The most famous haunted house in America is a large Dutch Colonial family home that became a bestseller, super-successful horror movie and a franchise that has spawned over 60 movies (and counting). And it’s all based… on a con. Together with horror critic Jenn Addams, Fangoria editor-in-chief Phil Nobile Jr. and Bloody Disgusting critic Joe Lipsett, who is possibly the only person in the world to have watched all Amityville films, guest host Anna tracks how one haunted house movie became a modern folk story.
Season six of the MUBI Podcast, titled “Haunted Homes,”explores how movies about haunted houses let us explore—and often parallel—our relationships with our homes. Each episode visits a horror movie that changed the way we imagine a haunted house, from the crumbling Gothic mansions to white picket fences, what it says about the people who live in the houses and what scares them the most. Hosted and written by Anna Bogutskaya.
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