Episode 27: Haunted Houses Part One

This episode was recorded on April 13, 2024 and posted on June 1, 2024. 

Content Warning: Light vulgarity.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 27
• Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
• Introductions to our guests Rob & Suz of Spooky AF
• Today’s Topic: Haunted Houses

Defining the Haunted House Subgenre

• What defines a haunted house film?
• Are ghosts and hauntings real?
• What makes a house “haunted?”

This Week’s Coroner’s Report

• Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever had a paranormal experience?

Film Discussion

• Haunted House Classics
  • House on Haunted Hill (1959)
  • The Old Dark House (1932)
• The Golden Age of Haunted House Films
  • The Changeling (1980)
  • Burnt Offerings (1973)
  • Poltergeist (1982)
  • Beetlejuice (1988)

Thank you to our guests!

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Sources

McDaniel, M. C. (1982). There’s no place like home: The Haunted House as literary motif [Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University]. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3992&context=theses

Michlin, M. (2012). The Haunted House in contemporary filmic and literary Gothic narratives of trauma. Transatlantica, 1. https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5933

Mills, M. (2023, October 25). The 20 best haunted house movies, ranked. The A.V. Club. https://www.avclub.com/20-best-haunted-house-movies-ranked-1850661917

Things that go bump in the literature: An environmental appraisal of “Haunted Houses.” (2020). Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01328