![]() Jones gives one of the better performances – with her somewhat manipulative, giggly-girly way (though we learn she’s a caring person deeper down) unfortunately, we see too little of her. Kirk’s performance doesn’t really bother me that much I’ve seen worse and she’s serviceable (as is her cute bf, Paul Picerni). Though I will say that the last ten minutes or so of the film have a bit of a bounce.) (Even in part two, the can-can girls seem to be thinking of shopping lists during their long, listless number. However, the film itself never really recovers from the stodginess of the first part. (Oddly, there’s an intermission 1/2-way through this 90-minute feature!) In the second part, since he has turned from a champion of beauty to a presenter of horror, Price becomes the more sinister Vincent we know and ‘love’. Time has not been kind to this remake – and since one is most likely to see it on DVD, its worth as a 3-D feature (the fact that we can’t appreciate it as such) is less than slight.įrankly, I find this movie dull, esp. Discussed at length in Peary’s Cult Movies (1981). Yes, for its historical relevance as an enormously popular 3-D film, and as the movie that began Vincent Price’s career as a horror icon.
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