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[Horror Queers Podcast] This 20th Anniversary Party for ‘House on Haunted Hill’ is to Die For
Would You Run From Calista Flockhart?!
We’re in the home stretch of our Camp marathon as we attend the prestigious birthday party of one Evelyn Stockard-Price (Kween Famke Janssen). Over the last several weeks you’ve heard us delve into Lindsay Lohan’s tumultuous experience filming I Know Who Killed Me, explore the gonzo twists in Netflix’s The Perfection and analyze the sociopolitical commentary in Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. Now it’s time for some Dark Castle-y goodness with 1999’s House on Haunted Hill!
In House on Haunted Hill, a group of strangers are invited to a party and offered $1 million each if they survive the night. The only catch is that the party takes place at the titular “house” (aka the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane), which is actually haunted!
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Episode 44 – House on Haunted Hill (1999)
As the boys near the end of their eight-week camp marathon, they make return trip to the halls of Dark Castle Entertainment (see previous episode on Orphan) to check into the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane. That’s right, they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of William Malone’s remake of House on Haunted Hill!
Join them as they discuss a remake that’s better than it has any right to be (even if it doesn’t seem to know what a “house” is), praise the glorious diva perfection that is Famke Janssen and marvel at Ali Larter’s ability to connect wires and turn on lights!
Oh! They need some help settling a debate: what would one call the fate that befalls Schechter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Max Perlich) in the film?
This Week’s Game: Recast House on Haunted Hill with 2019 actors.
Cross out House on Haunted Hill!
Coming up tomorrow: We’re celebrating Halloween with the ultimate rock opera (no, not that one). That’s right! It’s Brian De Palma‘s Phantom of the Paradise!
– Joe & Trace
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Shakespearean Education in the Vincent Price-Starring ‘Theater of Blood’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Butch knows best…
After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen), we’re heading back to the ’70s to discuss our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox‘s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973).
In Theater of Blood, Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a disgraced Shakespearean actor who begins targeting the critics who shamed him. The gimmick? He’s taking inspiration from the death scenes in William Shakespeare’s plays! Aiding him is his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg), who acts as the honeypot for her father’s macabre scheme.
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Episode 388: Theater of Blood (1973)
Brush up on your Shakespeare and protect those poodles because we’re covering our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973), a personal favorite of both Price and Diana Rigg.
Join us as we go all in on this somewhat episodic (but also educational!) proto-slasher, wondering if we’re supposed to know that’s Diana Rigg in hippie drag, and cackling at some of these murder set pieces.
Plus, “Handsy Dickman,” narcissistic gravestones, antisemitic stage makeup, and the ultimate debate: is it theatER or theatRE?
C/W: Attempted suicide, off-screen dog murder.
Cross out Theater of Blood!
Coming Up Next: We’re celebrating the premiere of AMC’s The Vampire Lestat with a look at the much-maligned 2002 adaptation Queen of the Damned!
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