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DavidS - Sep 19, 2009 5:37:33 am PDT #4186 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Anybody seen the movie The Haunted Palace with Vincent Price?

It's in the series of Poe movies he made with Roger Corman but is actually based on the Lovecraft story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."

I think I have to track this down. It's got an elder horror in the basement and everything.

The plot is weirdly similar to the Barbara Steele classic Black Sunday. Price is a warlock who's burned alive in the 1700s and puts a curse on the village (causing many deformed mutations) and when his ancestor comes back to take over the property in the 20th century the ancient evil spirit tries to take over his soul. (There should be a short hand name for this recurring trope.)

Haunted Palace trailer.

There don't seem to be a lot of Lovecraftian movies: Haunted Palace, Call of Cthulu (the recent silent one); Re-animator, The Dunwich Horror...

-t - Sep 19, 2009 5:51:55 am PDT #4187 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Does In the Mouth of Madness count?

DavidS - Sep 19, 2009 5:55:04 am PDT #4188 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yeah, that counts.

Did anybody see the silent Call of Cthulu? Looks cool.

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 19, 2009 6:58:22 am PDT #4189 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Yeah, it was very atmospheric and nicely done.

Chthulhu Mansion, not so much.

Frankenbuddha - Sep 19, 2009 7:11:23 am PDT #4190 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

There don't seem to be a lot of Lovecraftian movies: Haunted Palace, Call of Cthulu (the recent silent one); Re-animator, The Dunwich Horror...

There was a Boris Karloff one that was an adaption of The Colour Out of Space, but it was called something else. Also, From Beyond may as well have been Lovecraft (it was more true to the spirit of Lovecraft than Re-Animator, love that film though I do).

Night Gallery did a version of Cool Air.

And lord knows the Evil Dead movies put Lovecraft in a blender with Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges and hit frappe.

Aims - Sep 19, 2009 7:15:40 am PDT #4191 of 30000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

We're going to see Kevin Smith tonight!! Woohoo!!

erikaj - Sep 19, 2009 9:08:15 am PDT #4192 of 30000

Always Anti-fascist!

Love Kevin Smith.

DavidS - Sep 19, 2009 11:42:49 am PDT #4193 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Cool. Check out this set of Eurospy posters.

Note that beautiful Bond girl, Daniella Bianchi, got to be a badass spy in Special Mission Lady Chaplin.

Volans - Sep 20, 2009 2:23:19 pm PDT #4194 of 30000

move out and draw fire

I love the silent Call of Cthulhu. Cool Air is here from Netflix, but S4 Supernatural is taking priority.

Dagon, or something similar, was pretty good. A Spanish or Portuguese movie, I think.

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 20, 2009 4:36:36 pm PDT #4195 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

There's also an episode of Masters of Horror that adapted "Dreams in the Witch House."

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