Drusilla discuss Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 classic, The Virgin Spring. From wiki: “ The Virgin Spring ( Swedish : Jungfrukällan ) is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman . Set in medieval Sweden , it is a tale about a father's merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. The story was adapted by screenwriter Ulla Isaksson from a 13th-century Swedish ballad, " Töres döttrar i Wänge " ("Töre's daughters in Vänge"). Bergman researched the legend of Per Töre with an eye to ...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 117
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 di...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 116
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 ...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 115
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 unearth...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 114
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 [ cita...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 113
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 ...
Apr 08, 2024•58 min•Ep. 112
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 Mit...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 111
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 mo...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 110
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 Colle...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 109
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...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 108
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 , ...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 107
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...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 106
*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 dy...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 105
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)...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 104
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 th...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 103
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 Foué...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 102
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 ...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 101
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...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 7 min
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 wit...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 99
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...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 98
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 ...
Dec 25, 2023•59 min•Ep. 97
Today, Josh and Drusilla discuss Clive Barker’s iconic 1987 directorial debut, Hellraiser. From wiki: “ Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film [6] written and directed by Clive Barker , and produced by Christopher Figg , based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart . [1] The film marked Barker's directorial debut. [7] Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites , a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 96
This week Josh and Drusilla are joined by writer Shawn C. Harris to discuss the James Bond III 90s vampire film, Def by Temptation (1990.) From wiki: “ Def by Temptation is a 1990 American horror film that was written, produced, and directed by James Bond III; and stars Cynthia Bond , Kadeem Hardison , Samuel L. Jackson , and Bill Nunn .” The film takes place in New York City in 1990. Drusilla watched Celine and Julie Go Boating, Josh watched Killers of the Flower Moon , Shawn loves Blue Eyed Sa...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 95
Today on Bloodhaus, the ghouls discuss one of the most iconic giallo films of all time, Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975). From wiki: “ Deep Red ( Italian : Profondo rosso ), also known as The Hatchet Murders , is a 1975 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi . It stars David Hemmings as a musician who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. The cast also stars Daria Nicolodi , Gabriele ...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 94
This week the kids discuss Rift (2017) by director Erlingur Thoroddsen. From wiki: “ Rift ( Icelandic : Rökkur ) is a 2017 Icelandic horror film written and directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen . [1] [2] [3] Rift is a gay psychological thriller, in which Gunnar (Björn Stefánsson) and Einar (Sigurður Þór Óskarsson) get to grips with their fractured relationship amid some spooky situations in a remote cabin in Iceland. [4] [5] Rift premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival , where it was chosen as the ...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 93
This week the ghouls discuss Philip Ridley’s 1990 film, The Reflecting Skin . It’s a weird one! From wiki: “ The Reflecting Skin is a 1990 British-Canadian dramatic horror film written and directed by Philip Ridley and starring Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan . Described by its director as a "mythical interpretation" of childhood, [4] the film weaves elements of vampirism , surrealism , black comedy , symbolism, and religious zealotry throughout its narrative about the percepti...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 92
It’s a good one this week: Yann Gozalez’s Knife + Heart. From Wikipedia: Knife+Heart ( French : Un couteau dans le cœur , lit. 'A Knife in the Heart') is a 2018 horror - thriller film [4] directed by Yann Gonzalez , who co-wrote the screenplay with Cristiano Mangione. It was produced by Charles Gillibert and stars Vanessa Paradis , Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet and Romane Bohringer . An international co-production of France, Mexico and Switzerland, the film was selected to compete fo...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 91
Welcome back to another episode of Bloodhaus, where the ghouls are very sleepy. They watched A Dark Song from 2016. From wiki: “ A Dark Song is a 2016 Irish-British independent horror film , written and directed by Liam Gavin and starring Steve Oram and Catherine Walker . It was released to select theatres and digital streaming platforms on 28 April 2017. It is Gavin's directorial debut. But also: Josh gets very dark about his dog. Drusilla watched Killers of the Flower Moon and loves Martin Sco...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 90
Happy Halloween! This week the kids celebrate with a high brow/low brow double feature of David Cronenberg and Frank Henenlotter. CRONENLOTTER! They watch Naked Lunch (1991) and Brain Damage (1988). From wiki: “ Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller , Judy Davis , Ian Holm , and Roy Scheider . It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs ' 1959 novel of the same name , and an international co-production of Ca...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 19 min
This movie is not for all tastes, but it IS for Drusilla and Josh. It’s Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse by Nikolai Nikolaides. From wiki: “ Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse ( Greek : Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα , tr. Singapore Sling: O Ánthropos pou Agápise éna Ptóma ) is a 1990 Greek black and white horror underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum opus . Considered a difficult film to label while still managing to d...
Oct 23, 2023•59 min•Ep. 88
