Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection (The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Tales of Terror / Theater of Blood / Madhouse / Witchfinder General / Dr. Phibes Rises Again / Twice Told Tales) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616087805
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: MGMDM108780D
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Running Time: 675 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1973
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 10/16/2007
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The high baroque period of Vincent Price's career is well represented with this box, which offers seven horror-minded feature films and some supporting extras. If there were ever any doubt that Price was in on the joke, this collection would dispel it: in most of these movies he's having a ball, cheerfully sending up his own image--although the set also boasts perhaps his finest straight performance.
Thanks to the previous likes of House of Wax and The Fly, Price had his horror cred well established, which is perhaps why he's already winking at the idea in the earliest movie here, 1962's Tales of Terror. The movie certainly has an impeccable horror pedigree: three stories by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Richard Matheson, and directed by Roger Corman. Price stars in all three, making a slow start with "Morella," then clicking into gear with Peter Lorre in a broadly comic "The Black Cat," and winding up with great liquefying make-up (and Basil Rathbone) in "The Case of M. Valdemar." The 1963 Twice Told Tales borrows Corman's triptych set-up with three Nathaniel Hawthorne stories, but the results are fairly dull. The best of the trio is the first story, in which Price and Sebastian Cabot sip a youth potion, with regrettable results.
Witchfinder General (re-edited and known for years in the U.S. as The Conqueror Worm) is the gem of the collection, a truly harrowing film for which Price eschewed any hint of camp. He plays a 17th-century witchfinder, and the film pulls no punches in pointing out the sadism of his job (and the way religious paranoia is linked to misogyny). It's the best and final work by the promising director Michael Reeves, who died in 1969 from a drug overdose; he was only 24 when he made this film.
From there, the set skips into Price's 1970s silly season. The Abominable Dr. Phibes was a surprise hit in 1971, and it's easy to see the appeal: Price goes over the top in his portrayal of a Phantom of the Opera type who exacts revenge by invoking the Old Testament plagues. Joseph Cotten and Terry-Thomas are in the cast. Dr. Phibes Rises Again isn't quite as madly focused--this time the doctor is in Egypt, looking for a way to revive his late wife--but the tongue-in-cheek spirit prevails.
Those films paved the way for a similar but more inspired outing, and a movie Price spoke of as a personal favorite: Theater of Blood, a deliciously wicked thing about a ham actor who murders his critics. Not only does Price have a high old time reciting Shakespeare, he gets to knock off some wonderful victims: Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, and Price's future wife Coral Browne among them. Diana Rigg is a welcome bonus. Madhouse rounds out the disc, an actively bad movie along the same lines; Price plays a horror-movie actor whose personal instability mirrors his film persona. The picture is ham-handed in every way, though it's good to see Peter Cushing toe-to-toe with Price. Also in the set: a Disc of Horrors, with an hour's worth of featurettes on the man. --Robert Horton
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Required Viewing for Vicent Price Movie Buffs. It's a bunch of classical horror movies usually made from wicked Edgar Allen Poe Tales.
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Dr. Phibes (played by Vincent Price) is the most strange of villains - physically scarred beyond recognition, he is equally mentally scarred. He dances like Fred Astaire one moment, and then goes off to blithely commit the most shocking of murders. In a world of color and music and surreality, he is as inexorable as death...indeed he is death!
These movies are very hard to describe. At first glance, they appear campy and low-budget to the point of ridiculousness. However, what they actually ... Read More
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Excited when I saw this was available. 1st time ordering from Amazon. Excellent quality and price of dvd from vendor. Received it in a very timely manner!
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I have always enjoyed Vincent Price Movies, and getting this set was awesome he is a very good actor in anything he stars in
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Both Vincent Price films involving Dr. Phibes, first set on avenging his wife's death, and in the follow-up, moving with her (for good) to Egypt, are a rare blend of horror, the supernatural, the exotic and plain black humor. Vincent Price is at his very best, accompanied by a great cast of first-class actors with exceptional work done by all personnel involved. These are still a delight to watch and put to shame all the sad and sicko American attempts at horror/monster movies, serial-type or otherwise. ... Read More
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