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Date Posted: 04:06:11 12/04/09 Fri
Author: Rick
Subject: Favorite Universal films with Vincent Price

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Rick

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[> Re: Favorite Universal films with Vincent Price -- Officer Torch, 20:37:24 12/04/09 Fri [1]

Growing up in the 50s and 60s, Vincent Price was nearly a fixture in horror movies, also on TV hosting various programs, as narrator, actor, guest, etc. There are so many on... big screen and small, that it would be overwhelming to pick and choose. Check eg IMDb for films, appearances, hosting ...he was really into a lot. Also Disney movies such as Master of the World, and he was the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Vincent Price was versatile.

It's my understanding this moreso later day horror flick master was a good man with a decent sense of humor. I recall seeing just about every flick he did based on Edgar Allen Poe's work in a theater with high school chums, buddies or cousins in earlier years, or on dates later on. The man was talented, and a natural for horror type "stuff" and while I give top scores to eg Karloff, Lugosi and the like for 30s, 40s horror, Vincent Price gets my vote for 50s and especially the 60s.


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[> Re: Favorite Universal films with Vincent Price -- Tim, 21:14:07 12/04/09 Fri [1]

Of his Universal titles I would choose The House of the Seven Gables (1940). Although not a horror film by definition, it is a picture dripping with gothic atmosphere and a dark sense of foreboding and doom. Vincent Price gives a remarkable performance as Clifford Pyncheon, an ambitious young musician whose plan to sell the family home, known as Seven Gables, is foiled by his greedy brother Jaffrey Pyncheon (George Sanders).

I agree with Officer Torch regarding Price's status as a horror icon. He became the most recognized horror film star of his time, a title previously held by Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. His most famous pictures include House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958), the Poe adaptations from the 1960s cited by Torch, and The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971).

Tim


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[> Re: Favorite Universal films with Vincent Price -- joystar, 18:06:04 12/06/09 Sun [1]

THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES for me, too. I loved everyone in it!
JS


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[> [> Re: Favorite Universal films with Vincent Price -- DAN, 10:45:38 12/07/09 Mon [1]

Invisible Man Returns
Tower of London
House of Seven Gables
Green Hell

The first Vincent Price film I seen in the theater was "The Fly."

Then the second one I saw was "House on Haunted Hill."
It had that skeleton gimic rigged up in the theater. It was fun but I remember it was also cheesy looking.


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