Monday 22 August 2011

Vincent Price narrates The Devil's Triangle (1974)

In the wake of pseudo-scientific works like Chariots of the Gods comes this 1970's documentary exploring the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the ocean between Bermuda, Miami and Cuba into where many boats and planes supposedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Now you can watch the documentary in four parts over on my MrPrice07 YouTube channel.

Here's the first part.



Monday 15 August 2011

Witchfinder General screens tonight at the Alibi Film Club in Dalston, East London - and it's free!


Tonight's the night for the free screening of Michael Reeves' 1968 historical horror at the Alibi Film Club in Dalston, East London preceded by the hokey Blood Beast Terror starring Peter Cushing and Wanda Ventham (whose son happens to be Benedict Cumberpatch).

For your enjoyment, here's the haunting theme from the film.

Saturday 13 August 2011

David Del Valle's Lost Horizons: Beneath the Hollywood Sign

Click here for my review of this entertaining read featuring anecdotes from not only about Vinnie, but also a host of other famous and not-so famous Hollywood legends. Written by David Del Valle who, as VP fans will know, got Price to give his most candid interview in 1988's The Sinister Image.

Monday 8 August 2011

Irwin Allen's 1957 all-star epic The Story of Mankind comes to DVD (in the US)

Irwin Allen produced this very odd adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume, featuring an all-star cast.

A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price) and The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) debating if humankind should be allowed to continue or be exterminated once and for all.

Both elemental forces present examples of human behavior at its best and worst, including Dennis Hopper as Napoleon, Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc, Virginia Mayo as Cleopatra, Peter Lorre as Nero, Edward Everett Horton as Sir Walter Raleigh, and Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Chico Marx as, respectively, Peter Minuit, Sir Isaac Newton, and a monk. A very curious find, indeed.

Released through Warner Bros on demand Archive Collection label.

Would you believe, I couldn't find a clip of Vincent on YouTube. Will have to upload one soon, in the meantime here's Dennis Hopper as Napoleon.

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Witchfinder General screens for free at the Alibi Film Club in East London on August 15


I'm currently writing a post about the many versions of this cult classic that is now available to genre fans, paying particular attention as to how the new UK blu-ray release from Odeon Entertainment compares with Metrodome's 2001 UK DVD release.

But before I launch that, I though I might give London-based Vincent Price fans the heads up on a free screening of Michael Reeves' 1968 historical horror on August 15 at the Alibi Film Club in Dalston, East London.

For your enjoyment, here's the haunting theme from the film.