THE RAVEN (1963) – Episode 183 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“If I would have been sober, which I admit doesn’t happen very often, but, it would have been an entirely different story! Entirely different.” Yes. Things are always different when you’re sober. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they share the hilarity of Roger Corman’s The Raven (1963)!

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 183 – The Raven (1963)

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A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.

• Directed by: Roger Corman
• Writing Credits: Richard Matheson (screenplay); Edgar Allan Poe (poem, 1845)
• Executive Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson
• Producer: Roger Corman
• Music by: Les Baxter
• Cinematography by: Floyd Crosby (director of photography)
• Editing by: Ronald Sinclair
• Production Design/Art Direction by: Daniel Haller
• Selected Cast:
  • Vincent Price as Dr. Erasmus Craven
  • Peter Lorre as Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
  • Boris Karloff as Dr. Scarabus
  • Hazel Court as Lenore Craven
  • Olive Sturgess as Estelle Craven
  • Jack Nicholson as Rexford Bedlo
  • Connie Wallace as Maid
  • William Baskin as Grimes
  • Aaron Saxon as Gort
  • Leo Gordon as Grimes (voice) (uncredited)
  • Dick Johnstone as Roderick Craven (uncredited)

This episode is Doc’s pick, and he identifies it as one of the three films that made him a monster kid! With that in mind, it’s no surprise that The Raven (1963) is loaded with horror cred – Karloff, Price, Lorre, Hazel Court, Nicholson (Jack, that is), Corman, Matheson, Poe  – all at the top of their game delivering this horror comedy with skillful glee. You get your man-to-bird-to-man-back-to-bird transformation, bodies in coffins, magic wands going limp, and a magician’s battle of the century. The Classic Era Grue-Crew have a magical time in this talkabout!

At the time of this writing, The Raven (1963) is available to stream from Amazon Prime, Tubi, PlutoTV, and Freevee. It’s also available on physical media as a Blu-ray disc from KL Studio Classics.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule – this one chosen by Jeff – is 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)! Harryhausen! Perry Mason’s Paul Drake (William Hopper)! Earth vs. the Flying Saucers’ Joan Taylor! A fast-growing creature from Venus running amok in Rome, fighting an elephant, and carousing on the Colosseum. What’s not to like?

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