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When I was a kid, my dad often drank soda and iced tea from a big avocado-green tiki mug.

I went into this dramatization an Edgar Allan Poe fan, but only to a light extent.

Hi: I am in my mid-30s and can remember coming home from school and watching a show with Vincent Price.

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While Vincent Price's version is a classic, this version from the very first Treehouse of Horror took Poe's poem to new, Darth Vadarian heights.

The Leprechaun is a gold-obsessed, little green psychopath. Photograph: Allstar/TRIMARK PICTURES/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Leprechaun Don't anger little people.

Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Norman Bates, and Jon & Kate are just some of Hollywood's most horrifying characters.

Halloween isn't a time of year normally associated with great style, unless you consider zombie Elvises or slutty cheerleaders the height of sartorial sophistication.

As with so many cinematic experiences in my misspent youth, Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General was well-prepared for by copious before-the-fact study ; the film itself eventually functioned as confirmation of what had been read beforehand - thus no dark and unexpected encounter with primal fears here, I'm afraid.

"Scream, scream for your lives. The tingler is loose in the theater," yells Dr. Warren Chapin, as played by Vincent Price, during a scene from "The Tingler." The tingler, the good doctor has discovered, is the deadly creature living inside our spinal chords that gives us that tingly sensation when we're scared.

When it comes to horror movies, like everything else, they don't make 'em like they used to: Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining.' There's plenty of new blood at the multiplex right now, but sometimes only old-school scares will do.

Caveats Thursday, October 29, 2009 Vincent Price Online Halloween is approaching, and one of the things I like to do around Halloween is watch Vincent Price.

In a fitting dramatic flourish, the Two Boots Pioneer theater closed one year ago this upcoming Halloween.

Almost 10 years before Vincent Price's definitive performance as the ghoulish rapper in Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Price had already riffed on his career as a veteran Hollywood survivor in 1973's Theater of Blood .

We were going to write a little blurb about what went down at Kevin Geeks Out About...Vincent Price , but then we read Kevin's own recap .

In celebration of Edgar Allen Poe's birthday, Halloween, and all things horror, the Berwyn Arts Council will be screening vintage Vincent Price films at the 16th Street Theater in Berwyn on Wednesday, October 28th.

Halloween night will be filled with screams for the first horror movie series at the Edna Boykin Cultural Center.

This weekend Union Station will present scary movies, mad science and free candy for those of you who can't wait to start celebrating Halloween.

You gotta have a gimmick. So said William Castle, whose horror films sometimes took a backseat to stunts, such as a free insurance policy in case you died of fright while watching the movie, or taking a poll at the climax to find out if you wanted the villain to die .

" Dragonwyck ," is a spooky chilling movie that was released in 1946. It stars Vincent Price , Gene Tierney, and Walter Huston.