This movie is one of Vincent Price's best. A young woma's lover proposes to her. All goes well, until the doors of the house of Usher fling open. Then the madness commences. Good plot. Great cast. By far the best adaptation of this classic Edgar Allan Poe story.
Haunted Palace
Haunted houses and mutants and evil spells, OH MY! This film is delectably good. A man inherits a castle from a family member and later finds out the castle is haunted and the town is run by mutants. How can you really go wrong?
House of 1000 Dolls
One of Vincent Price's weirdest films. In this tale, a man believes that his wife has been abucted and thrown into a whirte slavary ring. Vincent alks around this movie in a stupor...the reason for this I won't impart. Just watch it.
House of Wax
"A demented sculptor goes on a murderous rampage, and uses the corpses of his victims as the basis for the wax figures he creates. Initially released in 3-D. Watch for Charles Bronson in an unusual role as the sculptor's mute assistant." This is the video description of the film. This movie is so weird and so bizarre, that it deserves a rightful place in The Odious Hall of Fame. This may be my favorite Vincent Price film.
House on Haunted Hill
This movie is too hysterical for words. Vincent Price plays a wealthy man who convinces several people to spend a night in a house that is supposedly haunted by the victims of a murder. Price is absolutely divine in this role. (Just to give you a hint of what happens...guns fully loaded with bullets are given as favors at this little shindig). This is a must rent!
THE RETURN OF THE INVISIBLE MAN
A man is accused of murder unjustly. In this movie he is given a drug so that he can turn invisible and find the real killer. Unfortunatley, the drug has never been tested on humans and it leads him to go into a bout of insanity. The inentor of the drug now has to find an antidote for it before havoc is reaked. This is more amusing than anything, but quite well done. The plot is fairly concise and the special effects aren't bad. Worth a viewing.
The Last Man on Earth (aka The Omega Man)
A manis the lucky survivor to a worldwide plaguue. However, his luck changes as he is soon visited by plague-victims zombies. Sound hysterical? It is. But its really good. Vincent Price is at his finest. Even by old-time standards, I could never imagine this to be the least bit frightening. However the hilarity alone is well worth the view.
Madhouse
I was unimpressed by this film. Vincent plays a horror movie director who wasreleased from the mental ward. He wants to start directing again until homicides point to him. The plot is barely there, and the acting seems overly contrived. This movie is way too predictable for my tastes.
Theatre of Blood
"Edward Lionheart is furious: he knows he deserved that major award for his fine acting, but once again, the critics denied him and chose some other, inferior performer. So now he's going to make them pay. All it takes is a faked suicide so they believe him dead, and a few murder scenes taken directly from Shakespeare's plays... then, one by one, the eight judges will experience Lionheart's version of poetic justice." This is the video synopsis. The film itself was creative, but I wasn't impressed with the cast (with the exception of Vincent). Its worhth a renting just for the name however.
The Tingler
Bravo! This coms in close contention with House of Wax as my favorite Vincent Price films. Its also likely, the most well known (possibly surpassed by "The Fly"). The film moves nicely with plenty of interesting twists for the classic horror movie fan "In this entertaining horror film, an obsessed pathologist makes a shocking discovery. While studying the effects of fear on the human body, Dr. William Chapin learns that this emotion can be so powerful that it produces a "tingling" sensation that must be relieved by screaming. If somebody becomes enormously afraid and can't shriek, the result can be fatal. And by studying the body of a person who has just died of fright, Dr. Chapin finally finds the thing that causes this physical sensation -- a parasitic creature that attaches itself to the spinal cord and breaks it in half unless the victim renders it powerless by screaming. The doctor removes "the tingler" from this particular corpse, but the monster escapes and causes havoc. Who will it attack next? " (the synopsis from the video).
Comedy of Terrors
THIS IS THE BEST HORROR PARODY EVER EVER MADE!!!!! Watching this movie makes me hate SCREAM even more! This is horror parody at its absolute finest! More about this movie on my horror parody page.
The Fly
The Fly is indeed one of Vincent Price's most spectacular films. And one of the very few fims that the remake actually may exceed the expectations brought on by the original. "A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's (Price) two "teleport" machines, one of which dissolves atoms, while the other reconstructs them. When price unwittingly shares the machine with a common housefly, he turns into a hideous hybrid of man and insect--and begins to literally bug out. The scientist wants to reverse the process, but first he must catch that fly. Hilarious as well as horrific, this spawned two sequels in the '50s (Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly) before starting another cycle in the '80s, beginning with Cronenberg's elegant updating, The Fly (1986). " (video description.) The humor in it is just as strong as the horror, making it a thoroughly delightful experience.
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
This is a new review, and I put it up just for the amusement of my buddy Joe who has an unhealthy obsession with evil twins. :) Peter Cottontail tries to become the Easter Bunny. He does well until his evil nemesis, Evil Irontail, is in competition with him. Yes...its as hysterical as it sounds.
The Bat
Slow moving plot in this Vincent Price film, but twisted nonetheless. There's an arbitrary banking scandal in the film which doesn't seem to make sense in this type of horror story. However, I was surprised at who was in The Bat's costume.
