Horror 101 – Episode 94: The Legend of Hell House

December 31st, 2019

For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn’t true!

Welcome to our last podcast of 2019! For this holiday special, we’re going old school and covering one of the more notorious haunted house movies from its time. Since a good portion of this movie is set on December 24th, we decided to give the Horror 101 treatment to John Hough’s The Legend of Hell House.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

01:00 Prelude to Terror…
05:00 Skipping Interview with a Vampire…
06:06 Introducing The Legend of Hell House
10:15 A £100,000 job…
14:10 Arriving at the Belasco House…
16:13 History of the House…
18:05 The First Sitting…
20:40 Paranormal Luncheon Attack…
23:30 Finding a body…
25:20 Spiritual Carnal Knowledge…
28:10 Sexually Repressed Possessions…
31:20 The Death of Tanner…
33:30 Confronting The Evil…
39:20 Scoring the film…
46:57 Conclusion. Happy New Years!!

The Legend of Hell House

Directed By: John Hough

Novel and Screenplay by: Richard Matheson

Starring:

Pamela Franklin as Florence Tanner
Roddy McDowall as Ben Fischer
Clive Revill as Dr. Barrett
Gayle Hunnicutt as Ann Barrett
Roland Culver as Mr. Deutsch
Peter Bowles as Hanley
Michael Gough as Emeric Belasco

All video, pictures and audio used from The Legend of Hell House is copyright © 1973 by Academy Pictures Corporation. Used for educational purposes. No reproductions of any kind.