MENTAL FLOSS: "10 Spooky Commercials Starring Vincent Price"

From Anna Green's 5-20-22 MENTAL FLOSS article entitled "10 Spooky Commercials Starring Vincent Price":

From the 1930s through the 1980s, Vincent Price was an incredibly prolific actor who was best known for his distinctively spooky voice and his performances in a range of classic (and not-so-classic) horror movies.

Price—who was born on May 27, 1911—appeared in everything from the original versions of House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958), and House on Haunted Hill (1959) to 1959’s campy The Tingler, a novelty 3D movie in which theatergoers’ seats vibrated at scary moments throughout the film. His final on-film performance was in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990).

But the horror legend didn’t just appear in movies; Price was also a prolific commercial actor. In the 1970s and 1980s, Price lent his image or voice to ads for wine coolers, board games, candy bars, and even the American Dairy Association. Full of haunted mansions, spooky music, and clever wordplay (“prices that won’t scare you!”), most of the commercials put Price’s spine-chilling pedigree front and center....

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