18. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), dir. Roger Corman
So, having finally got up to date with recording all my film-watching, I can transfer the tweets for the ONE film I watched last night here! It was a cracker, and indeed probably a lot better than I really captured given that I'd only just submitted an article and hastily cooked dinner in time to catch the beginning of the film.
18. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), dir. Roger Corman, broadcast 29 April
Original tweet-along thread
Individual tweets:
Whew, made it to the sofa by the skin of my teeth! I've literally just submitted an article (which was due today anyway), and which I was using the #CellarClub as a motivation to get finished and not just keep faffing around making tiny changes to it forever. #TheFilmCrowd
I'm probably going to be a bit quiet for the first part of the film for that reason, as I'm eating a hastily-compiled dinner while watching. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Really looking forward to this, though. Another of the Poe / Corman / Price films which I saw many aeons ago, but haven't revisited since. I remember it being good, so let's hope my memory is correct! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Superbly atmospheric already! Just the pure tension caused by that perpetually-tolling bell alone is brilliant. Then the cat, Ligeia's sly smile, and Price's bitter humour. Great paintings in these opening credits, too. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, interesting, the horse rearing over Ligeia's tomb! Some eastern European folklore says that a horse ridden by a virgin will rear and stamp over a vampire's tomb. It's used in the 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Indeed, speaking of Dracula (which I almost always am), I suspect the wrap-around shades Vincent is wearing must be the inspiration for the ones Denholm Elliott wore in the 1968 ITV 'Mystery and Imagination' version of Dracula. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
These interior sets seem ostentatiously large by comparison with Hammer's in the same period. They're certainly dressed to a higher level of detail and realism than the earlier Corman Poe adaptations, too. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, they've got a pineapple in the fruit bowl! The iconic symbol of period aristocratic wealth. Guess who also had one? That's right, Dracula! (In Hammer's 1958 version.) #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Classic Corman through-a-grill shot there as Vincent strangles the young lady. I recognise that device from The Pit and the Pendulum a few weeks ago. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Nice line there for Price: "I've been known to open ancient tombs; rob a nation of its treasure and call it archaeology." Definitely expresses a post-colonial consciousness of archaeological history. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I, too, would repeatedly return to Castle Acre Priory if I'd been given permission to film there. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
"Consider my hand, guilty with marble!" That's another great line, for different reasons. Only Vincent Price could make it both convincing and profoundly affecting. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I love the many layers of the past explicitly referenced in this film. The abbey, the Egyptian relics, Stonehenge, Rome and the papacy. There's a real sense of Vincent's character being unable to escape its weight. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
The colour-palette of those candles behind Vincent's head! Green, blue, purple. They look like jewels. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
The Pit and the Pendulum used shots framed through flames as well. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Love this surreal dreamlike sequence with the soft focus, strange breezes and the heard yet unseen yowling of the cat. Oh, and now it's all gone rather American Beauty... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, did I detect a little hint of lesbian subtext, there, as Rowena dreamed of the dark-haired Ligeia embracing her? #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I must say that mind green shirt under the gentleman's grey suit, and the orange dress on Rowena, are both rather regrettable. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
'Mind' should say 'mint' in the above tweet... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm moderately sure that bed in Ligeia's room was used in several Hammer films. It has very distinctive bulges with gilt detailing on the posts. It's a pity HammerGothic is engaged elsewhere this week and can't tell us! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
A little bit more of Rowena grappling with Ligeia here. #QueerHorror #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm beginning to think this film might end in a fiery inferno... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm just getting a few subtle hints that fire might be a motif. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
[The shots of people seen through / across flames were becoming extremely insistent by this point.]
Wow, those must have been some pretty sharp claws! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
[This was in relation to the cat blinding Vincent Price's character.]
Well, whaddaya know? #FieryInferno #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Oh god, this is completely brilliant! The fire, the screeching cat, the Dutch angles, the melty figures, the blood, the falling rafters! If you are going to go Poe, go FULL Poe. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Absolutely loved that! A++ would watch again. A great film and a truly great way to unwind after a hard day's work. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
18. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), dir. Roger Corman, broadcast 29 April
Original tweet-along thread
Individual tweets:
Whew, made it to the sofa by the skin of my teeth! I've literally just submitted an article (which was due today anyway), and which I was using the #CellarClub as a motivation to get finished and not just keep faffing around making tiny changes to it forever. #TheFilmCrowd
I'm probably going to be a bit quiet for the first part of the film for that reason, as I'm eating a hastily-compiled dinner while watching. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Really looking forward to this, though. Another of the Poe / Corman / Price films which I saw many aeons ago, but haven't revisited since. I remember it being good, so let's hope my memory is correct! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Superbly atmospheric already! Just the pure tension caused by that perpetually-tolling bell alone is brilliant. Then the cat, Ligeia's sly smile, and Price's bitter humour. Great paintings in these opening credits, too. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, interesting, the horse rearing over Ligeia's tomb! Some eastern European folklore says that a horse ridden by a virgin will rear and stamp over a vampire's tomb. It's used in the 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Indeed, speaking of Dracula (which I almost always am), I suspect the wrap-around shades Vincent is wearing must be the inspiration for the ones Denholm Elliott wore in the 1968 ITV 'Mystery and Imagination' version of Dracula. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
These interior sets seem ostentatiously large by comparison with Hammer's in the same period. They're certainly dressed to a higher level of detail and realism than the earlier Corman Poe adaptations, too. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, they've got a pineapple in the fruit bowl! The iconic symbol of period aristocratic wealth. Guess who also had one? That's right, Dracula! (In Hammer's 1958 version.) #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Classic Corman through-a-grill shot there as Vincent strangles the young lady. I recognise that device from The Pit and the Pendulum a few weeks ago. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Nice line there for Price: "I've been known to open ancient tombs; rob a nation of its treasure and call it archaeology." Definitely expresses a post-colonial consciousness of archaeological history. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I, too, would repeatedly return to Castle Acre Priory if I'd been given permission to film there. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
"Consider my hand, guilty with marble!" That's another great line, for different reasons. Only Vincent Price could make it both convincing and profoundly affecting. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I love the many layers of the past explicitly referenced in this film. The abbey, the Egyptian relics, Stonehenge, Rome and the papacy. There's a real sense of Vincent's character being unable to escape its weight. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
The colour-palette of those candles behind Vincent's head! Green, blue, purple. They look like jewels. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
The Pit and the Pendulum used shots framed through flames as well. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Love this surreal dreamlike sequence with the soft focus, strange breezes and the heard yet unseen yowling of the cat. Oh, and now it's all gone rather American Beauty... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Ooh, did I detect a little hint of lesbian subtext, there, as Rowena dreamed of the dark-haired Ligeia embracing her? #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I must say that mind green shirt under the gentleman's grey suit, and the orange dress on Rowena, are both rather regrettable. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
'Mind' should say 'mint' in the above tweet... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm moderately sure that bed in Ligeia's room was used in several Hammer films. It has very distinctive bulges with gilt detailing on the posts. It's a pity HammerGothic is engaged elsewhere this week and can't tell us! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
A little bit more of Rowena grappling with Ligeia here. #QueerHorror #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm beginning to think this film might end in a fiery inferno... #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
I'm just getting a few subtle hints that fire might be a motif. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
[The shots of people seen through / across flames were becoming extremely insistent by this point.]
Wow, those must have been some pretty sharp claws! #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
[This was in relation to the cat blinding Vincent Price's character.]
Well, whaddaya know? #FieryInferno #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Oh god, this is completely brilliant! The fire, the screeching cat, the Dutch angles, the melty figures, the blood, the falling rafters! If you are going to go Poe, go FULL Poe. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd
Absolutely loved that! A++ would watch again. A great film and a truly great way to unwind after a hard day's work. #CellarClub #TheFilmCrowd