Vincent Price

Vincent Price passed away this day in 1993, and like Edgar Allen Poe who was also known for working with the macabre genre, it is so fittingly close to Halloween, when they are showing all his thrillers on TV. It reminds us of our childhood Saturdays watching "Creature Double Feature" on ABC. He would scare the heck out of us in all those Roger Korman B movies based on the Edgar Allen Poe novels.

Could you forget the wild and terrified eyes of the girl left behind in the Pit and the Pendulum? House of Wax, the original, was terrifying when you realized the secret and ewww..remember the giant silverfish of terror known as "The Tingler"? Vincent Price's distinctive voice and demeanor carried all those movies. For a calm, cool and collected guy we thought he was a psychopathic murderer and were scared to death half the time. Remember, The House on Haunted Hill, The Masque of the Red Death or The House of Usher?

His cameo in Edward Scissorhands reminded us of how much time had passed, he had aged so. The Thriller voice-over was and is a perfect legacy. Especially this time of year.

However, our favorite part he ever did? The insane archaeologist in the Brady Bunch episode when they were in Hawaii!

Catch his other work: Laura, Song of Bernadette and The Ten Commandments, amongst others. He was an awesome actor.