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On this episode of Horror News Radio:

• The Grue-Crew review… EXTRA ORDINARY.

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HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

• [RIP] Max Von Sydow was 90: The Exorcist, Flash Gordon, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Game of Thrones, Needful Things, Dreamscape, Dune
  • 164 Acting credits: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/
• [TRAILER] PENNY DREADFUL returns with CITY OF ANGELS
  • https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/tv-news-roundup-showtime-penny-dreadful-trailer-1203526304/
• [TRAILER] WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS season 2 twice as scary, now with puppets
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCIMOJA9GE
• [CASTING] Scott Derrickson and Chris Evans head to BERMUDA
  • https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chris-evans-scott-derrickson-skydances-bermuda-1203524490/
• [CASTING] THE BRIDES gains its Dracula with Goran Visnjic
  • https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/goran-visnjic-vampire-soap-opera-the-brides-abc-1203527568/

FEATURE REVIEW: EXTRA ORDINARY

Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.

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• Director: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
• Cast: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte

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On this episode of Horror News Radio:

• The Grue-Crew review… THE LODGE.

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HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

• ANTEBELLUM is still confusing, despite the new trailer
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLkVB_T3uw
• THE BRIDES is coming to ABC with Katherine Reis, Sophia Tatum, and Chris Mason along with Gina Torres
  • https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/abc-vampire-soap-opera-pilot-the-brides-cast-1203522318/
• LAST OF US finally greenlit, heading to HBO
  • https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/last-us-series-works-at-hbo-chernobyl-creator-1282707
• James Wan will produce a MONSTER MOVIE for Universal (Monsters)
  • https://variety.com/2020/film/news/james-wan-universal-monster-movie-1203526601/

FEATURE REVIEW: THE LODGE (Hammer Films, 2019)

A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.

IMDb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohLHereEOM8

• Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
• Cast:
  • Richard Armitage … Richard
  • Alicia Silverstone … Laura
  • Riley Keough … Grace
  • Jaeden Martell … Aidan (as Jaeden Lieberher)
  • Lia McHugh … Mia

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"Forgive me, but you are an endless source of amusement to me." I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? … Wait. Wrong movie. Anyway, join your faithful Grue Crew - Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr - as they determine exactly what is so damn endlessly amusing in The Evil (1978) from New World Pictures.

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 111 – The Evil (1978)

A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.

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• Director: Gus Trikonis
• Writers: Galen Thompson (as Donald G. Thompson), Gus Trikonis
• Cast
  • Richard Crenna as C.J. Arnold
  • Joanna Pettet as Dr. Caroline Arnold
  • Andrew Prine as Prof. Raymond Guy
  • Cassie Yates as Mary Harper
  • George O'Hanlon Jr. as Pete Brooks
  • Lynne Moody as Felicia Allen
  • Mary Louise Weller as Laurie Belman
  • Robert Viharo as Dwight (as George Viharo)
  • Victor Buono as The Devil
  • Milton Selzer as The Realtor
  • Ed Bakey as Sam the Caretaker
  • Galen Thompson as Emilio Vargas

The Evil is Doc's pick. He does love his haunted house films and this one has it's share of violent deaths. The 70s Grue-Crew all love Victor Buono's gleeful turn as the devil! Chad, of course, points out the Batman TV-series connection and Jeff, equally predictably, links Richard Crenna to The Real McCoys (1959-1963) TV-series. Andrew Prine seemed to be everywhere according to Doc as he reminisces about Prine's career. Bill warns everyone not to try these fire gags in their own low budget, indie horror flicks. The discussion goes astray more often than usual as the Grue-Crew seems to be easily sidetracked on this episode. Though not a great film, your Decades of Horror 1970s Grue-Crew consider this a "good" film … at least in parts, and Victor Buono as the devil is to die for.

At this writing, The Evil is available to stream on Prime and as a Blu-ray from Scream Factory.

Gruesome Magazine's Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In three weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be The Evictors (1979), starring Jessica Harper, Michael Parks, and Vic Morrow.

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On this episode of Horror News Radio:

• The Grue-Crew review… THE INVISIBLE MAN (Blumhouse - Universal, 2020).

This is HORROR NEWS RADIO, the official GRUESOME MAGAZINE podcast. Back with Doc Rotten once again are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the 'Net.

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• Award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore.
• Podcasting Rock Star & International Cosplay Queen, Vanessa Thompson.

HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

• Say "Trailer" 5 times: CANDYMAN returns with Jordan Peele in the producer's seat
  • https://gruesomemagazine.com/2020/02/28/say-his-name-five-times-and-his-trailer-appears-our-first-look-at-candyman-arrives/
• What the hell is PSYCHO GORMAN, only the trailer knows…
  • https://gruesomemagazine.com/2020/03/03/trailer-director-steven-kostanski-unleashes-his-latest-creation-pg-psycho-gorman/
• DAY OF THE DEAD gets a TV series on SYFY
  • https://deadline.com/2020/02/day-of-the-dead-the-surrealtor-series-orders-at-syfy-1202870263/
• AMC and A24 bring EXORCIST and ROSEMARY'S BABY back to theaters in March
  • https://www.amctheatres.com/amc-scene/she-is-risen-horror-event-will-haunt-you

FEATURE REVIEW: THE INVISIBLE MAN (Blumhouse - Universal, 2020)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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• Director: Leigh Whannell
• Cast:
  • Elisabeth Moss … Cecilia Kass
  • Oliver Jackson-Cohen … Adrian Griffin
  • Harriet Dyer … Emily Kass
  • Aldis Hodge … James Lanier
  • Storm Reid … Sydney Lanier
  • Michael Dorman … Tom Griffin

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"My God, Henry! What you've done ... it's satanic!" In this case, the Henry being referred to is Dr. Henry Jekyll as played by Jack Palance. Join this episode's Grue Crew - Chad Hunt, Joseph Perry, Whitney Collazo, and Jeff Mohr - as they get strange with the Dan Curtis version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 71 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

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• Director: Charles Jarrott
• Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson (novella), Ian McLellan Hunter (teleplay)
• Music: Bob Cobert (as Robert Cobert)
• Makeup Department: Dick Smith (makeup artist: Mr. Palance)
• Cast
  • Jack Palance as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
  • Denholm Elliott as Mr. George Devlin
  • Leo Genn as Dr. Lanyon
  • Torin Thatcher as Sir John Turnbull
  • Rex Sevenoaks as Dr. Wright
  • Gillie Fenwick as Poole
  • Elizabeth Cole as Hattie
  • Duncan Lamont as Sergeant Grimes
  • Paul Harding as Constable Johnson
  • Oskar Homolka as Stryker
  • Billie Whitelaw as Gwyn Thomas
  • Tessie O'Shea as Tessie O'Toole

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the fifth TV-movie produced by Dan Curtis and covered by a Decades of Horror Grue-Crew, and it doesn't disappoint. Jeff chose this film because the visage of Jack Palance in Dick Smith's makeup as Mr. Hyde and his maniacal, cackling laugh, have stuck with him for over fifty years since he first saw it on the small screen. For Chad, this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella leaps into second place behind the 1932 release starring Fredric March. High praise, indeed. Whitney enjoyed the film but, in terms of the makeup for Mr. Hyde, thinks that when viewed through a modern-day lens, it looks like a botched Botox encounter. The 2-hour length gave Joseph pause, but after viewing the film, he marveled at the pacing and even flow of the story.

Your Decades of Horror Classic Era Grue-Crew gives The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a strong recommendation. As of this writing, it is available to stream on Amazon Prime and on DVD from MPI Home Video.

For more films produced by Dan Curtis and discussed on Decades of Horror, go back and check out these episodes from Decades of Horror 1970s:

• Episode 61 - Dracula (1974)
• Episode 76 - Burnt Offerings (1976)
• Episode 84 - The Night Stalker (1972)
• Episode 87 - The Night Strangler (1973)
• Episode 108 - Trilogy of Terror (1975)

Gruesome Magazine's Decades of Horror: The Classic Era is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with the 1970s and 1980s. In three weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be the science fiction-horror classic, Invaders from Mars (1953).

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"I got a thing about chickens." Exactly what does Harry Angel mean by that? Join your faithful Grue Crew - Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr - as they follow Harry's investigation from New York to New Orleans in Alan Parker's Angel Heart (1987).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 152 – Angel Heart (1987)

Harry Angel, a private investigator, is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.

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• Director: Alan Parker
• Writers: Alan Parker (screenplay); based on Falling Angel (1978), a novel by William Hjortsberg
• Cast
  • Mickey Rourke as Harry Angel
  • Robert De Niro as Louis Cyphre
  • Lisa Bonet as Epiphany Proudfoot
  • Charlotte Rampling as Margaret Krusemark
  • Stocker Fontelieu as Ethan Krusemark
  • Brownie McGhee as Toots Sweet
  • Michael Higgins as Dr. Albert Fowler
  • Elizabeth Whitcraft as Connie
  • Charles Gordone as Spider Simpson
  • Dann Florek as Herman Winesap
  • Pruitt Taylor Vince as Detective Deimos
  • Kathleen Wilhoite as Nurse

Alan Parker's Angel Heart received a lot of publicity but mostly for the wrong reason: then 18-year-old Lisa Bonet's sex scene with Mickey Rourke. Granted, it is a fantastic scene, but it's not the only reason to watch Angel Heart. Bill keeps on about the not-so-subtle names of the characters but appreciates the acting and the look of the film. Lisa Bonet is the star attraction for Crystal but she laments the predictability of the story. Chad has a bone to pick with Robert De Niro's "Special Appearance by" billing but he thoroughly enjoyed Mickey Rourke's performance. Angel Heart holds a special place in Jeff's heart for several reasons, including his appreciation of William Hjortsberg's source material. Your 70s Grue-Crew also gets into the development of the film which includes names like John Frankenheimer and Robert Redford.

Despite their poking some fun at this film, your Grue-Crew recommends it for the setpieces, the acting, and the neo-noir look of the film. If you haven't seen Angel Heart, now is a good time to check it out. At this writing, it is available VOD and as on Blu-ray from Lionsgate.

Gruesome Magazine's Decades of Horror 1980s is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1970s. In episode 153, the 80s Grue-Crew takes a look at The Dead Zone (1983), based on Stephen King's novel and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, and Colleen Dewhurst.

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It's time to prepare for a month of horror with the Gruesome Guide for March 2020. Doc Rotten and Vanessa Thompson walk you through the top 10 Horror Films to see this month. Woot!

THE HUNT (Blumhouse - 3/13/2020)

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.

Directors: Craig Zobel Writers: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof Stars: Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Hilary Swank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgG3P28kV3A

A QUIET PLACE PART II (Paramount Pictures - 3/20/2020)

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.

Director: John Krasinski Writers: John Krasinski Cast: Millicent Simmonds, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ubczLqp5IA

SAINT MAUD (A24 - 3/27/2020)

A horror adaptation of the popular '70s TV show about a magical island resort.

Director: Jeff Wadlow (Blumhouse's Truth or Dare) Stars: Maggie Q, Michael Peña, Lucy Hale, Portia Doubleday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXs2-TY9qok

On this episode of Horror News Radio:

• The Grue-Crew review… WAR OF THE WORLDS (EPIX, 2020).

This is HORROR NEWS RADIO, the official GRUESOME MAGAZINE podcast. Back with Doc Rotten once again are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the 'Net.

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• Award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore.
• Podcasting Rock Star & International Cosplay Queen, Vanessa Thompson.

HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

[RELEASE DATE]

• GRIZZLY II: REVENGE arrives 40 years too late
  • https://gruesomemagazine.com/2020/02/21/the-strange-40-year-journey-of-grizzly-ii-revenge-is-about-to-end/

[TRAILERS]

• Sarah Paulson chills to the bone in RUN (2020)
  • https://gruesomemagazine.com/2020/02/21/run-2020-sarah-paulson-is-frightening-in-this-new-trailer/
• THE HUNT (2020) is back on for March 13
  • https://gruesomemagazine.com/2020/02/11/universal-and-blumhouse-ready-to-unleash-the-hunt-this-spring-new-trailer-and-poster-explains-it-all/

FEATURE REVIEW: WAR OF THE WORLDS (EPIX, 2020)

Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French re-imagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeYmeGyQKuM

Creator: Howard Overman Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, Léa Drucker

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"Ohhh, in other words, you don't want to pick the pick because the pick is a pick and a shovel isn't the pick. If you pick the pick to pick, the shovel isn't the pick." "Now you've got it." "Now I got it. I don't even know what I'm talking about." These quotes are all you need to know who stars in this episode's film. Join this episode's Grue Crew - Chad Hunt, Whitney Collazo, and Jeff Mohr - as they get lost in the desert with Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 70 – Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.

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• Director: Charles Lamont
• Writers: Lee Loeb (story), John Grant (screenplay)
• Cinematography: George Robinson (director of photography)
• Cast
  • Bud Abbott as Pete Patterson
  • Lou Costello as Freddie Franklin
  • Marie Windsor as Madame Rontru
  • Michael Ansara as Charlie
  • Dan Seymour as Josef
  • Richard Deacon as Semu
  • Kurt Katch as Dr. Gustav Zoomer
  • Richard Karlan as Hetsut
  • Mel Welles as Iben
  • Eddie Parker as Klaris, the Mummy
  • Kam Tong as Chinese Busboy (uncredited)
  • Mazzone-Abbott Dancers as dance troupe
  • Chandra Kaly and His Dancers as dance troupe
  • Peggy King as vocalist
  • Donald Kerr as Newspaperman (uncredited)
  • Hank Mann as Waiter with Flaming Kabob (uncredited)

Your Decades of Horror Classic Era Grue-Crew chose Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as their second Abbott and Costello Universal Monster film after covering Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in episode 44. Though Meet Frankenstein is obviously the cream of the crop, Whitney, Chad, and Jeff think this one is a bit underrated despite the ridiculous mummy costume. Whitney digs Marie Windsor's portrayal of the smartest-one-in-the-room bad-girl and the way she puts up with the rest of the idiots surrounding her. Once again, Jeff overdoes it when it comes to delving into the character actors in the cast. Chad is all about Batman and connections to the Caped Crusader abound in this film.

If you dig the comic duo at all and are a Universal Monster fan (of course you are), Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is worth your time. Your faithful Grue-Crew laughed and you will too. It's available on Blu ray in multiple releases, most recently Shout! Factory's Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.

Gruesome Magazine's Decades of Horror: The Classic Era is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with the 1970s and 1980s. In three weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968), a Dan Curtis production starring Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, and Billie Whitelaw.

Please let them know how they're doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of us, "Thank you so much for listening!"