I thought I recognized that face in the first gif. 😆

😳 look he gives you when ur abt to desecrate a body

Round 1 poll 18: Antonio the Violinist from Identity V vs Waldo Trumbull from The Comedy of Terrors

Propaganda under the cut:

Antonio the Violinist

Antonio is a less popular character from an obscure video game. He's an incredibly tall, lanky, undead man based partially on the real life Niccolò Paganini and legends surrounding him. I have purchased things for research on Paganini to fuel my obsession with Antonio. He has prehensile hair and I just want him to carry me in it. I research harder into his lore than I do for any other character in this game, and he has very little. He's possessed by the devil because the devil got him out of music based slavery. He plays the violin and spins around when he hits a survivor. His original animation for a survivor struggling out of his hold was changed from him falling on the ground and getting up without using his arms to him swiping at the air around him. He has music magic that hurts you. He has no connection to any other playable character as of my submission. He's spooky yet handsome. One of his accessories implies he died alone in the cold of winter. He has insane amounts of gender. He can play violin on a single string. He can play that single stringed violin with his HAIR. He's full of skill and diseases. His first deduction(lore snippet gained by completing tasks) shows that he's got a CVS receipt length of medical disorders, and the second one shows that he's the only character in the game confirmed to fuck for pleasure. I want him carnally. I want him to be my bestie IRL. I want to be him. I want to hold him. I want to comfort him. I want to tear his limbs off and stitch them back on. I want him to be turned into a marketable plushie.

Waldo Trumbull

He's from a rarely talked about 1963 film which is absolutely ridiculous slapstick + dark comedy combined. He's a complete arsehole who there is no good reason to like--not only is he a serial killer (murders people to bring in customers to his undertaker's business) but he's also just a petty dick. He is built like a stick insect and moves around like a live-action cartoon, ungainliest creature ever. Has the personality of a scraggly feral cat that will bite and scratch if you get too close. He asks "May I?" before touching the breast of a *wooden carving* of a woman. His name is *Waldo Trumbull*, his first name only being revealed late in the film as he seems to know it's ridiculous and goes by his last name or "Mr W. Trumbull" (you can't pretend your first name is just W, Waldo, that's not how it works). Half of me wants to grab and shake him, half of me wants to keep him as a pet, he is such a creature.

ROUND ONE - Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) VS Waldo Trumbull (Comedy of Terrors)

!!! PROPAGANDA BELOW !!!

MR. DARCY: "He's such an ass. He insults people where they can hear him "...not handsome enough to tempt ME." The whole town likes Bingley more than him despite the consensus being that Darcy is more handsome just because he's so rude to people. He won't talk to anyone unless he thinks it'll be interesting. He proposed by listing every single trait he doesn't like about Elizabeth and insults every member of her family in the process. He's mad that he's in love with her because he thinks he's above her when she thought they had some mutual hatred going on."

WALDO TRUMBULL: "Not only does he murder people to bring customers in to his undertaker's business, but he's a petty bully who yells at and insults his wife, constantly mocks and mistreats his employee Felix Gillie (making him do all the work while Trumbull sits around drinking and snarking at him, and at one point telling him to sit down then *shoving him onto the floor* and laughing as he asks if he's "comfortable"), and tries to poison his father-in-law. His first scene starts with him covertly giving the middle finger at a funeral, then when the mourners have left he digs up the coffin so he can dump the body into the grave and reuse the coffin to save money. A few scenes on he shoves a random guy out of his way in the street. He's a hypocrite who says "is there no morality left in this world?!" when the widow of a man he murdered doesn't pay him for the funeral. The only character he's nice to is his cat."

The Price May Be Right - Number 5

Welcome to “The Price May Be Right!” I’ve been counting down My Top 31 Favorite Vincent Price Performances & Appearances! The countdown will cover movies, TV productions, and many more forms of media. We’ve reached the Top 5 for the countdown! Today we focus on Number 5: Mr. Trumbull, from Comedy of Terrors.

There’s a difference between your favorite performance for an actor and your favorite actor’s movie. To give you a better understanding of what I mean by this, here’s an example: my favorite Ian McKellen performance/character is Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings. However, my favorite Ian McKellen movie – meaning a film in which McKellen is really the driving character of the story – would be either the televised version of The Scottish Play in which he starred, or the theatrically-released film “Gods and Monsters.” I say this because my fifth and fourth place picks for this countdown are my two favorite Vincent Price movies…but, as you can guess from the fact there are three roles above them, they are not necessarily my favorite Vincent Price characters or performances. The first of those two films to cover is one of my all-time favorite comedy movies, “Comedy of Terrors,” from 1963. This movie was made by AIP, the same company behind the Corman-Poe Cycle of films. In fact, it was made at the same time a couple of those movies were being constructed. Indeed, with its aesthetic and tone, it almost feels like one of those movies, barring the complete lack of connection to Edgar Allan Poe (not that it would stop anyone from advertising “Witchfinder General” as a Poe movie later, but that’s another story). Much like “The Raven,” the movie is a horror homage and spoof, only “Terrors” is actually much darker and more adult in tone than “The Raven” was. It also features a lot of the same cast: Vincent is here, of course, along with Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff. They are joined by Basil Rathbone as a little extra tricky treat. The plot focuses on Price and Lorre’s characters: Mr. Waldo Trumbull, the perpetually drunk and thoroughly crooked head of an undertaking business, and his blundering henchman, an inept coffinmaker and former bank robber called Mr. Felix Gillie. Trumbull is a totally awful so-and-so: he is verbally abusive to his (admittedly rather henpecking) wife, constantly schemes to poison his father-in-law for seemingly no other reason than the old man annoys him, and spends almost everything the business earns on drink. (For the record, the father-in-law is played by Karloff.) Every year, in order to pay the rent they owe their landlord, Trumbull and Gillie ride out to some rich old person who lives in or around their city. Gillie helps Trumbull break into the house, and upon entry, Trumbull suffocates the one in charge of the home with a pillow, and makes it seem like they died of natural causes. This allows them to get enough money to pay off the annual rent. One year, when one of these wicked schemes goes awry, thus putting them in danger of eviction, the pair decide to go after their landlord – Mr. Black, played by Rathbone – but what seems like the perfect crime soon turns into a wild nightmare for all parties involved. While the film has a lot of dark moments and themes, it is COMPLETELY played up for laughs, and every single actor delivers perhaps one of the finest performances of their career. Vincent and Lorre, however, are easily at their finest here. This may actually be my favorite of Lorre’s performances, in particular, which is saying quite a lot, and it’s easily one of my favorites for Vincent. Although Mr. Trumbull is a completely horrible and appalling creature, Price somehow manages to make him humorous and enjoyable. There’s such a fine string of irony to the character, as he is easily the most awful person in the story, yet he seems to be totally unaware of just how bad he, himself, is. For example, in one scene, Trumbull discovers that the widow of his most recent victim – now a client of his – has run away to America without paying anything for her husband’s funeral, absconding with all of the family fortune. Realizing he’s been swindled, he looks heavenward and mournfully intones, “Is there no morality left in this world?” I think that sums up the character better than anything else I could say. Honestly, I’d love to see this movie turned into a stage play, sometime. It feels like it could possibly make a great one…but finding a team to match, or even come close, to the chemistry between Price and Lorre, and the charm each actor has, would be next to impossible. We are getting closer to the end, comrades. Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 4!

'According to you' by Orianthi is about the 1963 film, 'Comedy of terrors'. Sorry you had to find out this way

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

The Peter Lorre tarot: featuring Felix Gillie from a Comedy of Terrors as the Star. This card is all about hope - a bad situation finally turning around into something positive - and who better for this than our dear old lock-pick who elopes with Amaryllis at the end, escaping the clutches and tyranny of Waldo Trumbull?

Waldo Trumbull: I'm too lazy to climb a wall, I'm going to make Gillie do it (and anything else that takes any physical effort) even though he's like a foot shorter than me and struggling with it and I could do it much more easily.

Also Waldo Trumbull: Examine this guy closely to see if he's actually dead? Gillie won't do that right, I'll do it myself even though I have to hold a letter at arm's length and lean my head back away from it to read it.

Movie Macabre 107 - The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Movie Macabre Season 01 - Episode 07 (007) Original Air Date: 07 November 1981

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) Directed by Jacques Tourneur Written by Richard Matheson

Starring: Vincent Price Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Joyce Jameson Rhubarb the Cat Joe E. Brown Basil Rathbone

"Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones." (IMDB)

The seventh episode of Movie Macabre was the first episode to feature a film that was more comedy than horror. Distributed by American International Pictures and featuring several AIP regulars, The Comedy of Terrors pokes fun at some of the standard elements of AIP's horror catalog.

The movie starts with a bit of slapstick: two undertakers dump a body out of a coffin which they then clean and reuse. Thus the tone of the film is set. Unfortunately for me, that tone was neither comedy nor terror.

The cast is superb. Vincent Price is debonair and detestable. You can't help but feel sorry for Peter Lorre's loveable oaf. Joyce Jameson manages to upstage Vincent Price in nearly every scene. And Basil Rathbone as the cataleptic John F. Black got a few chuckles out of me. The real star of the movie was Rhubarb the cat. This cat was credited in the opening title crawl and on the poster. Rhubarb was also all over the movie, including riding on the top of the hearse.

Visually, the film doesn't really manage to be particularly unique. That's probably due to the fact that AIP churned out a ton of movies using the same sets, the same actors, and the same filmmakers. After a while, the style can blend into other movies.

This film has one of the worst uses of day-for-night filming that I've seen. The characters are supposed to be out at midnight, and yet we see them riding through what is obviously a sunny day ever so slightly color corrected. It's possible the version I watched had a different color grading than the original released film.

Despite the great cast and the otherwise competent filmmaking, I found it difficult to connect with this movie. I'm not a huge fan of the slapstick humor that comprises a large part of the comedy in this film. If it's not people falling down, it's Trumbull being verbally abusive to his wife. I understand what the film was trying to accomplish. It just all fell flat for me. Still, I would recommend it to those who enjoy Vincent Price.

I wish the full episode of Movie Macabre still existed. I'd love to hear with Elvira had to say about The Comedy of Terrors.

Vincent Price and Beverly Hills - The Comedy of Terrors (1964)

This Saturday on Svengoolie (March 16, 2024): THE COMEDY OF TERRORS (1963)

Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) is an amoral undertaker in 19th-century New England who takes to murdering people to have enough cash to support his drinking habit. Desperate for money after a widow stiffs him for a burial, Trumbull and his assistant, Gillie (Peter Lorre), decide to kill the wealthy Mr. Black (Basil Rathbone), their landlord, to whom they’re indebted. But murdering Black proves to…

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Round 2 poll 9: Phagocytes from Your Body vs Waldo Trumbull from The Comedy of Terrors

Propaganda under the cut:

Phagocytes

They're white blood cells. They protect your body from pathogens by engulfing them, trapping them in a membrane and digesting them. I imagine them as dogs that leap on pathogens and eat them. I love them so much

Waldo Trumbull

He's from a rarely talked about 1963 film which is absolutely ridiculous slapstick + dark comedy combined. He's a complete arsehole who there is no good reason to like--not only is he a serial killer (murders people to bring in customers to his undertaker's business) but he's also just a petty dick. He is built like a stick insect and moves around like a live-action cartoon, ungainliest creature ever. Has the personality of a scraggly feral cat that will bite and scratch if you get too close. He asks "May I?" before touching the breast of a *wooden carving* of a woman. His name is *Waldo Trumbull*, his first name only being revealed late in the film as he seems to know it's ridiculous and goes by his last name or "Mr W. Trumbull" (you can't pretend your first name is just W, Waldo, that's not how it works). Half of me wants to grab and shake him, half of me wants to keep him as a pet, he is such a creature.

The Tumblr Jerk Tournament Bracket...

...has dropped. I put all my love towards these assholes into it.

Seeded according to uhhhhh "my brain thinks these sources allign in same genre or medium, and if not, then it's because I think the characters have similar themes in some way in my brain". Contestants all chosen by YOU (+ Palpalymo, for diversity /j).

Polls: TBA. Once I finish making them all and draft them, I'll make an announcement.

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Thanks for your patience and let the whooping begin.

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Round One matchups, in text:

Zote the Mighty (Hollow Knight) VS Mothiva (Bug Fables)

Marvin Garden (Falsettos) VS Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Vic Sage/The Question (DC) VS Magic Man (Adventure Time)

Gary Smith (Bully) VS Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)

Theseus (Hades) VS Gavin Reed (Detroit: Become Human)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Shrek (Shrek)

Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!) VS Fakir (Princess Tutu)

Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim) VS Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Romeo (& Juliet) VS Tybalt Capulet (Romeo & Juliet)

Revali (Legend of Zelda) VS Ankh (Kamen Rider OOO)

Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Berdly (Deltarune)

Louie (Pikmin) VS Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Vegeta (Dragon Ball) VS Sentinel Prime (Transformers Animated)

Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) VS Waldo Trumbull (Comedy of Terrors)

Herbert P. Bear (Club Penguin) VS Snowball (Battle for Dream Island)

Takaya Abe (Big Windup!) VS Bakugou (My Hero Academia)

Goro Akechi (Persona 5) VS Monoma (My Hero Academia)

Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa) VS Yesod (Lobotomy Corporation/Library of Ruina)

Vriska (Homestuck) VS Eridan (Homestuck)

Five Pebbles (Rain World) VS Dingo (Pikmin)

Dio (Zero Escape) VS Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Cordalia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) VS Dr. House (House M.D.)

Dan (Dan VS) VS Eleanor Shelstrop (The Good Place)

Church (Red VS Blue) VS Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat)

Catra (She-Ra) VS Boscha (The Owl House)

Stan Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3) VS Shen Jiu (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)

GLaDOS (Portal) VS Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) VS Jonathan Simms (The Magnus Archives)

Rinne Amagi (Ensemble Stars) VS Papalymo (Final Fantasy XIV)

Owen Harper (Torchwood) VS Sawyer (Lost)

Chloe Bourgeois (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Heather (Total Drama)

The Comedy Of Terrors (1963)

Dir: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff.

IMDB Synopsis: Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.