Bloodbath at the House of Death
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Accompanied by Westley from Mos Eisley Happy Hour and As Yet Unexplained, the team visit Headstone Manor for “Bloodbath at the House of Death” - a harrowing account of a real life haunting and multiple murder (well, not really, but if it’s good enough for those bullshit artists The Warrens, it’s good enough for Kenny Everett). A film in which we see a surprisingly faithful homage to that bit in Empire Strikes Back when Luke fights Vader on Dagobah; Gambit from The New Avengers is VERY friendly with Philip from Rising Damp (probably bonded over a Nescafé); and Vincent Price trades insults with a regular from “On The Busses”. Along the way we discuss “Fear Street Part 1”, “Loki”, “Highlander” and Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece “The Room”. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND QUALITY ISSUES -CURRENT QUARANTINE MEASURES MEANT WE HAD TO RECORD THIS EPISODE REMOTELY.
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LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeAnd we are joined this evening as, I can't remember if we mentioned or if we just teased the fact that we were going to be joined this evening.
Leeby a star of the Mosleyley Happy Hour, Wes. How you doing, Wes?
WesHello.
ChrisAnd as yet unexplained.
LeeAnd as yet unexplained, of course.
LeeI think yeah.
AdamDidn't get to explain anything though.
AdamThat's the reason you're here is because obviously there's a lot of real sort of like occult law in this and it's based on real folk legends and everything. So we thought we'd better get you in to get that full understanding. yes, so as promised, we are here to discover to to discuss, should I say, the slightly unusual, Bloodbath at the House of Death. But before we get into any of that kind of nonsense, we are going to discuss as usual what we've been watching. So, Chris, we'll start with you. What have you been watching horror-wise?
ChrisSo I've been continuing the adventure of Castlevania.
ChrisSo the second season is is so far, I think I'm halfway through it and it has been I it's it's slow in the first one, but it's a lot of character development and really makes the story far deeper and far more interesting than I'd expected it to be when we saw season one.
Chrisso yeah, it's it's great fun. Still really enjoying that.
Chrisand and not it's I suppose it's probably, I haven't seen that many different Dracula adaptations, it's it's absolutely still one of the best computer game adaptations, but as far as Dracula goes, it seemed like an unusual twist as far as I can tell on what I've always thought of Dracula.
ChrisSo I suppose that's that was perhaps their plan.
Chrisit's also not entirely clear who you're following, as in, you know, who you're siding with.
ChrisThey're all bad and good, which that I don't know that does seem to be sort of a modern thing, I don't know, I seem to be seeing that in a lot of films where it's less clear exactly who's good and who's bad.
LeeYeah, there's sort of more dimensions to the characters.
AdamI mean essentially more realistic.
ChrisYeah, yeah, absolutely.
AdamWhich helps ground something that's that fantastical as well, obviously.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo yeah, so that's been really good.
Chrisand then we've also been watching Loki continuing the Marvel viewing.
ChrisSo that that's been really fun.
AdamOh, my internet's called
LeeYeah.
ChrisOh yeah, yeah, then blast our guy.
ChrisYeah, no, it's it's absolutely I think it's.
ChrisAnd funnily enough, the the episode I just saw, it started to make me think of Terry Pratchett, because it's it's gone quite silly, but you know, it's still got the sort of fantastical sci-fi sort some science elements in that regard and it's yeah, it's it's fun and yeah, just a bit odd.
LeeNice.
LeeWest, what have you been watching horror-wise recently that you'd like to discuss?
WesThis week I watched the House on Haunted Hill, the original one.
AdamOh.
LeeNice.
WesThen Bram Stoker's Dracula.
LeeOh.
AdamAgain.
WesBut I bought The Reptile on Blu-ray and for some reason I watched a whole bunch of other things I had I've already seen a million times before, so that's the way it goes, I suppose, isn't it?
LeeOh, the Reptile is fantastic.
AdamThat's definitely one to cover.
Lee
AdamThat that and Plague of Zombies, because they're like basically made at the same time.
WesThey're all the same set and costumes, isn't it?
AdamYeah, same set, same costume, same locations, it's the works and most of the same cast.
LeeYeah.
WesYeah.
LeePlague of Zombies is.
AdamYeah, they just don't get the love they deserve.
LeeNo.
AdamThey don't get the love they deserve and I'm and I'm convinced it's because of the lack of big hammer names.
Lee
AdamYou haven't you haven't got you haven't got Mr. Lee, you haven't got the Cush.
AdamSo people are like, oh well, you know, that's he's he's okay. No, he's fucking brilliant. Yeah. Jeez, it really.
WesJust because I was watching that the Peter Cushion moth one that I can never remember the title of.
AdamOh, The Blood Beast Terror.
WesYeah, that reminded me that, oh, I haven't seen The Reptile for a while, so that's why I got that.
AdamPeter Cushion is in The Reptile though, isn't he?
AdamI'm just thinking.
WesI don't think he is. I'm not sure.
AdamI can't remember now because I might I might be getting I might be getting him confused I'm getting him confused with The Ghoul.
AdamThe Peter Cushion Ghoul where it's like someone's locked away and he's come back from a far away land and so on and so forth.
Leeyeah, no, you're right, he isn't, no.
LeeI thought he had a lesser role in that, but he does not appear to.
AdamI thought he was some reason in my head he's Jacqueline Pierce's dad in it and no he's clearly not, so yeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeI clearly need to re-watch that as well. So I think I might actually, yeah, do the same, yeah, and possibly, yeah, with Plague of Zombies and do it as a double feature at some point during the week.
WesYou can you can also get them on
AdamOh, yeah.
WesYou can get them very good, see them on Amazon, you can get the one where they released a couple of years ago.
WesWhere you get the DVD, the Blu-ray and the bonus disc all for about 12 quid, I think it is.
WesThat's quite good.
AdamYeah, they got pretty good it's quite nice that we've now got to the point where you can clean up a bit on Hammer Blu-ray because they've actually they've actually realised, yeah, we've sold it to everyone who can afford the 20 quid.
AdamSo one fucking film.
WesI've also got the first Frankenstein Hammer film.
WesAnd that comes with a free film, The Four-Sided Triangle.
AdamOh, really?
WesYeah, as a bonus feature, so but because it's on Blu-ray it doesn't come with the collector's book that the DVD does come with.
AdamRight.
WesYeah.
WesIt depends how much you like reading, I suppose.
AdamOr reading.
WesOr reading, yeah.
AdamHe's all right.
WesYou know, it's a train journey, isn't it?
AdamI went to that, I went to that reading festival that they advertised. Couldn't hear myself think them fucking bands playing in the field next door.
WesConsider it.
AdamI'm trying to read fucking.
WesYou could write a letter.
AdamI did.
WesGood.
AdamHeard nothing back. Apparently people don't communicate like that anymore.
WesThat's because they don't read.
AdamThat's why. Royal Royal Mail just put all letters in a big burning furnace now because they're like, well, if you could if you couldn't email them, fuck you. That's what that's that's the Royal Mail's current current message as well if they're translated into Latin.
Leeexcellent.
LeeAdam, have you been watching anything horror related?
AdamWell, it's sort of well, basically last week Clare and Ted got bronchitis, so I was so I'll sing sing a lot of phlegm and sort of things like that.
AdamYou know, I'm going to definitely put that in the basket with horror.
AdamI will apologise as well. I think I I've picked a much milder form up, but if my voice suddenly goes, yeah, I I will please bear with me while I have a coughing fit off mic.
AdamSo, you know.
Leewho's
AdamMike.
AdamHe's well he's the bloke who comes around and does, you know, I've got a man who does, you know, I don't don't want to go into it further not on not on broadcast, no.
AdamFair enough.
AdamBut speaking of watching things you've watched a thousand fucking times though, I've taken the plunge and started buying the fucking Doctor Who Blu-ray classic series. So I've been watching loads of those. I know it's because they've come out in not they've come out slightly cheaper in not so fancy packaging.
AdamAnd it's like, right, if I missed if I missed the boat this time, I'm going to be pissed off with myself and spend the whole time going, well, so I followed the message from butthole surfers and all all of it's better to regret something that you have done than something that you didn't do.
Adamyeah, so I've been watching those, but equally, the other oh, excuse me, the other night we watched the true a true life horror of The Room, which I introduced Claire to Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus, his magnum magnuson.
Adam
LeeYeah.
AdamWhich you know, I mean, we can't count it as horror, but you do see a lot of his grotesque arse.
Adambobbling bobbling around in sheets. There is a spot on it. It's, you know, I I would argue that a man impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger whilst looking like Willem Dafoe's been pulled inside out.
AdamI think is a, you know, that that counts as horror for me.
AdamSo there we go.
AdamAnd one that might and this is something that's kind of adjacent, it's much more fantasy, and something that I think might cause horror to everyone on the show possibly, when they find out it's my first time I've ever watched Highlander.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo there we go.
LeeOh, no.
ChrisYou beat me to it.
AdamOh, you've never seen it, Chris?
ChrisNo.
LeeThat's
WesYeah, that's a really good film.
LeeOh, man. I thought it was a really good film.
LeeAnd then I re-watched it about a year ago and it turned out it was absolute Todd, it was terrible.
WesThe when he's when he starts when he's the when he's receiving the quickening and they carefully place lightning.
WesYou know, it's it's it's quite good. A towel, I thought.
AdamI've never thought of it before as receiving the quickening.
AdamBut now that is the only way I shall refer to it.
WesDon't watch Highlander 2, because it's called Highlander 2, the quickening.
WesIt actually that's what it is.
WesThe quickening.
AdamYeah. By the way, that is literally anything that anyone has said to me when I was because I think it was like, I'd watched it and then it was like, oh, there's a couple of podcasts that covered it.
AdamAnd I didn't listen to it because I hadn't seen the film at that point.
AdamSo I went back and listened to them and all of those basically all start with, yeah, it's not Highlander 2, don't watch that, it's shit.
AdamSo I'm I'm way I'm way stamping well away from that.
AdamBut yeah, it was just I think I might be lucky in that I didn't watch it the first time round, so I think I was actually, oh, that was good.
AdamSo.
AdamI didn't I enjoyed it, I but also rather than shit, the first time I watched this, I didn't realise the flaws.
AdamI was watching it this time going, the flaws are some of the best bits in this.
AdamAnd obviously Mr. Krabbs is the main villain, so that's, you know.
WesThe Corgon.
Adamyeah, and that was and obviously, yeah.
AdamFucking the one Scotsman in it is playing a fucking Egyptian by way of Spain.
LeeYeah, precisely.
LeeAnd he's playing a terrible Scotsman.
LeeWhat's going on?
AdamI also did find I found this out about it though is apparently Christopher Lambert is allergic.
AdamLike has an allergy thing so he can't wear contact lenses, without his glasses he is fucking blind.
AdamSo although the sword fights suddenly became a lot more impressive or certainly the bravery of the people competing with him because yeah.
AdamYou just got some mad French bastard at you you can't see fuck all in front of his face.
AdamSo yeah.
AdamBut overall, I think I and I also respect any film that has that many ideas.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's the it's the phantasm thing again where it's like not all of this hits, but well done on not just literally the opposite of The Room.
AdamWhere Claire was waiting for a plot and I said, no, you know the plot.
AdamIt's just waiting for that now.
AdamAnd, you know, football games in a like hula hoop sized area of the ground.
AdamSo.
Adamand yeah, so unfortunately, unfortunately.
LeeSo it's a bit like this evening's movie did very much the same, not wishing to spoil it, but yeah, a slasher and a satanic cult movie.
LeeAnd it turns out they're all aliens anyway, spoiler alert, yeah.
AdamYeah, actually.
AdamYeah, it's nice to see it's nice to have too many ideas, I think.
WesYeah, throw enough shit at the wall, some of it's bound to stick.
LeeExactly.
Leeso I caught up with the new Netflix movie Fear Street part one.
ChrisOh yeah.
LeeWhich I I really enjoyed.
LeeI had a really good time watching it.
LeeI mean, it again, it's that thing that Netflix do of it's nothing entirely new, but they just give it so much heart that it's, yeah, a really endearing, really good fun, I had a fantastic and I thought I hadn't read anything about it.
LeeI thought it was going to be one a month or one every couple of months or whatever.
Leeyeah, and I watched it last Saturday and then yesterday, the second part came out, so it looks like they're going to release them over three weeks, which is yeah.
LeeYeah, it's good, so you've got a film each week to look forward to.
AdamI've no, I've literally I saw that there's a pop-up video store in London to advertise it.
LeeOh, really?
AdamYeah.
AdamI think Daryl's working there.
LeeYes, yes, friend of the show, Daryl. I knew he was working at a VHS store, I didn't know it was a pop-up one to do with Fear Street. Oh, that's cool.
AdamYeah, I think it's I think it's to do with Fear Street, so yeah.
Adambut other than that, I know literally nothing.
LeeIt's.
LeeSo it's it's a kind of supernatural slasher movie.
Leeset in the set now, I believe.
LeeOh no, it's called 94.
LeeSo it happened in 94.
Lee
LeeYou will love it, Adam, the soundtrack is fantastic.
LeeIt's every song you remember from the early 90s.
Lee
AdamOh, okay.
LeeIt's all that kind of, you know, like garbage and Paul's head and all those bands.
Lee
AdamIt's trip hop, isn't it?
AdamThat's that's.
LeeYeah.
LeeLike sounds of it.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd it's it's.
AdamI will I I definitely will enjoy it because when my throat went, I was just listening, I'd do my usual thing which is I'm just going to listen to tricky because it's the only person I can sing along with at the moment.
LeeYeah.
Leebut yeah, so and it's got a really good IMDB, which is why I wanted to catch it, you know, the first couple of days after it came out.
LeeBut it's one of those don't there's a lot of hype, try not to read anything or know anything going in.
LeeThis so for the second, I'm not even going to watch the trailer.
LeeI'm just going in cold.
Leebut yeah, just know it's really good fun and yeah, you'll enjoy it.
Leeand that's all I've watched really, except I did catch up with the newly released trailer for Last Night in Soho.
LeeThe new Edgar Wright horror movie.
AdamOh, yes.
Lee
LeeYeah, it looks interesting.
LeeIt looks interesting.
LeeBut I was listening to an interview with him and he basically said what he's trying to do is make an Italian giallo movie set in Soho in the 60s.
LeeSo.
AdamYeah.
LeeNot exactly my favourite of any of those genres, but it's Edgar Wright, if anyone can make that stuff work, I think he's probably going to be the man to do it, so,
AdamAnd also I presume I presume it's not got Kevin Spacey in this movie.
LeeNo.
LeeNo, he's started to get stuff.
AdamCouldn't couldn't afford the insurance.
LeeYeah.
LeeSpeaking of which, onto tonight's main film.
Lee
LeeSo yeah, 1984's Kenny Everett starring Bloodbath at the House of Death.
LeeI knew obviously we would be getting very much into British comedy TV from the 70s and 80s, which is why we have Wes with us here.
Lee
LeeBecause I know that obviously he and Adam are are really into that stuff, so I thought it'd be good to to bring you in and get your thoughts.
LeeAnd again, it's just your sense of humour, this one, Wes, so,
Lee
WesOh, yeah.
WesTotally agree, you know.
LeeSo Chris, what did you make of Bloodbath at the House of Death?
ChrisYou you know what the answer's going to be.
LeeYeah.
ChrisI it's what what a very entertaining film.
ChrisI I clearly need to watch a bit more Kenny Everett.
ChrisBecause I I I remembered the name when you mentioned him and I I probably saw like maybe adverts or you know something like that.
ChrisI don't remember seeing actually anything full length with him in, so I don't know if I was a bit too young or I guess he was a bit adult, most of his stuff, was it?
LeeYeah, he was amazingly proper.
Lee
ChrisSo.
AdamA lot of people
Leegoing too far.
AdamA naughty boy.
ChrisOh, okay.
ChrisSo he was a he was a bit controversial at the time.
AdamRight.
ChrisYes, so and and then of course and Vincent Price as well, which you know, you probably mentioned it and I saw his name come up in the credits.
ChrisI think, but like he's his role in this.
ChrisI was thinking, oh, how's that going to work?
ChrisHe like because I figured this was maybe a bit too much of a comedy.
ChrisBut it's amazing how he fits into it perfectly.
ChrisHe he just and I think because he still can play.
ChrisHe he almost like he's playing both a serious and a ridiculous character at once and doing them both fantastically and you know, he's like his speech is fairly long sort of monologues with quite impressive vocabulary and it just works in both ways, you know, and so.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo.
ChrisHe's he's great.
ChrisAnd I guess he's a bit older in this as well, isn't he?
LeeYeah.
ChrisI think the other films, all the other films we've seen him in.
AdamYeah, when when did he, was he 87, he died?
AdamSo it's very late in his career, because it was around the time it was around the time he made Elvira's Mistress of the Dark, wasn't it?
WesI thought that was a 90s film, an early 90s film.
WesSort of 89, 90.
AdamFor some reason in my head, he's like about 87, but I might be wrong.
LeeI think it was his last film, it was his last film because he because that was the point, wasn't it, he did a scene in it and that was the last the last thing he ever filmed, I believe.
LeeI'm checking on IMDB now.
ChrisThat's interesting.
ChrisI should probably watch that then.
Adam
AdamIt's yeah, I've totally nothing to do with it, but when I went to see him, but his hands, I had a nose bleed.
AdamAnd I was wearing a white t-shirt and I came out and I look like I've been stabbed.
AdamSo there you go.
ChrisThat probably encouraged a lot of people to.
AdamOh, yeah, yeah.
AdamI came I came out fairly quiet so it looked like the people I've were beaten me up.
Chrisbut yeah, so like even from the start in this, you know, obviously this it's it kicks off pretty full on straight away, but in a funny sort of way, but then I I really quite liked the as he bought the comedy into it, the way it had each of them the couples in the car and explaining what they're doing.
ChrisAnd just something was like, yeah, that's that's pretty good. They're obviously, you know, I I guess pointing out a little too much exactly what their place in this is.
Chris
ChrisBut yeah, just I don't know, it was I was warmed to it straight away.
ChrisReally.
ChrisAnd yeah, it continued throughout being very entertaining.
AdamYes, less less than subtle.
ChrisYeah, yeah, yeah.
WesI just love the opening line.
WesOh, shit.
AdamOh, with the guy in the bushes, yeah, I forgot about that.
WesThat's a great way of opening the film.
WesWith the Oh, shit.
WesEven Vincent Price for me, even the when he was swearing.
WesThe acting, you could tell he was above everyone else.
WesIt was like.
WesYeah, this is me off.
AdamYou pissed off.
WesYeah, that was.
AdamBrilliant.
AdamActually, I watched I watched like there's a there's an extra on the DVD, I watched it just before they started and they said oh like they were it was like a Australian interview with Kenny Everett because despite the fact this died on its ass over here, it did very well in Australia.
Adam
AdamAnd yeah, he he said, oh no, everyone was great. he said, I thought Pamela Stevenson was quite snooty though because she was just not she wasn't a team player, she'd just keep going off to her dressing room and everything.
AdamAnd it was just when he said, so we're sitting there with Vincent and everything and it's like, you know, that's just fantastic.
AdamVince Price just mucking in with like all these stalwarts of British TV comedy.
Adam
AdamBut as it turns out, the reason that Pamela Stevenson kept whipping off is actually she was pregnant.
AdamSo she was honking her rivets up between takes and didn't tell anyone.
Lee
LeeYeah, that that extra on the disc, I watched that as well, literally as soon as the film finished when I watched it the other week.
Leeyeah, and I found it really interesting, you know, just telling you about how it was all privately funded, yeah, and what a massive flop this film was, unfortunately.
Leehe never really made that money back.
LeeAnd I suppose lends to why it became a lost film for so long.
AdamYeah.
AdamWell, I mean, the story behind that was is that because obviously, yeah, it died on its ass at the box office mostly and we'll get into Kenny because I he just for an idea for certainly for our our international listeners.
AdamKenny Everett doesn't appear on the cover of Bloodbath at the House of Death video that was released in America.
AdamIt's only Vincent Price because literally, they won't know who Kenny Everett is, but we can sell it on the basis that Vincent Price is in it.
Adam
AdamBut yeah, well, as I say, we'll get into that.
ChrisHe's his picture on the front is very good.
LeeI think they should have released, yeah.
ChrisThat does sum it up perfectly, really.
AdamThey they are very carry on like illustrations as well, the thing, yeah.
AdamAnd the but yeah, so it's sort of Kenny Everett had controversially.
AdamThe week before they started filming and this they said that was one of the reasons why their funding got lynched, was Kenny appeared at the Conservative Party conference in 1983.
AdamAnd I saw another interview with Kenny Everett where he's talking about it and basically he said, because at the time everyone was like, oh, fucking hell, Kenny Ever's Tory, fucking and just, you know, and so and they they said literally that was why the Blood Baths that came out in at a point where he was at his lowest sort of popularity amongst well not necessarily the public, but certainly sort of with media darlings, etcetera.
AdamAnd
AdamAnd but he actually said, oh yeah, I went and did that, why did you why did you do the Tory Party conference?
AdamAnd he said, well, they asked me first.
AdamAnd yeah, I don't think he had much of a but apparently Michael Winner wound him up before he went on.
AdamHe said, there, you've got to go and be outrageous so you get in the papers.
AdamAnd he said to him, well, what's outrageous then, let's bomb Russia.
AdamPerfect.
AdamAnd yeah, so that so he went, so yeah, that was that was when he did the party conference.
AdamIt wasn't just that he'd done the party conference.
AdamHe came out in the brotherly love giant foam pointy fingers and said and said, let's bomb Russia and let's kick Michael Foot's stick away.
AdamAnd Michael Foot was the.
Adamwas the leader of the Labour Party at the time.
AdamWho had a walking stick.
AdamAnd
LeeIrony.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah, exactly.
AdamAnd so.
AdamSo, but I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema, and it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly. Streaming will kill it when people were moaning about multiplexes.
AdamBut they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamSo like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
AdamSo.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do is they'll store it for you.
AdamBut they charge you for it and eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
AdamSo.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamIt disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
AdamNo one was really asking for it.
AdamIt was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adambecause they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
AdamIt wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
AdamAnd then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
AdamHe said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
AdamOr I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
AdamBut he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
AdamCouldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
AdamAnd then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adamyeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
AdamBut so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
AdamAnd obviously.
AdamNot hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
AdamIt's probably like for for the film of its age.
AdamThere is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
LeeAbsolutely.
WesI I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
WesI managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
AdamYeah.
AdamI think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
WesNo.
WesYou can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
AdamOh.
AdamInteresting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adamapparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, with the false chin.
AdamAnd yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
AdamAgain, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adambut yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
AdamIs they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
AdamAnd eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
AdamFortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
LeeOh.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd again.
AdamLet's face it.
AdamIt's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
AdamIt's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
AdamSo.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again.
AdamMark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
AdamOtherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
AdamSo make some money or chuck it away.
AdamAnd no one's got anything.
AdamSo.
AdamSo.
AdamBut I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
AdamAnd it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
AdamStreaming will kill it.
AdamWhen people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
AdamAnd yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
AdamIt's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
AdamAnd we'll.
AdamYeah.
