Vincent Price

Well, considering Halloween is just a few days away and what with all the most recent threads dwelling upon the subject, I thought Vincent Price deserved his own thread. Today also marks the thirteenth year since his death. Such a shame that I will never have the opportunity to meet him...But I have a feeling he shall rise again for I am certain he is a vampire or some form of immortal.

Here is the poem Tim Burton wrote dedicated to him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_YI_GHwfRg

Vincent Malloy is seven years old, / He's always polite and does what he's told. / For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, / But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. / He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat, / Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats. / There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented, / And wander dark hallways alone and tormented. / Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, / But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. / He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie, / In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. / So he and his horrible zombie dog, / Could go searching for victims in the London fog. / His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime, / He likes to paint and read to pass the time. / While other kids read books like Go Jane Go, / Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe. / One night while reading a gruesome tale, / He read a passage that made him turn pale. / Such horrible news he could not survive, / For his beautiful wife had been buried alive. / He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, / Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed. / His mother sent Vincent off to his room, / He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom. / Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life, / Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife. / While alone and insane, encased in his tomb, / Vincent's mother suddenly burst into the room. / "If you want to you can go outside and play. / It's sunny outside and a beautiful day." / Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak, / The years of isolation had made him quite weak. / So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen, / "I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again." / His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. / These games that you play are all in your head. / You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy. / You're not tormented or insane, you're just a young boy." / "You're seven years old, and you're my son, / I want you to get outside and have some real fun." / Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall, / While Vincent backed slowly against the wall. / The room started to sway, to shiver and creak. / His horrid insanity had reached its peak. / He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave, / And heard his wife call from beyond the grave. / She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands. / While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands. / Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams, / Swept his mad laugh to terrified screams. / To escape the madness, he reached for the door, / But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor. / His voice was soft and very slow, / As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe, / "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, / Shall be lifted - Nevermore!"

 

I'd always loved Vincent Price. His looks, his voice... the man was a wonderful actor.

 

He has a voice I could listen to all day long and he was hot when he was younger. He also had a wonderfully creepy sense of humour.

Speaking of his voice, I found a few of his audio books in this blog, down the very bottom:
http://scarstuff.blogspot.com/

 

I have myself on video finding out about Vincent Price passing.

 

And who can forget Egghead?

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Vincent Price is the baddest kind of bad-ass.

 

That voice. And I agree, he was pretty hot in his younger days.

I've been a huge fan of his since I saw House on Haunted Hill when I was 5 years old. About a sixth of my movie collection consists of his films.

 

Who could forget his incredible performance in the classic, The Whales of August?

But seriously, he was a classic. I always wondered who he would have played if he were in a Star Wars movie. I mean Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee made it, so why not him? I could've seen him (in his early days) playing Bail Organa.

 

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lol

 

Vincent Price scares the crap out of me. I do not like of him.

 

Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'all's neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell.
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of 40,000 years
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller.

 

That was the first time I ever heard Vincent. Although I didn't know who he was back then I thought his evil laugh was teh awesomeness!

 

"Hm... Delicious. Looks like a satyr at Vincent Price's house..."

I love that line!