Monster of the Day #2072

Updated on February 14, 2020 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

Although I had last year shown The Abominable Dr. Phibes at T-Fest last year, I was not disappointed to see it at B-Fest. It was the first time in a while I saw it in on a theater screen. (The first time I saw it I was a pajama-wearing tot at the drive-in.) Phibes is great, just great. Between this and Killer Klowns it was a very promising start to the fest. Everything about it is great. The two starting films were also lessons in the art of set design. We just recently featured Phibes here, but it’s never amiss to showcase this great and stylish film.

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  • Eric Hinkle

    Talking Price, if it matters to anyone Comet TV will be doing a whole day of his movies on Monday.

    And they did show The Last Man on Earth last night. it’s amazing how well that film holds up when it seems to have been shot on a very tiny budget given the scope

  • Drat, missed that, ah well, was working anyway. I’ve been collecting up all his reprinted cookbooks. ‘Cooking Price-Wise’ is utterly skippable (and intended for UK kitchens, so all recipes need converting), except for the popover recipe his daughter tucked in at the end. But ‘A Treasury of Great Recipes’ is a gorgeous time capsule of 1960s haute cuisine, full of stories and photos from Price’s home as well as menus from fine restaurants of the day around the world. “Come Into the Kitchen’ falls somewhere in-between. Pretty good history of American Cookery, rather reminded me of the sort of things the Frugal Gourmet was about in the 80s.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I knew Price was a gourmet chef but not that he also wrote some cookbooks.

    They also have his movies on Comet TV tonight. ‘House on Haunted Hill’ is finishing up right now. Hmm, given the climax of that film maybe he could have included a recipe for Acid-Dissolved Murderous Spouse and her Lover in one of his cookbooks.

  • I can highly recommend “A Treasury of Great Recipes” just for all the personal stories and anecdotes that he relates in each chapter. Anyone who grew up on Price can hear him telling every tale. It was recently reprinted in a really nice addition with a new intro by his daughter Victoria, so is readily available right now and often at a very reasonable price. Very 60s, so a lot of recipes include Campbell’s soups and other shelf-ready shortcuts that subbed for ingredients that were then hard to find for the average shopper, but are readily available today.

    And you get to see what the inside of his house looked like as most of the photography was done right in the family home.

  • Yes, I am a little over-enthusiastic about that book, it’s one of my favorite theatrical treasures. Plus a whole chapter is dedicated to the local Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where he was honored for contributions to art, so it is fun to see a place I know well and get some of their behind the scenes recipes.

  • Gamera977

    Hmmm, it’s only $37.00 over on Amazon and 85% of the reviews are five stars!