Vincent Price

The Six Best References To Cannibalism In Song

On this day in 1847, the Donner Party was rescued from a disastrous trek to the West Coast that caused the survivors to eat their fallen pioneers. In honor of this legendary tale, here are the six best references to cannibalism in song. Let us know your favorites, and we'll think about how delicious ... More >>

Two Heads Are Better than None

Self-important and overstuffed, The Dark Knight Rises feels like Batman forever

Thomas Stockman Wins Two Rondo Awards for Vincentennial

Thomas Stockman masterminded last spring's Vincentennial, the city-wide celebration of hometown horror-hero Vincent Price's 100th birthday. There were lectures, film screenings, special guest stars, a live-action version of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, memorabilia shows -- it was pretty much the socia ... More >>

Belleville Runners Club Continues Chili Cook-Off Ring of Terror

​Last year we warned Gut Check readers about the Belleville Runners Club's insidious plan to fatten, nay, kill their racing competition with their potentially deadly Belleville Chili Cookoff concoctions. Just when we thought they couldn't top the health-endangering creations of chili-topped nach ... More >>

The Five Best -- and Sometimes Scariest -- Parts of Contamination 2011

Freddy was noticeably absent at Contamination 2011 (jerk), but the weekend saw other key players. Check out our slideshow for photos that might even haunt your dreams.​This weekend's science fiction/horror/generally strange aesthetic festival, Contamination 2011, had its unfair share of prize ... More >>

Slay Belle: After more than 50 years, The Visit still knocks 'em dead

Spreading the Disease

One Final Tribute to Vincent Price

image via​Vincent Price's 100th birthday has come and gone, as has the film fest component of Vincentennial (though the exhibits at the Sheldon Galleries and Star Clipper will be up through the summer), but we would be remiss if we didn't pass on this one last tribute to Price. It's by New Yo ... More >>

Vincent Price's Bran Fudge Squares

Kholood Eid​In honor of Vincentennial, the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the actor Vincent Price, Gut Check decided to honor Price by cooking something. Price, you see, was a noted gourmand. In 1965, he and his second wife Mary collaborated on a cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recip ... More >>

Back from the Undead: Happy 100th to homegrown horror icon Vincent Price

Phiber Optics: Magic Smoking Monkey busts out The Abominable Dr. Phibes...in 3-D

More Treasures From Vincent Price Collectors Revealed!

The Vincentennial display at the Sheldon Galleries is so small -- a mere 750 square feet -- that there wasn't room to display even a fair sample of all the artifacts the Vincent Price collectors have assembled. Rick Squires has posted photos of many of his treasures online at the Vincent Price Exhib ... More >>

Run, Witches, Run!

Happy Birthday, Vincent

Vincentennial: The Excitement Continues

​If you've read this week's feature story "Back From the Undead" about Vincentennial, the 100th birthday celebration for Vincent Price, the biggest movie star ever to come out of St. Louis (and why, pray tell, wouldn't you?), you're undoubtedly eager to participate in the festivities. RFT cale ... More >>

Good Phibes

100 Years of Vincent

Good Phibes

Vincentennial Highlights this Weekend's Art Openings

Vincentennial: The Legacy of Vincent Price opens tonight at the Sheldon Art Galleries. Some highlights from the exhibition celebrating 100 years since Price's birth in St. Louis include his baby shoes and baby book, locks of hair, his high school yearbook, letters written by Price, his SAG and AFTR ... More >>

Roger That

Prince Vince

The Price is Terrifying

Great Entertainment at Any Price

These Colors Don't Run...They Bleed

Down to The Wire on Vincent Jackson

Sure, it doesn't have anything to do with football, but Vincent Price is the best Vincent I could think of associated with St. Louis. Plus, he's awesome. So there. ​The deadline to acquire the services of Vincent Jackson is fast approaching. Well, not a deadline, exactly, as any team wanting to de ... More >>

Super-8 I

Throwback of the House: The Taboo of Polynesian Green Beans

When I was a kid, my dad often drank soda and iced tea from a big avocado-green tiki mug. That thing scared the hell out of me. I'd seen those Hawaii episodes of The Brady Bunch enough times during after-school reruns to know that idols = increased odds of getting whacked on the head with a surfboar ... More >>

The Really Important Stuff About the Super Bowl -- The Commercials

We witnessed one of the greatest single games in the history of NFL football last night. The flurry of momentum and lead changes, the outstanding performances by players both known and unknown, and a finish that actually outdid last year's dramatics. Simply outstanding. But, really, does anyone ... More >>

Show Review: Tom Waits at the Fox Theatre, June 26

Pause & Rewind

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Legend Has It

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works.

Thrill-Seekers Wanted

Keeping the Meter Running

Taxi Driver: Collector's Edition

Keeping the Meter Running

Taxi Driver: Collector's Edition

The Linemen emerge as the best straight-shooting country band in town.

(And please don't call 'em "honky-tonk.")

Heady Metal

In 2005, longhairs got more progressive than ever

Stir It Up

It's hard not to be happy at Caribbean Sun

Caravan of Class

Vintage Vincent Price trailers!

Film Openings

Week of May 4, 2005

Wax Off

With plenty of gore and even more bore, House of Wax can't hold a candle to the original

You'd Better Not Pout

Pick your Christmas present: High-kicking revue or wickedly funny memoir

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Baysay It Loud

Pop cheese meets music theory in the Baysayboos

Kill, Nixon, Kill!

A wax museum scares the poop out of us

Nile

In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)

Series/Festivals

Week of June 5, 2002

Boo Job

What to expect when you're paying to be frightened

PIPING HOT

William Partridge brings Christ Church Cathedral's 5,000-pipe organ to magnificent life

Wax Ecstatic

Lois Conley's Black World History Wax Museum brings the African-American past vividly alive in the present