Does any movie buff know of a Vincent Price film where he constantly talks to a portrait of his late wife (I assume) named Lenore? That’s about all I can recall.
Any ideas?
- Jinx
Sounds like “The Raven”.
“The Raven.”
Would that be Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”? (Never more!)
- Jinx
Yes.
Vincent Price made several movies in the 60s, loosely (very loosely) based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, all directed by Roger Corman (of the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS fame.)
In THE RAVEN, he does indeed pine for his lost wife Lenore and has a portrait. It’s primarily a comedy film, with 1960s-horror features (opening the casket to reveal the decaying corpse, etc), and includes Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in the cast… as well as a very young Jack Nicholson as the insipid young hero. It’s actually one of my favorites of that series.
OTOH, if the late wife’s name isn’t Lenore, then it could be “Morella” – from another of those Edgar Allen Poe movies, called TALES OF TERROR, that does three short episodes (the other two are “The Black Cat” with Peter Lorre, and very amusing!) and “M. Valdemar.”
I have most of those on DVD, God knows why.
Yes, the title is from the Poe poem but the movie itself is extremely loosely based on the poem, and “extremely loosely based” is being generous. It was one of a series of Po-titled movies made in the 60s by Roger Corman.
Which one is it where he lives in a haunted house on a hill?
::ducks::
I think it was called The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.
I think that was the one where he had a son named Edward who had Scissors for hands. You know, The House on Haunted Hill.