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Vincent Price: An interview with French TV, from 1986

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O, Vincent Price - wasn’t he fab? He had this terrific ability to sound both menacing and amused at the same time. It was part of the reason why his performances were always so enjoyable to watch, he brought a dark humor to the most chilling of horror, as seen in Theater of Blood, Tales of Terror, or House on Haunted Hill. No matter how gruesome the thrill (pet dogs fed to their owner, a puppet skeleton scaring a victim into an acid bath), one instinctively knew that at heart Price was fun, guaranteed to always be good company. As can be seen from this short interview from French TV in 1986, where Mr Price talked about working with Roger Corman, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, James Whale, reminiscing about past successes and unmitigated failures.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

Vincent Price: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe


 
Part deux of Monsieur Price, after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.12.2011
07:29 pm
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Gorgeous ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ poster
11.05.2010
10:32 am
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Amazing vintage “teaser” poster for one of the greatest movies of all time—at least in my book—James Whale’s 1935 Bride of Frankenstein. On auction for a minimum bid of $375,000, but closer to half a million once you factor in the buyer’s premium for the house.

Below, one of the best scenes, when campy Ernest Thesiger, playing campy Doctor Septimus Pretorius, shows Victor Frankenstein his tiny creations. This scene must have knocked audience’s socks off in 1935.

“To a new world of gods and monsters!”
 

Via the @Letters of Note’s Twitter feed

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.05.2010
10:32 am
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