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What happens to a dream project when the dreamer dies? What elements of Walt Disney's utopia were actually constructed? Climb aboard the Carousel of Progress and experience the final part of EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow.

Part 3 of EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow opens with a secret trip to the swampy wilderness of Bay Lake, Florida. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1963, the year Walt Disney discovered the future home for his experimental community.

EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow continues with the story of Disneyland's long development and miraculous success. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1955, the year Walt Disney proved that he was both a master showman and an expert urban developer.

Haunted Basement: The Podcast returns with a 4-part miniseries, EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow, the story about Walt Disney's final and ultimately unrealized dream project. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1938, the year of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and another formative event that lead to the development of EPCOT.

We bid adieu to Summer by basking in the autumnal glow of one of our favorite Fall movies: Little Giants (1994). Nearly thirty years after its release, this baby still holds up, so we figured we’d chat with the man responsible for this underdog classic: director/editor extraordinaire, Duwayne Dunham . If you’re not familiar, this guy’s the stuff of legend. Besides hitch-hiking across the country t...

After a summer break, we'll be back very soon with a great new full-length episode about another classic movie in the Serrano household. But first, an announcement! Here's a mini bonus episode detailing A.J.'s upcoming short horror film, Night Train . We discuss how A.J. came up with the idea for the film, who the target audience is, and how you can help him realize his goal. Become a...

Producer extraordinaire and fellow cinephile, Brian Lemieux, returns to the basement to talk about this summer’s most anticipated movies. What’s coming out this summer? Oh, just a few small pictures called  Barbie ,  Oppenheimer , and  Mission: Impossible — Tom Cruise Jumps Off A Cliff On A Motorcycle Part One . Also, Rory and Reagan offer a tough but fair critique of  Spider-Man: Across the Spide...

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Michael Lukk Litwak joins us in the basement to talk about his debut feature,  Molli and Max in the Future , a sci-fi romantic comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions, and one space-cult. We cover the joys of  When Harry Met Sally , just how much work goes into making a movie set on a different plane...

Andrew Wong of Boston-based punk band Miracle Blood joins us in the basement for a conversation about making music in the age of streaming. We talk about stuff like Napster and LimeWire  (which, our lawyers would like to make absolutely clear, we’ve never heard of before), how the algorithms have influenced release strategies, and how to take care of your pipes whilst screaming about your desire t...

Chris Liberge, President of entertainment consulting agency Enact Insight, joins us in the basement to spread the good word: Hollywood is alive and well! (Never mind what we said last episode - that was so two weeks ago.) Learn, laugh, and live™ as we talk about box office forecasts, our mutual love for the OG Spider-Man (2002), how Taylor Swift serves as an apt metaphor for the Marvel cinematic u...

The Serrano siblings discuss NY Times film critic A.O. Scott's retirement from film criticism and whether or not Marvel movies and the streaming generation have brought on the death of Hollywood or if the industry is evolving into something new. This is a real high-brow episode, folks. We use words like "the democratization of filmmaking" and "intellectual property," but we...

Tony-nominated actor Billy Magnussen (Game Night, No Time To Die, Into the Woods, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) is unfiltered (literally) and unchained (we let him escape the basement, eventually) in a conversation about acting, the future of Holllywood, and hitting audiences in the heart with his new production company, HappyBad Bungalow. Topics include Being vs. Acting, the Hollywood hype...

Ciao, regazzi! Thinking about skipping this episode? Fugeddaboudit. What are you, a jamoke? This episode is like a nice giambott’. It’s got a little bit of everything.  The Godfather , The Sopranos , maybe a little  White Lotus . And we’re talking about it all with Mr. Bada Bing himself: Our Dad. You’re gonna be mangia-ing this episode through your ears, youknowwhatImean? We mispronounce Francis F...

Mateus Falci joins us in the basement for a funky-fresh convo about his band, Gratis, and their two music video collaborations with Haunted Basement.  We also talk about the home movies we made as kids, deciding on film school (three of us), deciding against a film career (one of us), the most bad-ass wedding processional ever, visualizing cyborg tango music and a break-up song in outer space...

Professional video magician, Keaton Monger, moseys down to the basement to talk about his love for A Goofy Movie (1995), a classic we all see I 2 I on. Our little Goof troop discusses Goofy's evolution as a character, whether or not there's a Mrs. Goof (or if it even matters), and NASA's recent breakthrough in determining just how many cups of sugar it takes to get to the moon.  Later, we call som...

Blythe Roberson , author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men, joins us in the basement to share how she leads a creative life. Her second book hits shelves this April so clearly Blythe's doing something right (preorder America The Beautiful? here ). Take some notes, people. We also get the scoop on A.J.'s trip to Venice, debate how to pronounce the name Charon, and try to make friends with our in...

Writer/Director Chris Nicastro ventures into the basement to talk about the making of his debut feature, Six Weeks to Twelve Years. Plus, we talk about A.J.'s trip to Venice, Italy, and catch up with our mom about those "second-rate" White Lotus actors. Six Weeks to Twelve Years is available to rent or buy the film on Amazon . Watch the trailer on hauntedbasement.video . Subscribe//Follow for futu...

Producer Brian Lemieux joins the Serrano siblings to discuss their favorite films of 2022. Subscribe//Follow for future episodes. For more about the Serranos' video production company, Haunted Basement, check out the site: hauntedbasement.video

The Serrano siblings discuss the beloved holiday classic, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and how they used to sing the Scrooge song to their dad when he came home from work. Humbug! Subscribe//Follow for future episodes. For more about the Serranos' video production company, Haunted Basement, check out the site: hauntedbasement.video