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I absolutely love "House of the Long Shadows" it has been nine years since I have seen it. Does anyone know how to find a copy of it???? I know it probablly will not be on DVD for sure. But maybe VHS.
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No it is "House of the Long Shadows", it was released in 1983 and starred Desi Arnez Jr, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and Peter Cushing. It starred all of the great horrors figures of the 30's and 40's.
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i watched house of the long shadows 1983 for the first time last month (rental) and i thought it was really enjoyable,i wouldn't mind picking it up myself at some point.
great fun and what a cast!
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I saw The Monter Club back in the 80s and all i can remember is that it wasn´t very amusing. I would love to see it again now with different eyes though!
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It's an anthology of three seperate horror stories, all much in the same line as the Hammer House Of Horror TV series that was produced around the same time. The framing story in which Vincent Price and John Carradine visit the titular nightclub plays out more like a comedy sketch though, accompanied by some very cheezy, wanna-be popsongs. Price has two show-stealing monologues.. one at the beginning about the fornication between different types of monsters and the offspring they create, the other near the end about the human race being the worst monster of all. (yes, there seems to be a message here)
Price, Carradine, Donald Pleasence and Stuart Whitman form a great cast, although it's only Price and Carradine who actually share scenes together.
I have the region A blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, which is worth the money for the extra's alone. There are two interviews with Price (one running over 60 minutes, the other a 40 min. long audio-only interview). An additional interview with author and Price biographer David Del Valle is also included.
The movie may be an acquired taste, but the Scorpion release is top-notch !
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I saw The Monster Club on late night TV, probably around 1983. It never played theatres in the US because this was right around the time British horror films had run their course and weren't getting picked up for American distribution. I'm pretty sure that I fell asleep through part of it. The stories themselves were OK, but the linking sequences in the club with the poor looking monster masks and bad pop songs were pretty terrible. But it sure was fun to see Price and company together.
I have a soft spot for House of Long Shadows because it's a filmic record of the greatest horror stars all together for the one and only time. As a film, it's just okay, clearly one of the lesser films on Peter Walker's resume. Walker was such a dynamite director, and most of his other horror films are all so good--violent and controversial--that this film is disappointingly tame. It's too bad Hammer Films never got Cushing, Lee, and Price together for a film. (I'm sure that it was beyond their financial means.) In a perfect world, there would have been a version of Twins of Evil with Price as the witch hunter, Cushing as the town minister, and Lee as Count Karnstein. Right, Helen?
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