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VINCENT PRICE!

This man kicks all types of ass and every time I see him, he's never giving some tired ass performance for a paycheck, he puts his heart into every performance and doesn't succumb to just playing himself. I've just started watching Vincent Price's movies but the movie I watched last night so far takes the cake, "Tower of London"... Price does Shakesphere, come on it's frickin awesome, and it had GELDAR!!!! the sodomizer
 
cut this noise, the king of B is Bruce Campbell
 
Love Vincent Price! First film I saw him in was, I think, The Black Cat. It was either that or House of Wax. Either way, he was great in both! :up:
 
cut this noise, the king of B is Bruce Campbell

z0mg Bruce CAmpbell star in one good B-Movie that being Evil Dead 2, considering both Evil Dead 1 and Army of Darkness are both just okay... Oh and he made BUbba-Ho-Tep ridiculously over-rated... Don't get me wrong, I like Bruce Campbell and love Evil Dead 2... However, the true king would be vincent price...
 
z0mg Bruce CAmpbell star in one good B-Movie that being Evil Dead 2, considering both Evil Dead 1 and Army of Darkness are both just okay... Oh and he made BUbba-Ho-Tep ridiculously over-rated... Don't get me wrong, I like Bruce Campbell and love Evil Dead 2... However, the true king would be vincent price...

Ah no, Evil Dead 1 and Army of Darkness both own, plus he also has made Manaic Cop, Moontrap, Tornado!, Timequest, and Running Time

and plus Evil Dead 2 is one of the best movies ever made
 
Ah no, Evil Dead 1 and Army of Darkness both own, plus he also has made Manaic Cop, Moontrap, Tornado!, Timequest, and Running Time

and plus Evil Dead 2 is one of the best movies ever made

Fanboy... Have you even seen a Vincent Price movie before? :confused:

Let's look at the great movies you seem to bring up:

Maniac Cop

Moontrap

Tornado

Time Quest

Running Time

Out of those five, I've only ever heard of Running Time and I've heard of a lot of movies as well as having read Bruce Campbell's autobiography... You would of had a better shot at making a decent argument had you cited McHale's Navy and Hudsucker Proxy.

Let's look at the plot for moontrap

The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.

z0mG this sounds utterly amazing... Let's see the talent behind it, Robert Dyke, who's one other directorial credit is Time Quest... Let's see what that includes shall we?

A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Interesting... Too bad it couldn't even manage to muster up a 5 on IMDB.com's rating system.

I could go on but the simple fact of the matter is, your citing movies no one's even heard before and what's worse, I'm willing to bet that in all of them Bruce Campbell is exactly the same, completely over the top and cheezy, which is why Bubba Ho-Tep worked so well. Now let's get back to the only two other movies Bruce is known for... Evil Dead 1 is a solid effort but it's just a step above Braindead in the sense that it feels so unprofessional, the script is cheesy and really lacking, as well as the acting and make-up. What it makes up for those in those two areas is it's cinematography and cool death scenes. However, Evil Dead 2 is a huge improvement over the first and kicks all sorts of ass. And to boot, Bruce doesn't even do anything in the first one except react to ****.

Army of Darkness is awesome... if your a little kid or have a rather abysmal IQ. It's just Bruce acting macho for a hour and a half to a ridiculous plot that lacks any cohesian that you really don't feel for the character at all, at times it jumps so rapidly from one scene to the next, you sometimes often asks yourself how it went from here to there. Albeit the one liners are cool and all, it's no where near as cool as Evil Dead 2...

Now let's look at just some of Vincent Price's Filmography...

Fall of Usher
After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

IMDB.com rating 6.9/10

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The Fly

This is the original version of a scientist experimenting with matter transference accidentally exchanging one arm and his head with that of a fly which was in the transfer chamber.

IMDB.com rating 6.9/10
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Tower of London

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

IMDB.com rating 6.9/10
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Last Man on Earth

Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now...or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims begin to leave their graves, part of a hellish undead army that''s thirsting for blood...his!

IMDB.com rating 6.9/10
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The Masque of Red Death

Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.

IMDB.com rating 6.9/10
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Abominable Dr. Phibes

Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death...

IMDB.com Rating 6.9/10
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The Haunted Palace

Loosly based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", this fright flick opens with a warlock(Vincent Price)placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Generations later, the warlock's descendent(also Vincent Price)returns to the village to pick up where his ancestor left off.

IMDB.com Rating 6.4/10
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He also starred in the following noteworthy films
The Great Mouse Detectice
The Ten Commandments
Laura
The Three Musketeers
Edward Scissorhands
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After all that you dare say that Bruce Campbell is somehow the King of B-Movies? Could you even make the claim that BC filmography is anywhere near as impressive as Vincent Price's?
 
you did say king of B movies, which would mean king in movies so bad/ridiculous/cheesy that they're enjoyable. so putting down Bruce Campbell's filmography for being obscure, bad/ridiculous/cheesy is pretty much reinforcing the point that he is indeed the king of B movies.
 
you did say king of B movies, which would mean king in movies so bad/ridiculous/cheesy that they're enjoyable. so putting down Bruce Campbell's filmography for being obscure, bad/ridiculous/cheesy is pretty much reinforcing the point that he is indeed the king of B movies.

:( It's sad how little people know yet tout as knowledge... B Movies in today's internet culture has become a misnomer. B Movie does not mean so bad it's good, however, fanboys love to use it in this fashion. The history of B-Movie comes from the days when studios use to be able to own movies theaters and would have an A Movies and a B Movie. A Movie was the more expensive and prestigious movie while B Movie was the less prestigous and far lower in budget movie. When the US goverment declare that movie studios owning there own theaters was against the interests of the consumer, it was the end of real B-movies. However the term really means now a days, movies that are produced on severly lower budget, usually feature a slightly known name but not that well known. In terms people can understand here... Punisher (2004) would be a B-Movie while Spiderman would be an A movie it has nothing to do with quality, it has to do with budgets and such.

The reason Vincent Price is the king of b-movies is because studios would make these cheap movies and tag on Vincent Price's name because he always gave quality performances while usually Roger Corman(Director) would make the film work under such tight budgets. This is why I say Vincent Price is the King because he had these terrible budget movies yet he makes them shine and the low budget really works in the favor of these movies and gives them a charm A Movies can't have. For example, Tower of London was forced to use all recycled sets and was limited to a very select few sets which gave the movie a very clastrophobic feel as Vincent price would mope around in agony around the same exact sets, also it was forced to be filmed in black and white because of finacial issues, which also made it more awesome. And finally the cake is the battle sequence is a montage of stock footage from a much older film but you could never tell the difference.

Please... If anyone would like to defy these arguments... Please do however... If you people want to see Bruce is the king simply because he said a bunch of ridiculous one liners, go **** yourself :)
 
So you're the expert? Thanks for telling us that because we didn't know that. :whatever:
 
So you're the expert? Thanks for telling us that because we didn't know that. :whatever:

Obviously people don't know what a B-Movie is... I get the mentality that you want jump in because I'm being so blunt, and knock me down a peg or two, however try it with something called intellectual thought. I'm sorry if I'm harsh sounding however facts are facts, though one could argue that Bruce is the king of B-Movie no one's been able to provide a solid argument such as I. Is it pompous simply to state the truth? If you want because I was too lazy before to actually look it up... I'll cite wikipedia

"The term B movie originally referred to a motion picture made on a low or modest budget and intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. "

Just search B-Movie...
 
:( It's sad how little people know yet tout as knowledge... B Movies in today's internet culture has become a misnomer. B Movie does not mean so bad it's good, however, fanboys love to use it in this fashion. The history of B-Movie comes from the days when studios use to be able to own movies theaters and would have an A Movies and a B Movie. A Movie was the more expensive and prestigious movie while B Movie was the less prestigous and far lower in budget movie. When the US goverment declare that movie studios owning there own theaters was against the interests of the consumer, it was the end of real B-movies. However the term really means now a days, movies that are produced on severly lower budget, usually feature a slightly known name but not that well known. In terms people can understand here... Punisher (2004) would be a B-Movie while Spiderman would be an A movie it has nothing to do with quality, it has to do with budgets and such.

The reason Vincent Price is the king of b-movies is because studios would make these cheap movies and tag on Vincent Price's name because he always gave quality performances while usually Roger Corman(Director) would make the film work under such tight budgets. This is why I say Vincent Price is the King because he had these terrible budget movies yet he makes them shine and the low budget really works in the favor of these movies and gives them a charm A Movies can't have. For example, Tower of London was forced to use all recycled sets and was limited to a very select few sets which gave the movie a very clastrophobic feel as Vincent price would mope around in agony around the same exact sets, also it was forced to be filmed in black and white because of finacial issues, which also made it more awesome. And finally the cake is the battle sequence is a montage of stock footage from a much older film but you could never tell the difference.

Please... If anyone would like to defy these arguments... Please do however... If you people want to see Bruce is the king simply because he said a bunch of ridiculous one liners, go **** yourself :)

origin of phrase VS. common usage. if a elementary school kid calls one of his classmates gay, and the teacher tries to chastise him, he goes "i meant he's happy".
basically, that's not what B movie means anymore.
 
origin of phrase VS. common usage. if a elementary school kid calls one of his classmates gay, and the teacher tries to chastise him, he goes "i meant he's happy".
basically, that's not what B movie means anymore.

Get out... Please... Leave... I have no time for such ******ed arguments, if you can't provide a decent argument, you can leave. Even in Bruce Campbell's autobiography he references B-Movies in the way I have reference it, anyone who knows anything references this way, it's the select few fanboys and people who choose to just randomally make **** up that refer to it as such. However if your opinion is that Bruce is more entertaining, then by all means your entitled to such an opinion, however the term B-Movie refers to what I already posted. Bruce is hardly the B-Movie king with only really 2 good B-Movies under his belt (Bubba-Ho Tep & Evil Dead 2).
 
Get out... Please... Leave... I have no time for such ******ed arguments, if you can't provide a decent argument, you can leave. Even in Bruce Campbell's autobiography he references B-Movies in the way I have reference it, anyone who knows anything references this way, it's the select few fanboys and people who choose to just randomally make **** up that refer to it as such. However if your opinion is that Bruce is more entertaining, then by all means your entitled to such an opinion, however the term B-Movie refers to what I already posted. Bruce is hardly the B-Movie king with only really 2 good B-Movies under his belt (Bubba-Ho Tep & Evil Dead 2).

you have no time? how exactly did you gain such a high opinion of yourself?
if you really feel that strongly about your stance that's fine, i don't have a particular stake in this "debate" i was just f**king around. and now i'm glad i did because i find your inexplicable sense of self righteousness hysterical
 
Intellectual thought. Ha! Use your intellectual thought process and ponder upon the meaning of humility.

Anyway, there is also this definition:

"The B movie is a low-budget genre film designed to play before a main feature or, in modern use, a low-budget film with modest artistic aspirations or of an unconventional, energetic style."

Its open to interpretation.
 
:( It's sad how little people know yet tout as knowledge... B Movies in today's internet culture has become a misnomer. B Movie does not mean so bad it's good, however, fanboys love to use it in this fashion. The history of B-Movie comes from the days when studios use to be able to own movies theaters and would have an A Movies and a B Movie. A Movie was the more expensive and prestigious movie while B Movie was the less prestigous and far lower in budget movie. When the US goverment declare that movie studios owning there own theaters was against the interests of the consumer, it was the end of real B-movies. However the term really means now a days, movies that are produced on severly lower budget, usually feature a slightly known name but not that well known. In terms people can understand here... Punisher (2004) would be a B-Movie while Spiderman would be an A movie it has nothing to do with quality, it has to do with budgets and such.

The reason Vincent Price is the king of b-movies is because studios would make these cheap movies and tag on Vincent Price's name because he always gave quality performances while usually Roger Corman(Director) would make the film work under such tight budgets. This is why I say Vincent Price is the King because he had these terrible budget movies yet he makes them shine and the low budget really works in the favor of these movies and gives them a charm A Movies can't have. For example, Tower of London was forced to use all recycled sets and was limited to a very select few sets which gave the movie a very clastrophobic feel as Vincent price would mope around in agony around the same exact sets, also it was forced to be filmed in black and white because of finacial issues, which also made it more awesome. And finally the cake is the battle sequence is a montage of stock footage from a much older film but you could never tell the difference.

Please... If anyone would like to defy these arguments... Please do however... If you people want to see Bruce is the king simply because he said a bunch of ridiculous one liners, go **** yourself :)


Thanks for the history lesson, it's totally pointless though because you can say one thing and that was true in 1945, and is no where near true any more...

Hard Rock is no longer Eric Clapton
Rap is no longer giant blocks of improve
Independent now is a genre

what is true then is different now, and now B-movie is basically considered a bad movie, where as low budget good movies are called indie art house

Bruce Campbell is the king of B movies regardless of weather Vincent Price is in better movies or not (which isn't true cause Bruce has 3-4 movies that are better then most anything Price made).

How can you not say that Bruce Campbell didn't make something work under such a tight budget....? he basically made one of, if not the best horror trilogy ever for less than 2 million dollars, the first two where like 300, 000, and yeah Sam Raimi is great, and is the reason alot of it works, but the films live and die on Bruce Campbells charisma without it, it is just Dead Alive great movie, but nothing to seperate it from the others
 
Last Man On Earth is in my list of Top 5 best Vampire movies. Vincent Price is great. The Dr. Phibes movies are 2 of my favorites of all time, and im pissed they never made another one. Some of the concepts sounded so utterly brilliant for Phibes that it was scary.

Im still really pissed off at Sony for canceling the Special Edition of Witchfinder General. I think it was going to be an extremely better transfer with any and all deleted scenes re-inserted back into the film with quality matching the rest of the film. I dont know what else was going to be on it, but i was really looking foward to it.

The only things availible to see it are the VHS copy of The Conqueror Worm, which has synth music that gets really annoying. Some problems involving the music rights in the 80's caused the studio putting it out on tape to use synth music which is terrible. And there's the PAL format DVD that has the export and director's cut, with any deleted scenes inserted into the film, but from crap quality VHS footage that is really bad. Not to mention, no enhanced 5.1 sound or anything. I got the DVD for free though from a guy on another message board im part or and to my surprise, my cheap ass 5.1 system is an all-region DVD player so it played, which was nice. And the only reason i really wanted it was becuase of the music video "Hopkins, The Witchfinder General" by Cathedral was on there(They kick ass).

But i hope Sony gets some brains and decides to release it anyway.
 
Thanks for the history lesson, it's totally pointless though because you can say one thing and that was true in 1945, and is no where near true any more...

Hard Rock is no longer Eric Clapton
Rap is no longer giant blocks of improve
Independent now is a genre

what is true then is different now, and now B-movie is basically considered a bad movie, where as low budget good movies are called indie art house

Bruce Campbell is the king of B movies regardless of weather Vincent Price is in better movies or not (which isn't true cause Bruce has 3-4 movies that are better then most anything Price made).

How can you not say that Bruce Campbell didn't make something work under such a tight budget....? he basically made one of, if not the best horror trilogy ever for less than 2 million dollars, the first two where like 300, 000, and yeah Sam Raimi is great, and is the reason alot of it works, but the films live and die on Bruce Campbells charisma without it, it is just Dead Alive great movie, but nothing to seperate it from the others

This is up for debate... Evil Dead 1 and Army of Darkness to me are no where near the calibur of Evil Dead 2, my opinion. Evil Dead 2 is amazing, I've said it once and I'll say it again. Army of Darkness and Evil Dead are not. Msot of the stuff I see Campbell in is jsut him playing himself with that attitude, "Look it's me Bruce campbell", even though Vincent Price sunk to B-Movie status he never reviled in it or let it show in his performances, he just always was playing his characters new and different, hence why I call him the king to each his own.

"The B movie is a low-budget genre film designed to play before a main feature or, in modern use, a low-budget film with modest artistic aspirations or of an unconventional, energetic style."

How is this in any way shape or form mean "A movie so bad it's good"? REad the thread.
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He thinks he's the movie authority around here. Just let it go.

If someone says something stupid, I call on it, mainly to pass the time :D But I mean B Movies are movies that are so bad their good, is such a stupid inference it really needs to be put to a stop.
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CrimsonMist it truely is a shame that Sony stop making midnite movies, but alas that's the way it goes, at least we got what we go while we could :(
 

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