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[Podcasts] Take Home Horror History with The Boo Crew!
Imagine being connected to one of your favorite horror flicks by actually owning a piece of them! Los Angeles based auction house, PROFILES IN HISTORY will be curating this experience for you with their “Icons and Legends of Hollywood Auction” happening September 25th and 26th! Over 900 lots are up for grabs including screen used treasures from the A Nightmare On Elm Street films, Hellraiser, the Evil Dead franchise, Jaws, Alien, Child’s Play, Gremlins, Ghostbusters and many more!
Some of the iconic items that could be yours include one of the stunt axes used by Jack Nicholson in Kubrick’s “The Shining”. All work and no play may be the secret to picking it up as it’s estimated at going anywhere from $6,000 to $8,000. Freddy can be your boyfriend now with the actual special FX phone receiver complete with animatronic tongue seen in the first Elm Street movie! Everything from Deadite Warriors from Army Of Darkness, the Stay Puft Marshmellow man’s head, to the Munsters‘ coffin shaped roadster, the Dragula, could be making your horror-nerd fantasies a reality.
Take a shot at the massive Teleportation Pod from The Fly II! “You can have it in your living room!”, adds Head Of Consignor and Client Relations, Brian Chanes, who’s adventures tracking down this stuff were once chronicled on SyFy’s reality show, “Hollywood Treasures” back in 2010.
“We’re not selling stuff we’re selling memories,” says Joe Moe, catalog editor. “It travels with us through time and keeps us plugged into this escapism, art, craft and the magic of moviemaking that’s a unique American tradition.”
Take a trip to the Profiles In History warehouse in Episode 68 of The Boo Crew Podcast for the fascinating stories behind the items (also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts)!
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Aaliyah Innocent.
May was a busy subgenre-switching month. After kicking things off with disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen), we watched American Giallo The Fan (listen), then wrapped things up with Vincent Price’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (listen).
Now, in honor of Pride Month and the return of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (renamed The Vampire Lestat for S03), Trace and I had to check out the straight-washed second attempt to bring Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to life.
Back in 2002, director Michael Rymer pitched Hollywood on his vision for Rice’s second Chronicle book, The Vampire Lestat. Instead, the suits opted to adapt the third book, Queen of the Damned (likely due to the ancillary opportunities of the soundtrack, written entirely by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis).
In the film, Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens from slumber to reinvent himself as a leather-pant-wearing rocker. Lestat’s very public vampire persona attracts the attention of Talamasca novice Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), as well as the vampire’s maker Marius (Vincent Perez). But the nu-metal has the greatest impact on Akasha (Aaliyah), who awakens and promises to take over the world if her old foe Maharet (Lena Olin) doesn’t stop her.
Whose side will Lestat join? Will Marius help his fledgling or abandon him to public sacrifice? And does anyone actually care about Jesse? (Please note: that last question is rhetorical.)
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Episode 389: Queen of the Damned (2002)
Practice your Egyptian accent and bare that midriff because we are talking the troubled “adaptation” of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned (2002).
Directed by Australian Michael Rymer, this one was doomed by the suits before it was even greenlit (which happened AFTER all of the songs were written by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis). It’s a bit of a clusterfuck.
Plus: praising everything Aaliyah (RIP); critiquing everything Stuart Townsend (aside from his abs and leather pants); a soft queer reading of Marius; and bemoaning boring protagonist/audience surrogate JESSE.
Cross out Queen of the Damned!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling Ben Stiller’s horror-adjacent dark comedy The Cable Guy (1996), in anticipation of its 30th anniversary!
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