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Classic Price, Lorre and Karloff movie

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 14 July 2022 12:34

For a long time I have loved The Raven, always have found funny and spooky with great lead performances and atmosphere. And I still think that. The special effects are a little dated, but are not bad enough to upset the film too much. Besides the Gothic settings are lavish and add to the atmosphere wonderfully. The throw-away one-liners and the dialogue in general is very clever, witty and arch, while the story while not bearing resemblance much to the Poe poem is thrilling in the duel between Price and Karloff and with a great atmosphere. The cast are brilliant. It was nice to see a young Jack Nicholson, and Hazel Court is a lovely presence. But the three leads are the main selling points. Boris Karloff's eerie command wonderfully sends up his classic screen image. Vincent Price is as ever brilliant, with his delivery wonderfully arch and his voice suave and distinctive. Stealing the film is Peter Lorre, his tipsy comic incompetence is a joy to watch and the comedy judged beautifully.

Overall, a comedy-horror classic. 9/10 Bethany Cox


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The Raven review

Posted : 12 years, 3 months ago on 30 December 2011 01:14

Well this movie is an interesting one. It's a dark humor horror movie and probably the most "Poe" one as Vincent Price recites a lot of the poem at the start and one line at the end. It's not one of my favourites, due to it being very slow at the start, but it's not bad overall. I find some of the other dark humor movies funnier too. The funny thing about watching this is seeing how bad Jack Nicholson is as an actor when he was very young. He sucked!

The premise of this movie is Dr. Erasmus Craven is forced to confront Dr. Scarabus after hearing he has taken his wife Lenore's soul. He comes to the castle, with his friends, and finds that Lenore never was dead but infact left him for Scarabus. Now it's a fight to the death!!! It's an interesting fight and some of the effects are lame, as with the music, but this one is for the kids I think anyway. I wouldn't recommend starting with this movie if your going to get into Price.


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Whispering Mute? Huh?

Posted : 13 years, 6 months ago on 29 September 2010 05:21

Now this is one freaky hilarious film. I love this film because it's so terrible. Jack Nicholson's Andre from France, or as he says "I'm ANN-drey from Fraaance." Goodness his accent is horrible but funny. He plays a French soldier, whom rides on a horse. However in many scenes, the horse changes color..aka different horse hahaha. There's a mute, who can whisper...yea and creepy tombstone/graveyard scenes. One of the best parts, is that bricks are falling into water and they float...hahah.

For a good laugh watch this film, it's ridiculous. I give it a 6 because it's so funny but overall it's a really bad film hahaha.


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