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‘Rocky Horror’ vs ‘Phantom of the Paradise’: It’s Rocktober with Nightmare on Film Street!
Hot Patootie, Bless my Soul!
We’re taking a trip over to the Frankenstein place on this week’s episode of Nightmare on Film Street. As Halloween night draws near, we’re revisiting two goth-rock opera classics for Rocktober, and our month-long celebration of The Sound of Screams. Join your horror hosts Jon & Kim as we take a jump to the left and a step to the right into the iconic Halloween freak-out musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before donning our raven masks, stomping on our distortion pedals, and crowd-diving into Brian De Palma’s Phantom of The Paradise. If you’ve been waiting patiently for us to fangirl over Frank-N-Furter & The Phantom this episode is for You, you freaky fiend. So press play now! We see you quiver with antici———pation!
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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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