Nov. 11, 2025

This Week in Horror History | Creepshow, Dracula & Ravenholm

This Week in Horror History | Creepshow, Dracula & Ravenholm
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This Week in Horror History dives into a loaded week: Creepshow hits wide release, Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker’s Dracula redefine luxe gothic on the big screen, Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm sneaks survival horror into AAA gaming, and Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf howls through November. We spotlight Supernatural’s early heart-stopper “Home,” roll birthdays for genre icons, compare ’90s velvet vampires to today’s, and cap it with a cult-classic pick: Slumber Party Massacre. Perfect for spooky season’s afterglow—queue these up and feast.

Inside this episode
  • Creepshow (Nov 10, 1982): Romero + King bring EC-comics mayhem to multiplexes. 
  • Interview with the Vampire (Nov 11, 1994): Velvet-and-venom epic opens #1 and rewrites vampire melodrama.
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Nov 13, 1992): Coppola’s operatic, in-camera sorcery storms the box office. 
  • Half-Life 2 — Ravenholm (Nov 16, 2004): A masterclass in atmosphere; survival-horror vibes inside a shooter. 
  • Cycle of the Werewolf (Nov 1983): King + Wrightson’s lean, illustrated lunar calendar of carnage.
  • Duel (Nov 13, 1971): Spielberg’s white-knuckle TV thriller turns the highway into a hunting ground.
  • Deep-Cut Spotlight — Supernatural “Home” (Nov 15, 2005): Intimate, grief-haunted return to the Winchesters’ house. 
  • Birthday roll: Roy Scheider, Radha Mitchell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Burgess Meredith.
  • Then & Now — Velvet Vampires: ’90s baroque romance vs. prestige-TV reinventions.
  • Weekly Recommendation — Slumber Party Massacre: A sharp, subversive slasher to cleanse the palate.
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Welcome back to the long dark of November, where the

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leaves are gone, but the shadows stick around. This week

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is drenched in gothic blood and neon bite, a lavish

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vampire double bill that ruled the nineties box office, a

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comics to screen creep show that made anthology horror cool again,

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a TV thriller that launched a superstar director, a landmark

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PC game that quietly snuck a classic Haunted Town chapter

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into sci fi, and a slim Stephen King novella that

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became a howling calendar of carnage. We'll sprint through the

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big anniversaries, giving you tidbits and trivia along the way,

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then dive into a TV deep cut that still makes

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home feel haunted. So keep your earbuds in and your

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car stereo rockin, because the calendar is coming and knocking.

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You're listening to this Week in Horror History. I'm your host,

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Enrique Kuto, and we're covering the week of November tenth

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through sixteenth. So let's rattle the crypt and see what

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climbs out on deck. Creep show cracks wide. Interview with

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the Vampire premieres Bram Stoker's Dracula seduces opening weekend records,

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a duel on ABC that made a career and the

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game that sent us to Ravenholm after the Break, a

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TV deep cut spotlight on Supernatural's Home, a birthday roll call,

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a quick then and Now on Lush, nineties, vampire Cinema

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Versus Today, and of course your Watch Now recommendation. November tenth,

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nineteen eighty two, Night of the Living Dead's George Romero

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and the legend himself, Stephen King joined forces to bring

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us some delightful comic book macabre on the big screen.

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After a July test run in Boston, Creep Show rolled

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into wide release the week of November tenth, nineteen eighty two,

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topping the box office with a five day haul and

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cementing the EC style anthology as crowd pleasing horror, garish colors,

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cockroach nightmares, and a Father's Day cake that well, no

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one should eat. File it under proof that short, punchy

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horror plays like Gangbusters between Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it

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makes sense. I mean, they even brought cake. Creep Show

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is one of those films that really sticks with you

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because every story has that thick ec comic style which

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would later become extreamly famous and a part of popular

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culture when the Tales from the Crypt TV series debuted

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on HBO about a decade later. Tales from the Crypt,

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of course, based directly on the EC comic of the

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same name and its sister comics like Vault of Horror,

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Haunt of Fear, and Two Fisted Tales. Stephen King and

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George Romero wanted to make creep Show as a homage

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to EC comics because they both read them when they

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were definitely way too young, and to suggest it warped

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them would be a little bit of an understatement, I

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would say, but still a great bit of fun. And

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I personally have a massive soft spot for creep Show

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two as well, And if you don't, well, fair enough,

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but I have them both on four K and in

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the late twenty tens, it kind of came full circle

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when creep Show the series hit Shutter and AMC Plus,

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helmed by makeup effects master Greg Nikoto, who came an

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even bigger horror icon after becoming an indispensable part of

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the Walking Dead production team. That all to say, if

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you want to revisit or check out creep Show for

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the first time, well it's available to rent on YouTube.

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It's available to rent on Fandango at Home, Amazon Prime Video,

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and Apple TV, and of course the TV series is

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on AMC Plus and Shutter. Absolutely worth a watch. November eleventh,

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nineteen ninety four, Interview with the Vampire Neil Jordan's Velvet

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and Venom epic premieres, a lush and melancholy ride that

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takes you through all of the beauty and romance as

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well as the absolute despair of being a vampire. It

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opens at number one with a November record at the time,

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helped of course, by the stars Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt

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and Kirsten Duntz and Anne Rice's sensuous theology of immortality

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The Candles Gutter. The candles may have faded, but the

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box office did not. In nineteen ninety four, I was

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eight years old, but I had a teenage sister, so

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you better believe Interview with the Vampire was just about

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the most important film on the planet. And I saw

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it so many times on VHS over and over as

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my sister had her little lestat fantasy fulfilled at least

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for a little while. But I have to admit the

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film really does hold up. After all, these years, I

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still enjoy the moroseness of the film as much as anything.

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I think as you get older you start to appreciate

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moroseness a little bit more. As weird as that is

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to say, but hey, if you want to get your

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moroseness on, I'm not going to stop you. You can

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watch Interview with the Vampire on Amazon Prime, although you'll

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have to rent it. You can also rent it on

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Apple TV, Fandango at Home. A bunch of good places

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and the blood sucking just will not stop. November thirteenth,

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nineteen ninety two Bram Stoker's Dracula. Two years earlier, Coppola's

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baroque Dracula explodes into US theaters on November third, nineteen

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ninety two, marrying stagecraft in camera tricks and there is

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no shortage of them, and operatic performances from Gary Oldman,

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Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins to a maximalist tragic romance.

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The capes swirl, the blood pops, and the film stakes

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a monster opening for the season. So come on, Hollywood,

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where's our big horror opening in November this year? You

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guys gotta get your stuff together. I swear I actually

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revisited this one for the first time in a very

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long time. Again, teenage sister made me watch a ton

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of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and it holds up to this

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very day. It is a feast for your eyes. The

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sheer amount of trick photography and special effects in the

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movie is almost dizzying. It's almost insulting and offensive. The

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sheer amount of masterful gags and effects, and of course

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my sister's favorite part being Jianu Reeves and in four

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k it is truly Chef's kiss. And right now it's available,

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of course to rent on Amazon Prime, to rent on

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Apple TV or Fandango at home, but you can watch

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it right now with your Netflix subscription. So chop, chop,

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and get to slurp in that blood. November sixteenth, two

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thousand and four, Half Life two launched on Steam November sixteenth,

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two thousand and four. Half Life two redefined first person

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narrative and physics, but horror fans still whisper about Raven,

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the saw blades, the head crabs, and of course, who

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could forget Father Grigory's sermons in a town that feels cursed?

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Proof that the scariest level in a sci fi Shooter

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can be pure survival horror tone, and I have to

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admit this one brought back a lot of memories. I

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played so much Half Life and even attended a couple

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of land parties. I know, I know, I fly my

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NERD flag proudly, but that one is a deep one,

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even for me. But you can play Half Life two

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via PC with Steam and the twentieth anniversary edition includes

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a little episode's menu. Head on back to Ravenholm and

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meet up with Father Grigory. I'm sure he'd love for

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you to confess your sins. November nineteen eighty three. Cycle

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of the Werewolf by King. Stephen King's illustrated novella with

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art by Bernie Wrightsen, landed in November of nineteen eighty

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three as a limited hardcover twelve months, twelve full moons,

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a small town gnawd to the bone, lean visual and

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built like a calendar. It later morphs into Silver Bullet

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from nineteen eighty five with Corey Haym and well the

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incomparable Gary Busey. But that's a story for another time

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but Horn. But as far as the book goes, it's

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a tight read and you can finish it before midnight,

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which is probably a good idea. Don't mind me, I'll

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be up late tonight shopping for silver bullets on Amazon. God,

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this Prime shipping better not fail me this time. Cycle

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of the Werewolf is currently in print. There's a paperback

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available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and just about anywhere

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you get your books. November thirteenth, nineteen seventy one brings

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us Duel, a TV movie from a director you might

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have heard of before Jaws. Steven Spielberg delivers a white

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knuckle ABC movie of the Week, a commuter hunted by

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a faceless trucker. It aired on November thirteenth, nineteen seventy one.

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Minimal premise, maximum dread, camera and sound design, do the

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stalking See what I did there. It's a masterclass in

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making the ordinary feel predatory. It's basically Jaws, except well,

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the shark is a truck and the victim is any

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of us who dare to head out on the highway.

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That is a scary prospect. And you can rent Duel

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at Amazon Prime. You can rent it on Apple TV,

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Fandango at home. It's definitely worth a watch if you've

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never seen it, especially if you're a Jaws fan, because

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there's so many elements he would hone in on in

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the making of Jaws. I want to take a quick

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the road trip and makes the destination a little more personal.

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Home takes Sam's vision back to Lawrence, Kansas, to the

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house where his mother died, and turns a monster of

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the week into more of a family affair. Director Ken

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Garotti keeps the camera small and close, basement crawl spaces,

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hallway angles that feel just wrong, a gas line that

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hisses like a ghost breathing if ghosts actually breathe. It's

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probably more ornamental than anything. Loretta Divine arrives as Missouri Moseley,

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the show's first great psychic, anchoring the mythology with warmth

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and righteous side eye. The scarceyequences snap into place with appliance,

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Poltergeist's closet doors that hand through the crib. But the

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real chill, the real part that gets to you, is

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grief turning the floor plan into a crime scene. I am,

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by no means a supernatural super fan, but I have

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seen quite a few episodes, and of them all, this

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one has always stood out to me. It aired on

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November fifteenth, two thousand and five, and shows how TV

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horror can earn longevity, not through bigger monsters, but by

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pointing its little flashlight at the family photo on the

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Mantle home is where the Winchester's quest stops looking like

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a gig and starts feeling like destiny. If you only

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sample one early episode, start there. It tells you how

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the series will keep hurting and healing its characters for

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fifteen seasons. And it's available to watch right now on Netflix.

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But enough about deaths. We got four candles for you

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this week on our birthday role. November tenth is Roy

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Scheider's birthday. Not strictly a horror guy, but he was

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Chief Brodie in the genre defining film Jaws, which we

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talked about a little bit before, and of course, he

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had the iconic line You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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Unfortunately we lost Roy Scheider back in two thousand and eight,

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but he had an incredible career and he helped us

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realize that summer could be very, very scary. November twelfth,

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Rada Mitchell. She showed all the final girl grit you

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could possibly have in Silent Hill from two thousand and

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six and had a lot of genre versatility from Pitch

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Black to Haunted Town Motherhood. November thirteenth, Robert Lewis Stevenson,

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the man behind Jekyl and Hyde, handed us a Victorian

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horror as a split screen of appetite and reputation. It

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still serves as a blueprint of duality today, whether it's

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a horror film, a comedy, or just about anything in between. Really,

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and finally, on November sixteenth, Burgess Meredith was born. Two

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Immortal Twilight Zone turns Time Enough at Last and Printer's Devil,

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plus a career of charming menace I mean, Burgess Meredith.

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He's in Time Enough at Last, which is honestly like

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the perfect Twilight Zone meme, what with the breaking glasses

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in the fact that we all wish we could read more.

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But he also cemented himself as the penguin on the

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original Adam West Batman, which is mind boggling when you

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consider that. Then later on he would play Mick in Rocky,

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which Rocky is one of the greatest films of all time.

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It's not horror, but but I'll be damned if I

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don't show my love and appreciation for it. He also

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played the elderly father to Jack Lemon in Grumpy Old Men.

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The guy had just a monster of a career. Unfortunately

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we lost him in nineteen ninety seven and he was

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at ninety years old. Incredible career. Now let's look at

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then and now velvet vampires from nineteen ninety two to now.

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Back then, in the span of two novembers, opulent vampire

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cinema storms, the multiplex Copolas Bramstoker's Dracula as we mentioned,

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and Jordan's interview with the Vampire, expensive adult, unapologetically romantic,

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featuring chandeliers, blood is perfume, immortality as addiction. These concepts

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all really changed the way we understand and appreciate vampires.

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In me, whether it's movies, televisions, books, you name it.

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Vampires were never quite the same after the early nineties,

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and sometimes I don't think the early nineties gets enough

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love for the contributions it made to the horror genre.

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As we move our eyes to the now, Prestige Television

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redraws the bite, and AMC's Interview with the Vampire, a

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TV series based on the same novel by Ann Rice,

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leans more into the queer longing and trauma. It's extremely

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well thought out and it fits beautifully with the film

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while being very very different. Streaming favors these long arcs

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on TV shows, and of course the massive, lush production

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without sacrificing the bloodshed. The lesson isn't that vampires changed

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so much as that culture loves to keep rewriting the

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contract between beauty and appetite. Plus, let's just be real

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for a second, Dracula is one thousand percent a metaphor

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for sexually transmitted diseases. You can't change my mind on

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that one. Now, Before I get out of here and

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let you get back to your week, of course, I

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can't leave without giving you my weekly recommendation. And this

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one is a lifelong love of mine. The Slumber Party

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Massacre from nineteen eighty two, Ugh, just the keyboard theme

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from this movie alone makes me so very happy. That

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is just such beautiful late seventies early eighties synth joy

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right there, and that really describes the entire film. With

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a lean seventy seven minute runtime, It's a cult classic

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directed by Amy Holden Jones from Rita may Brown's script.

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It's fast, it's funny, and it's feral. And it opened

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in Los Angeles on September tenth, which is my birthday,

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go figure. But the New York release was the week

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of November twelfth, nineteen eighty two, so I'm counting it.

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It really is the perfect post Halloween comfort, garbage food

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kind of fun time, and it has a lot of

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very subversive winks in it. Rita may Brown wrote the screenplay,

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and she was famous for writing feminist books, a ton

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of them. In fact, she's always claimed that the screenplay

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for Slumber Party Massacre, which was originally titled Sleepless Nights,

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was meant to be a kind of parody of slasher

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films featuring gratuitous nudity, violence, and general debauchery and horniness

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of teenagers. I've always felt like maybe that was a

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little bit of a cop out, only because By the

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time she wrote the screenplay, there had barely been any

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slasher movies made. I mean, I think Friday the Thirteenth

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wasn't even a big thing when she was writing the script.

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You basically only had Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But

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maybe I'm wrong, and Amy Holden Jones has had an

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incredible career directing so many films outside of the horror genre.

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But it all started with this Roger Corman produced feature

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film with a perfect title, and that title is Slumber

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Party Massacre, with its phone repair woman gags, pizza box punchlines,

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and the most infamous power tool in all of horror.

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Queue it up after the Velvet Vampires for a fun

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and frisky midnight movie to cleanse your palette. And best

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of all, Slumber Party Massacre is available just about everywhere

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you could want to watch movies for free. Two BTV

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has it, Zumo has it, Pluto TV has it, The

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Roku channel has it, Fandango at Home has it. To

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watch for free. It's on shutter AMC plus Filo Plex.

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The sky is the limit. You have no excuse to

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not give Slumber Party Massacre a spin, unless, of course,

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it's not your kind of thing. No shame in that. Well,

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that's it for this week in Horror History for November

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tenth through sixteenth. If you're enjoying what we're doing here

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app like Spotify or Apple Podcasts and share it with

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your nearest spooky friend. And don't forget Tomorrow. Weekly Spooky

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drops a brand new episode featuring a story by a

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brand new author. You won't want to miss it. And

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this Friday we might just have something special for you

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on cutting deep into horror. So until next time, my friends,

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keep that porch light lit and pack some silver bullets

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just to be saved.