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‘Dr. Death’ Follows the Trail of Christopher Duntsch’s Destruction [Murder Made Fiction Podcast]
Like it or not, we all know that malpractice is inevitable. Doctors are fallible human beings and every time we go under the knife, there’s a small chance that we won’t wake up. But we put our trust in surgeons who’ve spent years honing their craft and vowed to save us whatever the cost. And most of the time things turn out fine. We receive competent care from a trained professional. But not for patients of Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson). The vast majority of those in his care either woke up from surgery in worse condition or they didn’t wake up at all.
Episodes three and four of Dr. Death season one follow a pair of surgeons tasked with repairing Duntsch’s botched operations. Horrified by the damage he’s caused, Dr. Kirby (Christian Slater) and Dr. Henderson (Alec Baldwin) retrace his time at the University of Tennessee, determined to find out what went wrong.
How could a surgeon with such glowing recommendations be responsible for so much needless suffering?
In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction, Joe and Jenn unpack this shocking pair of episodes. Duel timelines take us back to Tennessee as Duntsch woos his teachers with lucrative patents. In the future, we watch as Chris spirals out of control when word of his incompetence makes the rounds.
And if you want even more Murder Made Fiction, be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where Jenn and Joe have ~100+ episodes and ~73 hours of exclusive content including full primers on Duntsch and Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, episode by episode coverage of Dr. Death season 2, plus reviews of David Midell’s The Ritual and 2016’s The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund as well as a full primer on her 1928 exorcism.
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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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