#comedy of terrors

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre -

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) dir. Jacques Tourneur

#vincent price #peter lorre #the comedy of terrors #comedy of terrors #funny #singing #song #these guys are the best #they work so well together #dynamic duo #best team EVER #bicon #bisexual #okay i wanna be vinnys wife in this movie #so he can treat me like shit and we can later have ugly makeup sex #what #hes so sexy #unf #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #classic horror #gifs

[collinsportmaine]

There’s a new production of Dracula, Off-Broadway, in New York. Based on the trailer (link below) this Dracula appears to be Bisexual. It make sense… when you’re a vampire you might as well double your option at love and your next mean!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyEkn_aPyrI/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#Dracula #off broadway #vampire #NYC #James Daly #bisexual #comedy of terrors

[voltaical-art]

Been watching a lot of Vincent Price movies lately <3

#Vincent price #art #comedy of terrors #the raven #the haunted palace #the pit and the pendulum #he’s so fun to draw #got facial features like an animated character #and by a lot of movies I mean like 15 #in the past week

[ignis--fatuus]

Nobody: 60s/70s Horror Movie Candles:

Seriously what is is with old 60s movies and having these candles????? What was the chokehold red twisted candles had on the 60s Hollywood Horror scene? Did they order too many? Was the prop department desperate to get rid of them? Why were they in every movie?

What dirt did the candle company have on the horror genre?

#vincent price #basil rathbone #peter cushing #christopher lee #60s horror #60s hollywood #horror #horror movies #horror films #horror comedy #1960s #1960s horror #1960s movies #the premature burial #the tell tale heart #the raven #tales of terror #comedy of terrors #tomb of ligeia #ligeia #house of usher #edgar allan poe #dracula #count dracula #seriously if you pay attention these candles are EVERYWHERE

[weirdlookindog]

"5 SPINE TINGLING NIGHTMARES!"

An Evening with Karloff, c. late 1960s

#an evening with karloff #boris karloff #die monster die #the terror #the raven #comedy of terrors #black sabbath #horror movies #pressbook

[soapkaars]

do you think any Lorre characters knit? I know Conseil can sew (he mends his own clothing in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) but like....I have a feeling there's gotta be someone who knits. Maybe Felix Gillie?

To be very honest, I can’t really imagine any Lorre character doing anything in fabric arts like knitting or embroidery… while I enjoy inventing modern characters for Lorre to play, all the ones he actually did on screen are too wrapped up in their time period for me to imagine them doing anything more than repairing clothes or tailoring. That said, I do think Felix would be tempted to knit if it was something he knew would make Amaryllis happy! And perhaps the General, mostly because that man is a chaotic bisexual and I can imagine him doing something like that for the hell of it (maybe stealing some lady's knitwork first)

(Also I briefly thought of Joel Cairo, but then I realised that man couldn’t hold a needle if his life depended on it)

#felix gillie #comedy of terrors #conseil #20000 leagues under the sea #the general #the secret agent #peter lorre #drawing #ask soap

[hallucinationhorrors]

#comedy of terrors #vincent price #peter lorre #60s horror #my gif #hallucination horrors

[jerktournament]

ROUND ONE - Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) VS Waldo Trumbull (Comedy of Terrors)

!!! PROPAGANDA BELOW !!!

MR. DARCY: "He's such an ass. He insults people where they can hear him "...not handsome enough to tempt ME." The whole town likes Bingley more than him despite the consensus being that Darcy is more handsome just because he's so rude to people. He won't talk to anyone unless he thinks it'll be interesting. He proposed by listing every single trait he doesn't like about Elizabeth and insults every member of her family in the process. He's mad that he's in love with her because he thinks he's above her when she thought they had some mutual hatred going on."

WALDO TRUMBULL: "Not only does he murder people to bring customers in to his undertaker's business, but he's a petty bully who yells at and insults his wife, constantly mocks and mistreats his employee Felix Gillie (making him do all the work while Trumbull sits around drinking and snarking at him, and at one point telling him to sit down then *shoving him onto the floor* and laughing as he asks if he's "comfortable"), and tries to poison his father-in-law. His first scene starts with him covertly giving the middle finger at a funeral, then when the mourners have left he digs up the coffin so he can dump the body into the grave and reuse the coffin to save money. A few scenes on he shoves a random guy out of his way in the street. He's a hypocrite who says "is there no morality left in this world?!" when the widow of a man he murdered doesn't pay him for the funeral. The only character he's nice to is his cat."

#mr darcy #waldo trumbull #pride and prejudice #comedy of terrors #fitzwilliam darcy #poll

[conventionalwisdomcomic]

My blog about 1963's Comedy of Terrors is up FOR FREE on Patreon!

#conventional wisdom #mine #comedy of terrors #vincent price #peter lorre

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

#goodnight out there #goodnight out there whatever you are #goodnight #weird #the weird #horror #movie #film #Comedy of Terrors #Vincent Price #technicolor

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre as Waldo Trumbull and his assistant, Felix Gillie attempt to murder Trumbull's landlord, Mr. Black (Basil Rathbone) and shove him inside of a casket alive.

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) dir. Jacques Tourneur

#vincent price #Peter Lorre #basil rathbone #casket #coffin #spooky #horror #halloween #the comedy of Terrors #comedy of Terrors #if you havent seen this...you MUST #thank me later #vinny is also insanely hot and evil as a drunk murderer/undertaker #bicon #bisexual #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #funny

[wastedarkcell]

The Comedy of Terrors, 1963

Inside, 2021

#comedy of terrors #inside #vincent price #bo burnham

[angelamontoo]

@babyadrianbat can do!

Starting with a character who I think would be nicer to trick or treaters, we have Felix(and Amaryllis ofc). Partially because of when their film takes place, I like the idea of them making homemade treats for the kids like candy-apples

Next someone who I see being very much not in the seasonal spirit is Dr Arthur Lorentz. It's a vicious cycle of Arthurs grouchyness and refusal to offer candy making him a prime target to the neighbourhood children for pranks, which further fails to endear them or the holiday to Arthur and increases his bitterness. Maybe after he and Nathaniel started living together he began to appreciate Halloween more(or at least made peace with the fact that he couldn't stop Billings from decorating the house and feeding the twerps that came to the door like stray dogs) but until then Arthur would only think of October 31st as the day before Emily starts work an hour earlier to clean the outside of his house from dried egg, TP and smashed pumpkin

I enjoy the idea of Joel being surprisingly nice to trick or treaters, doting over them and complimenting the impressive craftsmanship of their costumes. I get that there's nothing that particularly suggests it in canon, but idk I just love the idea if Cairo secretly being a mom at heart, or at least having a soft spot for children that makes him seem like less of a bad guy

Someone with no such soft spot is Abbott

Finally, I'd be remiss not to include Herman and Jonathan. Like most of the AAOL fandom I like the idea of Herm and Chonny being able to find somewhere to settle down and live a more calm, domestic life. Also like most of the fandom I think Jonathan being great with kids is a really cute idea. I guess because it seems like he had such an unpleasant childhood and knows how valuable kindness really is to children, especially ones who feel othered and alone. So naturally it's usually Jonathan who answers when trick or treaters come knocking. At first this was just because Herman was often too busy, inebriated or both to answer, but it didn't take him long to notice how enthusiastic his partner was to give out the candy

#peter lorre #the maltese falcon #joel cairo #arsenic and old lace #herman einstein #jonathan brewster #the man who knew too much 1934 #abbott #the boogie man will get you #dr arthur lorentz #comedy of terrors #felix gillie #i love drawing weird lil children creatures so this was a fun post #i especially enjoyed drawing the kids at felux and Amaryllis door #i tried to make them look like those creepy kids you see in turn of the century Halloween costumes #my art #also sorry this took a while

[twistedtummies2]

The Price May Be Right - Number 5

Welcome to “The Price May Be Right!” I’ve been counting down My Top 31 Favorite Vincent Price Performances & Appearances! The countdown will cover movies, TV productions, and many more forms of media. We’ve reached the Top 5 for the countdown! Today we focus on Number 5: Mr. Trumbull, from Comedy of Terrors.

There’s a difference between your favorite performance for an actor and your favorite actor’s movie. To give you a better understanding of what I mean by this, here’s an example: my favorite Ian McKellen performance/character is Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings. However, my favorite Ian McKellen movie – meaning a film in which McKellen is really the driving character of the story – would be either the televised version of The Scottish Play in which he starred, or the theatrically-released film “Gods and Monsters.” I say this because my fifth and fourth place picks for this countdown are my two favorite Vincent Price movies…but, as you can guess from the fact there are three roles above them, they are not necessarily my favorite Vincent Price characters or performances. The first of those two films to cover is one of my all-time favorite comedy movies, “Comedy of Terrors,” from 1963. This movie was made by AIP, the same company behind the Corman-Poe Cycle of films. In fact, it was made at the same time a couple of those movies were being constructed. Indeed, with its aesthetic and tone, it almost feels like one of those movies, barring the complete lack of connection to Edgar Allan Poe (not that it would stop anyone from advertising “Witchfinder General” as a Poe movie later, but that’s another story). Much like “The Raven,” the movie is a horror homage and spoof, only “Terrors” is actually much darker and more adult in tone than “The Raven” was. It also features a lot of the same cast: Vincent is here, of course, along with Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff. They are joined by Basil Rathbone as a little extra tricky treat. The plot focuses on Price and Lorre’s characters: Mr. Waldo Trumbull, the perpetually drunk and thoroughly crooked head of an undertaking business, and his blundering henchman, an inept coffinmaker and former bank robber called Mr. Felix Gillie. Trumbull is a totally awful so-and-so: he is verbally abusive to his (admittedly rather henpecking) wife, constantly schemes to poison his father-in-law for seemingly no other reason than the old man annoys him, and spends almost everything the business earns on drink. (For the record, the father-in-law is played by Karloff.) Every year, in order to pay the rent they owe their landlord, Trumbull and Gillie ride out to some rich old person who lives in or around their city. Gillie helps Trumbull break into the house, and upon entry, Trumbull suffocates the one in charge of the home with a pillow, and makes it seem like they died of natural causes. This allows them to get enough money to pay off the annual rent. One year, when one of these wicked schemes goes awry, thus putting them in danger of eviction, the pair decide to go after their landlord – Mr. Black, played by Rathbone – but what seems like the perfect crime soon turns into a wild nightmare for all parties involved. While the film has a lot of dark moments and themes, it is COMPLETELY played up for laughs, and every single actor delivers perhaps one of the finest performances of their career. Vincent and Lorre, however, are easily at their finest here. This may actually be my favorite of Lorre’s performances, in particular, which is saying quite a lot, and it’s easily one of my favorites for Vincent. Although Mr. Trumbull is a completely horrible and appalling creature, Price somehow manages to make him humorous and enjoyable. There’s such a fine string of irony to the character, as he is easily the most awful person in the story, yet he seems to be totally unaware of just how bad he, himself, is. For example, in one scene, Trumbull discovers that the widow of his most recent victim – now a client of his – has run away to America without paying anything for her husband’s funeral, absconding with all of the family fortune. Realizing he’s been swindled, he looks heavenward and mournfully intones, “Is there no morality left in this world?” I think that sums up the character better than anything else I could say. Honestly, I’d love to see this movie turned into a stage play, sometime. It feels like it could possibly make a great one…but finding a team to match, or even come close, to the chemistry between Price and Lorre, and the charm each actor has, would be next to impossible. We are getting closer to the end, comrades. Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 4!

#list #countdown #best #favorites #top 31 vincent price performances #the price may be right #vincent price #number 5 #horror #comedy #dark comedy #peter lorre #boris karloff #basil rathbone #comedy of terrors #mr. trumbull #waldo trumbull

[studebakerhearse]

#whatever. I need him #comedy of terrors #video

[soapkaars]

Force 3 Lorre characters to make boxes with at night. Or just one, but he has to be extra miserable.

So this ask has some 🎵backstory 🎶 - yesterday @faustiandevil and I watched The Tot Family (Isten Hozta Örnagy Úr) by Zóltan Fábri and it was fantastic. It’s such a great film and here’s a link for all of you to watch it yourselves (it has subtitles!):

Now that you have watched it and you have some context, you can now appreciate this drawing:

Featuring The General as the Major because who else has similar fucked up cat vibes, with poor Herman Einstein, Felix Gillie, and Kismet stuck folding boxes to appease the madman

#peter lorre #ask soap #drawing #doodle #the general #secret agent #kismet #my favorite brunette #felix gillie #comedy of terrors #herman einstein #arsenic and old lace