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Summary: A great B-movie!
Review: The Raven stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as three wizards. It has everything a B-movie needs: terrible dialog, special effects that border on non-existence, and much more. It is highly entertaining, and a great laugh (even though it is billed as "the macabre masterpiece of terror!")As a special extra, a very young Jack Nicholson plays Peter Lorre's bumbling son! THIS IS A MUST-SEE!
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Summary: A great B-movie!
Review: The Raven stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff special effects that border on non-existence, and much more. It is highly entertaining, and a great laugh (even though it is billed as "the macabre masterpiece of terror!") As a special extra, a very young Jack Nicholson plays Peter Lorre's bumbling son! THIS IS A MUST-SEE
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Summary: Watch this again? Nevermore: Roger Corman's The Raven
Review: There is a fine line between cheesy campy horror film, and funny horror film. This falls into the former category. The plot concerns three sorcerers who try to one up each other after they visit the gothic castle home of one. The plot soon gives way to humor that makes Adam Sandler look like Noel Coward. So many people find this stuff hilarious, but the lack of laughs makes this painful to watch. Corman did one decent film, "Frankenstein Unbound," but his penchant for no budget and little thought to scripts have resulted in films on the level of Ed Wood. No one dares speak of this, however, because Corman is revered for giving up and comers their starts and always making a dime. Anyone can make a dime off a celluloid pile that costs a nickel. "The Raven" features Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Peter Lorre, and they are all terrible. The mug for the camera incessantly, and do not deliver one laugh. Jack Nicholson, young and fit, shows up in time to give no proof he would ever win Oscars. Corman's direction is standard, and Richard Matheson's screenplay seems like it was composed as the film progressed. I would put this on the same level as Disney's live action output of the 1970's: cheesy, cheap, and really bad. This is unrated, and contains mild physical violence and very mild profanity.
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Summary: "Quoth The Raven"
Review: This Book is an adaptation of Lou's Album of the same name(which is an adaptation of Lou's play POEtry). Overall it is a good read for the Reed fan or the Poe fan. In the book, Reed slightly adapts some of Poe's most memorable poems to reflect his feelings/experiances. Interesting stuff.
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Summary: dark humor
Review: This cult classic from Corman is a delightful mix of humor, magic, thrills and special effects. The cast is simply great, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Karloff and (in an early screen role) Jack Nicholson. Don't miss it you'll spend a great time. "Action-packed and darkly humorous to the end, "the Raven" is utterly bewitching".
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Summary: Quote the watcher-Evermore
Review: This flick is hilarious. Price and Lorre are comic geniuses and it's a shame they didn't make more. Karloff seems to be having as much fun as the others.
The story has nothing to do with Poe's poem. Price and Lorre are socerors, as is Karloff. The three are engaged in magical war while Lorre's son, Jack Nicholson, falls for Price's daughter, adding the romantic interest.
The laughs come fast and furious, ranging from slapstick to pithy sayings. It's about as far from horror as one can get. It also shows that the horror genre was declining, awaiting Hammer's revival of the classic horror characters.
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Summary: Dark Comedy at its best and a young Jack Nicholson
Review: This has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it years ago. It is a beautiful piece of Dark Comedy with an unbeatable cast. When you put Vincent Price and Peter Lorre together and let them ad lib you get some amazing stuff. Boris Karloff was amazing as usual even with his health problesm(you may notice they cut away on the scene with him on the stairs because he could not climb down them well). Also, this movie is graced by an extremely young Jack Nicholson. Not a bad acting job and if you want to see more then go see The Terror. It was filled right after The Raven since they had some left over money. You cannot beat spooky castles, ravens, dead bodies, bats blood, magical duels and scenes of the same firey wall falling. If you like Roger Corman or any of the actors in the movie then this is a must see along with The Comedy of Terrors, another black comedy made after the Raven was so successful. Keep the faith, dExtrosien
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Summary: Dark Comedy at its best and a young Jack Nicholson
Review: This has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it years ago. It is a beautiful piece of Dark Comedy with an unbeatable cast. When you put Vincent Price and Peter Lorre together and let them ad lib you get some amazing stuff. Boris Karloff was amazing as usual even with his health problesm(you may notice they cut away on the scene with him on the stairs because he could not climb down them well). Also, this movie is graced by an extremely young Jack Nicholson. Not a bad acting job and if you want to see more then go see The Terror. It was filled right after The Raven since they had some left over money. You cannot beat spooky castles, ravens, dead bodies, bats blood, magical duels and scenes of the same firey wall falling. If you like Roger Corman or any of the actors in the movie then this is a must see along with The Comedy of Terrors, another black comedy made after the Raven was so successful. Keep the faith, dExtrosien
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Summary: a magickal technicolor trip into the unknown and beyond
Review: This is an absolute charmer of a movie - full of bold colours, cute SFX and great performances from Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price. The film culminates with a battle of sorcery between Price and Karloff - great stuff! Also look out for Jack Nicholson in an early role as the youthful hero.
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Summary: Close, but not quite
Review: This is somewhat of a hard film to measure because it is not bad, but it is not what it could have been. Vincent Price plays a wishy-washy wizard who is mourning the loss of his wife Lenore when he runs into Peter Lorre who plays a drunken wizard who has been turned into a raven. Lorre informs Price that he has seen his wife at the castle of Dr.Scaribus (Boris Karlof). Price and Lorre, along with a young Jack Nicholson, set off to confront Karlof. This film tries hard to be a comedy with the trappings of a horror film. This film has a great cast of horror veterens that is wasted in a cornball comedy, but this cast also keeps this film from being a total waste and they do make this film watchable. Karlof and Hazel Court are ecspecially good in their roles as the heavies. This is probably the weakest of Roger Corman's Poe films even though it boasts the best cast.
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