1 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,240 Vincent Malloy is seven years old, 2 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,800 He's always polite and does what he's told. 3 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,280 For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, 4 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,360 But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. 5 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,080 He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cats, 6 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats. 7 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,600 There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented, 8 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,080 And wander dark hallways alone and tormented. 9 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,800 Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, 10 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,280 But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. 11 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,200 He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie, 12 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,720 In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. 13 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,400 So he and his horrible zombie dog, 14 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,320 Could go searching for victims in the London fog. 15 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,200 His thoughts though aren't only of ghoulish crime, 16 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,000 He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time. 17 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,800 While other kids read books like *Go Jane Go*, 18 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe. 19 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,080 One night while reading a gruesome tale, 20 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,680 He read a passage that made him turn pale. 21 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,320 Such horrible news he could not survive, 22 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,160 For his beautiful wife had been buried alive. 23 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,320 He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, 24 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,080 Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed. 25 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,800 His mother sent Vincent off to his room, 26 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,320 He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom. 27 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,160 Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life, 28 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,320 Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife. 29 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 While alone and insane, encased in his tomb, 30 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,200 Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room. 31 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,520 She said : "If you want to, you can go out and play. 32 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,600 It's sunny outside and a beautiful day." 33 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,200 Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak, 34 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,600 The years of isolation had made him quite weak. 35 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen, 36 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,800 "I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again." 37 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,680 His mother said: "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. 38 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,680 These games that you play are all in your head. 39 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,800 You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy. 40 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,160 You're not tormented, or insane, you're just a young boy." 41 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,400 "You're seven years old, and you are my son, 42 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,200 I want you to get outside and have some real fun." 43 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,320 Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall, 44 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,600 While Vincent backed slowly against the wall. 45 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,680 The room started to sway, to shiver and creak. 46 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,320 His horrid insanity had reached its peak. 47 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,400 He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave, 48 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,400 And heard his wife call from beyond the grave. 49 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,000 She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands. 50 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,800 While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands. 51 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,400 Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams, 52 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,880 Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams. 53 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,640 To escape the madness, he reached for the door, 54 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:56,200 But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor. 55 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,560 His voice was soft and very slow, 56 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,600 As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe, 57 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:11,200 "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, 58 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:17,680 Shall be lifted-- Nevermore!"