Ep 174
Ep 174 The Haunting
With housing a seeming perennial nightmare, we’re going to look at some nightmare houses, kicking off with an absolute, stone cold classic - Robert Wise’s “The Haunting” (that’s the 1963 one, not t…
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Robert Wise
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The hosts on Robert Wise
Adam admires Robert Wise as a director who just seems to have done everything, and thinks The Haunting deserved an Oscar.
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He lists Wise's films as The Sound of Music, the first Star Trek movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still and West Side Story. Adam says that unlike most directors today, Wise did not stick to one genre and was just a filmmaker. He calls it a stain on humanity that Wise got no Oscar for The Haunting. Adam also says Wise cut a deleted scene to keep the film subtle.
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Adam Cuz this is the weird thing, it's Robert Wise who directed it, who did like the Sound of Music, he did.
Ep 174 The HauntingAdam first Star Trek movie, so yeah, Star Trek Motion Picture, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story.
Ep 174 The HauntingAdam Yeah, but he's one of those. Well, he's one of those directors who just seems to have done everything. You know, usually now it's especially you get people tend to sit in a specific genre or specific whereas yeah, Robert Wise just was a filmmaker.
Ep 174 The HauntingAdam Yeah. I mean. So what happened was is Robert Wise was coming off of like I say, coming off of West Side Story, so he's won two Oscars at this point. And frankly, the fact that he doesn't get an Oscar for this is a stain on humanity.
Ep 174 The HauntingAdam But apparently there that was the one deleted scene I heard about is that they, you see her having an argument with her girlfriend, like basically splitting up because she mentions that she's just left someone, I think at one point. and. But again, yeah, that was like Robert Wise was like, well, we'll cut it out because it's everything else in this is quite subtle, so let's leave that to subtlety.
Ep 174 The Haunting
