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  Well, that had a lot of potential, and a lot of atmosphere, but as with all Poe & Lovecraft short stories, the conclusion has to be unsatisfying because otherwise the vast cosmic horror doesn't work. Good effort for a Corman film, on a par with lesser Hammer films. But I think there was a better plot to be had in the back-half, even preserving the twist. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  And the twist is that he was only hallucinating the fire and strangling the cat, and actually he was strangling the already dead fox... ... but then he realises him strangling the dead fox was a hallucination, and he was really strangling the corpse of Ligeia... .. but that was also a hallucination, and he was actually just strangling fish-lipped cuck-guy lawyer. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  I've really lost track of who is-and-isn't dead at this point. Did she die of a careless and needless hand wound she got on a mirror for no reason? Did the cat try to bring her back with fishy kiss-of-life, and then get killed by being shoved off a bed, and then use its resurrection powers on itself instead, and then bring Ligeia back from the dead? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Did Ligeia also hypnotise the cat into being a dick? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  It's impressive. Hypnotised into caring for a corpse so well it doesn't decompose. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  The cost of heating the secret wing of the house must be pricey. Do you think it being secret helps keep the council tax down? Or is the square footage all declared? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  I don't know if it can be described as a secret passage if you can discover it by just screaming, even if it is a moderate belter. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  The overuse of this cat is both the zombie episode of Community; and the first episode of Darkplace. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Do you think if she got her own pet fox, it might keep the cat in check? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  I hope the twist is that Price is actually just Ligeia in disguise, and Verdon is actually the one in th grave. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  The irony of the chinless cuck cucking the not-legally-a-husband after getting horse-cucked on the not-really-a-grave is... ... well, confusing really. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Yeah, I thought Ligeia insisting that unto death they would *not* part was a bit uncool as a dying act... ... especially as it pre-emptively took off the table them forming the partially undead polygamistic threesome. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  This movie has been heavily carried by the exceptional set design and location shooting, and the cinematography is above average for Corman, but this middle is starting to drag. Is it Poe's fault that we've got a meander in the middle? Or is it padding because insufficient Poe for the movie? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  "Sing it to us!" "I live up on the fourteenth floor of a tower block, and when I get bored, I call "coo-ee" to the passersby, and when they look up, I gob in their eye! GOB ON YOU!" #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Gas lighting, not cool Price. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Pretty sure the guy asking all the questions at the table was in Yes Minister. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  "Sorry, I left the cat brush in your bedroom by mistake." #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Don't fear for your mind, fear for your dick when your wife-cat figures out you've got a breathing side-piece waiting in the wings. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  "Lately, I seem to slip into reveries". "Have you tried methadone replacement therapy?" #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Did she just get Guardians of the Galaxy 3'd? #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Ghost zombie-pet fox is secretly a hunt saboteur. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Who thought that stealing a flower from a grave that you're prostrate on could be so sexy. Almost makes you forget the undead babe underneath. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Speaking of foxes, I peaked out of my window to see what the shrieking noise was coming from outside at half-one a few nights ago, and it was a fox. Not remarkable given where foxes go, what they do, and where I live.. ... just that it was happily walking along the path outside, and I've never properly seen one right by my house before. #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  The credits said the cat was trained by John Holmes... ... trained to do what?! Eeeew! #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheTombOfLigeia

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  Price seemed awfully confident that the jury would just accept plot points that we, the audience, were the only witnesses of based exclusively on his word. #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959

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  The only flaw in the plan is the one thing they couldn't account for... ... a giant vat of surprise acid in the cellar. #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959

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  "Now, none of you have any motive, and none of you know each other... ... but I *did* actually select you all on the basis that you're homicidal rapists, so I guess we can't rule any of you out." #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959

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  "So clearly still breathing." #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959

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  Pritchard seems very confident in his ability to stab ghosts with a giant knife for someone who pooh-poohed guns. #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959

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  "I wonder how this party will end. Which reminds me, I must consult Anton Chekov, and then make a call to the local acid merchant." #Monsterdon #HouseOnHauntedHill1959