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Happy Halloween, everybody!

Thank you to everyone who voted in my movie marathon poll. Vincent Price won over on dreamwidth and Boris & Bela won over on livejournal, so I have decided to combine the two and make the marathon Films (Tenuously) Based on Poe. That gives us The Black Cat and The Raven (which have nothing to do with Poe except the titles) and Masque of the Red Death and Pit and the Pendulum, at least to start with. I've never actually seen the two Vincent Price films before, so that's an exciting treat.

I hope you all have a marvelously spooky day.

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Things I have learned today:

- The Pit and the Pendulum is kind of a boring movie

- Masque of the Red Death, however, is totally kickass. It has Satanist!Vincent Price, a woman being mauled to death by a hawk, a plot that makes sense and yet still feels like a dream, and the walking talking tarot-card reading personification of a plague. Awesome.

- And they did Hop Frog, which is totally my favorite Poe story. (Though the relationship between Hop Frog and Esmeralda is a little creepy onscreen, mostly because dubbing an older woman in for her lines does not erase the fact that that is clearly a 10 year old girl.)

- I like Mr Price so much more when he's being evil than when he's being fragile and haunted. Not that fragile and haunted isn't nice, but mostly I want Vincent Price to smirk at people and say witty things and then murder them horribly. Look, I imprinted on The Great Mouse Detective in many and varied ways, all right?

- The dvd with The Black Cat and The Raven on it no longer functions. I can watch the first 20 minutes of The Black Cat and then everything freezes - just long enough for Hjalmar to start leading Vitus down the spiral stair into the creepy basement of dead ladies and Satanists. It's terribly sad.


Still, I got a few fun movies in, and a lot of knitting. And now I have to get ready for choir.