Welcome to the blog version of our podcast ... This Place Scares Us!
Come to us to hear all of the strange, disturbing reasons why literature, movies, serial killers, and strange events make your skin crawl and your spine tingle.
Clinkies!
Katya and Laramie
(with support from Ryan and Davey)
www.thisplacescaresus.com
We started this episode talking about the 2018 revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band ...
...featuring the hot hot hottie Matt Bomer. Enjoy him for a moment before the true horror begins. I'll wait.
Okay, we're back.
Everybody buy my play! Click here to purchase Frankenstein Among the Dead.
Christina Heagney as Morgan LeFay and Zach French as Merlin in my new play, Morgan and Merlin, currently touring around the state of Montana.
Morgana gets real; Merlin crawls out of a tree that totally does not contain vaginal imagery.
Here's a link to Horror Hotel ... watch it before you continue!
Our old friend Jack Davis, the illustrator famously known for helping the evolution of EC Comic's The Crypt Keeper for Tales from the Crypt (check out our episode on TFTC by clicking here), did a ridiculously rad poster for Horror Hotel -- "doom service" ... tee hee.
That looks like Peter Cushing to me. Fail.
The video cover of Horror Hotel that I purchased at that long ago Sam Goody's in the Missoula Southgate Mall.
Patricia Jessel as Elizabeth Selwyn, that beautiful bitch.
Christopher Lee as Alan Driscoll, seducing Venetia Bradley's Nan Barlow with a creepy little town in New England.
And Christopher Lee baring his fangs in his first foray as Count Dracula in The Horror of Dracula.
This gorgeous landscape of the horrors that dwell within the mind of H.P. Lovecraft was separated into individual paperback covers from Del Rey in the 80s and 90s. Whitewood might as well have been Dunwich.
13 o'clock, from the 1980s series Friday the 13th: The Series that had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees and all to do with cursed antiques.
Witches, easily disposed.
The big reveal of Elizabeth Selwyn's demise at the end of Horror Hotel ...
...and a similar moment in Hitchcock's Psycho.
Angelique/Cassandra from Dark Shadows with her brother/fellow warlock Nicholas Blair ...
... and their counterparts in Horror Hotel: Jethro Keene and Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newlys.
And finally ... THE CRONES OF WHITEWOOD! May they haunt your dreams.
But it looks good, I promise. Tilda appears especially disturbing. Plus hair and fingers, fingers, fingers.
(And if you want some Suspiria background -- for y'nerves -- check out our episode discussing the ins and outs of dance school, iconography, and what it means to be in an undercover coven: click here.)
Allow this post to accentuate your experience listening to Katya and me as we wax hilarious about the not-so-much-with-the-dancing ballerina witches and the exploits of the undercover coven (undercoven?) in Argento's Suspiria.
Let's start with the creepy-ass theme song by Goblin. Check it out:
The stained glass that so impressed Katya. With poor dead Pat.
Suzy by the irises. I want to live in this room.
Why does this witch have to work in the kitchens? Where'd she get that magical prism? What's the deal with Joan Bennett's spooky nephew? Plot points ... doesn't matter ... DOESN'T MATTER.
The girls in their makeshift dormitory. Such red. All red.
More irises ("Turn the blue one!") and Joan "Madame Blanc" Bennett.
More Joan Bennett, looking amazing.
Check out the pins in Sarah's creepy dead eyes!
Witch stab! (Look at those fingernails!)
Witch Stab, Part Deux. Sayonara, Black Queen, Mother of Sighs!
Katya and I discuss this moment (one of my very favorites in the whole
series), where Angelique the witch curses her husband Barnabas to a life of bloodsucking and eternal emo-ness ... and the flappy stick bat that appears immediately after on the
latest episode. (Those aren't special effects; those are Lara Parker's actual eyes.) Click here to listen now!
