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This week the kids are thrilled to be joined by horror icon and man-about-town and Midnight Mass co-host, Michael Varrati. This week the movie is Takasi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris.  From the wiki: " The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福, Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku ) is a 2001 Japanese musical comedy horror film directed by Takashi Miike , with screenplay by Kikumi Yamag...

Wow! The 25th episode of Bloodhaus! Six whole months! This week the duo does their first double feature: Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018). But first, they talk Jordan Peele's NOPE and sexy, sexy Burt Reynolds. From Wiki: " Suspiria (Latin: [sʊsˈpiːri.a] ) is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento , who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi , partially...

This week Joshua and Drusilla watch the classic film by Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker . From Wikipedia: " Frankenhooker is a 1990 American black comedy horror film directed by Frank Henenlotter . Very loosely inspired by Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , the film stars James Lorinz as medical school drop-out Jeffrey Franken and former Penthouse...

This week Josh and Drusilla discuss 2015's Polish horror mermaid musical, The Lure . From Wikipedia: " The Lure ( Polish : Córki dancingu , lit. 'Daughters of Dancing') is a 2015 Polish horror musical film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska . It tells of two mermaids who emerge from the waters and perform in a nightclub. One falls in love with a man, and gives up her tail, but lo...

This week Drusilla and Josh are joined by the legendary Steak Mtn aka Christopher Norris. Steak Mtn is the graphic designer behind legendary punk bands like Against Me! and others and is the author of Hunchback '88 . He's also a hardcore punk musician and sometimes porn director. Steak brought the gang Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood.  From Wikipedia: " Lèvres de Sang (English: Lip...

To find out what you can do about the Supreme Court's unjust decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, visit https://www.podvoices.help/ This week the Bloodhaus ghouls talk about Abel Ferrara's revenge fantasy, Ms .45 .  From Wikipedia: " Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance , and mistyped as Ms. 45 ) is a 1981 American exploitation thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Z...

This week the Bloodhaus gang goes Down Under for the Australian found footage horror film, Lake Mungo .  From Wikipedia: " Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson and stars Talia Zucker and Martin Sharpe. It employs mockumentary -style storytelling with found footage and docufiction elements, using actor "interviewees" to prese...

This week Drusilla and Josh get all into Mario Bava's BDSM haunted house flick, The Whip and the Body, starring Christopher Lee. From Wikipedia: " The Whip and the Body ( Italian : La frusta e il corpo ) is a 1963 gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava under the alias "John M. Old". The film is about Kurt Menliff ( Christopher Lee ) who is ostracized by his father for his re...

This week Josh and Drusilla schlep to the movies to see Alex Garland's A24 joint Men (2022). From Wikipedia: "The film stars Jessie Buckley as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside village but becomes disturbed and tormented by the strange men in the village, all portrayed by Rory Kinnear ."  But first! Drusilla and Josh talk about John Waters' Polyester for a...

This week! Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day . From wiki: "Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens up...

This week the duo watches one of Josh's all-time faves, 1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death . From Wikipedia: " Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American independent horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut , and starring Zohra Lampert , Barton Heyman, Gretchen Corbett , and Mariclare Costello . The film depicts the nightmarish exp...

This week Drusilla and Josh watch David Cronenberg's "Crash" with filmmaker Chelsea Stardust, which Wikipedia describes as follows: " Crash is a 1996 psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg , based on J. G. Ballard 's 1973 novel of the same name . Starring James Spader , Deborah Kara Unger , Elias Koteas , Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arq...

This episode is about the terrifying Korean ghost story by Kim Jee-woon, A Tale of Two Sisters . From Wikipedia: "The film is inspired by a Joseon Dynasty era folktale entitled Janghwa Hongryeon jeon , which has been adapted to film several times. The plot focuses on a recently released patient from a mental institution who returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between...

This week Drusilla and Josh watched Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore starring sexy, sexy Rupert Everett.  But first! Robert Eggers and hot directors, reclaiming the New Beverly with an Errol Flynn double feature, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Robin Redbreast, You Won't Be Alone, Josh is ignorant about Macedonia, and then they get into the feature. Dru confesses her love of Angry Vid...

We can have a mainstream arthouse movie, as a treat. Josh and Drusilla catch up after a trying week and catch up on movies. Josh watched Hour of the Wolf before going on a Bergman break. Drusilla saw David Arquette at Bob Baker Day. The duo discusses goth fitness and the Andrew WK renaissance before Josh tells yet another cocaine story. Drusilla watched At Long Last Love, which is good no matter w...

This week Drusilla and Josh talk about the criminally underseen Spanish film Arrebato by Ivan Zulueta. We talk magic and Magic Castle. The Bergman Report continues with Persona and its influence on Lynch and Altman. They also discuss Day of the Beast, playing The Sims on cocaine, Adventures in Babysitting vs Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Days of Wine and Roses and other drunk fil...

Everything is honky dory! Drusilla and Josh watched SO MANY MOVIES this week. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, A Raisin in the Sun, Shaft, Passport to Pimlico, Mike Leigh, Sunday in New York starring Jane Fonda Josh's birthday twin, Our Flag Means Death, Josh hates Taika Waititi, Bergman Report: Cries and Whispers, Kids, Alligator, I Blame Society, and Reform School Girls. Then they go i...

Boy oh boy! This is a film that Drusilla and Josh do not agree on. Josh goes on a tirade about "elevated horror" in regards to A24 and Ti West's "X". Josh saw his first Bergman film, The Seventh Seal. Drusilla watched The Girl Can't Help It for the first time. The pair discuss John Waters and taking acid at the movies. They discuss the overlap of trash movies and art...

Drusilla and Josh are joined by actor, director, writer, and model Zelda Adams, the co-creator of HELLBENDER on Shudder. We discuss that movie but also The Batman, Nirvana, Fabletics, Zelda's college plans, and whether or not Robert Pattinson smells bad. Zelda picked Julia Ducournau's "Raw" as the movie of the week. We discuss vegetarianism, Heidi Montag's new diet, hazing...

Kitty, kitty, kitty! This is a rough one, and also the first movie Drusilla and Josh don't agree on. The duo discusses Takashi Miike's 1999 film, Audition.  This is THE arthouse torture porn movie and an iconic Japanese horror.  Along the way, they discuss irony and The Worst Person in the World, Boy Harsher and The Runner, Hairspray and You're the Worst, insane sculptures, torture...

Today's guest is artist and writer, Christian Tucci, who brought up the Nicholas Roeg masterpiece Don't Look Now. But before we get into the feature we discuss the new Apple series, Severence, a bunch of spaghetti Westerns, and the Vinegar Syndrome re-release of 1981 slasher, Just Before Dawn.  The trio discusses so much! This is a very sophisticated episode, going into the themes of wat...

This week Drusilla and Joshua watched the Soviet/Ukrainian horror film, Viy, which was the first and possibly only Soviet horror film. Josh watched Werewolves Within, which leads to a discussion of little dogs and the people who hate them and/or hate to see them die. Drusilla watched the criminally underrated John Ritter film, Stay Tuned, which leads into problematic Jeffrey Jones and another dog....

In this episode, Drusilla and Josh discuss one of the chicest lesbian vampire films of all time, The Hunger. It's so chic that Drusilla wore a beret! Drusilla watched Mill of the Stone Women and Josh watched Netflix's new Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), which was surprisingly good. The duo discusses the sequels in brief and the general pitfalls of sequels and reboots.  Then they get into...

Drusilla and Josh are joined by FREAKY and TIME CUT writer, Michael Kennedy, to discuss Rob Zombie's 2012 film, The Lords of Salem. Before they get to the feature, they discuss Battle Royale, The Man with Two Brains, Eyes of Fire, and Allison's Birthday. They discuss Zombie as auteur, what counts as an arthouse film, Nina Garcia, Sherri Moon Zombie and her terrible dreds, The Witch and w...

This episode will have you screaming ANNA FARIS!!! Drusilla and Joshua discuss Yorgos Lanthimos's 2017 film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Along the way though, it's Nicholas Cage, Murder by Phone, Captain Ron, hot Kurt Russell, who has or has not seen the film, and much, much more! All the deaths from Murder by Phone: https://youtu.be/nb7mVvyRRgc