Alice Cooper's The Nightmare (1975) | Vincent Price introduces The Black Widow
‘Moving to the next aisle, we have Arachnida, the spiders, our finest collection’... The Alice Cooper TV special The Nightmare, based on his first solo album Welcome To My Nightmare, had its US debut on 25 April 1975. You can watch it in full at the end of this post.
In the Emmy-award-winning special, Cooper is Steven, a young man trapped in a nightmare of his own making, from which he cannot escape. Vincent Price, who originally lent his iconic voice to the introduction to The Black Widow, appears as the Spirit of the Nightmare – Steven’s sinister guide through his experience.
You can read more about the TV special on the Sound of Vincent Price website: https://www.thesoundofvincentprice.com/alice-cooper-the-nightmare-tv-special/