A beloved actor whose distinctive voice made him a master of screen menace, Vincent Price was born May 27, 1911, in St. Louis, the son of a successful candy tycoon. A graduate of Yale and the University of London, he made his stage debut in 1935 in "Victoria Regina."His 1938 film debut in Service Deluxe and his later work in Laura and The Song of Bernadette established Price as a fine character actor, but it was 1953's House of Wax that typecast him in horror roles. The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill were followed by The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Theatre of Blood and many more.
He teamed with Bette Davis for The Whales of August (1987), and for his final big-screen appearance, he played the creator of Edward Scissorhands (1990). In between his movie, stage and TV roles, Price was a fine-art consultant for Sears Roebuck. He died Oct. 25, 1993.
House of WaxIn this spine-tingling film -- one of the first 3D movies ever made -- Vincent Price thrills as Professor Henry Jarrod, the creepy curator of a wax museum who loses his beloved business to a fire and then rebuilds it. This time, though, he doesn't use wax models, but a ghoulish alternative: dead... Read More
House on Haunted HillMillionaire Frederick Loren offers five people $10,000 to stay a night in a remote haunted house, giving each of them a loaded gun as a "party favor." Throughout the night, they're terrorized by skeletons, disembodied heads and other grisly apparitions. Will any of the guests survive to win the... Read More
The Tingler / Zotz!This double feature pairs a classic horror flick -- about a pathologist (Vincent Price) who experiments with a parasite that clings to the spinal cord of victims -- with a classic comedy about a professor (Tom Poston) who discovers the zotz, a coin with magical properties. William Castle, who... Read More
Panic in Year Zero / The Last Man on EarthThis double dose of horror capitalizes on our fears of apocalyptic destruction. In Panic in Year Zero (1962), a tight-knit Los Angeles family flees their home just before the city is hit by a hydrogen bomb. In The Last Man on Earth (1964) -- a film that's said to have inspired George Romero's Night... Read More
Abominable Dr. Phibes / Phibes Rises...This twin bill of horror classics stars the always creepy Vincent Price as the titular doctor -- a scientist and disfigured madman. In The Abominable Dr. Phibes, the maniacal sawbones uses the biblical plagues visited upon Egypt as a model for revenge against the surgeons he blames for his wife's... Read More
