Thursday, May 28, 2015

ALL-NEW FEAR OF THE VELVET CURTAIN: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PETER, CHRIS & VINCENT!

 

It's hard to believe that Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were all born during the last week of May, in 1911, 1913 and 1922, respectively, but that's some sort of supernova aligning of stars that has to be pretty unique in the annals of movie history. (And maybe not-- I'll confess I haven't gone through the books completely and confirmed that no one movie genre has ever seen such a concentration of significant births in one week. But I'd be willing to bet one or Dr. Phibes's fake ears that this sort of occurrence is pretty unique.)

So please join me at Trailers from Hell today for a "very special" celebration of the momentous arrivals and even more momentous careers of these three titans of cinematic terror. We're saying "Happy birthday!" to Peter, Vincent and Chris on a Throwback Thursday edition of Fear of the Velvet Curtain-- get there quick, because that cake and ice cream isn't likely to last.


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