which schedule is the Vincent Price classic, “Pit and the Pendulum?
Vincent Price began as a character actor in Hollywood, but found he could score leading roles when the screenplay involved madness and the macabre. After hitting it big in House of Wax in the early 1950s, the rest was a snarky monster mash of fearsome fun. His career trajectory remained on a scary road that dead-ended at ghoulish Gothic castles and mansions. Most notable were director/producer Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe-inspired films in the 1960s, including House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum and The Raven, followed by wicked, nasty revenge films in the 1970s. His Poe characters often would be in a homicidal rage one moment, then in a corner with a devilish grin the next. Many of them were tortured souls haunted by a lost love or ghastly creatures from experiments gone awry. He often played it so the audience felt for the guy, while feeling he should be in a strait-jacket nonetheless. Vincent Price? Think Crazy, Kooky, Mischievously Spooky Uncle He was that rich, eccentric, crazy
Vincent Price began as a character actor in Hollywood, but found he could score leading roles when the screenplay involved madness and the macabre. After hitting it big in House of Wax in the early 1950s, the rest was a snarky monster mash of fearsome fun. His career trajectory remained on a scary road that dead-ended at ghoulish Gothic castles and mansions. Most notable were director/producer Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe-inspired films in the 1960s, including House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum and The Raven, followed by wicked, nasty revenge films in the 1970s. His Poe characters often would be in a homicidal rage one moment, then in a corner with a devilish grin the next. Many of them were tortured souls haunted by a lost love or ghastly creatures from experiments gone awry. He often played it so the audience felt for the guy, while feeling he should be in a strait-jacket nonetheless. Vincent Price? Think Crazy, Kooky, Mischievously Spooky Uncle He was that rich, eccentric, crazy
