Episode 28: Haunted Houses Part Two

This episode was recorded on April 13, 2024 and posted on June 15, 2024. 

Content Warning: Light vulgarity.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 28
• 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

Film Discussion

• Gothic
  • The Orphanage (2007)
  • The Woman in Black (2012)
  • The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
• The Demonic
  • Amityville Horror (1979)
  • The Conjuring (2013)
• Contemporary Haunted House Films
  • Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
  • Paranormal Activity (2007)
  • Sinister (2007)
  • His House (2020)

Worst & Best Representations of Haunted House Films

Spoilers ahead!

Worst

• The Gallows (2015) - Suzie
• Housebound (2014) - Lonely
• Haunting in Connecticut (2009) - Suz
• Hereditary (2018) - Rob

Best

• His House (2020) - Lonely
• Hell House LLC (2015) & Terrified (2017) - Suzie
• The Haunting of Hill House (2018) - Rob
• The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) - Suz

Suzie’s Deep Cuts

Includes films with under 5k ratings on IMDB. 

• Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
• The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
• I Remember You (2017)
• The Witch in the Window (2018)
• A Ghost Waits (2020)
• Caveat (2020)
• They Live in the Grey (2022)

Closing Thoughts

• What is a topic or theme you think hasn’t been used or used enough in the haunted house subgenre that you want to see more of?

Thank you to our guests!

• Follow Rob & Suz’s show Spooky AF, whenever you get your podcasts.
• Rob & Suz on Instagram at @thespookyafpod. 

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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