City of the Dead Movie Night (Premium E309)
In this special Halloween edition of movie night, Jake and Travis discuss the 1960 British “B-movie” The City of the Dead. The film, the directorial debut of John Llewellyn Moxey and released under the title Horror Hotel in the United States, tells the story of a coven of witches in New England who lure women for a diabolical yearly sacrifice to Lucifer. The British actors, including a very young Christopher Lee, put on their best American accents to make a film so spooky that distributors chose to cut some references to Satan worship for the U.S. distribution.
Best of all? You can watch it for free on YouTube in 4k, so you can enjoy every luscious black and white shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3cQ5Lo9HI
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The DVD just turned up today,yay !! 2 disc special edition which was a pleasant surprise 🥳
This movie is a banger. For another BWC, check out Curse of the Demon.
Christopher Lee... Truly the guy of all time...
So… from a QAnon perspective, this movie was a prophesy of the 2020 election? Where the “witch” reappears (4) years later to wreak havoc on the village/country?
Travis: Julian would Probably say something about how capitalism is bad and Obama should be murdered 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so true 🎯
I know this movie from the RiffTrax version! They put up a rating card that said "F" for "CONSTANT, COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF FOG"
If you like this try Quartermass and the pit
2015 was a decade ago 🫠
Kenosha mentioned!
Travis keeps saying "yeah" to Jake just like a father (talking to their small child).
He's out here channelling my mom whenever I try to explain tolkien lore to her
I knew Julien wasn’t on this one when Jake said the acronym “BWC” and nobody interrupted to make a joke about it
I love this movie, it is wild you guys are talking about it
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Took me a while but I’ve finally come around to the new opening theme
This was a great movie!
Joe Bob Briggs did this recently on the Last Drive In
The Netflix series "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" released 2018 is precisely about supernatural Satanism in old New England families, but it's also a goofy WB style teen drama.
Looking forward to the Annie mini-series that you mentioned and love Jake's idea of one on vampires and werewolves. " The Supernatural Voyager", perhaps ?
Is this also called Horror Hotel?
It looks like it . That's the DVD that we've ordered so we're hoping so !
It's been a while since I've seen it, so I could be overstating the effect, but I remember The Third Man blowing my mind how modern certain things about the filmmaking felt. Most of the cast is doing theater acting, but there's all kinds of crazy camera angles that you don't expect from an old movie, and them Orson Welles shows up near the end and acts circles around the main character with naturalistic acting.
Thanks for this episode, guys! Grew up with loads of Christopher Lee films thanks to my dear mother but never heard of this one before. Her birthday coming up soon so gonna get a hard copy for her . ( Listed also as Horror Hotel) Thanks for the recommendation 👍
really fun watch!
Holy shit I love this movie! Wasn’t expecting you guys to talk about it
Tbh the title of it made me think there was a new zombie movie sequel I completely missed lol
I read it as "City Of The Living Dead," a gloriously gross Fulci zombie/posessed movie.
Jake is the only other person I’ve ever heard mention M.A.S.K., no one ever knows what I’m talking about
I feel like there’s either slightly older millennials or Midwest millennials who know about these properties and people who only understand them because of Robot Chickens references. ETA: I’m the latter.
Jake, if you like the idea of occult black sites, check out Delta Green.
Christopher Lee was THE sexiest Dracula.
This was an absolute joy. It's so refreshing to be left feeling happy after an episode recently. I'd LOVE more of this sort of stuff, just occasional episodes talking about media you love, whether it's films, book, games, or 80s Saturday morning cartoons. My mental health would appreciate it.
When I need this, I search the episodes for either "cryptid," "movie," or "Brad" because those always bring up the good lil one-offs that don't leave me hollow.
The flickering may be meant to convey the image of the flames from Elizabeth Selwyn's burning.
This is EXTREMELY Lovecraft
Perhaps the first mention of Nottingham Forest Football Club on the QAA podcast.
Christopher Lee's real life story is incredible. Possibly the coolest man to have ever lived
Jake opening by talking about the director fighting in ww2 but not mentioning Lee's history is a crazy move
I read this: the city of - - dead movie night
the wicker man (1973)
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Re: The acting/ speaking style As you probably know some of the very affected style we hear in old films and radio broadcasts (film especially) developed out of the practicality of being able to actually capture sound on the day with the technology of the time. Being able to mumble a performance couldn’t really be indulged until there were beater mics, especially being able to have actors wear their own lavs.
That is interesting, I hadn't thought about it that way. I had always assumed it was a stylistic holdover from theater/stage, where the actors have to project to an audience with varying quality seats. It's interesting that the practicalities for film made that enunciation necessary, not just a stylistic thing.
shout out to feature films under 90 minutes
may the bofo BO be ever in their favor
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Liv Agar
Movie night!! I love movie night!!
Jake!