Vincent Price Triple Feature Gift Box (The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror)

A step in the right direction, but not far enough
I won't bother reviewing the movies contained, other than to say, if you haven't seen any of Vincent Price's films at AIP, particularly his collaborations with Roger Corman, you're missing out. This package offers three films, The Raven, the excellent Pit and The Pendulum, and Tales of Terror.

The good news about this package (for those of us used to the decades old MGM midnight movies releases), is that all three films are new, anamorphic encodings of the movies. The old releases looked godawful, especially when one watched them on a 16x9 widescreen television. All of the films are at least of reasonable, anamorphic picture quality in this presentation.

The bad news is that TGG direct has opted to squeeze all three films onto one single-sided dual layer DVD, and to save space, all are interlaced transfers. So while these undoubtedly look better than the old outings, they look nowhere near as good as these films could potentially look on DVD. A missed...

Vincent Price
These are great shows if you like Vincent Price and I do.
The Pit and the Pendulum is a wonderful classic so is The Raven.
Tales of Terror are some short stories and are great.

Vincent is "The Man"
What movie wouldn't be great with the late great Vincent Price one of the greatest actors of ALL time.

I have seen the majority of Mr. Price's movies (if not all). I am a TCM addict (especially since they can't make movies that can even come close to the classics).

Mr. Price was an Edgar Allen Poe fan and his performance in the movies made from Poe's stories proves this beyond the shadow of doubt. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff do these films great justice.

The Raven; being one of Mr. Poe's most noted stories, was, is and always shall be a delightfully entertaining film (as long as the classic masters noted are in them). The special effects were great (for that time), Jack Nicholson also has a part in the movie, I think that he was in his 20's at the time, you can spot him easily by his voice....lol.

Once you watch the classics you may find you can easily get hooked on them, as I did.

The Pit and...

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