1970s – The Sound of Vincent Price

Percy’s Progress (1974) | When Vincent Price joined a host of famous British faces in the oddball sex comedy sequel

29th August 201729th August 2017 by The Curator

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What do you get when you mix Master of Menace, Vincent Price, some Hammer Glamour screen sirens, 'Edna Everage' and a handful of famous British comedy stars? The 1974 sex comedy Percy’s Progress – that’s what! Here’s a look back at the very 1970s oddity. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? With a…

Persistence of Vision | The untold story of the greatest animated film NEVER made – The Thief and the Cobbler

27th August 2017 by The Curator

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Originally conceived in the 1960s, but only ever released in a heavily compromised version in the early 1990s (under different titles), The Thief and the Cobbler was animator Richard Williams’ ‘greatest animated film that was NEVER made’. The history of the film’s troubled production from script to ‘almost’ screen (over…

‘Moving to the next aisle we have arachnida, the spiders, our finest collection’ | When Vincent Price gave Alice Cooper Nightmares

27th April 201727th April 2017 by The Curator

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DID YOU KNOW? The Alice Cooper TV-special The Nightmare, based on his first solo album Welcome To My Nightmare had its US debut on 25 April 1975. You can watch it in full at the end of this post. In the Emmy-award winning special, Cooper is Steven, a young man trapped…

Time Express (1979) | A look back at the US mini-series that was Fantasy Island on wheels!

26th April 201726th April 2017 by The Curator

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The 1979 CBS four-part mini-series, Time Express, was broadcast from 26 April to 17 May in the US, from 27 November to 18 December in the UK, and between July and August of 1980 in Australia (the same time that Vincent Price toured the country with his one-man show, Diversions…

A Black Day for Bluebeard (1974) | When Vincent Price played the vamp for The Snoop Sisters

19th March 201719th March 2017 by The Curator

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[gallery size="full" columns="2" ids="1192,1195,1193,1191"] In this fourth and final episode from the 1974 made-for-TV whodunit series The Snoop Sisters in which Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick played two elderly spinster sleuths, Vincent Price guest starred as Michael Bastion a washed-up horror movie star suspected of murdering his wealthy wife. Also…

The Carol Burnett Show (1974) | Vincent Price shows his funny side

9th February 20179th February 2017 by The Curator

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Of all of Vincent Price's many guest appearances on US comedy shows, I've always loved his turns on The Carol Burnett Show, the hilarious variety sketch show that also starred Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway, and which ran for 278 episodes on CBS from 11 September…

19 Things You Must Know About Scream and Scream Again

7th February 20178th February 2017 by The Curator

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‘Composite beings, half-synthetic, half-human transplant. They live, they kill, but they cannot die. Only boiling acid will dissolve them, halt their unearthly lust.’ So went the promotional taglines on the posters of Scream and Scream Again – a bizarre, complex, surreal 1970's British feature which famously teamed up Vincent Price,…

Goblins at the Bath House and The Calamander Chest (1978) | Two hair-raising tales of terror narrated by Vincent Price

6th June 20164th June 2016 by The Curator

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Published by Caedmon (TC 1574) in 1978, this vinyl record contains two tales of the supernatural. Goblins at the Bath House is an Estonian fairy tale collected by Ruth Manning-Sanders in A Book of Ghosts and Goblins (1968), recorded at Caedmon Studios, New York. The Calamander Chest is a short story by…