He finds a not-quite-vacant room in an American-owned building, but the last tenant, Simon Choule, is clinging to life after throwing herself out of the apartment's window. The Tenant was directed by Roman Polanski, who also stars as Trelkovsky a mild-mannered file clerk looking for a new apartment in Paris during a housing shortage. And here's a video about the "Bollywood Evil Dead" Mike mentioned in the episode. As mentioned in the episode you can also listen to Mike, along with Chris Stachiw, jaw on about Barney Miller and '85 Twilight Zone. Heck, I even like the 2010 reboot!įor this episode I am once again joined by Mike White from The Projection Booth Podcast. Whether you're a die-hard fan of the original, like me, or a lover of the "better in every way" requel, like my guest, or even if you prefer Army of Darkness for some reason , you'll find something to like in this episode. Or does he? The Evil Dead may be short on story but it's long on dread, gore, and inventive film-making. By the end of the night only Ash survives. They produced an instant classic that has withstood the test of time and spawned a franchise that has lasted 35 years.Īsh, his sister Cheryl, his girlfriend Linda, and they're friends Scott and Shelly take a little vacation to a dilapidated backwoods cabin and accidentally summon demonic forces. Before the film was even begun the trio of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert formed Renaissance Pictures and took the business side of low-budget films seriously.
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Made on a shoe-string budget in the woods of Tennessee by a bunch of friends from Michigan, the movie was an exercise not only in scares and gore, but in moxie and gumption. Coverage from Fangoria, along with great notice from a string of festival appearances, helped solidify its notoriety. The Evil Dead caught the attention of Stephen King at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and his pull-quote, "The most ferociously original horror film of 1982," placed it on every genre fan's must-watch list. took the horror world by the neck and shook it until it begged for mercy. This episode also features an interview with Luke Aspell, author of the Shivers monograph from Auteur Publishing. Can the residents of the Starliner stop the infection from spreading to nearby Montreal and beyond? Or do they even want to? Emil Hobbes’ experiment with "helpful" parasites has gone awry and now the tenants of the Starliner are under attack by the polyamorous creatures. The film also features the inimitable Joe Silver as Rollo Linsky. Luc, Lynn Lowry as Nurse Forsythe, Susan Petrie as Janine Tudor, Allan Kolman as Nick Tudor, and Barbara Steele as Betts, all residents of the luxury apartment complex Starliner Tower. In Shivers Cronenberg's secular world view and body, or venereal, horror is What emerged was Shivers, which introduced audiences and critics to a new kind of horror film andĬourted controversy not only for its subject matter but also for its manner ofįunding. Inspired in part by a nightmare he'd hadĬronenberg set about to write a screenplay for the Canuxploitation Pioneers atĬinepix. Would need to do something "commercial." And at the time commercial, more Has the summation of spirits really worked? Or is Alan just having more fun at everyone else's expense? Tune inĪfter directing two experimental films ( Stereo andĬrimes of the Future) David Cronenberg realized that if making movies would be his vocation he Properly frightened, and pissed off at Alan, they return to their cabin withĪn actual corpse named Orville. Perform a Satanic ritual that will raise the dead, whom he wants to use as slaves.īut before the real ritual begins he scares the rest of the group with help from RoyĪnd Emerson, two other troupe members, hamming it up as ghouls. Ormsby also designed andĬreated the make-up effects and plays Alan, the leader of a Miami theaterĪlan, an egomaniacal tyrant, takes the troupe to an island graveyard to The film, with script contributions from Alan Ormsby. Simon also supplied the fun promotional "menu" for the player image of thisĬhildren Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, a low-budget horror/comedy inspired in part by Night of the Living Dead (1968). Also included in each episode is a portion of an interview withīook on the films of Bob Clark. The series-long co-host isĬhris Stachiw, and Samm Deighan joining us for one of the three episodes,
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Welcome to the first in a three-episode series on the early horrorįilms of Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark.
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