$ 400.00
Who didn’t grow up on Vincent Price?
There aren’t a ton of actors steeped in the horror genre who have stars on the Walk Of Fame, but he does. By the time I started watching late night television, his work ranged from the classics like Dumas’ Three Musketeers, the epic Ten Commandments, to the better Richard Corman offerings like the Masque of Red Death. Vincent’s debut was in Service De Luxe in 1938, and his first foray into horror was with Boris Karloff in Tower of London, 1939. In NYC in the 70s, Channel 11 hosted Chiller Theater, exposing my young brain to all manner of exploitation cinema, grind house, and ground breaking horror films of all varieties. The one that stays with me the most is The Fly from 1958. That final scene, where the fly with the head of the scientist who invented teleportation, is trapped in what’s proportionally a gigantic spider, haunted me for years to come. Twice he worked with musicians, providing his signature baritone to albums by Alice Cooper and of course, Michael Jackson. Many don’t know he was a voracious art collector, studying art at Yale, and the commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts board. His legacy includes the Vincent price Art Museum located in Monterey Park, CA.
In the 1959 cult classic horror film The Tingler, Vincent stars as obsessed pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin. He discovers that extreme fear physically manifests as a parasitic creature that attaches to the spinal cords of humans, which can only be destroyed by screaming. Dr. Chapin tests the effects of fear on himself by taking LSD, making this film the first mainstream movie to depict the use of the drug (which was legal at the time). To heighten the in-theater experience, director William Castle wired seats in participating theaters to deliver small electric shocks to moviegoers at the film's climax. The infamous tagline was “A scream at the right time could save your life!”
This is another little one, 9” x 12” oil on canvas.
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