Drinking AK Alive, a wild ale collaboration between Mikkeller and Anchorage Brewing, to go with The Haunted Palace. I found this beer at Andrew's Cheese Shop, in Santa Monica. Great place. This is described by some as a beer nerd's beer. Jayson's slowly getting into the wild ale/sour thing.
Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft! How could we not cover this?
Roger Corman = B-Movie.
This one's based on Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I'm not sure why, as they barely used the source material.
Tricorne hats tell us it's Revolutionary War time. Arkham is an angry mob waiting to happen.
200 feet below Curwen's palace is a pit containing a scary, murky creature.
The angry mob confronts Curwen, who's rather cavalier about an angry mob that clearly has vengeance on their mind. He's lynched for this hubris, but not before cursing the entire town.
We think Curwen should have given his plan a bit more thought.
Jayson differentiates between a palace and a castle. I am always grateful for the tidbits of esoterica he brings to the episodes.
110 years in the future, Charles Ward inherits palace.
The Burning Man is not a 'quaint' name for a pub.
Arkham inhabitants have become no less surly in the last 110 years.
Money was saved (it's Roger Corman, after all) by casting the same actors to play the early mob and their descendants.
Two types of jump scares in this one: The snake, a boa. And Lon Chaney Jr. as Simon popping up now and then.
Ward keeps showing signs that his mind is getting away from him.
Simon may be the worst caretaker ever.
The Curwen Curse is pretty curse-y. And it makes the parenting in the village fairly awful. I show why I'd be a terrible parent.
Price's fantastic acting, especially the non-speaking acting, is constantly on display.
Ward views the decrepit palace as a "fixer upper," which we think is total hogwash.
The people of Arkham use their cursed children to try and scare the Ward's away.
The Necronomicon, Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth are mentioned for the first time in cinema in this film, which is pretty cool.
The Resurrected, by one of our favorites Dan O'Bannon, is another, and more accurate, adaptation of the book. Check it out.
The warlocks original plan is scrapped for Curwen's new plan to raise his dead mistress from the dead.
Jayson thinks the warlocks would have benefited from business plan.
There's a lot of drinking in this movie, and we're joining them with AK Alive, a wild ale for a wild movie. We start seeing Yog Sothoth on the label.
The Curwen Curse is selective: It mutates some of the citizens, but not all. We joke about some of the funny ways the curse could have been enacted.
Joseph Curwen has some curious, i.e. terrible ideas about love.
Simon inadvertently amuses us in his lameness as a familiar.
Yet again Price conveys the struggle between Curwen and Ward beautifully.
Weeden loves playing the role of rabble rousing.
The business plan of world domination takes a backseat to Curwen's petty revenge.
Edgar Weeden dies the way his ancestor killed Joseph Curwen.
Curwen tearing names off the list perplexes us. We spend a good amount a time talking about this. Really.
Dr. Willet comes and goes as he pleases to the Curwen palace. This is supposed to be a palace way out of town on a bluff looking over the ocean.
If you can't raise your long dead mistress once, keep trying until she rises in all her bosomy goodness.
The Arkham Angry Mob returns 110 years later.
The staircase in the lower dungeon gets a lot of screen time. I was surprised Jayson didn't discover the history behind the staircase.
Can't help but think of Mel Brooks's History of the World: Part 1 when they name drop Torquemada.
This mob is more efficient than their ancestors, because they burn the palace.
Dr. Willet in the movie and Dr. Willet from the story are compared.
The ending is a downer, all thanks to Vincent Price's acting.
I'd recommend this movie, absolutely, and Jayson would, too. It's a great Halloween film and kid friendly. We cannot get enough of Vincent Price. The townspeople would have loved AK Alive, the wild ale from Mikkeller and Anchorage Brewing.
Intro music for this episode is a mix of (1) Turn on The Funk (Story Blocks Audio subscription), (2) sample 1961’s The Phantom Planet [in the public domain], and (3) sample 1968’s Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women [in the public domain]. Outro music is a mix of (1) The Nitemare (Cinematic Horror Trap) Haunted House by Quinton Johnson (Story Blocks Audio Subscription) and (2) sample 1959's House on Haunted Hill [in the public domain]
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