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This week, Drusilla and Josh dive into their first French extremist film on the pod, 2007’s Inside aka À l'intérieur. From wiki: Inside (French: À l'intérieur) is a 2007 French slasher film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo in their directorial debut, written by Bustillo, and starring Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis. The plot focuses on a mourning widow on the verge of pregnancy, where she is attacked in her home by a mysterious intruder on Christmas Eve. But they also discuss Dead Boy Detectives, Abigail, The Beast, Civil War, screenwriting, criticism, Betty Blue, nobody knowing how cameras work, Beatrice Dalle, Grease 2, home invasion, Straw Dogs, You’re Next, Ally McBeal, Ricki Lake, Ronan Farrow, Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp, Lily Rose Depp, and more! NEXT WEEK: The Virgin Spring (1960) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week, Josh and Drusilla are joined by a very special guest: Matt Landsman, manager of the newly re-opened Vista’s Video Archives Club and Programmer at Be Kind Video. The episode is focused on 1968’s Spirits of the Dead. From wiki: “Spirits of the Dead (French: Histoires extraordinaires, lit. 'Extraordinary Tales', Italian: Tre passi nel delirio, lit. 'Three Steps to Delirium'), also known as Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Tales of Mystery,[8] is a 1968 horror anthology film comprising three segments respectively directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini, based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. A French-Italian international co-production, the film's French title is derived from a 1856 collection of Poe's short stories translated by French poet Charles Baudelaire; the English titles Spirits of the Dead and Tales of Mystery and Imagination are respectively taken from an 1827 poem by Poe and a 1902 British collection of his stories. But they also discuss Bulldog Drummond, Quentin Tarantino, micro cinemas, VHS, Tales from the Darkside, Monster Squad, Sleepaway Camp, Blood Beach, Fright Night, Creepshow, Jill Schoelen, The Peoples’ Joker, The Pit, The Gate, Troll, Ghoulies, Critters, Speak No Evil, Force Majeur, Bad Boy Bubby, the love of Terrence Stamp and Jane Fonda, and more! NEXT WEEK: Inside (2007) Follow them across the internet: Matt Landsman: https://twitter.com/MattLandsman https://twitter.com/archivesclub https://twitter.com/bekindvideo Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

Josh and Drusilla discuss one of the big three of folk horror, 1971 Piers Haggard directed The Blood on Satan’s Claw. From wiki: “The Blood on Satan's Claw (or Blood on Satan's Claw) [a] is a 1971 British supernatural period folk horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews. Set in early 18th-century England, it follows the residents of a rural village whose youth fall under the influence of a demonic presence after a local farmer unearths a mysterious deformed skull buried in a field. But also! Gyms, ), Monkey Man, Dev Patel, Sting and sentimentality in horror, Evil Dead Rise, Wyrmwood, Kier-la Janisse, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, classism and hillbilly horror, OJ Simpson, murderers are among us, and more! NEXT WEEK: Spirits of the Dead (1968) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week, Josh and Dru watch the incredible British found footage film from 1992, Ghostwatch. From wiki: “Ghostwatch is a British mockumentary supernatural horror TV movie, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television[citation needed]. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the show attracted a considerable furor,[1] resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquiries to the BBC switchboard on the night of broadcast, comprising a mixture of complaints and praise for the programme's unique presentation.[2] This outrage is often compared to Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the 1994 Without Warning television film, both of which also caused nationwide panic in the United States. But also: Baldur’s Gate 3, Dawn of the Dead, Horror in the High Desert, Lake Mungo, Spirits of the Dead and Video Archives, The First Omen, The Omen, Immaculate, Maxxxine, Task Master, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, The Stone Tapes, Gothic, The Guardian, Don’t Look Now, The Conjuring 2, and more! NEXT WEEK: The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

Today the ghouls discuss a new one for both; the 1990 French flick, Baby Blood. Josh loves it and Drusilla does not. From wiki: “Baby Blood (titled The Evil Within in the United States) is a French horror film directed and co-written by Alain Robak, and starring Emmanuelle Escourrou and Jean-François Galotte. The film is about a woman named Yanka whose womb is invaded by a parasite that desires human blood. Yanka heeds the demand of blood for the creature until it requests to be carried to the sea where it was originally spawned.” But first! Josh has more apartment troubles, the duo discusses Late Night with the Devil. Drusilla watched The Passenger and Sympathy for the Devil. the films of Carter Smith, Roman Polanski loves Personal Shopper. NEXT WEEK: Ghostwatch (1992) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week, Drusilla goes to Whammy Analog Video and gets rid of her Faces of Death tapes. Josh’s new house is cursed and the USPS has failed him. Mentioned: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, SLC Punk, Seed of Chucky, Querelle, The Dog House, Eye of the Cat, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Immaculate, Dune 2, Only Lovers Left Alive, Barbarian, Sole Survivor, and more. The film of the week is It Follows (2014). From wiki: “It Follows is a 2014 American horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Maika Monroe as a young woman who is pursued by a supernatural entity after a sexual encounter. Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, and Lili Sepe appear in supporting roles. It Follows debuted at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was later purchased by Radius-TWC for distribution. After a successful limited release, the film had a wide release two weeks later on March 27, 2015.” NEXT WEEK: Baby Blood (1990) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/ Whammy Analog Video https://www.whammyanalog.com/

This week, Drusilla becomes a fitness girlie! Josh and she talk body dysmorphia and dieting, Tyra Banks, gay social media, Josh’s personal connection to Brand Upon the Brain and Lynn Shelton at Cornish College of the Arts, Drusilla does a Dennis Hopper double feature with The Hot Spot (1990) and Red Rock West (1993), they do a deep dive on the career of William Sadler, Josh rewatched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and they discuss Sheryl Lee, the 80s version of The Blob, Filmstruck (RIP), and more! They cover the Guy Maddin ballet adaptation, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary. From wiki: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary is a 2002 horror film directed by Guy Maddin, budgeted at $1.7 million[1] and produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a dance film documenting a performance by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet adapting Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Maddin elected to shoot the dance film in a fashion uncommon for such films, through close-ups and using jump cuts.[2] Maddin also stayed close to the source material of Stoker's novel, emphasizing the xenophobia in the reactions of the main characters to Dracula (played by Zhang Wei-Qiang in Maddin's film).” NEXT WEEK: It Follows (2014) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

Josh and Drusilla go on a bike ride through France with Robert Fuest’s 1970 banger, And Soon the Darkness. From wiki: “And Soon the Darkness is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Robert Fuest and starring Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès. The plot follows two British nurses on a cycling holiday in rural France; during their trip, one of them vanishes, and the other struggles to search for her in a rural community.” But also! Drusilla did the cover for the Criterion Collection’s new release of Bound (1996). Josh moved and the two discuss the evils of landlords. Josh and Drusilla both saw Julio Torres’ directorial debut, Problemista. Drusilla saw Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding. Josh watched Sidney Lumet’s 1966 film The Group. Also discussed: Halloween, Watcher, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Legend of Hell House, Blood of Satan’s Claw, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Avengers, Dr. Who, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, and more! NEXT WEEK: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week, Drusilla and Josh discuss Lucio Fulci’s gloopy, grody classic, The Beyond (1981). From wiki: “The Beyond (Italian: …E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà, lit. "… And you will live in terror! The afterlife") is a 1981 Italian Southern Gothic[6][7] supernatural horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is based on an original story created by Dardano Sacchetti, starring Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck. Its plot follows a woman who inherits a hotel in rural Louisiana that was once the site of a horrific murder, and which may be a gateway to hell. It is the second film in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead (1980), and was followed by The House by the Cemetery (1981).[8]” But first, Josh watched Krull (1983) and Death Walks at Midnight (1972). Drusilla watched some mainstream hits, including Vanilla Sky (2001.) They discuss all things Cameron Crowe, The Sentinel, The Evil Dead, Bridget Fonda, and do some horror gossiping. NEXT WEEK: And Soon the Darkness Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week Drusilla and Josh watch the world’s only Iranian feminist vampire wester, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Hone Alone at Night (2014). From wiki: “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Persian: دختری در شب تنها به خانه می‌رود Dokhtari dar šab tanhâ be xâne miravad) is a 2014 Persian-language American Western horror film[4] written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains. It was financed in part by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.” They also discuss Miracle Mile (1988), They Shoot Horses Don’t They (1969), Day of the Locust (1975), You’re the Worst, Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, and more. NEXT WEEK: The Beyond (1981) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/

This week on Blondehaus – I mean, er—Bloodhaus, Josh and Dru are joined by trash movie genius, Dylan Dawson! They discuss the best shot-on-video film of all time, BLONDE DEATH!!! This is a tape by James Dillinger aka queer novelist James Robert Baker. From wiki: James Robert Baker (October 18, 1947 – November 5, 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After graduating from UCLA, he began his career as a screenwriter, but became disillusioned and started writing novels instead. Though he garnered fame for his books Fuel-Injected Dreams and Boy Wonder, after the controversy surrounding publication of his novel, Tim and Pete, he faced increasing difficulty having his work published. According to his life partner, this was a contributing factor in his suicide.” They also discuss the Frankenhooker VHS, Dylan’s wife was in House of the Devil, erotic thrillers, Triple Fisher: The Lethal Lolitas of Long Island, the novels of James Robert Baker, EZTV, The Beaver Trilogy, Guy Maddin’s Archangel, Rape of the Vampire, Freeway, Ken Russell’s Whore, My Bloody Valentine, Redneck Zombies, Henry & Glenn Forever, Angry Samoans, Boy Wonder, Tim & Pete, Sean Baker, and more! Buy the Bleeding Skull blu-ray while supplies last: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blonde-death NEXT WEEK: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Follow us all across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/ Dylan Dawson https://letterboxd.com/dyldaws/

*Whispers* “That’s cum.” This week, Drusilla wakes up with her makeup on. Josh shot his short in the Catskills, but now he’s back. The kids discuss the classic 1960 British film. Peeping Tom. From wiki: “Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film[4] directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure. But also! Josh saw All of Us Strangers, Josh shouts out Arrow Video’s app as well as the new Conan the Barbarian boxset. They also discuss the Coffin Joe films aka the Brazilian films of ‎José Mojica Marins.. Drusilla saw Lisa Frankenstein and loved it. She also rewatched Altered States. It’s Ken Russell-mania, babies! Dru also watched the INSANE film, The Visitor (1979.) NEXT WEEK: Blonde Death (1984) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

This week, Josh and Drusilla discuss gross-out Hungarian horror comedy, Taxidermia (2006). From wiki: “Taxidermia is a 2006 Hungarian surrealist comedy-drama horror film directed and co-written by György Pálfi. An international co-production of Hungary, Austria and France, the film spins a metaphorical socio-political retelling of Hungary's history from the Second World War to the present day.[4] But also! Timothee Chalamet, Drusilla gets into British classics like So Long at the Fair (1950), Devil in the White City, Kier-la Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, The Attic (1980), The Witch Who Came from the Sea, Eloy de la Iglesia, Severin Films, the career of Gary Graver, Salo and A Serbian Film, Lars von Trier, Singapore Sling, and more! NEXT WEEK: Peeping Tom (1960) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

The ghouls watch a box office smash with the Nicole Kidman hit, The Others (2001). From wiki: “The Others (Spanish: Los otros) is a 2001 gothic supernatural psychological horror film written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley. Set in 1945 Jersey, it focuses on a woman and her two young photosensitive children who experience supernatural phenomena in their large manor after the arrival of three new servants.” But also! I Think You Should Leave on VHS, Shock Treatment, Twins of Evil, The Milky Way, Josh is a playwright again, Rogue Machine, Pennies from Heaven, Day of the Locust, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Dangerous Liasons, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mildred Pierce, Mike Flanagan, Clown House, Don’t Look Now, and more! NEXT WEEK: Taxidermia (2006) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

This week Drusilla and Josh are joined by stylist and costumer, Ivory Woods, who also happens to be Dru’s partner. The trio is discussing Panos Cosmatos’s 2018 film Mandy. From wiki: “Mandy is a 2018 action horror film directed by Panos Cosmatos, produced by Elijah Wood and co-written by Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn based on a story Cosmatos conceived. A co-production of the United States and Belgium, the film stars Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouéré, Richard Brake, and Bill Duke.” But also! Josh is making another short. Dungeons & Dragons, Thundarr the Barbarian, Les escargots (1966) and other Criterion short films, Suzann Pitt, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Bruxelles, The Curse, The Bear, follow-up on our Safe episode. Under the Skin, Heavy Metal magazine, cenobites, Mad Max, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Y2k fashion, Shudder, Jennifer’s Body, and more! NEXT WEEK: The Others (2001) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

The ghouls cover Leonard Kastle’s classic, The Honeymoon Killers. From wiki: “The Honeymoon Killers is a 1970 American crime film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. Its plot follows a sullen, overweight nurse who is seduced by a handsome con man, with whom she embarks on a murder spree of single women. The film was inspired by the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" of the 1940s. But also Knotts Berry Farm, ghost towns, homophobia and small dogs, Interpol, Drusilla watches An Accidental Studio – the documentary about Handmade Films, George Harrison, Prince Harry’s memoir, Courteney Cox’s candles, Josh watched Hidden Pleasures from the boxset Utopian Dreams: Two Homosexual Films by Eloy de la Iglesia and once again the hosts discuss post-Franco Spanish cinema. They also discuss Eraserhead, black and white movies, the brilliance of Shirley Stoler, the Dreamland actors, Bonnie & Clyde, Martin Scorsese, the meanness of the 2000s, and more! NEXT WEEK: Mandy! Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

100 episodes of Bloodhaus! Can you believe? Drusilla and Josh can’t. They forgot. Today the movie of the week is David Lynch’s seminal arthouse favorite, Eraserhead (1977). From wiki: “Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film[3] written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians. Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape. Nut first! Estate sales! Showtimes’ The Curse, the Safdie brothers, Claudine (1974), Frownland, Party Girl, The Dark Crystal, Parker Posey, The House of Yes, Dazed and Confused, Beau is Afraid fan edit, Josh’s bad takes, surrealism, Valley Girl, sexual anxiety, No Hard Feelings, Loretta Lynn, Joy Division, and more! Next week: The Honeymoon Killers Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

This week it’s all about mental and physical well-being with Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995.) From wiki: “Safe is a 1995 American psychological horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. Set in 1987, it follows a suburban housewife in Los Angeles whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness caused by the environment around her.” But also, the coldness of Los Angeles, mental health, self-help, Night Swim and the problem with sentimental slashers, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, identity politics, pandemics, Last Night in Soho, Black Christmas, Iron Claw, and more! NEXT WEEK: The Honeymoon Killers (1970) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

Happy New Year! This week Josh and Drusilla cover the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Psycho (1960). From wiki: “Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and its aftermath, in which a private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin), and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.[8] Also, Carmel, Indiana, our favorite first-time watches, Julian Sands’ butt, The Cremator, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Orgasmo, Targets, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, Dream Scenario, Wonka, While You Were Sleeping, transphobic killers, Dressed to Kill, Ed Gein, Bates Motel, Psycho II, Psycho III, Carnival of Souls, women driving, Peeping Tom, Frasier, Cate Blanchett loves horror, and more! NEXT WEEK: Safe (1995) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

Happy Holidays from Bloodhaus! Today Josh and Drusilla are joined by Freaky and It’s a Wonderful Knife writer Michael Kennedy to discuss the fever dream French Christmas film Deadly Games aka a lot of things. From wiki: “3615 code Père Noël ([tʁɑ̃t.sis kɛ̃z kɔd pɛʁ nɔ.ɛl], "3615 code Father Christmas", referring to a Minitel dialing number; also known as Deadly Games, Dial Code Santa Claus, Game Over, and Hide and Freak) is a 1989 French horror thriller film written and directed by René Manzor.[1][2] It is noted for its similarities to the 1990 American film Home Alone,[3] the makers of which Manzor once threatened with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism,[4] alleging that they had "remade my movie."[5] Also: Courtney Cox’s Candles, David Arquette, the best holiday horror, Black Christmas (1974), The Problem with the word “camp”, Krampus, Gremlins, Silent Night Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, Jack Frost, Home Alone 2, Love Has Won, MGM musicals on Criterion, Hide and Go Shriek, Story Pirates, cinema du look, Minitel, Don’t Look Now, Ben Franklin, Santa Claus, and more. NEXT WEEK: Psycho (1960) Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/ Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel