Vincent Price (Escapes)

"If there's one thing I can not stand, it's being cut off or interrupted. Do I make myself perfectly clear?"

- Vincent Price speaking to Matthew from the TV screen

Vincent Price is the true main antagonist in the 1986 horror anthology movie Escapes. A fictionalized version of the late real-life actor (who portrayed himself in the movie), he's the host of the "movie in the movie" which is also called Escapes, who is able to break the "4th wall" as he's able to talk to the viewer and trap him inside of the movie.

Role in the movie
At the beginning of the movie, a mailman can be seen delivering a movie tape to the house of a teenager called Matthew Wilson. Matthew is overjoyed as it's the new anthology starring Vincent Price as a narrator. When he starts the tape, the movie switches to the "actual" movie, showing Vincent Price in a hall full of stone sculptures of people. He bids the audience welcome, informing the viewer that everything that's seemingly impossible is becoming normal in this movie before featuring five short horror movies.

After watching them, Matthew is horrified to hear that Vincent Price has a sixth horror story, which is about Matthew Wilson, asking him directly if he does want to be part of the story. Matthew turns off the TV, but the movie suddenly turns on by itself again and Vincent Price informs Matthew that he doesn't like being cut off or interrupted. Matthew decides to take out the tape. When he does so, ignoring Price's warnings and threats, he is suddenly attacked by all the characters from the five movies who appear in his house while Price, again visible on the screen, laughs at this. Matthew suddenly wakes up on the sofa, beliving it all to have been a dream until he sees that the video tape's cover says that the movie features Vincent Price and Matthew Wilson. When he looks up, he sees Vincent Price sitting on a chair nearby, outside of the movie and wearing the mailman's clothes, revealing himself to have been the mailman who delivered the tape in the first place. Mere seconds later, Matthew turns into a stone and is teleported to the hall from the movie tape's opening, implying that the statues were all viewers who got trapped in the movie by Price.