Episode description
Episode 27: Haunted Houses Part One
This episode was recorded on April 13, 2024 and posted on June 1, 2024.
Content Warning: Light vulgarity.
Introduction
- Welcome to No Bodies Episode 27
- Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
- Introductions to our guests Rob & Suz of Spooky AF
- Today’s Topic: Haunted Houses
Defining the Haunted House Subgenre
- What defines a haunted house film?
- Are ghosts and hauntings real?
- What makes a house “haunted?”
This Week’s Coroner’s Report
- Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever had a paranormal experience?
Film Discussion
- Haunted House Classics
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- The Old Dark House (1932)
- The Golden Age of Haunted House Films
- The Changeling (1980)
- Burnt Offerings (1973)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
Thank you to our guests!
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- Rob & Suz on Instagram at @thespookyafpod.
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- Lonely - read more from Lonely and keep up with her filmstagram chaos @lonelyhorrorclub on Instagram and www.lonelyhorrorclub.com.
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Sources
McDaniel, M. C. (1982). There’s no place like home: The Haunted House as literary motif [Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University]. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3992&context=theses
Michlin, M. (2012). The Haunted House in contemporary filmic and literary Gothic narratives of trauma. Transatlantica, 1. https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5933
Mills, M. (2023, October 25). The 20 best haunted house movies, ranked. The A.V. Club. https://www.avclub.com/20-best-haunted-house-movies-ranked-1850661917
Things that go bump in the literature: An environmental appraisal of “Haunted Houses.” (2020). Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01328