Want to know the best Vincent Price movies? How about the worst Vincent Price movies? Curious about Vincent Price’s box office grosses or which Vincent Price movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Vincent Price movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Vincent Price (1911-1993) was an American actor. Price had one of the most distinctive and best known movie voices in the history of movies. In the 1950s he became the King of Horror Movies, taking over the crown from Boris Karloff. Steve Lensman (great friend of our website) requested a Vincent Price movie pages many years ago. Well finally we have a Vincent Price movie page. Sorry it took so long Steve…..his massive career was somewhat mind boggling!
His IMDb page shows 201 acting credits from 1938-1993. This page currently ranks 50 Vincent Price movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Vincent Price Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Vincent Price movies by co-stars of his movies.
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- Sort Vincent Price movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Vincent Price movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Vincent Price movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Vincent Price movie won.
- Sort Vincent Price movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 2 | The Ten Commandments (1956) AA Best Picture Nom |
Charlton Heston | 72.00 | 1,412.0 | 3,423.10 | 1 | 85 | 07 / 01 | 99.4 | |
| 1 | The Song of Bernadette (1943) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jennifer Jones & Charles Bickford |
13.40 | 482.5 | 482.50 | 4 | 77 | 12 / 04 | 99.3 | |
| 4 | Laura (1944) | Clifton Webb & Gene Tierney |
6.50 | 217.3 | 217.30 | 39 | 86 | 05 / 01 | 98.9 | |
| 3 | Wilson (1944) AA Best Picture Nom |
Alexander Knox | 6.50 | 217.3 | 217.30 | 37 | 69 | 10 / 05 | 98.8 | |
| 5 | Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | Gene Tierney | 14.20 | 449.6 | 449.60 | 3 | 81 | 04 / 01 | 98.4 | |
| 6 | House of Wax (1953) | Charles Bronson | 30.30 | 544.4 | 544.40 | 3 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 97.7 | |
| 7 | The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) | Gregory Peck | 7.70 | 260.8 | 260.80 | 25 | 73 | 04 / 00 | 96.7 | |
| 8 | The Three Musketeers (1948) | Gene Kelly & Lana Turner |
10.90 | 292.5 | 596.60 | 4 | 71 | 01 / 00 | 95.6 | |
| 9 | Dragonwyck (1946) | Gene Tierney & Walter Huston |
8.10 | 249.7 | 249.70 | 33 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.4 | |
| 10 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | Abbott & Costello |
5.90 | 159.6 | 159.60 | 49 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 94.9 | |
| 11 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder |
56.40 | 143.6 | 219.20 | 20 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 94.3 | |
| 12 | The Fly (1958) | David Hedison | 8.60 | 154.0 | 154.00 | 24 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 13 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) | Errol Flynn & Bette Davis |
3.80 | 147.1 | 248.40 | 50 | 71 | 05 / 00 | 91.8 | |
| 14 | His Kind of Woman (1951) | Robert Mitchum & Jane Russell |
5.70 | 123.2 | 123.20 | 46 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 87.3 | |
| 15 | The Big Circus (1959) | Victor Mature & Peter Lorre |
7.70 | 138.6 | 138.60 | 32 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 85.3 | |
| 18 | Pit and the Pendulum (1961) | Barbara Steele | 5.70 | 83.2 | 83.20 | 41 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 83.5 | |
| 17 | The Great Mouse Detective (1986) | Basil Rathbone | 25.30 | 73.6 | 73.60 | 37 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 83.2 | |
| 19 | House on Haunted Hill (1959) | Carol Ohmart | 4.30 | 77.0 | 77.00 | 60 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 82.7 | |
| 19 | The Web (1947) | Edmond O'Brien | 2.70 | 78.4 | 78.40 | 126 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 82.6 | |
| 20 | A Royal Scandal (1945) | Charles Coburn & Anne Baxter |
4.20 | 132.1 | 132.10 | 84 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 82.3 | |
| 22 | The Bribe (1949) | Ava Gardner & Robert Taylor |
4.30 | 108.6 | 174.80 | 72 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 80.2 | |
| 21 | Champagne For Caesar (1950) | Ronald Colman | 2.40 | 54.5 | 54.50 | 126 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 80.1 | |
| 24 | Rogues' Regiment (1948) | Dick Powell | 4.70 | 127.7 | 127.70 | 75 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 79.9 | |
| 23 | The Raven (1963) | Peter Lorre & Jack Nicholson |
3.90 | 48.3 | 48.30 | 62 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 79.7 | |
| 26 | Moss Rose (1947) | Ethel Barrymore & Victor Mature |
3.10 | 90.6 | 90.60 | 110 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 79.6 | |
| 26 | Theater of Blood (1973) | Diana Rigg | 3.00 | 18.5 | 18.50 | 89 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 27 | House of Usher (1960) | Directed by Roger Corman | 4.10 | 64.7 | 64.70 | 66 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 28 | Tales of Terror (1962) | Peter Lorre | 5.00 | 71.9 | 71.90 | 50 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 78.1 | |
| 29 | Service de Luxe (1938) | Constance Bennett | 1.40 | 56.9 | 56.90 | 148 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 73.8 | |
| 30 | Serenade (1956) | Mario Lanza & Joan Fontaine |
4.30 | 84.0 | 154.30 | 75 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 72.3 | |
| 29 | The Tingler (1959) | Darryl Hickman | 2.90 | 51.3 | 51.30 | 84 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 32 | The Las Vegas Story (1952) | Jane Russell & Victor Mature |
3.30 | 65.3 | 65.30 | 110 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 33 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) | Joseph Cotten | 4.50 | 29.7 | 29.70 | 65 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 71.6 | |
| 35 | Beach Party (1963) | Robert Cummings & Frankie Avalon |
6.40 | 80.6 | 80.60 | 44 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 69.9 | |
| 34 | Shock (1946) | Lynn Bari | 2.20 | 66.6 | 66.60 | 120 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 69.5 | |
| 36 | Scavenger Hunt (1979) | Richard Benjamin | 10.00 | 42.9 | 42.90 | 64 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 68.3 | |
| 37 | The Last Man On Earth (1964) | Franca Bettoia | 2.70 | 31.1 | 31.10 | 91 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 67.9 | |
| 38 | The Comedy of Terrors (1963) | Peter Lorre & Boris Karloff |
1.60 | 19.5 | 19.50 | 103 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 64.9 | |
| 37 | The Haunted Palace (1963) | Lon Chaney Jr. | 3.40 | 43.0 | 43.00 | 65 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 64.8 | |
| 40 | Bagdad (1949) | Maureen O'Hara | 4.40 | 111.4 | 111.40 | 70 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 63.7 | |
| 43 | Master of the World (1961) | Charles Bronson | 4.00 | 58.3 | 58.30 | 56 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 63.3 | |
| 42 | The Masque of the Red Death (1964) | Hazel Court | 2.00 | 23.4 | 23.40 | 112 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 63.3 | |
| 41 | The Bat (1959) | Agnes Moorehead | 2.50 | 45.1 | 45.10 | 92 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 63.2 | |
| 42 | The Conqueror Worm/Witchfinder General (1968) | Ian Ogilvy | 4.30 | 35.3 | 35.30 | 72 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 62.2 | |
| 43 | The Mad Magician (1954) | Eva Gabor & LyleTalbot |
1.00 | 23.4 | 23.40 | 150 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 61.1 | |
| 44 | The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) | Elizabeth Shepherd | 1.80 | 21.1 | 21.10 | 116 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 58.9 | |
| 47 | The Eve of St. Mark (1944) | Anne Baxter | 1.20 | 40.8 | 40.80 | 138 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 54.1 | |
| 48 | The Whales of August (1987) | Bette Davis & Lillian Gish |
1.30 | 3.7 | 3.70 | 158 | 68 | 01 / 00 | 50.1 | |
| 49 | The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) Voice Only |
Matthew Broderick | 0.70 | 1.7 | 1.70 | 195 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 49.4 | |
| 51 | Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) | Errol Flynn & Vincent Price |
1.20 | 26.2 | 26.20 | 186 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 44.8 | |
| 50 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) | Peter Cushing | 3.00 | 19.2 | 19.20 | 91 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 44.6 | |
| 52 | Tower of London (1962) | Michael Pate | 1.80 | 25.7 | 25.70 | 105 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 42.6 | |
| 51 | House of the Long Shadows (1983) | Christopher Lee | 0.10 | 0.5 | 0.50 | 154 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 40.5 | |
| 55 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) | Dwayne Hickman & Frankie Avalon |
5.10 | 54.3 | 54.30 | 54 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 39.3 | |
| 53 | The Oblong Box (1969) | Christopher Lee | 2.90 | 22.1 | 22.10 | 70 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 37.3 | |
| 56 | The Trouble with Girls (1969) | Elvis Presley | 2.70 | 20.9 | 20.90 | 79 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 35.8 | |
| 56 | Scream and Scream Again (1970) | Christopher Lee | 3.70 | 25.6 | 25.60 | 72 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 34.3 | |
| 57 | Cry of the Banshee (1970) | Essy Persson | 4.00 | 27.5 | 27.50 | 65 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 32.3 | |
| 57 | City Under The Sea (1964) | Tab Hunter | 2.60 | 30.0 | 30.00 | 93 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 30.0 | |
| 61 | Return of the Fly (1959) | Brett Halsey | 1.90 | 33.4 | 33.40 | 118 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 28.1 | |
| 60 | From a Whisper to a Scream (1987) | Vincent Price & Clu Gulager |
1.40 | 3.7 | 3.70 | 157 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 27.5 | |
| 62 | Catchfire/Back Track (1990) | Jodie Foster & Dennis Hopper |
5.00 | 12.7 | 12.70 | 120 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 21.8 | |
| 63 | Dead Heat (1988) | Treat Williams | 3.60 | 9.4 | 9.40 | 137 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 16.3 | |
| 64 | Journey Into Fear (1975) | Shelley Winters & Zero Mostel |
1.70 | 8.8 | 8.80 | 124 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 15.5 | |
| 65 | The Story of Mankind (1957) | Marx Brothers & Peter Lorre |
0.60 | 12.2 | 23.40 | 185 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 10.7 | |
| 64 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) | Fabian | 1.10 | 10.6 | 10.60 | 120 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 3.4 |
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Vincent Pricel Table
- Thirteen Vincent Price movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 22.00% of his movies listed. The Ten Commandments (1956) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Vincent Price movie grosses $81.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 34 Vincent Price movies are rated as good movies…or 68.00% of his movies. Laura (1944) is his highest rated movie while Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) is his lowest rated movie.
- Ten Vincent Price movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 20.00% of his movies.
- Five Vincent Price movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.00% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 39.86. 12 Vincent Price movies scored higher that average….or 26.00% of his movies. The Ten Commandments (1956) got the the highest UMR Score while Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) got the lowest UMR Score.
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THIS PAGE IS NOT A COMPLETED PAGE. JUST WANTED TO SHOW THE MOVIES IN OUR DATABASE THAT STARRED VINCENT PRICE. NOT SURE WHEN WE WILL FINISH THIS PAGE BUT UNTIL THEN, WE FIGURED THERE WAS NO GOOD REASON NOT TO SHARE WHAT WE DO HAVE. WE CALL OUR WEBSITE ULTIMATE MOVIE RANKINGS BECAUSE WE TRY AND RANK EVERY MOVIE AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS MADE. SINCE THIS IS ONLY SOME OF PRICE’S MOVIES WE WILL JUST CALL THIS A VINCENT PRICE MOVIE RANKING PAGE AND LEAVE OUT THE ULTIMATE!
Wow….two Steve links……one for his You Tube Video and for his Movie Poster Page.
And finally….have to add Steve Lensman’s Vincent Price Movie Poster Page. There is some great art work in this collection of posters….highly recommend checking out this page.
Just added Steve’s Vincent Price video to the page.
“Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore’.”
1 STEVE As your posters illustrate for most of his early career Vincent played supporting roles in which he was quite capable of stealing scenes from the star (s) of the movie – Dragonwyck, Laura, Leave her to Heaven, While the City Sleeps and the Ten Commandments. Critics usually praised his performances in those films and when in 1954 he made Dangerous Mission one critic mentioning the various players in the movie said that Victor Mature was his usual stoic heroic self and the critic added “And then there is Vincent Price giving everybody else a lesson in movie acting.” From House of Wax in 1953 he gradually worked his way into stardom via horror films particularly those in the series based on Edgar Allan Poe’s works.
2 COMMENTS (1) We are both fans of Vincent’s Poe based horror films so I was curious to see how they would fare in your Price video. You included the best 6 and your average score was a good 72% which was also Bruce’s average for the same set of films with IMDB not far behind you two with a 69% average for the 6.(2) You and Bruce were agreed on 3 of the Top 5 and I am afraid that I have to side with El Commandant when he included House of Wax in his 5 and you didn’t (3) Price’s horror films always made for a feast of striking posters outside cinemas and I have simply closed my eyes and singled out for mention your selection Diary of a Madman. House on Haunted Hill, Tomb of Ligeia, Abominable Dr Phibes and House of Wax. (4) your stills bring out that despite the creepy people that he played on screen Price was very debonair looking when he was youngish. Best stills in my opinion were the tongue-in-cheek opening one, clearly posed, for Comedy of Terrors, House of Wax, the two with Gene Tierney from Dragonwyck and Laura and the beautiful coloured solo of Vincent in fine aristocratic form as Roderick Usher. I see that your posters give us the two alternative titles for that movie Fall of the House of Usher and House of Usher. (5) Bruce will have noticed that in the poster for Whales of August Bette Davis although overall a bigger star than Lillian Gish respected the latter so much that Bette compromised by allowing Lillian’s name to go on the uplifted spot that Holly Hunter conceded to Dreyfuss on the Always posters. (6) Great stuff all over so in my estimation 9.5/10
POSTSCRIPT
By coincidence after I watched your Price video on Tuesday you crossed my mind again when I listened to the evening news which revealed the death of Gene Gernan who was the last man to walk on the moon back in the seventies. A scientist who knew him said that he was such an imposing physical specimen of manhood with great leadership qualities that he was widely nicknamed within the space industry “The Charlton Heston of astronauts.”
Hi Bob, thanks as always for the review, rating, comment, comparison, trivia and billing info!
I left a out a few notable supporting roles for Price to squeeze in more horror. And you can see some of those films listed on Bruce’s chart which covers about half of Vinnie’s total filmography.
The Fall of the House of Usher was shortened to House of Usher in the States but the UK release retained the full title of Poe’s story.
Witchfinder General was retitled The Conqueror Worm in the America, the title of a Poe poem, to give the film a very tenuous Edgar Allan connection.
The Haunted Palace includes a quote from Poe on the poster but the film was actually based on a story by another horror icon H.P. Lovecraft.
“Last man on the Moon” hasn’t got quite the same ring to it as “First man on the Moon” and has a certain sadness to it, will man ever go back to the moon? Maybe not in our lifetimes. RIP Eugene Cernan, when I was a kid I was fascinated by the NASA space missions, especally Apollo, but the Space Shuttle never really thrilled me. I wanted them to explore the Solar System, not orbit the Earth over and over again for decades. “The Charlton Heston of Astronauts”, I like that.
STEVE
1 It was no coincidence that Chuck elevated to stardom by playing noble figures like Moses, Ben Hur and El Cid!
2 We have been exchanging posts over the past few days about horror films and I mentioned Christopher Lee’s revelation that the British Film Industry paid him a relative pittance of £750 for playing the title role of Dracula in 1958.
3 Last night I watched a 90 minute HBO documentary based on archive footage of the relationship between Debbie and Carrie over their lifetimes. It was called Bright Lights and of course revealed many fascinating thing about the pair, Carrie privately dancing and singing on The Great Wall of China at Christmas 1988 being just one part of the footage that got my most attention.
3 Another factor worth mentioning is that after her success as the Princess Carrie was able to conduct mass autograph signings at which she was paid $70 dollars per autograph. The Yanks sure knew how to reward celebrity and I have often wondered how the likes of Lee would have fared had he been a successful US film star instead of a British one.in those days.
Thanks for the Lee, Carrie and Debbie info Bob. Yep Christopher Lee wasn’t paid much by Hammer, he was probably paid more for that one Bond movie than all his Hammer films combined. America is a richer country and Lee would have been a lot better off financially if he had been an American horror icon instead of an English one.
On the other hand Vincent Price, a noted Anglophile, gourmet and art collector, worked quite a bit in Britain during the 70s and early 80s. I wonder if he was paid more than Lee and Cushing? I remember seeing him pop up on various British chat shows and game shows too. Always funny, quick-witted and full of anecdotes.
Cushing, Lee, Price, Karloff all had great voices which suited those horror films perfectly. And Bela Lugosi’s Hungarian accent seemed just right for Dracula.
🙂
Hey Bob….good stuff…especially the part about House of Wax and how you agree with me….love hearing that…lol. Sorry to hear about Gene German….but walking on the moon and having a nicknane “The Charlton Heston of astronauts.” is good way to be remembered. Good review on Steve’s video. Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss in Always?…not sure I am aware of that movie 🙂
STEVE:
1 In the table above Bruce has already given us domestic grosses for many of Price’s horror films including the Poe-based ones. He has yet to update the figures but the existing ones confirm the impression that they were low grossers made profitable by low production costs helped by the policy of the Brits of paying stars a pittance. It could be though that they were more popular internationally than in the US.
2 Also Bruce’s science fiction page does include a few Price ‘tinglers’ such as Scream and Scream Again with a figure updated by about 50%. It is not out of the question therefore that Bruce could round up enough US grosses overall to make a specific Hammer page a worthwhile project. I don’t immediately see a page devoted exclusively to horror films in his index.
Bob, Bruce told me he is planning a horror page for some time this year but will he include any British horror? Not sure. What he could do is have a seperate box for the films he can’t find box office info. Ratings are good enough for me, as you can tell from my videos, and as you say the grosses are so low even for classic American horror that it’s not a huge loss.
I’m guessing most popular non-comedy horror or supernatural film of the 40s was The Uninvited, and the 1950s – House of Wax. The 1960s? Rosemary’s Baby or Psycho? The 70s it has to be The Exorcist. The 80s? Poltergeist?
STEVE Good to hear a horror page is on its way. Hope you find it satisfactory. The films that you mention like House of Wax are certainly popularity contenders. I liked them all except The Exorcist.
One day…Bob….so many possible pages to do…horror movies, King Kong, yearly reviews, Lee Van Cleef, studio pages….so many subjects…and so little time. It took me years to watch The Exorcist….it is a truly disturbing movie….that has aged very well. 🙂
Hey Steve….the horror page will be massive…which is a big reason why I have not done one yet…..but hopefully by the end of 2017 it will be completed. You know me….gotta have those box office grosses….just can’t get by it….and I have tried to…maybe I should seek professional help for this issue I have…lol.
You top horror hits by decade look like good choices to me…..though Psycho would bump Rosemary’s Baby off to the side for the 1960s. Thanks for the return visit to my Vincent Price page….which will be updated in the near future…with about 10 “new” movies for the page.
Hi, Bruce
We have a channel in Canada called Screen Classics out of Ontario that is similar to TCM only that there are shorts from the National Film Board of Canada of companies like Vitaphone. They aired The Ten Commandments this weekend so I watched it. Quite a spectacle indeed. I found it was more of a one-time only film for me. I can now cross it off of my to-see films. My favourite scenes were those with Yul Brynner.
Happy New Year
Flora
That should say Silver Screen Classics.
Got it.
Hey Flora. Screen Classics sounds like a great channel. Very cool that you saw The Ten Commandment…I will let Mr. Steve know….I am sure his next question or thought will be something revolving around when Ben-Hur will get a viewing…lol. I think Brynner is in Ben-Hur too. Thans for the update. Happy New Year to you too.