Tag: Vincent Price
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There is something wonderfully strange about watching the opening credits of The Fly from 1958 and seeing Vincent Price sitting there behind David Hedison and Patricia Owens. Third billing. Vincent fucking Price. This is before Price became the Vincent Price we all know and love: the towering presence of gothic horror, the sinister voice, the…
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes is pure, unfiltered chaotic genius. A world where revenge is measured in mechanical organs, brass animals, and the kind of set design that looks like Salvador Dalí went on a shopping spree with a draftsman from Metropolis. Released in 1971, Robert Fuest didn’t care about realism, grit, or subtlety, he cared…
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Step away from the Technicolor vampires and the campy castle sets, because we are heading to the year 1645, a time when the English countryside wasn’t a place for a picnic; it was a place for mass executions. While the 1960s were supposedly about peace and love, a director barely in his mid-twenties named Michael…