The Raven

Name: The Raven
Director: Roger Corman
Released: 1963
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess

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Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror.

Lee I'm Lee.

Chris I'm Chris.

Adam I'm Adam.

Lee And we are somehow here despite all the chaos that has befallen us in the last few days.

Chris I I blame the HGV drivers if anything.

Lee Topical.

Chris Scorching, then.

Lee You can be listening to this in six months time and go, what? You want to be an HGV driver?

Chris If if I was getting paid 20% more, I'd be yeah.

Lee so we were, as previously mentioned, we were supposed to be having a guest, and covering Martyrs.

Lee but, entirely 100% my fault.

Lee I held my hand up, we've not been able to do that, unfortunately.

Lee So Manny will hopefully be joining us in a month's time.

Lee we'll keep you posted on what we will be covering when he joins us.

Chris Cool, excellent.

Lee So that was our first hiccup.

Lee And then our second hiccup was we were supposed to record last night as we normally do.

Chris No, nothing to see here, nothing to see here.

Adam Right, I'll show you an attraction. He said don't need.

Lee Adam and I arrived on time.

Chris Look, I'm firing green lasers.

Lee Adam and I arrived on time, after about 25 minutes still no Chris, so I phoned him and he didn't answer. He then phoned me back and his first words were, Saturday, isn't it?

Lee Yes, Chris, it is Saturday, it's recording day.

Chris Oh yeah, yeah, I can't do that now, I ain't watched the film yet.

Chris I thought, I thought we recorded on Fridays, what happened to that?

Lee Well, you'd have been twice as late.

Chris Oh yeah.

Chris I got to think up these excuses, haven't I?

Adam Yeah, we got to

Adam That that's an even worse one.

Adam Yeah.

Lee Yeah.

Adam It's it's it's never the good it's never the good things of, you know, it's like I didn't go into work yesterday.

Adam Don't compound it with, sorry I didn't come into work yesterday, but I was off my tits on mescaline.

Lee That's it.

Chris That's what I should have said.

Adam Yeah.

Chris Lee would have let that one go.

Lee My cousin

Adam We'd have all let that slide.

Lee My cousin once lost a job because, he worked in a window factory and he took the day off, and his excuse, which wasn't the truth, his excuse was, I was on my way into work smoking a joint at the bus stop and the police arrested me, so I couldn't phone in and let you know, because they arrested me. So they said, so you're on your way into the factory, stoned off your tits, you can pick up your paycheque and on your bike, sir. So,

Lee Well done for that one, bust.

Chris Did you say that was the truth or wasn't the truth?

Lee I don't think it was as I remember.

Chris It wasn't the truth. So what could have been the truth?

Adam That was better.

Lee What was worse?

Chris It was just the best one he could.

Lee Yeah.

Lee Oh, bless him.

Lee so, but we are here, as promised for everyone who follows the Instagram, so if you didn't know about the change of film, one, I apologize that you watched Martyrs, and two, why aren't you on the Instagram being aware that we are now covering 1963's classic The Raven.

Lee but before, oh, go on, Chris.

Chris Well, no, the the biggest shock I had in this was that for the whole film, as much as I was enjoying it, I was looking for Jack Nicholson to appear, right?

Chris Now, you you might say what's wrong with you?

Chris There might well be something wrong with me, I just could not recognize him as the young guy, I just did not at all see it.

Lee It didn't register with Jennifer Iver until I said, I'm not sure if this is an early or his first appearance and she went, who's?

Chris Yeah.

Lee But it but anyway,

Chris Like now, yeah, anyway.

Lee We're jumping ahead again, we keep doing it.

Lee so before we get into this evening's movie that Chris is very excited to talk about.

Lee Chris, did you watch anything in the last two weeks?

Chris yeah, so we we were watching aptly The Expanse.

Lee Okay.

Chris Now, have either of you heard of that?

Lee I've heard of it, I've not it's the sci-fi thing from Netflix?

Chris It is, yeah, well, so it started on Netflix.

Chris I probably years ago now.

Chris And we started watching it probably on then, but then it stopped on there, I think, and then appeared on Amazon Prime.

Chris And now they've carried it on.

Chris They got one more season, I think they're going to do.

Chris They've done five seasons.

Chris It changes it changes enough each season, but still for me just covers everything I like about sci-fi.

Chris It's got fantastic philosophy, fantastic science, fiction, spaceships, shooting,

Chris loads of politics, interesting characters.

Chris It just covers everything.

Chris So, it does have elements of horror throughout,

Chris because they have this this they call it the proto molecule.

Chris And it's essentially you don't really know, it's sort of monster, like it is alien, but it's it's very monster-like in what it does.

Lee Okay.

Chris And it's kind of psychological as well as actually creating kind of these beings and also hybrids of humans and it.

Chris So it's all quite, unusual.

Chris Then it then it starts to expand into, you know, the the sort of interdimensional kind of ideas and so, yeah, it's, it's it's I thought it was really good.

Chris but now we've got another like,

Lee Not bad.

Adam No, I was just going to say, not wishing to do a Chris, but I'll admit.

Adam When you say what you was watching, I was watching a plane out the window and I didn't hear what it was.

Adam What what is this, sorry, what's the program?

Chris It's it's The Expanse.

Adam The Oh, sorry.

Chris Yeah.

Lee Sorry, carry on.

Chris So it seems it seems like it's got a bit of a cult following,

Chris following on from

Chris I've forgotten the name of it.

Chris It's Battlestar Galactica, the the remake that also got a bit of a cult following.

Chris for for similar reasons, really, it just, you know, it covers a lot of what I like from that kind of sci-fi, I suppose.

Chris So, yeah, so that's that's what we watched until we got the end of it.

Adam Nice.

Lee Excellent, sounds good.

Lee Adam, what have you been watching?

Adam I've got,

Adam I've got two bits, I watched,

Adam FrightFest doing their digital thing, which I think actually finishes today.

Adam So by the time people are listening to this, fuck it, you wouldn't be able to watch anything anyway.

Adam But for next year, if they do it again,

Adam I watched on their digital like their streaming, because they've had, obviously they had the they had the actual festival at Leicester Square

Adam last weekend and then throughout this week they've just put the best of

Adam like a sort of basically all the big stuff, up on, up for streaming.

Adam I was a bit reluctant at first because I was like,

Adam Well, you can't pause it and you can't you don't keep it afterwards and you can't rewind it.

Adam And then my brain some vague memory in my brain just went, yeah.

Adam Like the cinema.

Lee Yes.

Adam I was like, oh yeah, no that's true, if I went to the cinema to see this, I couldn't pause it, take it, take a slash without missing anything.

Adam but yeah, they, and, you know, pretty good.

Adam I think it was like eight quid.

Adam But, yeah, so I watched,

Adam the show, which is the new film that Alan Moore's done.

Adam I think I've spoken about showpieces, which is the short films on here before.

Adam and this is like a continuation of that.

Adam I'll be 100% honest, I am nuts deep into this fucking project.

Adam And obsessed with it.

Adam So my critical faculties might be off.

Adam Because it might mean that if someone else, if someone watches it without having seen the short films, you might be thinking, what? What the fuck's going on?

Lee Yeah.

Adam But I think you could watch it and pick up without having seen the shorts.

Adam But but showpieces is on Shudder.

Adam So I recommend people watch that anyway.

Adam And it's the thing where basically, Alan Moore's created, a world called Nighthampton, which is the sort of flipped dead side of Northampton, where he comes from.

Adam And he is basically a cross between Aleister Crowley, Peter Cook and Viv Stanshall.

Adam In that he's a 60s sort of early surrealist comic, part of a double act called he's Frank Metterton of Metterton and Matchbright.

Adam and basically there's all this thing about, oh, well he was rumored to be involved with the occult and basically he's created his own universe, with him as God and his old double act partner as the devil.

Adam So basically it's Derek and Clive, if Derek was God,

Adam and I can't remember which one was Clive and which one was Derek now, but anyway.

Adam yeah, but basically if Peter Cook was God and Dud was the devil.

Lee Nice.

Adam and yeah, it's that that was genuinely,

Adam like really good and

Adam goes to prove because the the short films were like 2013 or something like that, when they released them, they've been building up.

Adam But the amount that still harks in and explains like the film explained bits of the short stories and the short films and vice versa.

Adam So it is like it's obviously a genuine whole world in his big brain.

Lee Yeah.

Adam And, with, but there's loads of, surprise sort of members of the cast including Mr. Andrew O'Neal.

Lee Oh, right, okay.

Adam Playing, and get this, because I think it stretched him somewhat, he's playing a cross-dressing occult stand-up comedian.

Adam So, yeah.

Adam The fact the fact that he's not called Andrew I think is probably the the the only thing that makes it not actually be Andrew O'Neil.

Lee In that case, is it not Andrew O'Neil, he's just an actor?

Lee And has just been embedded in this for the last 20 years?

Adam If that that could be the case and frankly, I think I think him and Alan Moore should get a room.

Adam So,

Lee Yeah.

Adam I I know that the only thing that would be stopping Andrew O'Neil from licking Alan Moore's balls is because I was in the way. So, you know, I think he would, he would have just betrayed this part for for this length of time just to add back story.

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The Raven

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