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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 verg...

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 Del...

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 reside...

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....

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 h...

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 (...

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: F...

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 struggl...

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...

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 "Th...

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 transgress...

*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 re...

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...

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 focu...

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...

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...

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 mus...

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 h...

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 plo...

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 Sant...

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 summ...

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 wat...

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...

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 ca...

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 vampiri...