Baron’s Crypt – Visions of Horror EP#2

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/baroncrazeradio/2022/09/12/barons-crypt–visions-of-horror-ep-2

Opening Track:

Nim Vind – That Girl

September 4, Sunday

The Sleepless Unrest: The Real Conjuring Home (2021)

Director: Kendall Whelpton, Vera Whelpton

Stars: Cory Heinzen, Jennifer Heinzen, John Huntington

Summary: The world-famous house that inspired The Conjuring film has recently been sold and is now open to paranormal investigations. With special access, a small group of filmmakers and paranormal investigators are allowed to move into the famously haunted home for two weeks in hopes of capturing evidence. During this time the group will be experiencing, investigating, and documenting every moment. Will they be able to make it through their stay? Do malevolent spirits still haunt this home, or is it something more sinister?

Out of: 4.0/10

Release Date: 7/16/2021

Co: Gravitas Ventures (2021) (World-wide) (all media)

Taglines:

The Real Conjuring Home
No sleep for the restless

Reference: n/a

Available: Pluto TV, Tubi

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September 5, Monday

Paranormal Activity (2007)

Anniversary year: 15-years

Available: Prime Video, Epix

Director: Oren Peli

Writer: Oren Peli

Stars: Katie Featherston – 1st horror film was Mutation (2006 Video), Micah Sloat, Ashley Palmer

Co: Paramount Pictures (2009) (USA) (theatrical)

Summary: After a young, middle-class couple moves into a suburban ‘starter’ tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Out of: 6.3/10

Taglines:

What Happens When You Sleep?
Don’t See It Alone
Dare you experience the U.S. phenomenon? (UK quad poster)
Don’t go alone (UK quad poster)
Demand It!
Now you can experience the phenomenon that is Paranormal Activity in the comfort and safety of your own home!

Release Date: 10/14/07 Screamfest Horror Film Festival

Trivia:

Oren – direct is producing Insidious 5 (producer) The Lamberts 10 years after the last installment, as Dalton begins college. 7/7/23
1971 trade paperback from Dover Publications titled “Picture Book of Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft,” by Ernst and Johanna Lehner.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Demons-Witchcraft-Ernst-Lehner/dp/0486227510/ $17 book that only displayed artwork
not real – style that was been made popular by such films as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Cannibal Ferox [1981]

Played clip of Disgorge “Consume the Forsaken”

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialDisgorge/

Thanks to Label:

https://www.facebook.com/UniqueLeaderRecords

https://twitter.com/UniqueLeaderRec

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/

Want to hear the full death metal song:

Reference:

Followed by
- Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
- Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
- Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
- Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)
- Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Spin-off
- Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (2010) Japanese spin-off
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

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September 6, Tuesday

The Cremators (1972) – PG – 1h 15m

Anniversary year: 50-years

Available: Tubi

Director: Harry Essex

Writer: Harry Essex – also wrote It Came from Outer Space and Creature from the Black Lagoon [1954], Julian C. May

Stars: Maria De Aragon, Marvin Howard, Mason Caulfield, Eric Allison

Co:

New World Pictures (1972) (USA) (theatrical)
Retromedia Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)

Summary: An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people.

Out of: 2.6/10

Release Date: 9/6/72 Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Taglines:

Great Balls of Fire: Scorching! Ravaging! Engulfing!
From the Sun Come the Fire-People to Incinerate All Mankind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4fgwb9YHj0

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September 7, Wednesday

Mansion of the Living Dead (1982) – 1h 37m

Director: Jesús Franco

Writer: Jesús Franco

Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Eva León

Co:

Retromedia Entertainment(USA) (DVD)
Severin Films(2022) (USA) (Blu-ray)

Summary: A group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery’s monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.

Out of: 4.2/10

Tagline:

A Crazy Jess Franco Experiment!

Release Date: September 1982 – West Germany

Trivia: Was released in several countries as fifth part of the “Blind Dead” series, even though there’s absolutely no connection to it.

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September 8, Thursday – n/a

September 9, Friday – n/a

September 10, Saturday

Ghost Riders (1987) – R 1h 25m

Director: Alan Stewart

Writer: Clay McBride, James Desmarais

Stars: Bill Shaw, Jim Peters, Cari Powell, Ricky Long

Co: Filmtrust (1988) (USA) (all media)

Summary: An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880s comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse’s leader.

Out of: 3.4/10

Release Date: 9/10/87 UK – video premiere

Trivia:

Texas Safari Ranch, Clifton, Texas, USA
Feature Film, Horror, Western – 197 – Lightning Bryce(1919); Ghost Town (1988); Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)

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BONUS

Harley Poe – The Hearse Song

https://www.facebook.com/harleypoe/

https://harleypoe.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/joe_whiteford/?hl=en

September 10, Saturday

Back from the Dead [1957] – 1h 19m

Anniversary: 65-years

Director: Charles Marquis Warren

Writer: Catherine Turney own novel, The Other One

Stars: Peggie Castle – Beginning of the End (1957), Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty, Marianne Stewart, Jeanne Bates

Co: 20^th Century Fox

Summary: Having lost his first wife, “Felicia” (Peggy Castle) in a tragic drowning accident 6 years earlier “Dick Anthony” (Don Haggerty) has recently remarried. However, his new wife, “Mandy Hazelton” (also played by Peggy Castle) suddenly takes ill and after a strange seizure she becomes possessed by the soul of Felicia. We soon find out that prior to her death Felicia began practicing “the dark arts” and the deeper she got the eviler she became. And because she is so evil both Dick and Mandy’s sister “Kate Hazelton” (Marsha Hunt) begin looking for a way to bring Mandy back.

Out of: 5.2/10

Release Date: 8/12/57

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