Best Vincent Price movies
Today we present the best Vincent Price movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Vincent Price:
TOP 25: House of Usher
Vincent Price as: Roderick Usher
Genre: Horror, Drama
Release: 1960
After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
TOP 24: Dragonwyck
Vincent Price as: Nicholas Van Ryn
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1946
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
TOP 23: The Last Man on Earth
Vincent Price as: Dr. Robert Morgan
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Release: 1964
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
TOP 22: Tales of Terror
Vincent Price as: Locke / Fortunato / Valdemar
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Release: 1962
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
TOP 21: Theatre of Blood
Vincent Price as: Edward Lionheart
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Release: 1973
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
TOP 20: Pit and the Pendulum
Vincent Price as: Nicholas Medina / Sebastian Medina
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1961
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
TOP 19: The Baron of Arizona
Vincent Price as: James Addison Reavis
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Release: 1950
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
TOP 18: House on Haunted Hill
Vincent Price as: Frederick Loren
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Release: 1959
Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
TOP 17: While the City Sleeps
Vincent Price as: Walter Kyne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1956
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"
TOP 16: The Great Mouse Detective
Vincent Price as: Professor Ratigan (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure, Mystery
Release: 1986
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
TOP 15: House of Wax
Vincent Price as: Prof. Henry Jarrod
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 1953
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
TOP 14: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Vincent Price as: Dr. Anton Phibes
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 1971
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
TOP 13: The Keys of the Kingdom
Vincent Price as: Angus Mealey
Genre: Drama
Release: 1944
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
TOP 12: The Thief and the Cobbler
Vincent Price as: Zigzag the Grand Vizier (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Family
Release: 1993
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
TOP 11: The Fly
Vincent Price as: François Delambre
Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Release: 1958
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.
TOP 10: Corman's World
Vincent Price as: Various Roles (archive footage)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2011
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
TOP 9: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Original Title: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Vincent Price as: The Invisible Man (voice) (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 1948
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.
TOP 8: The Song of Bernadette
Vincent Price as: Prosecutor Vital Dutour
Genre: Drama
Release: 1943
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
TOP 7: The Whales of August
Vincent Price as: Mr. Maranov
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
TOP 6: Leave Her to Heaven
Vincent Price as: Russell Quinton
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1945
A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
TOP 5: Laura
Vincent Price as: Shelby Carpenter
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Release: 1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
TOP 4: Edward Scissorhands
Vincent Price as: The Inventor
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1990
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
TOP 3: The Ten Commandments
Vincent Price as: Baka
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 1956
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
TOP 2: Vincent
Vincent Price as: Narrator (voice)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Release: 1982
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.
TOP 1: Michael Jackson's Thriller
Vincent Price as: Narration (voice)
Genre: Horror, Music
Release: 1983
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloody-thirsty zombies.