've been enjoying it greatly. And I know you guys are doing a Vincent Price spotlight next episode, and so I wanted to call in and just let you guys know my favorite personal Vincent Price film. Of course, I love the abominable Dr. Fibes. That's a given, but...

My personal favorite Vincent Price film, I think, would have to be The Monster Club. And I think that's from 1981. I should have looked this up before I called. But yeah, The Monster Club, which I think is an amicus. It's an anthology horror flick where Vincent Price is in the wraparound segments. He's a vampire who had just turned, I think it's John Carradine, I believe, he just turned him into a vampire, but he also invites him to the Monster Club and shows him.

what life is like as a monster and all the various different monsters. And it's a very sweet and campy and just overall fun time. And ever since I've seen it, I make it a priority to watch every few Halloweens or so. Because it's just so much fun. But, yep, that's all from Keith from South Louisiana. And hope you're all really doing well.

Love listening to the episodes again, getting back into the swing of listening to podcasts again, and it's been just awesome. So hope you all have a great day. Peace out. boom keith man it's so great to hear your voice man it's been awesome yeah very complimentary yeah keith's such a great guy man he's such a uh i have known him for good lord many many many many years he's a a devout listener from the original lotc and uh good good to hear your voice again brother and uh

Got to call back more, my friend. Yeah. All right, let's go to our next call. Hello, Creepers. This is Anthony. This is John Master General. And I suppose this... This shot right here. Got to go out to the big, beautiful, bearded birthday boy himself. Happy birthday to the Greg Immortus. Cheers. I made, you know what I made?

my own Jim Beam and honey. Well, there's no Jim Beam in it. It's bullet rye and honey, honey water, because I didn't have any, so it's a big old shot. So cheers, cheers, hugs and kisses. Cheers, boy. Oh, it's so smooth. Yeah. Vincent Price, baby. Vincent Price. I'm not an expert. I'm not an expert in Vincent Price, so I'm just going to sit back. I mean, my moniker, I guess, comes from the Witchfinder General, the Shotmaster General.

I don't even think that's the strongest film. I love The Last Man on Earth, Waxwork, The Fly, the classics. But I'm just going to sit back and I want some deep dive recommendations, which is what I'm going to do. I do want to shout out feedback. Flashback Friday. Flashback Friday. Do you know episode 12 of LOTC was a Vincent Price episode? It was the first time Dr. Shock.

Maybe 0010 could bring some evidence to the table to contradict this. But the first time Dr. Shock was ever on was a Vincent Price. So if you want to... Go back and listen to that. I just did. It's Leonard Creeps on blogspot.com. I don't know. When was this released? There were February.

of 2013 is when it's on the website. But there were 36, 36 episodes. It might have been a backlog dump. But go on there, get your stuff. If you're clamoring, if you're clamoring for Mr. Vincent Price, because for me... I mean, the first time I know of Vincent Price was in The Simpsons, I think, even before. He's a god. I knew who he was, but I believe he was large. And Lisa were looking for some parts of a toy, and he was like a voicemail, and it was great. But I love you all. I love...

Greg, I love Pearl, I love Bill, and Greg, and Dave, and all the Gregs. Just way too many Gregs. And everybody, everyone. Victoria killed it last episode. Everybody kills it always. You're all special. Give yourself some cuddles. All right, I'm going to go. Jesus, I'm going to go. Bye. What an amazing shout out. Thank you. And the shot that you created. I think that shot almost did him in.

I mean, it was fighting him. They don't usually fight on the way down, but that one was fighting him. Absolutely, man. I love that. Love, love, love. And so, Anthony, I hope you had a double shot for me after for my birthday.

yep yeah and what he's talking about if you do go over there and i mentioned it earlier about 2013 that episode would have released around 2011 originally but there was a a massive like 30 uh episode drop in february because that's when we left the planet macabre or not planet macabre but the uh

horror palace network and we had all our episodes over there so i had to bring them all to a regular site over here since we left that network so that's why there's a if you go and look at actual stamps of dates there's like an influx of episodes that come out at one time uh that's why because i uploaded them all at one time so 14 years that's crazy holy cow i still i still vaguely remember

That episode. I still remember parts of it. I do. Yeah. That's crazy. All right. Well, cool, Anthony. Appreciate that. Thanks for the flashback, brother. There you go. What, baby? I don't remember. or any of it. Oh, poor love. The true LOTC started when Pearl walked into life. I was going to say, I can't remember 14 days ago. Same, bro. Same. Let's go to our next caller. and oh here we go this one he had to call for this one there's and you'll know as soon as i cut it on why because you'll know

Hey, Land of the Creeps. This is Andrew. Really looking forward to the Vincent Price episode. I had planned on doing a Vincent Price marathon prior to calling, but... That didn't really work out, so I really don't have a whole lot more to add from what's already been said, but he's such a great actor, so many great movies. Some of my favorites, you know, House on Haunted Hill, House of Usher, The Comedy of Terrors. One that's not really horror, but Laura. I'm sure there's others that...

I cannot think of off the top of my head at the moment. But anyway, really looking forward to the episode and just wanted to give a shout out to the Unknown Caller. Lots of love for you, man. I'm so glad you're back. I'm sorry that you've had a rough time, but I hope things are on the open up for you. All righty, everybody. I will talk to you later. Bye.

That's awesome. Give him a shout-out, and I totally agree with the Unknown Caller. And you're also doing that to suck up so he doesn't come visit you in West Virginia, too. I know. I know, Andrew. Trust me, I know. It's great to hear from Andrew. I was just thinking about him the other day. He's like, we haven't heard from Andrew in a while.

I hope he's doing all right. Yeah, me too. I hope he's doing well and everything's on the up and up. Absolutely. And if you ever need to drop me a line, Andrew, go ahead. But I'm sure that everything's going well. And I am so glad he brought up Laura. Oh, yeah. Yeah, from 1944 with Gene Tierney. It's not horror. It's film noir. it's like a film noir if you want to see him in a strong non-horror role he's a secondary character in it but laura is a good film like on imdb it gets a 7.9

It's a good, I mean, Otto Preminger made some great movies, especially in them early days, and that is absolutely one of them. You know, it's funny, and it's 1944. And he was probably in his 30s. He looks to be about 50. He always looked mature. No, no, no, no. Vince. Oh, Vincent Price. Yes, you're right. You're right. He always did. He always looked so mature. He did. Yes, he did.

I love it. All right, well, Andrew called one more time. Let's get to his call. Hey, Land of the Creeps. This is Andrew calling again from the backwoods of good old West Virginia. I realized in my... previous voicemail. I really kind of just rushed through it and didn't really bring a whole lot to the table. So I wanted to call back and I watched.

Theater of Blood for the first time last night, and I really, really enjoyed it. I kind of feel bad because I have had it on Blu-ray for a couple of years now, and I just now got around to watching it. So, you know, a story of my life, but anywho, excuse me, really enjoyed that movie. You could really tell that Vincent Price was just having a blast with it. And I also wanted to mention a movie called Dragon Wake. I haven't seen it in a while.

But it's not really, I wouldn't really classify it as horror, but it's really gothic. It has some good gothic atmosphere, so I wanted to throw that out there as well. Anyway, I am, I'm starting... I need to hear some banjos playing, so I better paddle faster. But I love you all, and I can't wait for the episode. Ta-ta! Damn banjos. Who's I picking on a banjo? Yeah, right. Only I hear banjos playing. Thank you very much. In his back woods, is it the wrong turn? Yeah.

I mean, that's what I think of. And I've been to West Virginia. It's actually a beautiful country. It is. Yeah, it's beautiful. I drove through on to South Carolina. Oh, it's wonderful. Yeah, I like it there quite a bit. And I'm glad you got to, um, and Dragonwake, yeah, that, that's, uh, I have it, it's funny, I have it on a horror set.

But it is more gothic. It's not really a horror movie. And I'm glad you saw Theater of Blood. But come on. You have a Blu-ray you haven't watched. Who does that? Nobody, Dave. Everybody watches their movies, right? Oh, absolutely. Even if it takes them needing reincarnation to get it done, they're going to get through them. There you go.

Yeah, Dragonworks, a film, I actually watched the first half hour of it today, but I just got... in the middle of something and i so i still have an hour of it to go so i can't wait to see that it's it's it's like i said i have it on a horror set or like a three movie horror set from um

that was not universal. I'm not trying to remember the name of the studio, what studio put that out. I don't know if it was Paramount. I'm not sure, but, um, uh it's i don't know it is not i would agree with andrew that it's it's not really a horror i've heard it's more of a mystery yeah yeah mystery but yeah i look forward to that too because that would have been about the same time as laura early to mid 40s right

That kind of thing. All right, let's get to our next call. All right. All right, guys, this is Dr. Washington. Greg, I cannot believe you played my voicemail on the one episode where Unknown Caller was a guest. I listened very clearly. He said my name. He repeated my name. He said my name. So I am at the airport. I am at the Las Vegas airport right now. And I am leaving the country. This is absolutely true. I am out of here.

I can't put up with it anymore. It's too much stress. It's too dangerous. But, you know, as long as I got you on the line. 1991. 1991, yeah. Number five, Kate Sear. Number four, body parts. Number three, I'm going with it. I'm going with the French film Delicatessen. I'm calling it horror. I don't care what you guys think. Number two, Adam's family. I know it's funny, but it's macabre. It's gory. It's great.

And then number one is Sons of the Lambs, just like everybody else. I know. Some people say it's a thrill. I don't care. It's a horror. Anyway, those are my 91 picks. I don't care how late they are. I just got to get out of here. So I'll drop you a line or something. when I get to Europe or somewhere else, but don't think I'm telling you where I'm actually going because you can't be trusted.

I do know where he went, but I will not reveal on here. I know I've seen the post as well, but I will not reveal either. Does it happen to be Romania? It's probably in Transylvania. It could be Transylvania, but we're not quite sure. Let's see how far of a reach the unknown caller has. Can he get to the... The secluded areas of Eastern Europe. That's right. I was going to say, is he getting into Paul Nashy territory? Oh, could be. Hey, he's up to 91. He's catching up.

He's getting there. He's only six episodes behind. Way to go, Kyle. All right. Six episodes, either six months. We love you, Kyle. We do love Kyle. I do hope you have a wonderful trip wherever you're at. China. China, probably. Wherever you're at, my friend, I hope you have a great visit. Let's get to the top of those mountains in Nepal. Pearl, where do you think he's at? I don't know. Maybe...

Nantucket. Maybe. I don't know. Nantucket where they can tell you to what? Nantucket what? Nantucket Romania? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Nantucket, Romania. Unknown caller. That's where he's at. Let's go to his next call. See what he's got. Maybe he caught up. Maybe he's already caught up. Maybe if he was smart, he'd take some absinthe.

and just get through the ride. Hopefully he's not calling from Europe because he might be able to identify some of the sound effects in the background, some of the sounds in the background. We're getting into our crystal plumage situation here. Let's see. This is like blowout. He's probably going to record it and play it back with the sound down. Here we go. All right. It's still Dr. Walking Dead. I'm still in Vegas. But there is a guy.

There is a guy here in the D Terminal who is, he keeps watching me. He's like, he's pretending like he can't see me, but, I don't know, he's got sunglasses, that's really creepy. so i'm going to keep an eye on him but while i'm watching him uh 1992 1992 here we go number five 1992 uh candy man candy man candy man candy man candy man number four bram stoke's dracula

I don't know. It's kind of weak on the horror, but it's lush. It's romantic. It's got some problems, but we'll go with it. Number three. Number three, got to go with Army of Darkness. Again, kind of funny. There's a lot of comedies in the 90s. Anyway, Army of Darkness has some scares. It's really cool. Number two.

Aliens 3. You guys did great coverage on Aliens 3. I do think it's underappreciated. Great David Fincher works. Really nice. And then number one, of course, one of the greatest, most violent, most gory zombie movies ever made. Dead Alive. You know, that Peter Jackson doing it with the extra blood and the lawnmower. He's wearing a lawnmower, and you get that weird creature that's made out of somebody's organs and entrails. Ah, man, that's a scary movie.

All right, so I can't see him. I don't know if it's the UC, but he's acting really suspicious. So I'm about to get on this plane, and I hope to God this guy does not get on the same flight.

I'm not telling you where I'm going because I don't want to know where you're going. But I was a little abrupt last time. I'm feeling bad about it. So I do thank you guys for keeping horror alive. I do appreciate that. I think you should be a little more careful with the company you keep and the information you leak out. It could be a problem for us. Oh, yeah, and then I'm supposed to say, Merry Christmas, Dave. Merry Christmas, Dave.

Oh, my God. This is classic. He sounds like a desperate man. He's getting all these lists in because he's genuinely... Genuinely nervous. Now, does that give a clue as to where he might be? Maybe. I don't know. Is he going somewhere where the mafia might be watching? He's probably in Vegas flying to Boston. He's probably going to Boston. That's where he's going.

Another country. It is like a foreign country, Boston. Sorry, Chris Martoli. You know I love you, brother. And I was only being sarcastic. I love Boston as well. I love Boston, just not the Bruins. Fuck them. Yeah, there you go. All right, here we go with, let's go to G-Ray. Hey, Creepers, it's G-Reg calling in about the Vincent Price tribute episode. What a great call. And, yeah, right on time with his birthday. It was just last week, I think. Yep, just last week.

Yeah, what can be said about him? I'm sure everything has been said about him. He's like the coolest without being, you know, like intentionally cool. I don't know how to say it. He's just kind of that effort was cool, you know. And, yeah, just throwing out some, I guess my favorite five for me anyway, I'd say The Last Man on Earth. I really liked some Richard Matheson adaptations, and that is one of the greats of that.

uh you know that author's adaptations uh just done with a low budget but just like and it's so much vincent it is so much of just him and he really carries it on those uh on those shoulders of his uh he does a great job and it just keeps you engaged. So that is a good one, and you can watch that for free all over the place. I think it's out of print or whatever, out of, what is the thing? Copyright.

public domain so uh yeah check that out if you haven't seen it uh dead heat dead heat is just such an underrated bizarre bonkers freaking movie and uh it's one of vincent's last roles later roles at least And he's so good in that. And like they just underrated movie. And, you know, R.I.P. Treat Williams as well as one of the stars of that movie. And I'd say Witchfinder General.

It's really, really good as a sadistic witch hunter, Matthew Hopkins, I believe, based on a true life story. And I really enjoy that one. It just kind of has that classic English. you know satanic panic kind of feel to it from back in the i guess wasn't it the 70s 70s i guess movie um and theater of blood another another uh 70s ish kind of movie that

Maybe it was early 80s. Man, sorry I didn't do a whole lot of research. But Theater's Blood, love it. Love it. So good with all the Shakespeare riffs and a lot of humor in that one. It's kind of similar to the Dr. Fibes movies. But, yeah, check that one out. I'm sure everybody on the panel has seen it. I love it. And The Haunted Palace, speaking of literary adaptations, got to give a shout-out to H.P. Lovecraft.

loose adaptation kind of of the case of Charles Dexter Ward with Vincent Price playing the dual role of Joseph Kerwin and his ancestor Charles Dexter Ward. and uh oops i don't know about throwing out too many spoilers there but that was one of the aip movies and they tried to make it out like it was based on a poe poem which vaguely sort of but not really uh it's more of a

Oh, and he got cut off, man, right in the middle of that. And we had a good time. I got to say this. Pearl and I, my son came in for the weekend for my birthday. Stayed for about four days. Had a great time with my son, right? And we were meeting him at the mall, and we stopped in. Pearl calls it the shit store, but it's Sheetz, which is a gas station. Yes, and we have them here, too. Yeah, so she calls it the shit store. That's the shit store. Well, that's what it gives you when you eat.

But I'm literally in there trying to find her a drink because we're going to eat at the food court in the mall and... Put a long story short, we buy our own drinks and then buy a fountain drink there because we run out of drinks and blah, blah, blah, blah. But anyways, I'm trying to find her drink. I'm looking all in there. I cannot find the...

freaking drink that she wants anywhere i'm back and forth back and forth back and forth i was sitting back a little bit from the cooler and somebody opens the door in front of me and they're reaching there get a drink and i'm looking at them like hmm and then i look down see the tattoo on the leg i'm like G-Rig? He turns around. Well, hey, Greg. I've seen you at the shit store. But it's always cool to see G-Rig, man, out in the wild. Was he getting a coffee?

Or just getting gas. He was getting a drink and getting him a burrito. I'm sorry, Jerry. I'll talk about you. So, yeah, he was getting gas. He was getting gas. Burrito gas. But it was good meeting him, man. I always loved meeting G-Rag. I'm so glad he brought up Haunted Palace. Yeah, that's one that did not get mentioned yet. No, I hadn't seen it in ages, and I watched it. It is really strong.

It is good, yeah. The Haunted Palace almost snuck into number five. It's a nice little gothic kind of, and it's nice seeing Lon Chaney Jr. in a smaller role. About a creepy house and eyes in pictures. Oh, it's a neat little film. If you've ever seen Haunted Palace. And again, I don't think Vincent Price was ever in a film that was more than 90 minutes. True. Like maybe 95? Maybe, yeah.

Well, I did watch, well, we'll get to that. I mean, unless Edward Scissorhands. The ones that were not horror, I mean, he was in the Ten Commandments, which runs over two nights around Easter or something. But, you know, other than that, you're right, as far as, like, his horror output.

most of them are right around that like 80 to 90 minute mark and in 10 commandments what was he just one of those oh he was not he had a small part he was like he was like one of the slave like he was um with the guy with the whip And he ends up getting into a fight with, you know, Charlton Heston and that. It's one of those things, if you're not looking for him, you might miss him.

Right. Yeah, it was not a big one. I mean, he had a couple scenes, but you're just like, hey, that's Vincent Price. It's not worth watching a four-and-a-half-hour movie to find 10 minutes with him. No, you're not going to watch a four-hour movie for Vincent Price. prices you know five five and a half minutes of screen time over the course of four scenes or something you know let's go to uh greg's last call here hey grievers it's call two uh from greg

And, yeah, more about the Vincent Price episode. I'm really stoked to hear what you guys have to say. He really had a great run with the AIT, Roger Corman stuff. uh that they made and uh yeah that's i think i have a lot of folks i've introduced along with you know house of wax and and some of those other uh oldies but I tried to find this. There's a short called Vincent that I think is like eight or 11 minutes that Tim Burton made sort of.

freelancing but he got Disney to pick it up but I can't find it on Disney Plus I'm not sure where you would find it Vincent from 1982 which Vincent Price found this quote on the internet He said it was the most gratifying thing that has ever happened. It was immortality. Better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard. I'm interested in finding that. I don't know if anybody's seen that Tim Burton animated short called Vincent.

uh let's see some other kind of multimedia stuff that he was that he did uh alice cooper has given some shout outs to vincent price over the years uh there's a song called black widow uh on the welcome to my nightmare album that has uh vincent doing some spoken word pieces and also he wrote a song called the last man on earth alice cooper did that is that's on one of the later albums i can't remember i think it's called uh welcome to like the number two welcome to my nightmare

uh came out a few years ago and that's a really fun one it's got like sort of a sort of a cabaret sound to it with an accordion uh not what you usually think about from alice guber but it's pretty fun and he's thinking about being the last man on earth and uh how much fun he would have because he doesn't miss humanity and that kind of thing. Pretty good, pretty nihilistic, but still a fun movie, a fun song sort of based on that movie, The Last Man on Earth.

All right, and there was an obscure band I got to see once or twice out of, I think, Virginia Beach or Richmond called Ultrabate.

and they were so good and they had a uh i had a cd of theirs i cannot find it anymore i had a song called vincent you know that how the singer had the hots for vincent price and like the idea of getting uh getting tied up and uh made a play thing by mr price anyway neat song uh anyway if anybody can find that good luck all right hey i'll go and hope you guys are having a good show and keeping horror alive bye everybody

Oh, happy birthday, Brian Scott and Bill the Butcher and, of course, Greg Amortis. How do you turn this? That's funny. You know what? First off, that song he mentioned about the band leader wanted to be tied up. All of a sudden I can hear Vincent Price saying, bring out the gimp. But when he was talking about that short film, you know, Vincent.

Yeah, I found it on YouTube and I went ahead and sent it to him. Yeah, well, I'm sure it's on YouTube. I'm sure it's out there. But anybody who has either the DVD or the... Blu-ray of A Nightmare Before Christmas.

It's one of the special features on one of the releases of those, depending on which release you have. It is one of the special features on there as well. And it's great. I mean, my brother is not into horror, but he does... love edgar allen poe he's read all of the poe stuff you know like he has an entire collection of the works of edgar allen poe he's read it a couple times he

says that that short film, Vincent, is one of the greatest things he's ever seen. And it is just, it's like stop motion animation. And it is all about a little kid named Vincent Malloy. who thinks he's Vincent Price. I'm not going to say anything more. Definitely check it out. And it is Vincent Price narrating it. And it's very quick.

easy watch and it's absolutely worth your time to see it nice i mean the other thing i was going to do with the music tie-in was iron maiden was going to use him for the intro to i think it's two minutes to midnight and uh I don't know if it turned out he wasn't available or they couldn't afford him or whatever. So they got a sound alike and he does the intro to the song. Nice. Alrighty, let's go to next color.

All right, land of the creeps. It's Greg from Ohio, and yes, we're talking all things Vincent Price. Oh, I mean, he's just one of those actors. You just see him on the screen, and you know that you're going to have something that's intense. He carried so much intensity in his eyes and in his mannerisms and in his voice. I know you covered his very elaborate... history he had such a such an amazing uh when he first started acting and before acting and just he was like a renaissance man he just

could do everything and anything that he put his mind to. Such a cool person. Vincent Price is one of those actors that I really remember all the way from when I was just in grade school. He was one of those individuals that when you were reading about the horror movies of the 50s and the 60s, his name was prevalent with everything. And he just, you know, he just...

screamed creepiness, only to be boosted when Michael Jackson's Thriller came out. I mean, it's such a great voice role for Vincent Price. And, of course, at that time, I wanted to know everything that I possibly could. And I remember seeing The Fly and The House of Wax. Red Death, Last Man on Earth. I'm pretty sure that's the title. I'm going off cuff here. Like I, you know, typical...

from the 70s, so I'm horrible. I will make that maybe a conscious effort this October to have a nice little Vincent Price retrospective. I think that sounds kind of like a grand idea. I'm going to do that. But it's just, he's such a, such a, I can't wait to hear this episode because you guys are going to fill my head full of all kinds of good stuff.

I, you know, I have no shame. So I teared up in Edward Scissorhands when he died. I just, he has that personal connection. And so can't wait to hear the episode. And we'll talk to you later. I just realized, and he's bringing up that final scene, or that scene, Vincent Price's last scene in Edward Scissorhands where he dies, and that being his last movie.

With him dying on screen. I remember John Wayne also had that. And it's a spoiler for the movie. So if you don't want to have it spoiled. But it's a western from 1976. It's called The Shootist. um and the same thing sort of happens to because in throughout the movie john wayne's finds out he is dying. And, of course, John Wayne was dying when he made The Shootist. And he has a similar thing happen on screen, and it's just very poignant.

when you see a character die on screen and know that that is their last movie they will ever make. Yeah. It does add a poignancy to it. Wasn't Vince's last role, he did like a voice in a kid's movie or something? I'm talking like on screen. On screen, yeah. On screen, yeah. But I think he did a couple voice. He may have. He may have done that. Yeah. Yeah. But you are right. It's his last screen rolling. You know what? I have a question for Greg Bench. I want to know because I'm curious.

Not just from the last call but this call. Tell us, how did you get away from the unknown caller? I would like to know. Good point. Because maybe people need to know. Has anybody ever seen Greg Bench and the Unknown Caller together in a room at the same time? Ooh, another good point. Never have. I've seen Greg Bench. Does Greg Bench wear glasses, and when he takes them off, he looks like the unknown caller? Well, we haven't.

actually eaten with greg bitch in a restaurant so we know exactly i'm just thinking that superman you know that that whole superman mystique where there's a oh there's clark kent and then glasses come off oh my god it's superman Look, nothing like him with those glasses on. Not at all. What's it that scene from Cheers where he goes to Jeopardy? Who is someone who has never been in my kitchen? Yes, right, the Cliff one. Yeah. I love it.

Yeah, that was a good, that was probably one of the better, well, not all the Cheers episodes are great, but that's one of the better Cliff Clavin episodes. Hell yeah. You don't need to look. No, no, no, just keep going. Well, let's go to Victoria. Hey, my name is Victoria. I'm calling in for the Fence of Price episode. I'm just going to get quick.

Top five. I'll do a couple honorable mentions. The Comedy of Terrors from 1963. That was a fun watch. And then... I actually went back and forth a little bit with some movies that I decided, and then I thought about which ones would I actually just want to watch again and which ones that I just have fun watching. So the other honorable mentions out of the ones I watched was The Last Man on Earth from 1964. Okay, so my top five. Number five is The Raven.

I was actually surprised. I just had a fun time watching this movie. It went a very different direction than what I thought it was going to do. I just enjoyed the movie. Number four, the oblong box. That was a fun one. That was maybe not fun, but at times a little tense, a little anxiety-written. Good watch.

Number three is House on Haunted Hill, classic. Number two is Theater of Blood, Vincent Price, just, you know, being a little eccentric and being fun. And then number one... I know I've mentioned this movie before, and I've said that when I talk about it, I have a little trouble pronouncing it because of a speech impediment I had as a kid, so it takes me a...

an extra second to do it, but the Abominable Dr. Fides. That's my number one. Anyway, I just wanted to call in real quick. Hope everyone is having... A good day, and I'll talk to you all later. Bye. You know what? Don't feel bad about it. I can't even say it at all. I try to say it. I can't even say it at all. It's like saying aluminum. I have to say it slow because I can't say aluminum. Or Worcestershire sauce. Screw that. That ain't even a word, dude. Screw Worcestershire.

Fuck that word. Sideways two different times. Right, Dave? in one ear and a half the other. I'm so glad she brought up the Oblong Box. Yeah, that's... Did that get mentioned before? I'm not sure. No, I don't think so. No, okay, yeah. That's a good one as well, yeah. Yeah, because I've been...

I like, I chat with her a lot because as I say, she's usually a step ahead of me, but she'll send me a message and say, have you seen this? She knew I liked price and what are some that you can listen to and stuff. And I did mention the oblong box and it's be very wary of what's up in the attic. that's all i'll say i always thought that was the last of the poe ones but which one was after this one i didn't even know the oblong box was a was a was one of the poe ones yeah

Well, okay. According to AIP, it is. Does it mean that it is? No, yeah, probably not. But he does get a writing credit. Now, if he gets a writing credit on this, does the family get residuals? That's a good question. I don't know if there's any member of the Poe family left to collect. Right. i'm thinking by this point they've all gone into public domain so i don't you know i don't know that anybody could could collect any residual but what's the public domain thing because i know like

Dracula and Frankenstein are still covered by the original rights holders. I don't know how many years it takes. I'm not 100% sure of how that works. Yeah, you're right. I mean, as far as I know, the Stoker estate still has something with it. Like Frankenstein and Dracula, you will never ever. find on youtube or the black underground sites right but but it can't be any older than mickey mouse

Right. Now that's true. How is that? I don't understand. And Walt Disney is as powerful a figure as there is out there. But the only Mickey Mouse that crossed the public domain is the Steamboat Mickey. But eventually they all will. Eventually they all will. Eventually at some point they all will. Just like with Winnie the Pooh. It's only the story version. It's not the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh. No. It's only the story.

I mean, you know, anybody who's a lawyer out there, let me know. But copyright doesn't give it to you in perpetuity. Yeah, I don't know how, because you're right, because sometimes there are... you know there's patents that come up and and things that you know with with the copyright what how long is that's a good that's a good question

I always thought it was like 50 years. I think it gets to a point where maybe what it is is that it's just not profitable to keep the copyright going so they let it go. I don't know. I honestly don't know. Because like Universal probably still makes money off Frankenstein.

oh sure they absolutely do with all the with all the releases that they're doing yeah but uh but i don't even know if that matters though that might not matter i'm not real i'm not real uh uh up on that so if we have any legal listeners please let us know Absolutely. Let's go to our next caller. Hello, Creepers. This is Mike Stanislowski calling in for the Vincent Price episode. And I want to wish...

Greg and Bill a happy birthday and say hello to Dave and Pearl of course So I have been a huge fan of Vincent Price ever since I was a kid

It's really hard for me to pick a favorite Vincent Price movie, but it would probably have to be The House on Haunted Hill. I think it's the quintessential Vincent Price role. I also... I would recommend for people, if you haven't seen it, to check out Witchfinder General because it's a rare case of Vincent Price not doing his Vincent Price schtick, but really playing a character.

and a very dark, evil one at that. My favorite Vincent Price moment on film, though, is the speech that he gives in the movie The Monster Club.

It's an anthology film, but Vincent Price and John Carradine are in the wraparound. At one point, Vincent Price tells John Carradine that he wants to induct him into their monster club, but Carradine... objects because he says that i'm not a monster i'm a human to which vincent price replies nonsense you're the greatest monster of them all and he launches into this almost

Shakespearean soliloquy about how over the centuries that humans have devised various devious ways of exterminating other human beings, that we are our own worst enemy. And it's very comical, but it's also true at the same time. Vincent Price is just eating it up. You can tell that he thought, oh, I can really do something with this material.

It's really kind of customized to his strengths. The other Vincent Price things that I want to mention that people may not be aware of, when I was a child, I had this record I got from the library. entitled A Porn Book for Witches, Poems and Stories for Halloween. And Vincent Price narrates it. There's a great story in there called Thus I Refute. Beasley, which is kind of, you know, predates a short story that predates like The Omen and Bad Seed and stuff like that.

Highly recommended. The other thing I will recommend to people is the BBC. No! The BBC what? What? BBC. Mike! Oh, I'm sure hoping he called back. Let's see. He did. Let's see what he says. Okay. Hello, creepers. This is Mike Stanislavski calling back for the Vincent Price episode. I should have figured that I couldn't. do it in one phone call talking about Vincent Price because I love Vincent Price. So the last thing that I was going to recommend to people to check out is a radio drama.

series produced by BBC I think between 1973 and 1983 these are you know like sort of old-time radio stories but Vincent Price not only narrates but appears to varying extent as a character within the story, which makes it a lot of fun if you are as big a fan of Vincent Price as I am. And those episodes, you can find them on Spotify. You can find them on YouTube. You can find them everywhere. And same with the other record, audio thing that I recommended, the record.

uh horn books for witches um you can find that on on youtube and internet archive and various places so I'm going to leave it at that, but I am so looking forward to listening to a whole episode talking about Vincent Price. And as always, thanks for keeping horror alive. Awesome. Love it, Mike Stanislavski. That's awesome. And John Carradine was in this movie in 1971. I think he only had another 350 film appearances after that. That ain't exaggeration either.

That's probably true. I think he flipped from Monster Club to The Howling. They probably were on the scene. Probably. Thanks for the call, Mike, though. You know, calling in and being a lover of... Mr. Price. And he could deliver those monologues too. I mean, you look at an evening with Edgar Allan Poe, that's what that is. The whole thing is a monologue.

and he does such a great job of telling those stories you know just at the telltale heart is the one that really gets me that first one he does it so well and he does all of them well but that one is best it just really gets me because of of how good a job he does at telling those. And so, yeah, he was great at those long speeches and monologues.

nice all right thank you michael for calling me in and uh let's go to our next one what's up creeps this is coleman from texas uh it's been a long time since i got to call in

And I'm sorry about that. We had a little baby girl last year. Oh, nice. And I'm actually a father of three. I was blessed to get my... first kids in my life when i was they were five and six years old but this one uh i get the privilege of being there from the beginning so it's uh it's definitely eating into my movie time and phone calling time so

That's why I'm stumbling over my words. I'm a little rusty. But I could not call about Vincent Price. I think I'm actually late, and if I am, that's fine. You can throw this away or whatever, but it's still good to talk to you all. Man, obviously, like, I'll say what everyone's probably going to say a million times tonight is the dude had, like, the coolest voice ever. And I've heard that voice since far back as I can remember because he was...

Professor Radigan in The Great Mouse Detective. I was born in the mid-80s, and that's one of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid and watching over and over, and he was Vincent Van Gogh and Scooby-Doo. That's where it started before I even knew who he was. Also, if you haven't seen Tim Burton's short film, Vincent, that Vincent Price actually narrates, you have to watch that. It's like my favorite short film of all time.

Other than that, I just want to give love to the guy. I'm a super fan. Me and my son, he just graduated high school. I don't know, about eight to ten years ago, Victoria Price, Vincent Price's daughter, was given this presentation in Austin, like an hour-long thing about her dad, and it was at the horror movie.

wax museum that they have there and that was really cool and I took my son and he was the youngest one in the crowd Ethan and Miss Victoria Price like asked him in front of everyone what his favorite movie was and uh he said the fly so that was that was a cool experience and i just remember him being like so happy to meet her and she told him that at the end of that movie like whenever the fly is saying help me and he's stuck in the web that

Benson Price actually thought it was, like, so ridiculous that you can actually kind of see, like, a grin on his face, like he couldn't keep a straight face. So, of course, we went home and looked out for that, and you can see it. So that's pretty cool. I also got this...

This is really this horror collector guy that lives close to my town. He's always like, he has this horror room. It's awesome. And he's always like selling stuff around Halloween to make room for new stuff. And I got this, it's an old board game. actually a hangman board game like i guess i haven't actually opened it or played it i got it last october but i guess like the hangman game where you get

And he got cut off right in the middle of the hangman game. And I remember that. Yeah, it's against the words. Yeah. Let's see what he called back in. Let's see what he said about the hangman. Anyways, it's Coleman again. You knew I was going to get bent since my first time back. But I was just saying that I have this old board game called Hangman that has Vincent Price on it. And the last thing I was going to say before I named a few movies was...

I own a lot of his Blu-rays and anything I can get my hands on. There's actually still some movies that I haven't watched of his. I keep it that way on purpose because it gives me something to look forward to one Halloween season. So I'm weird like that.

Always try to do 31 movies in October. I know a lot of people do something like that in Land of the Creeps, and it's never complete without some Vincent Price, that's for sure. So I'm sure that all is... movies have been mentioned but uh i would just say the fly obviously um and house of wax the tingler is classic just great stuff and uh

For me, if I had to pick one that I'd recommend to someone if they haven't seen any, I would say Theater of Blood. It's just super fun. And comedy upstairs, good honorable mention. Anyway, that's it. Thanks for taking my call. Hope it's not too late. And if it is, that's all right. Just want y'all to know I love y'all. Keep it spooky. And God bless Vinny P.

I love it. Love it. Cole McCollum here from Texas. Yeah, great to hear from you again. It's awesome, Cole. And good luck with the young daughter. Yes.

I think all of us on this panel here have raised a young one, and God bless you, and you're not getting any sleep for the next three years. Exactly. Thanks for finding the time to call. Yeah, exactly. It might be a nice... mental reprieve right but you'll be up at three in the morning so you might as well watch a horror film that's right and that hangman game is is is pretty cool to have and and definitely hold on to it because the only other thing out there is is are those

Creepy ass apple heads shrunken that Price was peddling. Oh, no, no. You could probably find a Vincent Price cookbook somewhere. Oh, yeah, Vincent Price cookbook would be good, but don't make any of the apples. No, leave the apples alone. We've got a handful of calls left. Let's get to this one. Scream! Scream for your life!

unknown caller oh no vincent price well this could be a 10 hour podcast maybe 20 i wanted to mention a couple things about vincent price that i really appreciate the fact that Later in his career, he would do a movie in a country just to go eat the food. He was obsessed with food. His cookbook is amazing. He even had a cooking show for a while. He was truly a raconteur. He was an awesome dude.

I think there's so much depth to him that we don't know about. It made me just sit down with him and have a dinner and just kind of pick his brain over what he thought about Hollywood, what he thought about movies, and especially what he thought about food.

So I love the man. I will call back and talk about the movie I want to talk about. I'm not going to do a top five. I'm sure everyone's got plenty of things to say about top fives. I just want to talk about one little gem that I found on YouTube. So I love you guys. Thanks for keeping horror live. And I will call back shortly. Bye. Hello. Let's get to his last. Let's see what he come back with. All right. Unknown caller.

So I want to talk about a 1950 movie called Champagne for Caesar. It's not horror. It is a comedy. And Vincent Price is fantastic. He plays a soap company owner. by the name of Burn Bridge Waters, which is a great play on words, Burn Bridge Waters. There's a game show element to this movie. Ronald Coleman is the main character, Beauregard Bottomley.

He's a man who knows everything. He tries to get hired by Vincent Price. Vincent Price does not want him. He doesn't like his braininess. So Beauregard decides to go on the game show that's affiliated with the soap company and basically take them for all their money. As the movie goes on, there's a little bit of hijinks. I would call this a slapstick comedy, a very mild one. It didn't do very well in the box office, but I think it's fantastic. Watching Vincent Price freak out in numerous scenes.

in a comedic way, is really cool. And then when you find out what the Champagne for Caesar means, that's just gold at the end of the movie. So if you haven't seen it, it's called Champagne for Caesar from 1950. There's a really good print of it on YouTube. I don't want to ruin any more for you guys, but I would suggest if you like black and white, if you like screwball comedies, please check out this movie. And this has all been sponsored by Milady Soap.

Also, Art Linklater's in it, and he's great. He plays the host of the game show. His name is Happy Hogan. What a fun, cute, silly movie. Something that if you are a Vincent file... you should check out just to see his acting in it. He's not in the majority of the movie, but he does pop in back and forth, and it's super, super fun. Love you guys. Can't wait to hear what everybody else says, and I will talk to you soon.

Stab you later. Bye. Man, that dude is so creepy, but I love him. I hope you enjoyed, listeners. He was on Mortis Vision with the Mortises on the Friday episode, and we talked. Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass was a lot of fun. Great, great. Great dude, man, for sure. I love that he brought up some of his back catalog, you know, the film noir, the goofy films, the comedies of the 40s. That's the end of Vince Carter. Holy shit.

Vincent Price. Because he's got a whole... ton of movies that you just haven't gotten to and a lot of people get turned off on because the 30s and 40s they're dark and black and white kind of but i really want to get into those because it builds up to who we became in the 50s and 60s that's right so there's a whole bunch if you type it in like i'm gonna start with dragon wick and just work my way back yeah all right so we got like four calls left so let's get to uh let's go to ian urza

Hey, Land of the Creeps, it's Ian Erza sending in a voice recording for the Vincent Price episode. And when it comes to Vincent Price, I just associate him with like the classic horror kings, right? Like with your Boris. Karloff's, your Bela Lugosi's, Lon Chaney's, John Carradine's of the world, and just kind of like...

Carradine. Vincent Price got some work at the end of the early 40s in that Universal Monster era. I know he played, I think, the Invisible Man in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. But... I think he's most remembered for the 1950s portion of his career. He kind of continued that horror lineage into the 1950s when Karloff and Legosi were, you know...

I'd say a little bit semi-retired at that point. But what's interesting to me about Vincent Price, and you could say this about most of your classic horror kings too, is that he committed to every role he was in, whether it's, you know, in the... fly or

you know mask of the red death any of those movies uh house on haunted hill being one of my favorites and he worked a lot with william castle and roger corman he's sort of the guy you think of when you think of those directors and their movies and i need to watch more of the roger corman movies because i actually haven't seen that many um i need to sort of bulk up on that uh just to

Just to say that I've seen them and I know I'm going to enjoy them because I love the aesthetic of those 50s and 60s horror films a lot, especially the ones in color. I think that they're usually just a joy and a wonder to watch because of whatever they did, the technoscope or the technicolor. always helped those movies a lot.

You know, I don't know if I have a favorite Vincent Price movie. I mean, The Fly, even though he's not necessarily the main part of it, is one of my favorites. The Mask of the Red Death is amazing. House on Haunted Hill is great. I definitely need to go back and watch that again. I don't even remember if I watched the color.

eyes version of the black and white version first i actually wondered uh which version do you guys like more uh for that movie and then of course you had the last man on earth i really enjoyed that movie as well and you know even up to later in his career when he was doing

small parts in movies like Edward Scissorhands. He was always around Hollywood for most of his whole career and just kind of kept going. And that's also something to admire about him. But I do need to watch more of his stuff because I... I enjoy his performances and everything. And then, you know, he goes and does Witchfinder General in the late 60s, I think. And that showed people, oh, you can actually play like a sort of more serious menacing role in a more...

serious movie. Not that the other movies weren't serious, but I think you know what I mean. Critics would say, oh, Witch Rider General is a more serious role for Vincent Price, just like Targus was a more serious role for Boris Karloff. And it's like, oh, he's not just doing your sword. of B horror movie that you'd expect them to be in, which is what people and critics who aren't necessarily familiar would probably call something like that.

Anyway, I hope there's a ton of good movie suggestions on this, and I hope the episode goes well. And as always, thanks for letting us send our recordings into the show.

bam you ain't coming in hot nice very cool yeah i think that was our first mention of the fly it was i think the fly was mentioned well i know pearl brought it up with the trivia that's right they couldn't stop laughing yeah yeah um but uh yeah it it might be and and vincent price plays a supporting character in that but it's you know It's forever tied to him.

i mean he doesn't he doesn't he's not even in the majority of the movie but it's it's just tied to vincent price and rightly so and i've not seen the colorized version of house on hornet hill i just don't want to yeah You know, I love it so much in black and white, and I think the black and white really fits that, that I'm not really interested in seeing the color. So with that said, I can't really comment. I can't really say.

Um, I know what I prefer, put it that way. I can't say what's better, but I know what I prefer. But Ian, if you haven't seen the, a lot of the Poe ones, you're going to really enjoy it. Dig in, because I mean, some are slightly better than others, but... It's like, pick your taste. Would you rather watch Massacre of Death? Would you rather watch Pit the Pendulum? Would you rather watch The Oblong Box? They're all unique to each of its own.

The other thing I wanted to say was the Massacre Red Death has one of the coolest posters. For the longest time, it was the background of my computer. The little detail in the face. I really like the poster that they came up with for House on Hornet Hill, too. It's really macabre. I mean, for the late 50s. Kind of spooky. Yeah. I agree.

All righty, well, let's see. We've got three calls left. This one will go to Brian Scott, who says, Nintendo Power Magazines for life, L-O-T-C for life. And he said, I think I broke my record of 30 seconds. voicemail lol he sent me a text i think this afternoon he goes bill you'd be so proud of me i think i got under 30 seconds let's see what he's got hey guys brian scott horror movie fan boy here

I got very little knowledge of Vincent Price movies. I have seen some, like his last appearance, I think, maybe, in Scissorhands and Good There, Monster Club in the 80s. I think that was the name of it. That was actually a pretty cool idea for a movie. And I did really like him in the old House on the Hill movie. He always had such a cool, suave demeanor about him. Great actor.

L-O-T-C for life. 31 seconds, Brian Scott. Oh, he didn't quite do it. Brian, next time he caught him on his one less sentence. He's going to be calling Brian Scott. L-O-T-C for life. If you had just said B-Scott, you would have been under. B-Scott L-O-T-C. Out. Yep, that would have shaved off two seconds. That's right. And... Happy late birthday again there, Brian Scott. My birthday brother. Way to go, buddy. I'll be texting you later tonight.

That's absolutely right. Well, we got two more calls left. So first one up, I think we'll go to Gary Hill. So let's go to Gary and see what he's got for the show. Hello, Land of the Creeps. This is Gary. calling in about, or chiming in, if you will, about your Vincent Price episode. I'm not sure if it was Vincent Price specific. Dave didn't really mention that, so I'm going to speak from the old Corazon on this one.

You know, I could appreciate the man's whole career, really. Because he's a guy who could be funny. He could be spooky. He could be sarcastic. He could... A whole run of the gamut there. A whole spectrum. of emotions coming out of Vincent Price in any given role. And there's Dutchess talking. The cat, my mother co-host. Speaking of which, one of my favorite Vincent Price films is The Tomb of Ligeia.

which is Roger Corman's favorite Poe adaptation. What can you love about a freaking guy whose wife dies? And she's such a shrewd that her spirit comes back inside of the cat that she has and just terrorizes Vincent Price. I think a couple of the Vincent Price films that I love involve Cats, one of which is, I think, one of his best of all time. And it's not even a horror film. It's a take on Birkenhaer.

Him, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Rhubarb the Cat in The Comedy of Terrors. It's a movie about crooked undertakers who... who freaking try to kill a rich guy, but the rich guy keeps coming back to life again, so they're unsuccessful at it. And there's a lot of physical comedy in there, like them trying to poison each other.

It's just hilarious. It's one to watch if you haven't watched it. I think it comes along in those two packs with that and The Raven. The Raven I find kind of dull, but Comedy of Terror is... Freaking solid gold. I recommend it any day of the week. Of course, the other Poe adaptations are great. Mask of the Red Death. Pit in the pendulum. This cat's not going to leave me alone. Much like Vincent Price's wife in that movie. Non-po adaptations. Dr. Fives is wonderful.

For all the right reasons, I love his freaking mechanical band in that movie. It's just so outrageous, and so is the premise of the film, and everything. Theater, blood. one of the all-time favorites the tingler the tingler is loose in the theater mr william castle with his buzzers in the seats i love i love the gimmick thing I mentioned on my Joe Dante call how much I love Matinee. That's where the whole gimmick thing comes from. Man, there's so much. So much that he's done.

even the dumb shit i love dr goldfoot and the bikini machine and dr goldfoot and the girl bombs are ridiculous films about him making robots that are beautiful, and then the second one, him making robots to replace world leaders and just making them assassins and him being Vincent Price all about it.

First I was introduced to him, like most kids my age, Michael Jackson's Thriller. And I'll still turn it off on the radio because a lot of the times you don't want to have his part in there, his little... There's a little bit towards the end there. And his laugh. His laugh is infectious. And oh my gosh. Again, you go to emotions again. He's the reason why I have to watch Edward Scissorhands by myself. Because there's the point, and we all know the point, to where he...

gives Edward the cookie heart that, you know, is symbolic to the heart that he's going to give him. But if you watch the film, he's not alive to give it to him, and this is where Gary gets sad. Okay? And he's a big part of that. His performance, his whimsy, and his relationship with this thing that he created.

Again, not whore. It's hard for me to talk about whore in performance of Price because it's so effortless with him as far as like, hey, I'm not just trying to be spooky here. I'm just being Vincent. And it's wonderful. And he's given so, so much, not only with films, but also... World-class chef. He was a big foodie who traveled looking for recipes. You can go buy his book right now. I bought it as a gift for Suzanne, my co-host. Different recipes that he has collected and put them in a book.

I think it's called Cooking with Vincent Price. If you're a foodie and you want to cook, go check it out. But, yeah, Treasure, wonderful comedy of terrors. If you haven't seen that yet, he... Again, my all-time favorite. Just go check it out. Speaks for itself. And by the way, guys, I wasn't on the 93 show. And I'll reiterate this to everybody. Land of the Creeps, they made it, you know, an environment in the group and within the podcast that we're all family here, okay?

I had some health problems. I won't go too far into detail, but if you guys want to know some details, feel free to contact me. But, you know... So next time guys if if I if I you know, I'm not able to be there You know tell the family you know why it's fine. You know, it's nothing embarrassing. It's just a The old body don't men like it used to And good things films live on. Like Vincent Price films. They're pure good. Thanks again, Pearl, Dave, Greg, and sometimes Bill.

You magnificent bastard, Bill. Thank you for keeping horror alive. Bye-bye now. Alrighty, there we go, Mr. Gary Heel. First of all, great call. And second of all, Please take care of yourself and feel better, brother. I totally get it, brother. We're thinking about you, and we'll definitely have you on the show. We'll get you on sometime. We'll get you on again.

problem texting you and talking you know that but i don't want to talk about medical maladies if i'm talking yeah that's right that's right but that's cool but the one thing uh gary did bring up is i haven't seen any of those 1960s bikini films I don't know if you guys have seen any of those. Are you talking like the beach blanket bingo? I've seen a few. I've seen a few of them. You know, they're fun. entertaining enough um you know one kind of runs into the other i don't remember which was

Beach Party, which is beach blanket bingo. You know, they kind of... Muscle Beach Party is one I remember because Don Rickles is in that one, and so is Maury Amsterdam. I just kind of figured that Vincent was hanging out at the Playboy Mansion. stumbled onto a movie shoot yeah maybe maybe oh and Muscle Beach Party also has a young I want to say 13 or 14 year old singer named Little Stevie Wonder oh which is pretty cool to see fingertips To see a teenage Stevie Wonder. Wow. That would be cool.

All right there, Gary. Appreciate you calling in, dude, as always, man. Appreciate that. All right, we've got one more call left, and we saved it for Greg P. and Amy Lee. So let's go to the call. There's lots of boring pictures for the two of us. He used to shine as Frankenstein and I was the fly. They forced us to die every time to pay for the crime. They killed the two of us, but we'll be always traveling on. No idea. No idea? Okay. This is your gruesome toothon.

Coming to you for the Vincent Price episode. Why are you smiling at me? Just looking at you. That's fine. Anyhow, yeah, it's good to be home and recording with you and sound a little better when it's under this. I don't sound so like robotic or weird. And I sound incredibly nasally when I record the other way. First off, thanks everybody for letting us share a little bit of our adventures with you on the...

LOTC Facebook page. You know, we went to Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and they didn't keep us. Kind of happy about that now. Yeah, I guess so. That was a blast. And as well as the Mothman Museum. We just like going around and seeing weird and crazy. Strange things. Boy, the very first place I took you to was the cross streets of Vincent and Price. That is true. And that's why all this kind of fits into this episode. Yeah.

As soon as we roll into your town of your birth, to your hood, he's like, oh, I got to take you where we used to live. Let me show you this. Vincent Price. I'm just always amused walking past it. I didn't go to the bus, but...

I drove past it to get to school. Right. Well, I thought it was pretty interesting. And then, I don't know about you, I've known since I met you that Vincent Price has always been a favorite of yours. I don't think I was really aware of Vincent Price until... thriller honest truth i'm just even though i'd watch movies with him in it you know before then

i just had never thought about it or you know focused on it thriller kind of brought that to the forefront and made me want to go back and watch some of these other movies and i may have been what 14 at the time when it came out somewhere in that area I have no idea, but my mom liked his movies or a lot of his movies. That's kind of, I grew up with that. Well, you know, they were, I think a lot of his.

heightened fame had to do with the roger corman edgar allen poe adaptations some of which that you mentioned i believe those are my favorites but for yours um what did you like first house of wax house of wax 1953 It was a Warner Brothers remake of one they had done like 20 years prior. He does an excellent job as that museum curator. He was disfigured.

Is that it? And he gets bigger than that and makes himself into space. But I know he does that with the other people, right? He kills people and makes them into wax. Yeah, the people in a museum are bodies. Right. Yeah, but this one's just kind of cool. It is a cool one. It is a good one. For me, it's the voice. I don't care what he's in. I agree. That voice is captivating. You are not wrong.

It's kind of like you could listen to him read you any kind of book. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I don't even like books on audio, whatever. You know, in just doing a... Looking at things that I hadn't really paid attention to, like, you know, I showed you the clips from Ten Commandments. And even then, you know, he doesn't look like himself, but he sounds like himself.

So he's always iconic for that voice. It's the presence, his size, the, you know, like you said, his facial expression. Um, he just brings something, something different. Yeah. He's got a regalness to him. So very much. Absolutely. I think the movie we went and saw at the Silver Screen Spook Show, which is in Atlanta. They bring up old movies, and they show them, and they do a little show with them. They have matinee ones.

kids and whatnot which i believe is the one we went because you know because i didn't want to drive to atlanta because you didn't want to go to atlanta during the night but um but it was great we got to watch uh it's a price on the big screen for the tingler And I actually have that t-shirt. Yes, you do. And the poster. Yeah, I did get a poster as well.

It was kind of cool because it was supposed to have the weird vibrating thing in the seats. They make it an experience. Yeah, they do make it an experience. And it was fun. It was a lot of fun. One of my other favorites of his is The Raven, mainly because it's somewhat comical. There's him, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre. Sorry, now I just have Thriller in my head.

We watched the thriller music video. We watched the whole video right before this. And so now she's over here just doing Michael Jackson moves. Pretty entertaining here. It's all right. I know how you are. You brought up The House of Usher. It's another one of your favorites. It's funny because I don't think I actually watched it until I watched the show Fall of the House of Usher or something. Yes. We watched the...

All in the House of Usher directed by Mike Flanagan, who is kind of like the hit guy for horror at the moment. And I think that's when you wanted to go back and see the original. I did, because I had no idea. I just really liked the show and then did a little background on it. Sorry. That's okay. I'm just letting you speak. No, I'm good.

All right. I think probably my absolute favorite of his is The Last Man on Earth. It's a Richard Matheson adaptation of I Am Legend. To me, it's my favorite version of... And what I like about it is... Does he have a dog? Yes. Does he have a dog? Sorry. Yeah, and now I can't remember if he has a dog or not. I'm sorry.

that's okay yeah it's just that kind of day apparently at least that's the way i feel end of the day when it's just been but i'm pretty sure he has a dog and i'm pretty sure the dog dies in the in the movie as well. It's set against vampires versus infected zombies like it is in the Will Smith one. But what I was going to say, what I like about it is he self-narrates the entire thing.

uh, he narrates his thoughts. And then when he does actually interact with someone, you know, it all is kind of seamless. So I think that's one of the reasons because he's kind of a one man show in this movie. For the most part. And then lastly, I think his most evil one where he's just the meanest is Witchfinder General. He's just ruthless. I don't know that I've seen that. I'll have to go back and play that.

Also called The Conquering Worm. There's different names for all these movies once they go outside of the U.S. Give me a look. Why does it sound like it should be a porn film? No, I was thinking of the Bollywood version of Thriller. Oh, well, yeah, that was funny. Sorry. I made her watch the Bollywood. Version of Thriller, which is quite hilarious. Sorry, this is drastically random today. Well, of interest, Vincent Price was born on May 27th, which is my middle son's birthday.

He was also born in 1911, which is when my grandfather was born. He died in 1993, which is also when my grandfather died. And they both died of lung cancer. So I just find that interesting. it's sad it is kind of sad but it's interesting either way well you got anything else to say no i guess we're done wow this is quick you just you have these subjects that we know and love and right go do the background because it's like oh

We already know this. Right. And we didn't watch any films for this. We're trying to do this quickly. All right. Well, say it. Night, guys. Good night. That may be the quickest one we've ever done. And what's so bad? We could probably talk a lot longer about him. Yeah, absolutely. Now I've got to figure out what kind of music to put on here. Some kind of disco. What? You promised me to. I'm going to get to work on that.

Mr. Great Pete. Great opening song. I love that music he started that with. With Vincent Price and Boris Karloff doing that duet. do it do it that was so good yeah that instantly set me in the mood as soon as i heard it no i can't believe i can't believe that they watched the bollywood thriller well you know you know i haven't seen that one but i i need to

Knowing Bollywood, it runs for two and a half hours. Can you imagine the thriller? If you compare Vincent Price's voice with the Shatner, who would you take? i would go with you know it depends for something like if it's going to be for thriller or something like that i would definitely go with with vincent price yeah but um if i want to hear a very um

I guess, almost psychedelic version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I might go with Shatner. Yeah, that's true. That's exactly right. And I do love Mr. Tambourine. Mr. Tambourine, man! Benny! And the Jets. And the Jets. Binnie. Binnie and the Jets. I think he did Starman.

he did one of the elton john ones i don't know no it was no the one i'm yeah he did he uh he did a rocket man it might have been rocket he did like a whole like space one um i think i downloaded at one point all the rocket songs off of that one but mr tambourine man is Um, and I ain't no place I'm going to. I love that Greg brought up the tingler.

yeah the tingler was you know it was like a william castle you know and you see the thing on the it's like this turd that's just moving on the carpet like it's just there's one scene where he's laying on the couch and it gets on his chest and you're like how can you act like it's scary and you know what to talk about like the best of william castle's movies i mean for me i love house on hornet hill obviously but everyone kind of forgets he produced rosemary's baby

Yeah, he that was his like one sort of big Hollywood movie and it would end up being kind of a heartbreaking situation for him where where when he ended up getting a lot of a lot of religious backlash from from from Christian groups about the.

This, you know, the... satanic nature of it and and it ended up being uh kind of heartbreaking for him and taken away from him uh too because i don't know if he was going to direct it um and then they said no we're going to get polanski which ended up being a great a good move because i think polanski knocked it out

of the park with that with some of the choices he made directed in that but um yeah i mean william castle was uh the um sort of the driving force initially behind rosemary's baby as well But when you're thinking of the quintessential William Castle films, for me, it's House on Hornet Hill, I think, is the best. I think they asked if Vincent Price had a dog, and yes, he did.

He had a dog named Joe that he bought for $3.50. It was a mutt. That was his childhood dog. And then he had a pug named Puffle. Plus also cats and goldfishes that he called Betty White. Nice. A dog named Joe. I don't know why, but all of a sudden the Johnny Cash song, A Boy Named Sue. Right. i love it in my head well greg p amy lee thank you for your call and that is our calls as we are uh

I don't know if any more will come in afterwards. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. If they do, you'll stick them in. That's right. I'll try to squeeze them in if we have time to do that. So that is it, listeners. That is it. We're going to do our final outro thought.

If we have any other mentions or anything, we'll throw them in right here. But other than that, man, that is our Vincent Price episode. I want to go to Dave first, though, and let you announce what the next episode will be one more time for the listeners, and then we'll get to it. our final thoughts and outros you got it again it's number 433 we are looking at the top five of 1995 John Barnard is going to be our guest for that episode. Looking forward to that.

Going to be a lot of, yeah. But it'll be great to talk with John, too. It'll be great to have him on as a guest. And who knows? I mean, you know what? I'm just sort of going by memory here. knows i could end up finding some of the greatest movies ever in uh greatest horror movies of all time in in 1995 embrace of the vampire everybody will thank me later

There you go. There you go. Embrace of the vampire. That's going to be Bill's number one. Right there, that's going to be Bill's number one. I'll be sitting there watching with a leg cramp for the second half of the film. Sewing. Yeah, that's right. Supercise. Let's go ahead and pass this thing around. We'll start with Dr. Shot. Dave, final thoughts, outros, all that right now? It's great to talk to Vincent Price, obviously. As we've said, a horror icon.

throw out a few of his um non-horror movies uh that did not get mentioned um and one of them was i watched today because it's on the set it's on the collection number three along with um diary of a madman And it is a movie called Master of the World. Fantastic film. It is, but it is an adventure fantasy.

yeah you might almost call it i wouldn't say a kid's film but it's in that realm well yeah it's jules verne you know it's a jules verne film and it has um it's what's really interesting is you know it has vincent price as the title and he plays a guy that you can see somewhat sympathize with because he's trying to end war but he's doing it by destroying the uh fleets and armies of going around the world and

dropping leaflets in london you know get rid of uh get you know the spanger military and all this stuff you don't expect to see him as like the leader of a zeppelin no it's right he's in this big balloon like this this almost impenetrable balloon and he's got some hostages and it's also a movie where you get to see charles bronson play the romantic hero

like the romantic uh the love interest and the hero of it and he does a pretty damn good job in that in that part i mean it's a film that never ever gets brought up No. But it's a decent little film. It is, and I really saw it for the first time today, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was strange. It literally, I think, is the only non-horror movie on those three volume sets.

But it was a really good one, and I enjoyed seeing it. Other ones of Vincent Price's, again, that have not gotten mentioned, Baron of Arizona, which was a very early Samuel Fuller film. um you know for horror fans samuel fuller what was that white dog Oh, White Dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a Samuel Fuller film. He's done a lot of things. Samuel Fuller. He did the Big Red One in 1980 with Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill and all that. It was a great movie also.

um vincent price was in more dead than alive which is a western a clint walker western I wondered if you had seen it, because that's a good little film, too. Yeah, more dead than alive. It is. It's a really good Western, and it's a Clint Walker. It's probably my favorite Clint Walker Western, and that's saying something, because Clint Walker... Also did Yuma, which was a TV movie, which was pretty good. And anybody who wants to know Clint, he was the lead in Kill Dozer.

that uh that 70s tv movie about but what's nice about this one is i know a lot of people get turned off by westerns this isn't a cowboy and indian western no no no this is this is like a traveling show type of western but then there's this but then the The Clint Walker character, the hero, he's got this sort of past that is slowly catching up with him as the movie goes on. And it's a very good film. It really is. Definitely worth checking out.

This is one that gets very little talk. It is a film noir, but shot in color, and it has some beautiful photography. It is called Leave Her to Heaven. and vincent price has a small role in this but this is and i like it has beautiful photography

But it is one of the darkest film noirs you're going to want to see. It's about this woman who falls in love with a man, Cornel Wilde plays the man, and she gets become so possessive that she... doesn't want anyone to get between her and him and he's got a brother who who is disabled and there is a very tough scene when this brother's out swimming um and it's even to the point that when she gets pregnant she doesn't want the baby to come between them.

This is like a very dark film, but it's so good. It's like one of the great 1940s. If I were to put together a list of like the top five films from the 1940s, Lever to Heaven would be on that list. That's how good. what a movie this is. And then the last thing I'm going to mention, you have to bring this up. Vincent Price did the voice of Iron Tail in the Rankin Bass Easter movie. Here comes Peter Cottontail.

With Casey Kasem as Peter Cottontail, Danny Kaye, I think, he might have been the narrator of this one. He might have been almost like the host of this one. I'm not 100% sure. But definitely worth checking out, especially next time Easter rolls around. You get to see Vincent Price as Irontail. That's a pretty good cast.

Yeah, Casey Kasem does Peter Cottontail. Danny Kan, there was someone else. I can't remember who, but there was someone else in there. But yeah, as far as a voice cast, that's pretty impressive. But Rankin-Bass could always get... Some pretty big celebrities. And I'm sure Paul Freese did some voices. Paul Freese pretty much did voices for everything for about a 40-year span there. I was going to say, is Burl Ives in there?

as that snowman right uh what you got on outros there oh and outros same as always dvdinfatuation.com um on uh on well the platform formerly known as Twitter, at DVDinfatuation. Facebook, definitely check out the Land of the Creeps group. We've had quite a few members joining recently, it looks like, which is always great. I've seen, Pearl, you've been introducing some new members. Yeah. My cousin Adam is in there. Yeah, well, that's great. Adam, if you're listening.

Keep on listening. Yep. That's great. Keep joining. We want to see as many people as we can. It's a great community. Definitely check it out. I was going to say, as many as we can, and then Greg is like, oh, fuck, now we've got to go through them all. Yeah. And other podcasts, of course, Jay the Dead's new horror movies is still going strong. Mac and Jay and I get together over on Considering the Cinema for the weekly watch list.

The DVD Infatuation podcast, probably once vacations are over, I'm going to get back to that with that series I'm doing about my favorite films. What number are you up to, Dave? What's that? In your blog. What are you up to? Oh, I've actually been stalled on 3000 for a while. But I do have others that I have to write. I have about another...

18 that I've written that I just have to post. But I'm just letting a number 3000 sit out there for a few weeks on its own before I do that. But so, yeah, at least I hit that milestone. I am going to be posting some more probably by the time this comes out. I think this comes out on Tuesday. The next day, Wednesday, will be when number 3001 is going to.

post on the blog. And other than that, this was a blast getting to talk some more, getting to talk Vincent Price again. And yeah, just so many great movies. And I'm sure there are some great ones that didn't even get mentioned. And we're all going to kick ourselves when it's over saying, oh, my God, I forgot that one. But if you haven't, check out all the movies that have been discussed tonight. There's only 35 of them. Yeah, right.

And even some of the non-horror ones are definitely worth watching as well. Vincent Price is just one of those actors who always does an outstanding job. Nice. Appreciate that, Dave. Now let's head over to Bill and what you got, bro? I'll just go over a few of them. I'll let you know if I've seen them or not, but there are a few that weren't mentioned. I'm surprised Pearl didn't choose Tales of Terror. It's an anthology.

I don't think anybody mentioned Return of the Fly. And, you know, honestly, I wouldn't mention it either. I don't think Vincent Price mentioned Return of the Fly very often. You see him in that schlocky... Fly out. Oh, that's awful. Cry of the Banshees isn't bad. No, that's his least favorite role. is that his least that is his least favorite and then because and i saw that and when i was see after i watched madhouse i saw there was a commentary on there and it was by like a film scholar

because it's a Kino release and I was listening to it. And I know that the movie man house is no good because he spent all his time talking about all the movies that the stars, other movies that the stars made. And he was even said,

And Vincent Price didn't even think this was his worst film. He thought Cry of the Banshee was his worst film, not from a quality standpoint, but from the type of movie it was and the type of character he played. It was his least favorite of all of his. I don't think... I don't think it's great. Well, it's a ton better than Madhouse. But I also don't think it's a bad movie. I think it has its charge. It's all right. And the thing with Madhouse is the story was eh.

You know, it's OK. I've seen worse. The story was all over the fucking place. They would start out, you know, he's Dr. Death. And then there's a death. And first off, it's his fiancee and her head falls off. And, you know, the one thing.

you notice when somebody is decapitated there's at least a smattering of blood no not this time uh but then he gets he gets he ends up going to an insane asylum doesn't want anything to do with dr death but then goes over to england to go with friend peter cushing who um said look i need you to come over we're doing another dr death um and i need the money so he shows up at

Peter Cushing's lush estate. And Peter Cushing says, look, I lied. I don't need the money, but you need to get out there again. Let's do Dr. Death. Well, I don't want to do Dr. Death. It put me in a fucking loony bin for a decade. I don't want to do Dr. Death. And yet he does nothing but Dr. Death. I don't even want to go into it. The movie pissed me off like there's no tomorrow. I just remember the...

the makeup being awful, the black around his eye. That wasn't even the, I mean, they tried something new with that. It didn't look great, but at least they tried something new with that. The rest of it, it didn't make any sense. There's one scene where he goes, I'm leaving. I'm leaving.

leaving i'm going i'm going back to america i'm not doing dr death but before he leaves the the scotland yard picks him up because he's the main suspect in three murders now because they all died as you know like they did in the movies, the Dr. Death movies, these three victims. So they bring him down there. And what does Vincent Price say? I swear to God, he says this. He's talking to these two detectives from Scotland Yard. And he says, look.

i don't know because he still thinks he's losing his mind did i do these murders i can't say for sure but you can't hold me and he walks out it's like Asshole, you're the main suspect in the goddamn three murders. Of course we can hold you. But he walks out. But not only does he walk out, he goes back and does Dr. Death.

He's back on the set of Dr. Death in the next scene after saying, I'm leaving the country. I'm never doing it. He's back on the set. And a woman says, are you going to do the David Parkinson show, the interview? He goes, oh, sure. We could use the good publicity. The movie makes no sense. It's a jumbled goddamn mess. And I knew who was going to be the killer at the second murder because there were only two people there.

and if it's not going to be vincent price who the else is it going to be oh it was just an awful awful movie So tell us how you really feel, Dave. Oh, my God. That's the last one I watched. Can you believe it? Vincent Price has this amazing career. And the last movie I watched before recording this show is that... oh my god it's just so bad now the other the other one that wasn't mentioned uh that i actually quite enjoy is the bat

Yes. Where there's people dying in a house and there's somebody with... Because you look at the title and you think it's going to be some cheapo Bela Lugosi. It's not. It's not what you think it is. He took a role in that because he...

He saw the original Bat when he was younger and it scared the hell out of him because it's a silent movie. It's a remake of a silent movie. I didn't even realize it was a remake. Yeah, they had made a silent version of that and it scared the hell out of him. He was a little disappointed in his version of it.

I agree with you. I like that as well. It's not bad. Yeah. Like seriously, anybody, it's again, 80 minutes, 85 minutes. And it's, it's more on that thriller mystery than it is straight up horror, but it's not bad. The last one that I'd seen, well, of his horror, Bloodbath at the House of Death. You can skip over that one.

there's a few boobies in that there's a little bit of killing but there's nothing now the the three of his horror that i still haven't seen i'm down to three left and i'll just get to them um i haven't seen the house of the long shadows Okay. That's a Pete Walker one. Oh, is that a Pete Walker one? Pete Walker, I think, directed that. Oh, okay. Then I'd have to get into that because I love Pete Walker. I haven't seen From a Whisper to a Scream. I haven't seen that one either.

um and i haven't seen his either i don't know if he was in both but any version of him doing the tower of london i still need to see oh um he was in uh the black and white one that had boris karloff in it um There was one in the 20s and 30s, and then there was one in the 40s or 50s. Well, there was one in the 60s, and there was one in the...

30s or 40s. I think it might have been 39, actually. That was the one that might have had... boris karloff in it i think he played oh god who was it um the whole thing was about like edward richard the third like that family the york um the yorkist kings you know when you had the lancestrians and the yorks of the battle the war of the roses

And I want to say he was the brother who ended up being like drowned in a vat of wine. I can't remember what. Like I've heard it's not, it's not strictly a horror. No, it's not. I did. It's always on horror sets. And I. think it might be on the boris karloff set that i have um but it's not it's really not a horror film no i'm pretty sure i can find it on youtube uh the one that i really like of his that's non-horror It's technically a thriller. I can see it being on a set. It's shock.

film noir a psychology psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder it's got a little bit of vertigo there a woman uh is looks across the way and sees a man fighting with his wife and he kills her and she's in a sanitarium she's in a i guess what they'd call now mental hospital but she sees vincent price kill his wife

And nobody believes her because she's in the psychological. And it turns out that he becomes her doctor. And so then there's a whole bit of, it's technically film noir drama. and thriller i wouldn't call it a horror but it's a darn good little film noir film and again an hour it's an hour and 10 minutes so it's almost like an extended um

science fiction program from the 60s. It's an extended Twilight Zone episode, basically. No, Twilight Zone was a half hour, Outer Limits. Outer Limits. Outer Limits, because it was the hour-long ones. It's funny. I watched, I typed in Vincent Price in YouTube and a movie came up called Cucumber Castle. I watched Cucumber Castle. What it was, was a made for TV movie in the early seventies. set in a castle essentially with the Bee Gees, Andy and Barry Gibb. And they were like the head of this.

uh castle but it was basically just an excuse for a bunch of people to have a story and then they sing songs gotcha and so it's it's one of those uh even even in 1970 it would have been bad Yeah, well, I mean, how much time did they put into the title Cucumber Castle? So, you know, okay, let's just give it a title and get them together. But I took one for the team. Now, the last thing I'll say, and then I'll pretty much shut up, is...

In the 1970s, he did the introduction to a television show out of Hamilton, Ontario, called The Hilarious House of Fright and Steam. where he gives he opens up every show and he gives uh he says a dramatic poem in a spooky voice and then the rest of the show is set in this castle with like but it's a kid's show So it's people dressed up as Frankenstein and mad scientists and Wolfman. I think he...

I'm sorry. Go ahead. I was going to say, I've mentioned it before, but he's, but, but like, it's a show that you would watch. Like I would watch it in the morning eating cereal. So it would be, you get a science lesson. uh the dj you i remember the first time i ever heard crimson and clover

was on the hilarious House of Frankenstein. You get that kind of stuff. Okay, but he did an introduction out of America. I don't know if it was for a... for a pbs or something he had done some introductions for a show there i can't remember what the station was or even what the show was about but i'm pretty sure he was He introduced those also. Anybody that's in Southern Ontario knows it was on CHCH Channel 11.

The Hilarious House of Frankenstein. So that's about it. I need to get back to his old catalog, and I want to see as many of the film noir and the detective series as that he did, because he did a whole whack load of them. He did a number of them, yeah. okay now for my outros anybody that would love to hear even more of big bill

Tune into music, movies, sports and stuff. We'd love to have you check us out and those that already are listening to continue and tell all your friends. Otherwise... everybody let's finally get into t-shirt weather for me at least in southern ontario i know there's people complaining that oh it's so hot i had minus 30 for six months i am soaking this all bring it on

In about a month, I'll be camping. So Greg will have to ground somebody who can come in here, but I'm sure he'll have no shortage of people wanting to come in. Now, I know that these are turbulent times, lots going on in the world. North America, Europe, all kinds of things are happening. Let's be nice. Let's get along, people. Always think, what would Vincent do? Elbows up. Let's be good people and let's keep horror alive.

Nice. May you always be one step ahead of the unknown caller. That's true. Take off your air tags. Yeah, exactly. All right, Pearl, what you got now? A Scooby-Doo animated series. The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. You got Vincent Van Gogh. Nice. So I thought that would be fun to watch with the kids. And also the other thing I'm going to mention is there's a podcast called Living Love. And it's from Victoria Price. Now she wrote a book about her dad. And on his birthday she released...

This bonus episode seven called Heart Center Practices. And I think everyone should give it a listen to because coming from his daughter, she had quite a bit to share about him. I like it. Love it. I've heard her at, I've listened to a podcast where she had given a presentation like at the convention and a whole talk on her father. And just, you know, obviously a lot of love there and a lot of respect.

just with everything that she had to talk about. She really doesn't even get into the horror as much as what a renaissance man he was. We've been saying everything he did with the cooking and the art. Just everything. Nice. And of course, I'm in the main LLTC group page and anywhere Gregor Morris is at.

Follow her. Except on no color. Just throw candy. I was going to say, I want to give a shout out to Pearl to thanks for those metal tins. Everybody get those metal tins. Yeah, those were awesome. You're welcome. Thank you. All right, cool. We love you, Pearl. For me, I'm not going to mention any because I think all of them have already been mentioned. My main five, and there's still several that I need to see, too, because, you know, pre-50s, I need to get back and...

And really dig into those and watch some of those. And I do want to watch some of the more comedy ones. But, you know, plenty of movies to watch in between here and there. But the main five... Exactly. Well, that said, though, let's go ahead and pass it around here. We're going to say this. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube especially.

And anywhere else. And you can email us. Greg and Mortis666 at gmail.com anytime you'd like to. And we'll respond to you over there. If you're not a member of the Facebook group page of Land of the Creeps, it is a private group. And you would like to be a member of that. This is the way we do it. You need to message one of us and say, hey, I listened to the podcast. Hey, I want to be a member of the group because we just don't invite everybody and we don't accept everybody.

We're a tight-knit family, and we make sure we keep all the bots out there. And if we accepted everything that came in, there'd be a lot of bots in there. We don't like that. There'd be a lot of bots and a lot of, like, the element that would make the group, you know, like the...

sort of trolls yeah um so that's the only reason why it's it's it's monitor because we're trying to keep it up but once you get in it's it's such a great community and you really see the benefit of that uh that added uh you know level of attention because you keep that nasty element out of there. That's right. But you see another level of our depravity. Yeah, that's right. That is true. You will not unsee some of the videos Bill posts.

Yep, exactly. Oh yeah, I'm the only shit guy in there, right? No, no, no, I'm not saying that. But let's just say if we shared some of our private messages, you might have the... You might have an FBI phone. Yeah, our private chat will never go public. Yeah, we definitely have lots of fun over there. We would love to have you in the group. We're not trying to keep you out of it. We just try to make sure.

you the listeners that are in there so with that said man we're going to end this really appreciate all the love given out to Vincent Price I'm sure he's looking down on us and smiling right now thinking that you know this podcast is thinking about him on this His birthday was last week, so very shortly of his birthday. With that said, we're going to end it. We're going to see you on the flip side. Help keep porn alive. We do that one movie at a time, one review at a time.

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the best record, but I think y'all are close. No, no, no. It wasn't the best. Detroit's got that, don't they? Yeah, Detroit's got the best record. Detroit who? Oh, the Tigers. How come I heard somebody clucking like a chicken and then it dropped out for me? That was Hocus Pocus by Focus. Oh, okay. Hocus Pocus by Focus. You ever heard that song? Yodeling? No.

That's what it was. Okay. It was yodeling. I thought someone was strangling a chicken. Well, you know, Bill's known to choke a chicken or two. Yeah, but usually not on camera. Oh, okay. That's a good point. Oh, my God. Dodgers are what I'm happy to do. Has Dave been given next week's episode? I have. Nice. Okay. I wait in utter suspense. It is a big surprise. It's not 1995. I will reserve until announcement time.

Oh, God, I got mine. It's funny. I looked at my 1995 list on Letterboxd. I think I'd seen seven films. That's only the last couple of years. Oh, yeah. Order tonight. We'll do top five. We'll go round robin. Bill, I mean, Dave, Bill, Pearl, me. Okay. I've never let off. This is true. You're more of the... I was going to say, I'm still the noob. I get on base, and then Bill's got to get me over this. That's it. I'm the Otis Nixon of LOTC. Yeah. And Pearl, she's the one that, you know.

She's clean up. And I'm the striker outer. Well, no, Pearl's – Greg's clean up. Oh, Greg's clean up. Yeah, Pearl's the power hitter. Pearl's the Freddie Freeman of the team. Pearl is the Vladdy Guerrero, and Greg is the Aaron Judge. Shit, I wish I was there, Judge. No, he bats third, bro. All right. Well, cool. All right. Let me make sure my water is open. Yep, it's open now.

50 i was like oh i gotta do up my shoes i'm buying slip-ons i've tied my shoes and to the point that i could just slip them on and off but they're tied the other day my shoelace came untied and i was so pissed off because i hadn't had to tie it for about a year and a half you know what greg you get the laces i gave ella like these little curly ones so you don't have to

yeah i need something like that i don't see i used i i don't want to do the velcro because i just you know even though it's easier it just seems you know it's kind of like okay you're pointing out the fact that i'm a lazy shit and i don't want to actually tie my shoes but it's funny If you go onto like Amazon or Timu or any of those first shoes, half of them are slip-ons. All we needed. And I would have never known what the hell a conjunction was if it wasn't for that junction.

That damn junction taught me the conjunction. Honestly, what percentage of adults know how to use an apostrophe after the S to talk about possession? For something that ends in S. For something that ends in S. Exactly. Not many. I suck at pronunciation. I use it all the time, but I know how to use it. Very few people... you know and i'm like it's not that you know it's not that it's an easy concept but once you get used to it once you get used to it yeah like exactly

Yeah, I know nothing about apostrophes. And that's because I don't think they had a schoolhouse rock for apostrophes. I know they didn't. Well, thanks for the lollies. We know adverbs, but I don't think that anything for the next movie you do with Shannon, put in a little bit of a grammatical. Yes, we will. We're going to have a killer who strikes anyone who makes grammatical errors. There will probably be nobody left under the age of 24. Dude, L-O-T-C block spot would be fucked.

That's why I only type a paragraph. I can accept when Pearl makes the odd spelling mistake because English is her second language, but Greg, you got no damn excuse. I got plenty, buddy. Oh, you got plenty of stuff. Yeah. Oh, boy. From Dave's Phillies. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Well, that's not nice. I don't think the Jays give two shits.

And to think that Jays, I think they're about 500, maybe a game ahead or whatever. They don't have a fifth starter. Well, don't feel bad. We don't either. We don't even have a second starter. But because they signed Max Scherzer to $15 million. I think he got through three innings and that's it. Dude, he has been like that for like the last three or four seasons. Like, bro, when he left the Dodgers, he's –

Yeah. And, I mean, we're in the same boat. Blake Snell, I mean, freaking glass now from us. He pitched, what, three or four games this year, and he's been out. He didn't pitch half the season last year. Like, it's just a bust now, and I love the dude to death. Do they still have Dustin May? Yeah, Dustin's been pitching for us, but he's up and down. But he's not down in Albuquerque.

No, no, he's been playing. Yeah, we've had to have him. I mean, everybody's down. But, yeah, he pitches. Yeah, he is our actual Sackett guy right now. We go Yamamoto, then we go Dustin, and then we go Clayton. Then it goes to Tony. I haven't paid attention. How has Kershaw done? He's only in his sack at third game. His last game. Has he gotten a win yet? Yeah. Did he get to win? No, I think we lost the one that he pitched. He actually pitched really good, but I think we lost that game.

Who's ringing our doorbell right now? I was going to say, does your apartment doorbell get rung very often? Not always, but it's like right now. Somebody collecting for Jehovah's Witness. I like it when the religious people come to my door. I engage them. Yeah. Bill's doing his best. Who is it? You, Grant? Exactly. Like when some guy comes to the door and says, you want to talk about Jesus? They're used to most people saying, you know, bugger off. I'll go.

You know, I tell them that I'm a schoolteacher in the Catholic school system, and I can quote verse for verse if you want me to. You know, who was it? It was George Carlin who said, I want a bumper sticker that said, I found Jesus. I got them in the trunk. Wow. My neighbor just came over. He was asking me at work earlier. He said, man, you want some vinyl? And I was like, yeah, I was picking around. So I just got a sealed Michael Jackson. This is the Dangerous album.

Exclusive. Nice. Two disc am. Yeah, and brand new sealed. This is the Jimi Hendrix Experience Freedom Atlanta Pop Festival colored album. Oh, that's a great show. That's a fantastic show. I have a few Jimi Hendrix. The Jimi Hendrix Atlanta show. I think it's better than his Woodstock reforms, to be honest. The Woodstock, or you mean, was it Monterey Pop?

Oh, Monterey Poppy was really good. His version of, like, a Rolling Stone is... Yeah. And then I got a first pressing of The Beatles, Let It Be. Bam. First pressing? Nice. What the hell is this guy giving them away for? Doesn't he know?

He said, oh, you want something? This shit's so old it ain't worth anything. Well, I just told him. I was like, dude, how much do you want for him? He said, no. He said, I'm going to spend one marketplace for a dollar or whatever. I'm like, dude. A dollar for a first pressing of Sgt. Pepper? Or let it be? Yeah. My God, are you kidding me? I want to move in next to you, Greg. I have help.

the beatles help and it's one of those ones where it says at the bottom in stereophonic sound you know because it was like the original my mother got it in the early 60s um so it's and it's like wow this thing's like worth some money here and this this guy's giving

away a lot of money i was going to say my mom was a beetle head and she saw them when they came to toronto in 64 65 whatever she had the records of the beatles in german oh wow oh wow that's right because they did perform in germany for a while So, like, you're hearing, I want to hold your hand, but it's Ivanka, you know, whatever it is. Ivanka!

story when i was a kid about a guy who went into a bathroom at a new house that he just bought and it had a vent up top and he looked up and he said what's that in the vent and it was two dead bats just looking down at him like face down looking down at him and I saw that I'm like geez and then someone told me oh you know they get stuck in your hair if they get in your hair I freaked out

So now every time I see a bat, I duck and run. I'll tell you this. It was about... i don't know six months ago and i'd had a couple joints so i was watching tv and all of a sudden i sit down and i look up and i go i'm a little bit stoned but not too bad and up above me i go Fuck, that's a bat. It was in the living room. But I knew I'd had a couple. So I looked back and made sure it wasn't like a bird. No. So I carefully walk upstairs. I go, Jen.

Can you come down here? She knows when I get to that voice it's either an animal or it's a mouse or it's something Yeah. So here I am running around the house with one of those cloth bags that you get at the grocery store trying to catch this damn thing. And so of course this is about 1130 at night and whose room does it fly into? Ella's. While she's sleeping. Oh, Jesus. So I had to carefully shield Ella and say, can you go please see mommy? And then I went and grabbed a towel and squeezed.

yeah i had to see in the allentown section up here there's a big bat problem and this guy said you know they came back from a play and it was late at night and they had washing out on the line and it was like their blanket on like a sheet for their bed

all this other stuff so he got him off real quick he went up he threw the sheet on the bed and he put the rest of the stuff off to the side and he went into the bathroom his wife got into bed and started screaming here there was a bat hanging on the blanket and it was now under the covers with Oh, God. Oh, wow.

So she threw the covers off. It was flying around. He said, I had a brand new cashmere sweater that I got. I caught it, threw it on the ground, jumped up and down on it. He goes, and I just picked it up and threw it away. He goes, I'm not even going to try to clean the sweater. away. The thing is, bats themselves don't bother me.

No. They're actually quite good to have around. They are good. They're really not that bad. They just look like something that is right out of my nightmares. So that's why I just can't deal with them. Well, the best way possible. If you guys ever see a bat again, flash a flashlight in his face because it gets blinded temporarily that they'll fall. Oh, really? Yeah, and you can just catch it. Well, that's great. Then they'll probably fall right at my feet.

I say fly the fuck away. Yeah. I'm not worried about making them fall. Just keep flying. I had it once when I first started teaching. I was, I don't know, 27 or something. And I put on my shoe and I slipped it on and I go, there's something down here. I thought like I'd taken off my sock or something. It was a bat.

crevice in the crevice of the of the shoe so i went to put it on i'm like what the hell is that i mean they they're like rats they can collapse their vertigo they can get into the the smallest little areas um you know and and it's but if you ever see them flying around they don't bother you and you can always tell them they're flying because they fly like they fly like they're they're they're

fucking high. I mean, they're like... They're not like burrs where they're just going straight. I mean, you think they're flying all over the fucking place. That's not fair. You guys all get bats. Why don't we even get one? Hey, you can have mine. One time I had to go get the...

trash like early in the morning you know to take it out before i went to work and there's a bat flying between the houses and i just i was like you won't you know what fuck if the trash can sit till the next collection day Well, it's funny because I usually go out at midnight for my final puff and I go to bed. And in my backyard in the last two weeks, I've had coyotes, I've had foxes, and I had skunks.

And I don't have lights out there. And I know I've had a puff, so I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not seeing things. But all you can see are the ears or the eyes, because it's dark. Wow. And I'm sitting there going, I'm not getting too close. You're smoking out there. The skunk probably thinks it's mating season. And the thing is, it had its tail straight up, and that's how I knew it was a skunk, because you could see the... I was like, I'm just going to leave it. It'll go away. Wow.