We continue our discussion of Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy with Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Tenant (1976).

SHOW NOTES

Rosemary’s Baby discussion (pre-spoilers) – 00:56 – 15:05

Rosemary’s Baby discussion (post-spoilers) – 17:56 – 43:32

The Tenant discussion (pre-spoilers) – 44:29 – 50:45

The Tenant discussion (post-spoilers) – 52:23 – 1:07:25

What We’ve Been Up To – 1:09:06 – 1:14:03 –

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:14:04 – 1:15:16

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.

* Original trailer

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 8: Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 10: Roman Polanski after Sharon Tate

Clip: “#23: Rosemary’s Baby” from “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments”

* “Stuck with Satan: Ira Levin on the Origins of Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin, from the 2003 New American Library edition of the novel

* “Rosemary’s Baby: ‘It’s Alive’” by Ed Park, from Criterion

* Original 1968 New York Daily News review of Rosemary’s Baby by Kathleen Carroll

* Criterion’s “Three Reasons” video for including Rosemary’s Baby in the Criterion Collection

* “Roman Polanski on Rosemary’s Baby – Conversations Inside the Criterion Collection“

* “The Making of Rosemary’s Baby“

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Roman Polanski and Isabelle Adjani

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

* Original trailer

Clip: “#65: The Tenant” from “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments”

* “Moving In, Creeping Out: Roman Polanski’s The Tenant (1976)” by Brian Greene, from CriminalElement.com

* “Sympathetic Spectators: Roman Polanski’s Le Loctaire (The Tenant, 1976)” by Aaron Smuts, from Kinoeye

* “Roman Polanski BFI Retrospective – The Tenant (1976)” from Flickering Myth

Clip: “Summer is Rosemary’s Baby” from “Rick &a...

We move into Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy with Repulsion (1965).

SHOW NOTES

Thematic Trilogies – 1:36 – 11:26

Repulsion discussion (pre-spoilers) – 13:51 – 20:23

Repulsion discussion (post-spoilers) – 21:27 – 57:08

Clip: “Rory and Dean’s First Meeting” from “The Gilmore Girls”, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

* “15 Thematic Trilogies from 15 Directors” by Charlie Schmidlin, from IndieWire

* Federico Fellini’s “Trilogy of Loneliness”

* La Strada (1954) – trailer

* Il Bidone (1955) – trailer

* Nights of Cabiria (1957) – trailer

* Ingmar Bergman’s “Sex & Death Trilogy”

* Through a Glass Darkly (1961) – trailer

* The Winter Light (1962) – trailer

* The Silence (1963) – trailer

* John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy”

* The Thing (1982) – trailer

* Prince of Darkness (1987) – trailer

* In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – trailer

* Park Chan-wook’s “Vengeance Trilogy”

* Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) – trailer

* Oldboy (2003) – trailer

* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance – trailer

* Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto (Blood & Ice Cream) Trilogy”

* Shaun of the Dead (2004) – trailer

* Hot Fuzz (2007) – trailer

* The World’s End (2013) – trailer

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Catherine Deneuve and Ian Hendry

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister’s boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.

* Original trailer

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 8: Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 10: Roman Polanski after Sharon Tate

Clip: “Repulsion – Interview with Roman Polanski“

* “Repulsion: Eye of the Storm” by Bill Horrigan, from Criterion

* “Repulsion” by Michael Sragow, from Criterion

* “Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion” by Kim M...

We expand our minds with David Cronenberg’s The Brood!

SHOW NOTES

Updates and Horror News – 1:26 – 10:51

The Brood discussion (pre-spoilers) – 13:08 – 26:36

The Brood discussion (post-spoilers) – 28:12 – 1:01:49

What We’ve Been Up To – 1:03:20 – 1:12:12

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:12:13 – 1:13:54

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 8: Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

* You Must Remember This – Charles Manson’s Hollywood Episode 10: Roman Polanski after Sharon Tate

Clip: “Cronenbergs” from Rick & Morty Season 1 Episode 6 “Rick Potion No.9”

* “Suspiria Remake 2.0: Now With Tilda Swinton,Dakota Johnson, actual Italians” – article from A.V Club detailing the latest news on the Suspiria remake.

* “Stephen King on Dark Tower Movie: It’s Likely to Happen” – article from Rolling Stone about the confirmation of Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.

* “Geena Davis Cast in Fox’s The Exorcist Pilot” – article from Variety about the latest update on The Exorcist pilot.

* Ghostbusters (2016) trailer

 

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

* Original trailer

Clip: “#78: The Brood” from “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments”

* “Reframed No. 21: David Cronenberg’s The Brood”  by Jordan Cronk and Calum Marsh, from PopMatters

* “Looking Back at David Cronenberg’s The Brood” by Ryan Lambie, from Den of Geek

* “The Brood: Separation Trials” by Carrie Rickey, from Criterion

Clip: “The Broodwich” from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” Season 2 Episode 16 “Broodwich”

* Pet Semetary by Stephen King

* Elder Scrolls Online trailer

* “Murder Maps” available on Netflix

* The Cracked Ones podcast, hosted by David Horn and Kaitlin Hull

* Follow David @davidmhorn87

* Intro episode

* Bloody Good Horror Episode 368: Th...

We get possessed by the late Andrzej Zulawski’s controversial film about madness and the breakdown of a marriage.

SHOW NOTES

Updates and Horror News – 2:04 – 7:35

Possession discussion (pre-spoilers) – 9:30 – 15:53

Possession discussion (post-spoilers) – 18:56 – 1:09:56

What We’ve Been Up To – 1:11:25 – 1:20:43

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:20:44 – 1:21:29

Clip: “Tales From The Darkside” Intro

* “Tales From the Darkside” comic miniseries announced, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez of Locke & Key are creators

* Hammer Horror releasing their first comic on Halloween 2016

* Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards – voting deadline April 10th

* Graveyard Shift Sisters nominated for Best Website or Blog

* Bloody Good Horror nominated for Best Multimedia Site

Directed by Andrzej Zulawski

Starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

* Original trailer

Clip: “The Other Side of the Wall” from The Other Side of the Wall: The Making of Possession

* “Schlock Corridor: POSSESSION (1981)” – Birth. Movies. Death. article by Phil Noble, Jr. (He also wanted to shout the line “If you had only seen what I saw” at strangers after watching this film!)

* “Looking back at Possession” – Den of Geek article by To Neilson

Clip: “Resume” from Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Dorothy Parker played by Jennifer Jason Leigh)

* The Witch trailer

* SOMA trailer

* Divinity trailer

* Fallout 3 trailer

* Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero by Emily V. Gordon

* The Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

* You Must Remember This – “The Blacklist Episode 3: Dorothy Parker”

* The Portable Dorothy Parker – some of her best stories, verse and journalism

* Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words compiled by Barry Day

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We let the right one in with our guest, Jon Rutledge of “What is Showing Next?”

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

About Jon – 1:43 – 8:50

Let the Right One In discussion (pre-spoilers) – 9:31 – 17:15

Let the Right One In discussion (post-spoilers) – 18:33 – 56:33

What We’ve Been Up To – 57:29 – 1:17:55

Next Episode’s Movie is Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession (1981)

Clip: “The Work of a Vampire” from “Psych” Episode 3, Season 6

Info About Our Guest:

* Jon Rutledge

* What is Showing Next? – a blog in which Jon reviews films based on the next available showing at his local theater

* Facebook

* Twitter

* Tumblr

 

Clip: “Elijah Wood on his favorite horror movies” from “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

Let the Right One In (2008)

Directed by Tomas Alfredson

Starring Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson

Bullied outsider Oskar forms a relationship with a strange girl who moves into his apartment complex and can only come out at night.  In the periphery, strange murders occur in which the victims are drained of blood.

* Original trailer

* Let the Right One In book vs. film comparison article from The A.V. Club

* “Let the Right One Slip In” by Morrissey

Clip: BDTV Interview with Tomas Alfredson

 

Clip: “Dr. Acula” from “Scrubs” Episode 6, Season 5

What We’ve Been Up To:

* Fallout 4 trailer

* Jon’s Fallout 4 character blog – Out of the Past

* “The Outer Limits” intro

* Available on Hulu

* The Witcher 3 trailer

* House of Psychotic Women by Kier La-Janisse

* The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Scary Movies But Were Afraid to Ask by Jonathan Malcom Lampley

* Birth of the Living Dead (2013) trailer

* Available on Hulu

* Girls Will Be Ghouls podcast

 

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We’re dead set on these two films … Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut Play Misty for Me and Adrian Lyne’s bunny boiler Fatal Attraction.

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

Updates and Horror News – 1:34 – 4:31

Play Misty For Me discussion (pre-spoilers) – 6:11 – 12:54

Play Misty For Me discussion (post-spoilers) – 16:16 – 39:02

Fatal Attraction discussion (pre-spoilers) – 40:25 – 49:29

Fatal Attraction discussion (post-spoilers) – 52:16 – 1:26:01

What We’ve Been Up To – 1:26:40 – 1:33:46

Women in Horror Month – 1:33:47 – 1:36:36

Songs about Obsessive Love/Stalking – 1:36:37 – 1:39:34

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:39:35 – 1:41:28

Clip: “Sam Argues With Jonah” from Sleepless in Seattle.

Updates & Horror News:

* 4K restoration of Phantasm, spearheaded by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot

* article from SlashFilm

* Blu-Ray/Steelbook release of Audition from Arrow Video on February 29th

Play Misty for Me (1971)

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Starring Jessica Walter and Clint Eastwood

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture, triggering the fan’s jealousy and mental illness.

* Original trailer

* Roger Ebert’s 4-star review for Play Misty For Me, written in 1971

* Jean Shepard interview about his own experience with an obsessed fan.

Clip: “#26: Play Misty For Me” from “Bravo’s 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments”

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Directed by Adrian Lyne

Starring Glenn Close Michael Douglas

A married man’s one night stand comes back to haunt him when his lover begins to stalk him and his family.

* Original trailer

Clip: “#59: Fatal Attraction” from “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments”

* “Commentary: Fatal Attraction – The Mad Woman’s Case” – 1987 LA Times review outlining how the film showcases for single, successful women in the 1980s

* “The Psycho Bitch, From Fatal Attraction‘s Single Girl to Gone Girl‘s Perfect Wife” – Slate’s comparison of Fatal Attraction to Gone Girl“

* “The Tempted Husband, the Crazy Bitch, and the Rabbit” – Slate’s 25th anniversary review of Fatal Attraction

* Out of the Fog‘s explanation of how Alex displays characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder

* Faculty of Horror Episode 2: Fatal Attra...

We’re piecing together Lucky McKee’s 2002 film May!

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

Updates and Horror News – 1:36 – 7:25

May discussion (pre-spoilers) – 9:11 – 15:03

May discussion (post-spoilers) – 15:16 – 46:40

What We’ve Been Up To – 48:17 – 57:13

Women in Horror Month – 57:14 – 1:03:15

Songs About Loneliness and Heartbreak – 1:03:16 – 1:06:42

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:06:43

Clip: “I Love Gross” from May

Updates and Horror News:

* John Carpenter’s Lost Themes II 

* article from Consequence of Sound

* Southbound trailer

* Millicent Patrick with the Gill-Man costume

May (2002)

Directed by Lucky McKee

Starring Angela Bettis and Jeremy Sisto

A lonely young woman spirals out of control after several desperate attempts to make friends fail.

* Original trailer

Clip: “Whose Brain Did I Put In?” from Young Frankenstein

What We’ve Been Up To:

* The Hunger trailer

* You Must Remember This: “The Black List Episode 1“

* Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Women in Horror Month:

* The Homicidal Homemaker

* @HomicidalKaci

* Horror Homeroom – Final Girls Series

* Graveyard Shift Sisters – Women in Horror Month + Black History Month Series

* Soska Sisters Massive Blood Drive PSA

Songs About Loneliness and Heartbreak:

* “Coin-Operated Boy” – The Dresden Dolls

* “The First Cut is the Deepest” – P.P. Arnold

 

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“Scared” by Mothica

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We resurrect the James Whale classic The Bride of Frankenstein!

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

Updates and Horror News – 1:18 – 7:17

The Bride of Frankenstein discussion (pre-spoilers) – 9:13 – 21:02

The Bride of Frankenstein discussion (post-spoilers) – 23:16 – 40:11

What We’ve Been Up To – 41:01 – 53:57

Songs About Unrequited Love – 53:58 – 1:01: 37

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:01:39 – 1:02:10

Clip: “The Night is Filled with Monsters” from “Bride of Frankenstein – Prologue“

Updates and Horror News:

* The Visit – released on DVD/Blu-ray and Digital on 01/05/2016; available via Netflix DVD on 02/04/2016

* Crimson Peak – Digital format on 01/26/2016, available on DVD/Blu-ray on 02/09/2016

* Bloody Good Horror Episode 363: The Boy

* The Witch – released in theaters on 02/19/2016

* Cell production article from Bloody Disgusting

Clip: “Guillermo del Toro on The Bride of Frankenstein“

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Directed by James Whale

Starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff

Dr. Frankenstein teams up with the sinister Dr. Pretorius to create a mate for his monster.

* Original trailer

* “Neil Gaiman on Bride of Frankenstein” from BFIEvents

* Gaiman’s essay on Bride of Frankenstein from Cinema Macabre

* “This is Your Life” featuring Boris Karloff

* TCM articles on Bride of Frankenstein

* Ernest Thesiger’s (Dr. Pretorius) embroidery

Clip: “Nobody Likes Milhouse!“

What We’ve Been Up To:

* The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal

* The Abominable Dr. Phibes trailer

* Tom Waits – “Come On Up to the House“

* Gogol Bordello – “Sun is On My Side“

* House of Psychotic Women by Kier La Janisse

* Audition by Ryu Murakami

* Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

* “The Outer Limits” intro

* Idiocracy trailer

* John Dies at the End trailer

Songs About Unrequited Love:

* “El Scorcho” – Weezer

* “Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go” – Soft Cell

* “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” – The Sm...

In our last episode of our Japanese series, we investigate the Japanese splatterpunk epic Tokyo Gore Police!

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

Updates and Horror News – 1:38 – 9:04

Tokyo Gore Police discussion (pre-spoilers) – 9:26 – 21:30

Tokyo Gore Police discussion (post-spoilers) – 21:46 – 58:00

What We’ve Been Up To – 59:49 – 1:11:44

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:10:28 – 1:11:01

Clip: 2012 WiH Massive Blood Drive PSA

Updates and Horror News:

* Telluride Horror Show selection releases

* Sensoria available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Vimeo, and Vudu, and XBox

* The Hallow available on iTunes

* Bone Tomahawk available on Amazon Prime

* The Invitation – wide release March 25th

* Nina Forever – limited release February 12th

* Women in Horror Month

* Official site

* Follow on Twitter – @WiHmonth

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* Massive Blood Drive

* #InYouToGive

Clip: Wrist Cutter G Commercial

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura

Starring Eihi Shiina and Itsuji Itao

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the “cutter” demographic, samurai-sword-wielding Ruka is a cop with a mission to avenge her father’s assassination and destroy homicidal mutant humans known as “engineers” possessing the ability to transform any injury into a weapon.

* Original trailer

* Entry for Tokyo Gore Police from 366 Weird Movies – tons of trivia, info about the movie, and reviews

* Splatterpunk 101 by John Skipp for MonsterLibrarian

* Interview with Yoshihiro Nishimura from Firstshowing.net, in which he describes where his monsters come from.

* Interview with Nishimura from iO9, in which he describes the satire element of Tokyo Gore Police.

* Interview with Nishimura from TwitchFilm, in which he describes his influences and the social commentary in the film.

* Nishimura on “Austin is Rad“

* “Elfen Lied” trailer

Clip:

In this super-sized episode, we play Battle Royale with Kate’s boyfriend, Britt!

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

Updates and Horror News – 2:34 – 10:28

Info about our Guest – 10:28 – 20:57

Battle Royale discussion (pre-spoilers) – 22:02 – 36:17

Battle Royale discussion (post-spoilers) – 36:37 – 1:20:26

What We’ve Been Up To – 1:21:09 – 1:36:18

Spotlight on Women in Horror – 1:36:19 – 1:41:16

Next Episode’s Movie – 1:41:18 – 1:41:44

Clip: Angus Scrimm – Phantasm LD Introduction

Updates and Horror News:

* New theme song – “Scared” by Mothica

* “RIP Angus Scrimm, a true gentleman of horror” from Fangoria

* “David Bowie Dead at 69” from Rolling Stone

* “Alan Rickman Obituary” from The Guardian

* “Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister Obituary” from The Guardian

Our Guest: Britt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clip: Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies From 1992 to 2009

 

Battle Royale (2000)

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Aki Maeda

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

* Original trailer

* Battle Royale (novel) by Koshun Takami and Battle Royale (manga) by Koshun Takami and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi

* Interview with Kinji Fukasaku from The Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema

* Explanation of Japanese naming process

* “Japan’s ‘Love Confessing’ Culture’” by Mami from tofugu.com

* Explanation of “harem” anime

* “‘Herbivore Men’ could be the reason no one’s having sex in Japan” – article from Tech Insider exploring the new sub-culture of “beta males”

* “Love in 2D” – article from The New York Times about the sub-culture of men who identify as being in love with fictional characters (usually from anime), including those with “pillow girlfriends”

* “How Battle Royale Became a Cult Hit and Capitalized on The Hunger Games” – article from The Atlantic about how The Hunger Games paved the way for Battle Royale to be finally released in North America.

Clip: “