When you just get it wrong ... oh so wrong

If you know anything about classic horror movies then this should make you laugh your balls off.

Monster Yakety Yak

"When I was nine I played the demon king in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster." - Boris Karloff

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person." - Bela Lugosi

"The film makers were scratching their heads wondering who they could get to put on the (Godzilla) suit, then the remembered my stunt. They thought hey let's get that guy we set on fire last year." - Haruo Nakajima

"My father would be horrified if he knew I was making it in the pictures and that I'm not billed as Creighton Chaney." - Lon Chaney Jr.

"No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, "Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon." - Julie Adams

"Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!" - Claude Rains

"Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'." - Christopher Lee

"I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge." - Vincent Price

"My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies." - Boris Karloff

"The monster was very hard to play because the (King Kong) suit was so different. The arms were long, longer than my own, and I had to use sticks to control the hands, also the legs were short so I had to walk all hunched over." - Haruo Nakajima

"As far as I see it 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' was just another movie and it was just another job. I've done many things since then that I am much more proud of. But I've gotten more reaction out of the Creature thing than anything else. Well, I guess that's life!" - Ricou Browning

"Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula." - Bela Lugosi

"He [Merian C. Cooper] called me into his office and showed me sketches of jungle scenes and told me, 'You're going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood'. Naturally, I thought Clark Gable. But then he showed me this sketch of a giant ape up the side of the Empire State Building, and he said, 'There's your leading man'. - Fay Wray

"A reporter noticed me and a much smaller mate of mine when he visited his sick mom in the hospital where I was working and photographed us walking together and took some pictures of my feet. I didn't win the big feet contest, but that eventually led to my role in Sinbad." - Peter Mayhew

"They were considered B pictures because they were made on a tight budget. But we outlived many of the A pictures made at the same time." - Ray Harryhausen

"I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it." - Vincent Price

"One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp." - Ed Wood

"I took a lot of my anger that had been stored inside of me for many years and let it loose. I helped to create the character Varla [in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)] and helped to make her someone that many women would love to be like." - Tura Satana

" I don't really scare them any more than do Jungle Jim, Dan Dunn, Tarzan, and the other heroes of the comic sections." - Boris Karloff

""The most memorable thing I did in that film (Bride of Frankenstein), I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone" - Elsa Lanchester

"I will play no more monsters. Dracula is different; he is such an exciting person." - Christopher Lee

Celebrate The 100th Birthday Of Vincent Price With HOUSE OF WAX in 3D!

Source: Downtown Independent

I just wanted to quickly pass along this information on a special screening of the Vincent Price classic "House of Wax" at the Downtown Independent cinema her in Los Angeles on June 11th.

Here are the details:

The Board of the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation and the Family of Vincent Price invite you to celebrate
THE ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY OF VINCENT PRICE and THE GRAND OPENING OF THE VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM.

Join us for a 3-D screening of 1953's HOUSE OF WAX starring Vincent Price PLUS "THE LIFE AND ART OF VINCENT PRICE" slide show and talk by Vincent's daughter, Victoria Price.

Proceeds raised will benefit THE VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM.

Everyone will receive a set of commemorative 3-D glasses!

TICKET INFORMATION:
$85 VIP tickets or $150 for 2 tickets:
($50 per person is tax-deductible)
includes 6:30PM rooftop pre-screening celebration.
Beer, wine, and culinary selections from A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary & Vincent Price.
Meet Victoria Price, Museum Director Karen Rapp, and VPAM Board Members.
$25 Tickets for: "The Art & Life of Vincent Price" and HOUSE OF WAX in 3-D.

More Info: http://www.downtownindependent.com/events/the-one-hundreth-birthday-of

See Also: The Fly - Bobble Head Figure / Shock It To Me! Brings Two Classic Vincent Price Movies To San Francisco's Clay Theatre / Vincent Price Presents - A Wonderful Horror Comics Anthology From Bluewater / House of Wax (1953)(Warner Bros)

The Fly - Bobble Head Figure

Source: Entertainment Earth

The Fly Bobble Head:

The Fly Bobble Head is based on a science-fiction classic!
Featuring the terrifying half-fly, half-human creature from the 1958 movie The Fly.
The creepy wobbler stands about 6-inches tall atop a custom base.
It doesn't look like Vincent Price…

Entertainment Earth's entire selection of bobble heads is on sale!* Buy any 4, and get 1 free! Hurry, offer ends September 17, 2010.

Based on the classic movie, the Funko The Fly Bobble Head brings the monstrous mutation from the first movie-- which was in color, unlike its sequels-- to plastic life! Marvel at the shiny green eyes, the freakish blue claw, and the tasteful tie-and-lab-coat ensemble. Order yours now!

The creepier-than-creepy The Fly Bobble Head is based on the 1958 sci-fi classic The Fly that starred Vincent Price. And this wobbler of the terrifying half-fly, half-human creature is something to buzz about! It stands approximately 6-inches tall atop a custom base. Once it was human… even as you and I.

Order Yours Today For Only $12.99!

See Also: New Toy Tuesday! - Retro Frankenstein And Wolfman, The Fly, Classic Voltron, A Sexy Anime Girl And The Scent Of Captain Kirk

Shock It To Me! Brings Two Classic Vincent Price Movies To San Francisco's Clay Theatre

Okay, now this is what I'm talking about! Finally a Halloween movie festival with Vincent Price movies. They always do it right in San Francisco.

By August Ragone

SHOCK IT TO ME!’s VINCENT PRICE DOUBLE FEATURE HORROR SHOW

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH and TOMB OF LIGEIA

Special showings at Landmark’s Clay Theatre on October 27 & 28 at 7:00PM

The San Francisco-based classic horror film festival, SHOCK IT TO ME!, in conjunction with Landmark’s Clay Theater, present a very special two-night, “Vincent Price Double Feature” show on Tuesday, October 27 & Wednesday, October 28, 2009 with a pair of true horror classics dug up deep from the vaults of the legendary American International Pictures, as well as a cache of horror trailers and other spooky surprises.

Sidney Salkow’s THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964), features Vincent Price stars as the sole survivor of a biological disaster, which has rendered mankind into a race of nocturnal ghouls, whom he hunts by day – by driving stakes into their hearts – but must stave them off in a barricaded house by night, tormented by their unrelenting sieges.

Based on Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend”, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH was one of the inspirations for George Romero’s seminal Night Of The Living Dead (1968), and was revisited as the Charlton Heston vehicle,The Omega Man (1971), and then as I Am Legend (2007), starring Will Smith. But, neither of these over bloated productions had the grit, the oppressive, doomed atmosphere or the pathos of the original Vincent Price film.

Roger Corman’s TOMB OF LIGEIA (1965) was the final, triumphant entry in a series of eight, ground and box office breaking films based on the works of famed American Gothic writer Edgar Allen Poe, all (save for one)starring Vincent Price. Beautiful color cinematography shot on location in Norfolk, England, by highlight this tale of love and obsession beyond the grave, from a screenplay by Robert Towne (Chinatown).

Price plays Verden Fell, a man obsessed by the certainty that his dead wife has returned in the form of a black cat, seeking to possess his new bride-to-be – a dual-role played by Elizabeth Sheppard (originally cast as Emma Peel on The Avengers). Ultimately, Fell must face the spirit of Ligeia, and resist her hold on him or suffer his own horrible demise.

WHAT: Screenings of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH and TOMB OF LIGEIA

DETAILS: Landmark's Clay Theatre, 2261 Fillmore St, San Francisco

Tuesday, October 27 & Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM (show
includes both features)

Tickets are $10.00 general ($8.00 for student/senior/children under 12)

Advance tickets: https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/

Partner site: http://shock-it-to-me.com/

Information: (415) 346-1124

See Also: Vincent Price Presents - A Wonderful Horror Comics Anthology From Bluewater / House of Wax (1953)(Warner Bros) /

Vincent Price Presents - A Wonderful Horror Comics Anthology From Bluewater

Written By: Ken Hulsey

Being a writer that focuses on the fantasy entertainment realm isn't all that easy. Once you get established and people get to know about your work things start to find their way into your e-mail box and home mail box. Sometimes a lot of items get thrown at you all at once. It can be hard to keep up with it all, especially if you are easily distracted, like I am.

That leads me to the subject of this article, the really great horror anthology "Vincent Price Presents", which is published by Bluewater Comics. I have been really wanting to sit down and write about these books for several months now, but 'something' always seems to pull me away when I attempt to do so.

But not today.

If you were lucky enough to grow up during the 1970s, like I did, then you were probably a fan of the excellent horror comic books of the day. I personally spent many a day with my face planted in between the pages of Eerie, Creepy, Vampirella and the like. That was truly the golden age of horror and sci fi themed books.

Today the Washington based Bluewater Comics is publishing a new breed of horror and sci fi comics that may re spark the popularity of this genre yet once again.

The company also publishes a series of political based comics about president Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and even Oprah Winfrey, but I don't want to hold that against the company. Their other stuff is quite good.

On second thought, maybe those are horror titles?

Vincent Price Presents is presented in the same format as Rod Serling's famous television series "Night Gallery", in every issue Price sets the tone for the story, just like Serling did in the TV series.



The works of writer Chad Helder have been featured predominantly throughout the first year of the series. His work is very good, although it seems that he has a fixation on evil k-9's.

Helder's work on the very first issue of "Vincent Price Present's" was what stood out for me. A tale of a ruling class of Vampires who run a Nazi inspired government with camps to contain a constant food supply. Very chilling.

Another thing that helps this series stand out against the other horror comics is the often surreal artwork done by Rey Armenteros and Giovanni Timpano. Actually it is Armenteros who creates the very bizarre and frightening illustrations to go along with the author's stories. Timpano tends to do standard comic book work, that's not to say that the work is not good in it's own right.

I will have to say that it is Armenteros's strange illustrations that are the real backbone of this series. The work is bizarre, surreal and often times, grotesque. A perfect way to illustrate the horrific and macabre themes in the comics.

If you have not been exposed to "Vincent Price Presents" then I suggest you search you local comic book retailer for new and back issues of the comic. You will be transported into the world of the strange and supernatural very much like I was way back in the seventies with my collection of comic books and comic magazines.

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