Ep 141
Ep 141 City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel
Once again, all of them witches as we visit “The City of the Dead” (aka “Horror Hotel”). A British film masquerading as an American one, with a variety of success on the accent front; in which…
The scrappy stuff
Independent Horror
3 films, made outside the system · 3 with a known budget
These are the films the show has covered that were genuinely made independently: no major studio, no streamer, and not one of the established genre houses that had their own real infrastructure and wide theatrical distribution, like Hammer or the modern likes of A24 and Blumhouse. Some of these were shot for almost nothing by one or two people with a camera. Some are decades-old cult objects nobody expected to last. What they share is that somebody made them happen without a studio behind them.
What counts as "independent" here is a judgement call, not a fact the data gives us outright. It's set out, and can be argued with, in the site's own code.
1960s
$674K in today's money$60K at the time · source: £45,000 or £47,341
$695K in today's money$65K at the time · source: $65,000
Spider Baby
...and we’re back in the room. As a tribute to the late, great Sid Haig, the team watch Jack Hill’s “Spider Baby” - a film in which we learn about a rare and peculiar disease, drink driving…
1970s
$538K in today's money$80K at the time · source: $80,000–140,000
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It’s time for a classic, as we finally turn to Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”. A film that should dissuade anyone from picking up hitchhikers and/or randomly trespassing…
