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Vincent Price's daughter said that as a child, she was too scared to watch her father's films
"It was very confusing for me.”
Children are frequently shielded from all things frightening. Childhood fears pave the way for adult anxieties. As children, we are never exactly sure what is real and what isn’t, meaning that one fictional horror film can lead to more than a few nightmares.
As a child, these fears were only compounded for Victoria Price, whose father, Vincent Price frequently starred in horror films. Though the elder Price was considered a master of the genre, his daughter admitted that when she was young, she was incredibly reluctant to watch her father’s films. Frequently the antagonist, Vincent Price’s characters often met an end that was both untimely and violent.
“I was scared to watch,” Price said during an interview with The Commercial Appeal. “It seems like he always died. He was burned, he was bludgeoned...It was very confusing for me.”
Still, Victoria Price was aware of her father’s impact on cinema as a whole. “I think that awareness of camp created a place for what my father did,” said the actor. “I think people knew he was having fun with the genre, and they appreciated that. He wasn’t making fun of it, he was having fun with it.”
Off-screen, Victoria said that her father was “a big kid.”
“He would take us trick-or-treating,” said Price of her father. “You can imagine how much me and my friends loved that. People would hear a knock on their door on Halloween, and they’d open it, and there would be Vincent Price.”
