Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Episode #20 – May 14 to 20 June 7, 2023
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https://www.blogtalkradio.com/baroncrazeradio/2023/06/07/baron-crazes-visions-of-horror-ep20

Ground Meat – Pathological Silence

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Upwards of Endtime – Home Sweet Home thx & lab: https://www.facebook.com/BarbarianWrath666 https://barbarianwrath.bandcamp.com/

May 14, 2023 Sunday

Home Sweet Home [2013]

R – 1h 20m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2348394/

Anniversary: 10-years

Genre: Horror/ Mystery/ Thriller

Director: David Morley

Writer: David Morley

Stars: Meghan Heffern, Adam MacDonald, Shaun Benson, Marty Adams

Co: Screen Media Films

Summary: A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.

Out of: 4.7/10

Release Date: 5/14/13

Tagline: Your House. My Rules.

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD

The Jimmy Psycho Experiment – Home Sweet Home (Motley Crue cover) https://www.facebook.com/JimmyPsychoExperiment/ https://thejimmypsychoexperiment.bandcamp.com/

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Death By Neon – The Amityville Horror Theme Cover https://deathbyneon.bandcamp.com/

May 15, 2023 Monday

 The Amityville Horror [1979]

R – 1h 57m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078767/

Also Saw: Kill Her Goats [2023]; Island Zero [2018]

Anniversary: No

Genre: Horror

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writers: Sandor Stern, George Lutz, Kathy Lutz, Jay Anson

Stars: James Brolin  (The Car [1977]), Margot Kidder (Black Christmas [1974]), Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton (Jaws [1975]), John Larch, Natasha Ryan

Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Richard M. Greenberg

Co: American International Pictures (AIP)

Summary: Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.

Out of: 6.1/10

Release Date: 7/27/79

Taglines:

  • For God’s sake, get out!
  • The terrifying truth behind a real-life haunted house.
  • 19 days after the Lutz family moved into their dream house, they were running for their lives. What happened to them is an experience in terror you will never forget, and you will believe in the Amityville Horror.
  • It’s the kind of house they don’t build anymore. A relic of a time when the world wasn’t in such a hurry. Soon after the Lutz family moved in, the horror began. George and Kathy’s bedroom – the eyes at the window. The sewing room – so many flies. The living room – an unnatural cold. The basement – the hidden red room.
  • From the bestseller that made millions believe in the unbelievable.
  • The best-selling novel about a haunted house… has become real!

Loc:

  • 18 Brooks Road, Toms River, New Jersey, USA (Amityville house)
  • Georgian Court University – Lakewood, New Jersey, USA (Meeting with priest by water)
  • Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA (church)

Budget: $4,700,000

Gross: $86,432,000

Trivia:

  • This motion picture is based on the book “The Amityville Horror.” Certain characters and events have been changed to heighten dramatic effect.
  • Due to all the unwanted fame the book and film had brought upon the real house in Amityville, the current owners have replaced the “evil eyes” windows with normal rectangle-shaped windows.

Reference: The Exorcist (1973)

Reference In:

  • The Demon (1979)
  • City of the Living Dead (1980)
  • The Beyond (1981)
  • Amityville 3-D (1983)
  • Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
  • Deadtime Stories (1986)
  • Fear in the Dark (TV Movie 1991)
  • Event Horizon (1997)
  • The Convent (2000)
  • Scary Movie 2 (2001)
  • Something to Scream About (Video 2003)
  • The Source of Evil (Video 2005)
  • Horror Business (Video 2007)
  • 1408 (2007)
  • The Amityville Haunting (Video 2011)
  • My Amityville Horror (2012)
  • The Conjuring (2013)
  • Amityville Death House (Video 2015)
  • Amityville: Vanishing Point (2016)
  • The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Followed By:

  • Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
  • Amityville 3-D (1983)
  • Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (TV Movie 1989)
  • The Amityville Curse (Video 1990)
  • Amityville 1992: It’s About Time (Video 1992)
  • Amityville: A New Generation (Video 1993)
  • Amityville Dollhouse (Video 1996)
  • The Amityville Horror (2005)
  • Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
  • Amityville Exorcism (2017)
  • The Amityville Murders (2018)

Featured In: The Real Amityville Horror (TV Movie 2005)

Remade as: The Amityville Horror (2005)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Films that used Amityville – Lots, listen for the list, it’s insane!

Found: Blue-ray box set

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Ravensthorn – Buried in the Basement https://www.facebook.com/Ravensthorn

May 16, 2023 Tuesday

Don’t Look in the Basement [1973]

R – 1h 29m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069994/

Also Saw: Terror in the Wax Museum [1973]; Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 [2013]

Anniversary: 50-years

Genre: Horror/ Thriller

Director: S.F. Brownrigg

Writer: Thomas Pope, Tim Pope

Stars: Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren

Co: Cine Globe, Hallmark Releasing

Summary: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Out of: 4.9/10

Release Date: 5/16/73

Taglines:

  • The Day The Insane Took Over The Asylum!
  • You may get over the shock, but you will never forget… (The Forgotten)
  • To avoid fainting, repeat: “It’s only a movie…”
  • Not Recommended for Persons Over 30!
  • They lived out their fantasies… Now they are dying for them!

Trivia:

  • Loosely based on Edgar A. Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”.

Reference in:

Followed by: Don’t Look in the Basement 2 (2015)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Prime/ Plex/ Pluto TV/ Tubi

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Witchcryer – Witchfinder General (Witchfinder General cover) thx & lab: https://www.facebook.com/theripplemusic/ https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/

May 17, 2023 Wednesday

Witchfinder General [1968]

Unrated – 1h 26m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063285/

Anniversary: 55-years

Genre: Drama/ Thriller

Director: Michael Reeves

Writer: Michael Reeves, Tom Baker, Louis M. Heyward, Ronald Bassett, Edgar Allan Poe

Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark, Wilfrid Brambell, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell

Co: American International Pictures (AIP)

Summary: A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.

Out of: 6.7/10

Release Date: 5/15/68

Taglines:

  • The Year’s Most Violent Film! [UK Theatrical]
  • There’s lots of screaming when there’s this much at stake!
  • In the midst of England’s bloodiest civil war, Evil ignites.
  • Vincent Price unleashes a reign of fire and fury.
  • They revelled in torture and murder all in the name of justice.
  • A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes! – it writhes! – with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. EDGAR ALLEN POE
  • The depraved must die… BEWARE the Witch Hunter!
  • LEAVE THE CHILDREN HOME! …and if YOU are SQUEAMISH STAY HOME WITH THEM!!!!!!!
  • He’ll hang, burn and mutilate you. He’s the… [Witchfinder General]

Trivia:

  • Vincent Price regarded his performance here as the finest of his horror movie career.
  • Released as “The Conqueror Worm” in the US by “American International Pictures”.

Reference: Black Sunday (1960)

Reference in:

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Blu-ray

Bloody Hammers – Witchfinder General

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May 18, 2023 Thursday – N/A

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Harley Poe – Homicidal Maniac https://www.facebook.com/harleypoe/ https://www.instagram.com/joe_whiteford/ https://harleypoe.bandcamp.com/

May 19, 2023 Friday

Maniac Cop [1988]

R – 1h 25m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095583/

Also saw: Blood Slaughter Massacre [2013]; The Astro-Zombies [1968]

Anniversary: 35-years

Genre: Action/ Crime/ Horror

Director: William Lustig

Writer: Larry Cohen

Stars: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z’Dar, Sheree North

Co: Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment – SGE

Summary: A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

Out of: 6.0/10

Release Date: 5/13/88

Taglines:

  • You have the right to remain silent. Forever.
  • Sometimes help can be dangerous.
  • He Prefers To Kill, Instead Of Protect

Trivia:

  • Actor Robert Z’Dar, who played the Maniac Cop, worked as a police officer in real life for the Chicago police department.

Followed by:

  • Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
  • Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)

References: Maniac (1980)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Freevee/ Plex/ Pluto TV/ Tubi

The Crimson Ghosts – Astro-Zombies (The Misfits cover) https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonGhostsSurf/

The Bitchfits – Astro Zombies (The Misfits cover) https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Bitchfits-100071034203185/ https://www.reverbnation.com/thebitchfits

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May 20, 2023 Saturday – N/A

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Bloody Hammers – Welcome to the Horror Show https://www.facebook.com/BloodyHammers/ https://twitter.com/BloodyHammers https://www.instagram.com/bloodyhammers/

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