Host: Uncle Yah-Yah
This episode, Uncle Yah-Yah features two movies from the 1930s, Svengali (1931) & Maniac (1934), and plays some music recorded directly off of some old 78-rpm records that he found while digging through some of his grandma’s stuff… weird tunes from the 1920s and ’30s!!! Twenty-three Skidoo!!!
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2009-01-15 at 14:10
The Haunted Shack – Episode #6
“Svengali” (1931) / “Maniac” (1934)
Jan. 15th, 2009
The Joel Shaw Orchestra – “White Zombie” – Crown
Frankie Wallace – “Don’t Send My Boy to Prison” – Conqueror
Ben Selvin and His Moulin Rouge Orchestra – “The Hoodoo Man” – Vocalion
Ink Spots – “Old Joe’s Hittin’ the Jug” – Decca
Unknown – “The Iceman Cometh” – Laff Records
“Svengali” – Alpha Video (www.oldies.com)
“Maniac” – Kino Video (www.kino.com)
Hollywood’s Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and “The Bundy Drive Boys”
by Gregory William Mank with Charles Heard & Bill Nelson
Feral House (www.feralhouse.com)
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Explotation Film
by Bret Wood and Felicia Feaster
Midnight Marquee (www.midmar.com)
2009-01-16 at 17:13
Another great show. I loved the 78 records!
2009-01-20 at 17:24
this is a great series. AND after reading previous comments on other episodes I just wanna say DON’T CHANGE THAT MIKE!!! I love it. I can understand everything clearly. It brings back memories-before home video and the internet- twisting metal clothes hangers trying to pick up lo-fi tv and radio stations, to get distorted signals of movies like NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST and odd out of state radio stations playing OTR like INNER SANCTUM. You are broadcasting from a shack in the desert, it shouldn’t sound any other way. I haven’t heard microphone squelching like that since a WHITEHOUSE live action!
Another reason I love your show is you are really into and appreciate these film, with no bullshit mst mockery, and no spoilers(though I’d love to hear you cover a film from finish to start!).
how about a GHASTLY ONES/NIGHT FRIGHT double feature someday?
keep up the great work.
and how about kopper and mal thursday doing a horror show? they could read the fucking phone book and I’d listen.
2009-01-21 at 15:46
Hey S. Law!
Thanks for the encouraging words… These comments are really the only feedback I get from the show. I love getting feedback.
Thanks too Jeff.
Yes, I do LOVE these movies. Yeah there are many aspects of a movie like “Blood Freak” that I could poke fun at but in all honesty I think “Blood Freak” is far more entertaining than 99% of the movies that are in theaters right now… (I have heard that the remake of “My Bloody Valentine” is really good from about 3 different people!)
I think when a movie like “I am Sam” comes out and is totally shitty that’s a far bigger failure than any of the technical/plot/make-up problems that a film like “Blood Freak” may have. “I am Sam” was made by “professionals” who pay their Beverly Hills home mortgages by working in the “film industry”. They have no excuse for making a crappy film. Everything they might need is at their disposal. Brad F. Grinter is in the same boot but I’ve watched “Blood Freak” about 6 times and loved it every time. I couldn’t watch “I am Sam” without squirming in my chair, losing my concentration and looking at my watch. Every viewing of “Blood Freak” has drawn me in hypnotically.
I heard Herschel Gordon Lewis once say that he could make a more entertaining movie with the Coffee budget of the average Hollywood production. I believe he’s right.
Movies like “Seven Pounds” are the film equivalent of “Britney Spears”. They’re over-produced, soulless, predictable and the worst sin… boring.
I don’t ONLY like independent films either… Svengali is a big studio Hollywood movie. I love it.
I’m looking forward to watching the “My Bloody Valentine” remake in the theaters… Anything done in 3D is worth checking out in my book…
Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks are doing all their animated movies in 3D from now on. I’ll want to go see those. Damn, I got other things to say but I’m running out of time.
Thanks,
Uncle Yah-Yah