Now for something fun...like a movie review on House of the Long Shadows

Early this year horror film and heavy metal icon Sir Christopher Lee died. He was a true horror film legend who starred in over 200 films. But he made one film with fellow horror film icons Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and John Carradine in the 1984 film House of the Long Shadows along Desi Arnaz Jr, Sheila Keith, Julia Peasgood, and Richard Tod and it's directed by Pete Walker. It is the fist and sadly only time that all 4 icons stared in a film together and share screen time with each other. While Lee and Cushing made over 20 films together Price and Lee made 1 film The Oblong Box where the 2 stars only share about 20 seconds together where Lee dies. While Price and Cushing made 1 film together Madhouse in which they shared a decent amount of screen time. The 3 of them were in Scream and Scream Again but didn't share any screen time together. The plot: Arnaz plays a cynical 1984 American writer who has came to the UK to promote his new book, while having lunch with his friend and editor Richard Tod, the two start talking about the difference between the classics of literature and wonders why modern writers can't turn out stories like Withering Heights. Arnaz boasts that he could do that kind of story in 24 hours and bets $20,000 that he can and states all he needs is atmosphere. Tod has friend with an old manor house in Wales that hasn't been lived in over 40 years and has no electricity. Arnaz thinks that this is great since he can write by candlelight and Tod writes the place name because it's in Wales Baleplate Manor. Arnaz dives to the manor and of course a massive rainstorm hits and he stops a train station where he meets a young couple on holiday and old lady who enters the restroom and they hear a crash when they investigate they find a window broken and no sign of her. Then the station master appears and Arnaz asks how to find the manor the station master warns him that it's cursed but finally gives in and tells him where to find the manor. Arnaz finally finds the manor and finds a bedroom that has fresh water in a vase and the bed is made. As he starts to write he a noise and finds John Carradine and Sheila Keith a father and daughter pair of housekeepers. Then Julia Peasgood, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee arrive and we learn that they are all The Grisbane family that lived in the manor and that 40 years ago the youngest son Roderick committed a terrible crime and the family sealed him in his room and that 40 years later they would release him. Unfortunately Roderick isn't in a forgiving mood and is out for revenge and starts killing off his family, and anyone else in his way and that includes the young couple from the train station who have came to the manor in hopes of finding shelter from the storm. The story concludes with Christopher Lee revealing to Vincent Price that he is Roderick and that Price set him up and he kills Price and then goes after Arnaz with an ax and Arnaz kicks him down a flight of stairs and Lee lands on the ax. Then after Lee dies the other dead cast members come back and it's revealed that it's been a trick set up by Tod. Then in a second twist it's revealed that it's actually all been the story that Arnaz has been writing and he gets back and wins the bet but has learned that characters and emotions are better than his cynical. As he leaves the restaurant and bumps into Peasgood and learns that she's actually works for Tod and he asks her if she believes in love at first sight and she says yes, then he sees Vincent Price as a waiter and the two walk out. Thoughts: The 4 masters of horror is enough to get me to buy this film but so long it was only available on MGM Mod DVDs with an awful print that you can hardly see thankfully Kino-Lorber has put out a beautiful HD remaster blu-ray edition that has a video interview with director Pete Walker, along with a commentary track with Walker and second commentary track with film historian. Trailers for House of the Long Shadows, The Oblong Box, and Madhouse. The film isn't for everyone it's a slow burn and doesn't feature a lot of gross-out horror. It's a fitting swan song to the British Gothic era of horror films. I do recommend the film. It's a lot of fun to see Cushing, Price, Lee, and Carradine have a final bow.