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BLOODHAUS

Joshua Conkel and Drusilla Adelinewww.bloodhauspod.com

The show where we discuss arthouse horror movies but in a fun, not at all snobby way. Hosted by Joshua Conkel and Drusilla Adeline. 

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Episodes

Episode 27: Lost Highway

This week, Drusilla and Josh discuss David Lynch's criminally underappreciated Lost Highway. From wiki: " Lost Highway is a 1997 neo-noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford . It stars Bill Pullman , Patricia Arquette , Balthazar Getty , and Robert Blake . The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home, and who is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears an...

Aug 15, 20221 hr 19 minEp. 27

Episode 26: The Happiness of the Katakuris (w/special guest Michael Varrati)

This week the kids are thrilled to be joined by horror icon and man-about-town and Midnight Mass co-host, Michael Varrati. This week the movie is Takasi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris. From the wiki: " The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福, Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku ) is a 2001 Japanese musical comedy horror film directed by Takashi Miike , with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family . The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce ...

Aug 08, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 26

Episode 25: SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE: Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018)

Wow! The 25th episode of Bloodhaus! Six whole months! This week the duo does their first double feature: Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018). But first, they talk Jordan Peele's NOPE and sexy, sexy Burt Reynolds. From Wiki: " Suspiria (Latin: [sʊsˈpiːri.a] ) is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento , who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi , partially based on Thomas De Quincey 's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis . The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ...

Aug 01, 20221 hr 35 minEp. 25

Episode 24: Frankenhooker

This week Joshua and Drusilla watch the classic film by Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker . From Wikipedia: " Frankenhooker is a 1990 American black comedy horror film directed by Frank Henenlotter . Very loosely inspired by Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , the film stars James Lorinz as medical school drop-out Jeffrey Franken and former Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen as the title character." But first! Josh goes to a horror legend's wedding, Drusilla attends a wi...

Jul 25, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 24

Episode 23: The Lure

This week Josh and Drusilla discuss 2015's Polish horror mermaid musical, The Lure . From Wikipedia: " The Lure ( Polish : Córki dancingu , lit. 'Daughters of Dancing') is a 2015 Polish horror musical film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska . It tells of two mermaids who emerge from the waters and perform in a nightclub. One falls in love with a man, and gives up her tail, but loses her voice in the process. The story is a reworking of the 1837 fairy tale " The Little Mermaid " by Hans Christian A...

Jul 18, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 23

Episode 22: Lips of Blood (w/special guest Steak Mtn aka Christopher Norris)

This week Drusilla and Josh are joined by the legendary Steak Mtn aka Christopher Norris. Steak Mtn is the graphic designer behind legendary punk bands like Against Me! and others and is the author of Hunchback '88 . He's also a hardcore punk musician and sometimes porn director. Steak brought the gang Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood. From Wikipedia: " Lèvres de Sang (English: Lips of Blood ) is a 1975 French horror film directed by Jean Rollin . The film tells the story of a man who begins to have ...

Jul 11, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 22

Episode 21: Ms .45

To find out what you can do about the Supreme Court's unjust decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, visit https://www.podvoices.help/ This week the Bloodhaus ghouls talk about Abel Ferrara's revenge fantasy, Ms .45 . From Wikipedia: " Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance , and mistyped as Ms. 45 ) is a 1981 American exploitation thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoë Tamerlis . Inspired by films such as Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973), Death Wish (1974), and Taxi Driver (1976)...

Jul 01, 20221 hr 4 minEp. 21

Episode 20: Lake Mungo

This week the Bloodhaus gang goes Down Under for the Australian found footage horror film, Lake Mungo . From Wikipedia: " Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson and stars Talia Zucker and Martin Sharpe. It employs mockumentary -style storytelling with found footage and docufiction elements, using actor "interviewees" to present the narrative of a family trying to come to terms with the drowning death of their daughter, and the potentially ...

Jun 27, 20221 hr 3 minEp. 20

Episode 19: The Whip and the Body

This week Drusilla and Josh get all into Mario Bava's BDSM haunted house flick, The Whip and the Body, starring Christopher Lee. From Wikipedia: " The Whip and the Body ( Italian : La frusta e il corpo ) is a 1963 gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava under the alias "John M. Old". The film is about Kurt Menliff ( Christopher Lee ) who is ostracized by his father for his relationship with a servant girl and her eventual suicide. He later returns to reclaim his title and his former fiancée Ne...

Jun 20, 20221 hrEp. 19

Episode 18: Men

This week Josh and Drusilla schlep to the movies to see Alex Garland's A24 joint Men (2022). From Wikipedia: "The film stars Jessie Buckley as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside village but becomes disturbed and tormented by the strange men in the village, all portrayed by Rory Kinnear ." But first! Drusilla and Josh talk about John Waters' Polyester for a sec before pivoting to David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future , which they both ADORED. Then they get into Men . They b...

Jun 13, 20221 hr 12 minEp. 18

Episode 17: Trouble Every Day

This week! Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day . From wiki: "Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor's wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by t...

Jun 06, 20221 hr 14 minEp. 17

Episode 16: Let's Scare Jessica to Death

This week the duo watches one of Josh's all-time faves, 1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death . From Wikipedia: " Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American independent horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut , and starring Zohra Lampert , Barton Heyman, Gretchen Corbett , and Mariclare Costello . The film depicts the nightmarish experiences of a psychologically fragile woman who comes to believe that another strange, mysterious young woman she has let int...

May 30, 20221 hr 16 minEp. 16

Episode 15: David Cronenberg's Crash (w/guest Chelsea Stardust)

This week Drusilla and Josh watch David Cronenberg's "Crash" with filmmaker Chelsea Stardust, which Wikipedia describes as follows: " Crash is a 1996 psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg , based on J. G. Ballard 's 1973 novel of the same name . Starring James Spader , Deborah Kara Unger , Elias Koteas , Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette , it follows a film producer who becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are strangely aroused by car cra...

May 23, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 15

Episode 14: A Tale of Two Sisters

This episode is about the terrifying Korean ghost story by Kim Jee-woon, A Tale of Two Sisters . From Wikipedia: "The film is inspired by a Joseon Dynasty era folktale entitled Janghwa Hongryeon jeon , which has been adapted to film several times. The plot focuses on a recently released patient from a mental institution who returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house—all of which are connected to a dark past in the famil...

May 16, 20221 hr 4 min

Episode 13: Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore

This week Drusilla and Josh watched Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore starring sexy, sexy Rupert Everett. But first! Robert Eggers and hot directors, reclaiming the New Beverly with an Errol Flynn double feature, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Robin Redbreast, You Won't Be Alone, Josh is ignorant about Macedonia, and then they get into the feature. Dru confesses her love of Angry Video Game Nerd, Josh goes to the video store, the life-changing Videoteque in South Pasadena, "style over su...

May 09, 20221 hr 1 min

Episode 12: Midsommar (Director's Cut)

We can have a mainstream arthouse movie, as a treat. Josh and Drusilla catch up after a trying week and catch up on movies. Josh watched Hour of the Wolf before going on a Bergman break. Drusilla saw David Arquette at Bob Baker Day. The duo discusses goth fitness and the Andrew WK renaissance before Josh tells yet another cocaine story. Drusilla watched At Long Last Love, which is good no matter what boomers say, and we love Polly Platt. Josh watched and loved Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched a...

May 01, 20221 hr 17 minEp. 12

Episode 11: Arrebato

This week Drusilla and Josh talk about the criminally underseen Spanish film Arrebato by Ivan Zulueta. We talk magic and Magic Castle. The Bergman Report continues with Persona and its influence on Lynch and Altman. They also discuss Day of the Beast, playing The Sims on cocaine, Adventures in Babysitting vs Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Days of Wine and Roses and other drunk films, Sid and Nancy, more Shaft, and then get into the feature. This movie is so hard to describe. New wave aest...

Apr 25, 20221 hr 4 minEp. 11

Episode 10: The Seventh Victim

Everything is honky dory! Drusilla and Josh watched SO MANY MOVIES this week. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, A Raisin in the Sun, Shaft, Passport to Pimlico, Mike Leigh, Sunday in New York starring Jane Fonda Josh's birthday twin, Our Flag Means Death, Josh hates Taika Waititi, Bergman Report: Cries and Whispers, Kids, Alligator, I Blame Society, and Reform School Girls. Then they go into the feature, Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim. They discuss Lewton's deal with RKO, Cat People, the inscrut...

Apr 18, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 10

Episode 9: The Tenant

Boy oh boy! This is a film that Drusilla and Josh do not agree on. Josh goes on a tirade about "elevated horror" in regards to A24 and Ti West's "X". Josh saw his first Bergman film, The Seventh Seal. Drusilla watched The Girl Can't Help It for the first time. The pair discuss John Waters and taking acid at the movies. They discuss the overlap of trash movies and art movies (William Castle and Paul Verhoeven). Then they get into the feature, Roman Polanski's "The Tenant". Drusilla has a history ...

Apr 11, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 9

Episode 8: Raw (w/guest Zelda Adams)

Drusilla and Josh are joined by actor, director, writer, and model Zelda Adams, the co-creator of HELLBENDER on Shudder. We discuss that movie but also The Batman, Nirvana, Fabletics, Zelda's college plans, and whether or not Robert Pattinson smells bad. Zelda picked Julia Ducournau's "Raw" as the movie of the week. We discuss vegetarianism, Heidi Montag's new diet, hazing, cinematography, Cecil B. Demented, realism, John Hughes, yeast on popcorn, Julia Decournau, French people, and play Have Th...

Apr 04, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 8

Episode 7: Audition

Kitty, kitty, kitty! This is a rough one, and also the first movie Drusilla and Josh don't agree on. The duo discusses Takashi Miike's 1999 film, Audition. This is THE arthouse torture porn movie and an iconic Japanese horror. Along the way, they discuss irony and The Worst Person in the World, Boy Harsher and The Runner, Hairspray and You're the Worst, insane sculptures, torture porn, Takashi Miike as an edgelord, Audition as a feminist women's revenge film (or not), the inherent scariness of b...

Mar 28, 202259 minEp. 7

Episode 6: Don't Look Now (w/guest Christian Tucci)

Today's guest is artist and writer, Christian Tucci, who brought up the Nicholas Roeg masterpiece Don't Look Now. But before we get into the feature we discuss the new Apple series, Severence, a bunch of spaghetti Westerns, and the Vinegar Syndrome re-release of 1981 slasher, Just Before Dawn. The trio discusses so much! This is a very sophisticated episode, going into the themes of water and mirrors, but they also manage to discuss the hotness of Donald Sutherland, his son Kiefer, beautiful Jul...

Mar 21, 20221 hrEp. 6

Episode 5: Viy

This week Drusilla and Joshua watched the Soviet/Ukrainian horror film, Viy, which was the first and possibly only Soviet horror film. Josh watched Werewolves Within, which leads to a discussion of little dogs and the people who hate them and/or hate to see them die. Drusilla watched the criminally underrated John Ritter film, Stay Tuned, which leads into problematic Jeffrey Jones and another dog. The pair briefly acknowledges the situation in Ukraine. Introducing the film requires a little disc...

Mar 14, 202257 minEp. 5

Episode 4: The Hunger

In this episode, Drusilla and Josh discuss one of the chicest lesbian vampire films of all time, The Hunger. It's so chic that Drusilla wore a beret! Drusilla watched Mill of the Stone Women and Josh watched Netflix's new Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), which was surprisingly good. The duo discusses the sequels in brief and the general pitfalls of sequels and reboots. Then they get into the feature which stars Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie. They discuss the less-than-stellar...

Mar 07, 202257 minEp. 4

Episode 3: The Lords of Salem (w/guest Michael Kennedy)

Drusilla and Josh are joined by FREAKY and TIME CUT writer, Michael Kennedy, to discuss Rob Zombie's 2012 film, The Lords of Salem. Before they get to the feature, they discuss Battle Royale, The Man with Two Brains, Eyes of Fire, and Allison's Birthday. They discuss Zombie as auteur, what counts as an arthouse film, Nina Garcia, Sherri Moon Zombie and her terrible dreds, The Witch and witches generally, Gregg Araki, horror gatekeeping, low expectations, who has or has not seen the movie, and mu...

Feb 28, 202252 minEp. 3

Episode 2: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

This episode will have you screaming ANNA FARIS!!! Drusilla and Joshua discuss Yorgos Lanthimos's 2017 film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Along the way though, it's Nicholas Cage, Murder by Phone, Captain Ron, hot Kurt Russell, who has or has not seen the film, and much, much more! All the deaths from Murder by Phone: https://youtu.be/nb7mVvyRRgc

Feb 21, 202253 minEp. 2

Episode 1: The Devils

In the first-ever episode of Bloodhaus, Joshua Conkel and Drusilla Adeline discuss Ken Russell's controversial 1971 film, The Devils. Along the way, they discuss how they came to horror, why the term "elevated horror" sucks, how Oliver Reed looks hot in a short robe, religious hypocrisy, and much, much more!

Feb 03, 202255 minEp. 1
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