Now that you mention, I can see Vincent Price in that role as well. Donald was good, but Vincent would've been equally good. The only complaint I have about this movie is that it was too short. It's very rare that I say that about any film because I have a tendency to have a low attention span and rush films to be over, but I found myself actually wishing this had a 4th segment. If it did have one, they should've cast Christopher Lee in a role somewhere because I felt like this would've been a perfect film for him to star in.
Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!
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greenbudgie
10 years ago
Good. I thought perhaps others could picture Vincent Price in the 3rd segment. Very often these anthologies do have 4 segments. But the segments in 'The Uncanny' are longer than usual. I'm like you. I usually get fidgety after 80 minutes of a film. My ideal running time is anything between 80 and 90 minutes. So the 89 minute running time of this film is just within the limits for my liking.
I would have liked Christopher Lee in the film as well. But he seemed to have crossed over to sci-fi by then, away from the regular horror genre. He was busy as usual in 1977, at the time of this film, doing 4 movies that year. But I was glad to see him back in horror a few years later, with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price in 'House of the Long Shadows.'
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