tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post6251398058301362775..comments2024-03-25T21:59:05.113-07:00Comments on 13: MADHOUSE - THEATRE OF BLOOD - Vincent Price (1974-73)Eegah!! and Tabonga!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-68025347559945766812012-10-17T15:13:06.500-07:002012-10-17T15:13:06.500-07:00As for you little Dougie, I grokked your Fu Manchu...As for you little Dougie, I grokked your Fu Manchu article, and I highly recommend it to anybody reading this! Very Impressive, glad I had a week off to read it! I must also say I don't mind being criticized by an old troll as literate as yourself!Eegah!! and Tabonga!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-75622230203591792042012-10-17T15:08:44.399-07:002012-10-17T15:08:44.399-07:00Thanx Doc!!Thanx Doc!!Eegah!! and Tabonga!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-78729819863967832662012-10-17T13:38:05.521-07:002012-10-17T13:38:05.521-07:00Thanks. Actually, my lack of postings was due in l...Thanks. Actually, my lack of postings was due in large part to my computer being on the fritz for the entire month of September. It's working fine again now, but getting back into old posting habits takes some doing. It is nice, as I returned to posting on some blogs, getting a few "We missed you. Where were you?" comments, and that they outnumber the "Oh Christ, is this hidous old troll back again? We'd hoped you'd died" comments.<br /><br />BTW, you would proabably enjoy my own current blog posting, "Many Men Smoke...", on my "Tallulah Morehead" blog, as it details, richly illustrated, the history of movies about Dr. Fu Manchu, in honor of Fu Manchu's centenuary this year. The first Fu Manchu story, a short story called <i>The Zayat Kiss</i>, was first published in 1912. It later became the first third of the first Fu novel, <i>The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu</i> which came out in 1913. There's no Fu like an old Fu.<br /><br />http://www.tallulahmorehead.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Now if you'll excuse me, I'm still in mourning for Turhan Bey.Douglas McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-21776714486099832542012-10-17T09:28:52.830-07:002012-10-17T09:28:52.830-07:00Dr Phibes is still my favorite... but i really lov...Dr Phibes is still my favorite... but i really love these two films also ...thanks for this Great Post...Dr. Thedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16437013120611829846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-35281925604468270852012-10-16T09:00:07.903-07:002012-10-16T09:00:07.903-07:00Rough week at The Dungeon, but, we always hang in ...Rough week at The Dungeon, but, we always hang in there...TABONGA!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-74935342333429693902012-10-15T15:59:17.823-07:002012-10-15T15:59:17.823-07:00Hey Doug,
I knew if I tried hard enough I...Hey Doug,<br /> I knew if I tried hard enough I could get you to leave a comment again, I just told Tabonga yesterday I wondered where you've been! My skyrocketing blood pressure, my three day stay in the hospital, and my own personal encounter with the grim reaper probably had something to do with my snippiness and ill-conceived review! At least they didn't rip my heart out completely!Eegah!! and Tabonga!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-26651340443103001512012-10-15T14:35:39.513-07:002012-10-15T14:35:39.513-07:00Okay, (Deep breath) Theater of Blood is my #1 all-...Okay, (Deep breath) <i>Theater of Blood</i> is my #1 all-time favorite Vincent Price movie. I <i><b>LOVE, LOVE, LOVE</b></i> that movie! I have two DVDs of it, because well after buying it, I had to buy it again to get <i>Madhouse</i> (I like <i>Madhouse</i> very much, Vinnie is essentially playing a parody of himself in it, but it is several steps down from <i>Theater of Blood</i>.)<br /><br />And the Shakespeare scenes in it are <i><b>NOT</b></i> filler! They are an essential part of the plot and the comedy. Because, "gross gory scenes" (Since when does this blog, of all places, get snippy about gross gore?) notwithstanding, it <i>is</i> a comedy. I remember seeing it the weekend it opened. The opening scene bewteen Michael Horden and his wife, when she starts spouting Calupernia's dream on the Ides of March had me laughing out loud in the theater before most of the audience had even caught on to what the joke was yet. (But then, I know my Shakespeare very well, having appeared in several of the Bard's plays. Oh, and my degree in Theater.)<br /><br /><i>Theater of Blood</i> is a rich masterpiece. The reviewer for the Los Angeles Times the week it opened held a similar opinion as he stated flat-out that Price should get an Oscar nomination for it.<br /><br />And then there's the backstage love story: Vincent Price met his third wife, Coral Browne, making that movie. Of course, he was still married to his second wife at the time, so the beginning of their affair was a bit of a scandal at the time. Must be the only time a man made a woman fall in love with him by electrocuting her while prancing about playing a broad gay sterotype.<br /><br />It's every bit as great as <i>The Abominable Dr. Phibes</i>.Douglas McEwannoreply@blogger.com