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Rarely do I have an interest in watching old movies anymore, but I happen to stumble across this one on Netflix and I had never heard of it before. The reason this movie makes it to Baghdad By The Bay is due to the fact that there is a lot of footage shot in 1965 San Francisco. This movie has one of the most hilariously ridiculous chase scenes that is almost a spoof of Bullitt.Rarely do I have an interest in watching old movies anymore, but I happen to stumble... more
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after losing a prominent acting award and decides to seek revenge on the critics responsible. Fittingly, he using the works of the Bard as a guide, basing his killings on violent scenes from Shakespearean plays. Price takes full advantage of his meaty role, ominously reciting classic Elizabethan monologues while rigging particularly nasty torture devices. This hilarious turn is assisted by a colorful supporting cast, including Robert Morley, Richard Coote, and Michael Hordern as critics and Diana Rigg as Lionheart's devoted daughter and partner in crime. The end result is a wonderfully evil lark that, in its own way, proves surprisingly faithful to the often bloody spirit of Shakespeare; certainly the full implications of Shylock's demand for a "pound of flesh" have rarely been made quite as explicit. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/video/viewvideo/739/movies/theater-of-bloodThe darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made... more
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***complete review at the link
Set in the 17th century during the time of the civil unrest in England that accompanied Cromwell’s Parliament against remainder forces of The Crown, “The Witchfinder General” stars Vincent Price as Witchfinder Matthew Hopkins. If you’re are like me, when you think of Vincent Price movies, you think of the absurd over-the-top melodramaticness of insubstantial Poe adaptations or the campy and fun creepiness of 1950s-60s “horror” movies like House of Wax. Both of those types of movies are far removed in “The Witchfinder General.”
***complete review at the link***complete review at the link
Set in the 17th century during the time of the civil... more
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Happy Halloween... And on Halloween it wouldn' t be complete without a reading from Vincent Price (the laugh from Michael Jackson's Thriller for those who don't know who Vincent Price was.) Vincent Price was a master of the macabre and terror and one of my all time favorite actors.This is a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.Happy Halloween... And on Halloween it wouldn' t be complete without a reading... more
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