Showing posts with label Vincent Price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vincent Price. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Witchfinder General (1968) a.k.a The Conqueror Worm


































  17th century. England is divided in two by the civil war. Matthew Hopkins, the notorious witch hunter, takes the chance to satisfy his own sadistic intents and make a good profit of it. Entering a village to practice his usual tricks, he finds opposition by a soldier ready to put an end to his reign...
  If Michael Reeves had lived longer we would have many more notable cult movies like this. R.I.P, though, as he exceeded all expectations with this film here! Excellent cinematography and  sets (after all it is a British production), impressive acting and a story based on the real witch hunter! The film may come shocking to some people for its scenes of excessive violence and the overall belief in the film that human life has no actual value. Wait, is this film talking about the 17th century or the 21st?
  Vincent Price is Matthew Hopkins as only he must have been the only actor ballsy enough to take up such a role. Pure evil and malevolence all mixed up in a weird dedication to Christian beliefs? Vincent Price has just the thing for it! Ian Ogilvy does an equally god job as his arch enemy who sees through his thick layer of lies and religious deception!
Must watch this : with a cup of Earl Grey tea, buttered scones and cake on a rainy March afternoon. After the film contemplate society's march through the ages and how pathetically it is heading to a violent social dead end.
Trailer 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063285/ 
Should I carve DICK on his back?
Do I smell fart?
Beliebers beaten to death, photo from archive circa 1640



Wednesday, October 9, 2013

House of Wax (1953)


































  A money-driven associate decides to burn down a wax museum with the owner inside only so he can collect the insurance cash. Luckily, the owner survives and he employs his art and evil ingenuity to get his revenge.
  André De Toth is no newbie to well-produced and well-executed films! Check his filmography to be sure. Here he works his magic once again. Convincing sets and costumes, a more than good cast and a story horrifying enough for its time. Classic Price torture scenes with pretty and naive girls in them. There's not much else to need by such a film. Watch it now!
  How many times do we have to say that Vincent Price+Horror=Instant Classic??? Especially if you blend in Charles Bronson (?!) along with promising supporting young actors in the equation and multiply by heavy dialogues and a story which can easily turn into an urban horror legend. Paris Hilton, please go suck a bag of dicks! At least you do that better!
Must watch this : melt a big, red candle on a plate to set the mood on a hot August night (Australia don't hate please). Invite a friend of the opposite sex and enjoy this with a Long Island Iced Tea for each!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045888/?ref_=sr_2
Convincing artistic beard!

Come on, bitch! Suck it in! You gots to get married!

I forgot to tell you.I am into candle S&M!



Friday, October 4, 2013

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)


































  Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen. Francis Barnard travels to Spain when he learns that his sister is dead. Her husband, an offspring of a notorious torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him that she died from a blood disease. The evidence, though, indicates otherwise!
  Classic Vincent Price in a classy film by none other than Roger Corman. A little bit too classy for Corman's filmography, but the work her is done. Corman manages to portray the essence of Poe's work without taking ti too far. You willenjoy all the doom and gloom of Poe's writing, the despair of the characters, the Gothic (but no too Gothic) style of everything and an evil plot! Squeaky doors, spider webs, evil laughs, rain and the lingering death!
  There is some killer cast in this movie. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr are enough to take this movie to another level. No one can compete with Price's class and Steele's look and looks (remember what we said on Black Sunday?) and no one can act better in such environment. It almost seems as these actors were born to act in such films, as if they do not belong in our era or dimension!
Must watch this : definitely on a cold or rainy night, with a glass of wine, alone. Let the mood and the cold give you goosebumps!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055304/
Queen Steele

Yeah, it looks like a painting but fuck you!

More interactive than modern 3-D

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)


































  Doctors are found dead consecutively but their death is far from ordinary. Bats, bees, killer frog masks and other manners representing the nine Biblical plagues are used by a strange organ player and his mute assistant in order to conduct the killings.But what are his motives? And who is he?
  Do you need anything else other than Vincent Price in his natural environment? The dark and obscure scenarios that molted him into what he is? Director Robert Fuest knows how and why to use this magnificent actor to take this movie to another level.And it is indeed another level ; gothic,dark mood, bizarre settings, gloomy characters and a dark secret that binds them all together.
   Vincent Price and his fellow actors portray their roles in a classy and sophisticated way, the only way they knew back then.The story is actually a revenge story but it is not as simple as that, as the perpetrator is far more than ordinary.Look out for the traditional Hebrew pendants that give this movie a more mysterious air. The movie's climax for me is a special scene that reminded me that almost no contemporary film does not borrow form old films! Yes,  Saw it is you I am talking about!
Must watch this : with your goth or weird friend or with a friend who doesn't like this kind of films only to get in a debate after the end! Watch this at dusk.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066740/
Jammin'

Batman is that you?

Dude, you are staring...