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Although marketed as “Edgar Allan Poe’s The Haunted Palace”, the film actually derives its plot from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. …
In 1765, the inhabitants of Arkham, Massachusetts, are suspicious of the strange phenomena surrounding the grand “palace” that overlooks the town. They suspect the palace’s owner, Joseph Curwen, is a warlock.…
In their book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Migliore and John Strysik write: "The Haunted Palace is a seminal film for Lovecraft lovers; it is the first major motion picture to introduce [Lovecraft’s] creation[s] – the Necronomicon, and those cosmic abominations Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth – to a general audience. [Lovecraft’s] obsession with the past is clearly presented, and in a heartfelt passage at the end of the film, so is his belief that mankind is a minor species adrift in a malevolent universe. The film strikes a good balance between narrative and action, and Vincent Price is, well, priceless as Ward/Curwen. The supporting cast is solid and the art direction by Daniel Haller is really quite good for such a low-budget film. Roger Corman did an admirable job as the first American feature-film director to stake out some cinematic high ground for the cosmos-crushing adaptations of [H. P. Lovecraft] to follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace
The Haunted Palace (1963) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, October 25 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1x42u7
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- peertube: https://video.txw.ca/w/7TYHNdYM6kU8pVcJ8HN4G9
- archive: https://archive.org/details/the.-haunted.-palace.-1963
- archive: https://archive.org/details/the-haunted-palace-1963
- it’s usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at the time of the watch party
- for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/105763
Uhhhh, that’s gonna be 2am on Monday my time - I absolutely love the general idea and that you got it my way (thanks for sharing!!) and got super excited, but naah, not that excited 😱😢🫶😅
Two options:
- you can watch this movie by yourself using the links above, optionally re-playing the monsterdon comments which are archived on https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/ (it takes a day after the watch party for them to be put there)
- if you want a live Monsterdon watch party, @klu9@piefed.social hosts a ReMonsterdon watch party 6 hours earlier that watches movies from previous Monsterdons, so that would be… 8pm Sunday your time? Tomorrow we’re watching Blacula (1972) see more info here: https://eggplant.place/collection/4fudrrfAyocAtkSv6ltlb6