Murder, vampirism, cannibalism, drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism, mutilation...You, me, that girl, Lionel, all together, naked, drunk, clutching, sweating, biting...
Besides numerous intriguing lists, The Legend of Hell House (1973) has one, no two! of my favorite scenes in all of horror-dom! Gayle Hunnicutt's line reading here is...well...Legend!
Been there, done that, am I right Ladies?
And there's a fantastic cat fight that I wanted to add to the Cats category of my blog.
But when I saw it on TV while I was packing the other day I experienced a feeling of Real Horror, frustration and sadness recalling the shut down of posterous and the loss of my Ina's '70s Horror Blog that I began for my Horror class in 2010.
THE HORROR
OH THE HORROR!!
Consequently, while I was at the Headlands in spring of 2013 working on my horror installation, I was also frantically and ignorantly trying to archive the horror blog (as well as my class blogs from my teaching at Parsons) I thought without success.
But! In a mad moment today I began searching around and found the .zip file with the archive. Now all I have to do is to figure out how to reconstitute it. And clean and pack my whole house and move and, and , and...making a list...
There is still lots of text missing. And then there are all the dead links to try to restore-- but as I head off to the MIAS maybe I'll pay as much attention to the preservation and archiving of my own work as I anticipate paying to the vast materials I'll encounter in my time and beyond at UCLA.
Here's the long trailer (basically all the best scenes in the movie) for LOHH-don't miss the awesome cat attack!:
It's streaming on Amazon so check it out. There's much to love in the movie-Roddy MacDowell's big Calico the Cat eyes and goofball aviators (and performance), the electronic score, the decor that's determined to kill and Pamela Franklin's exquisite Mary Quant ensembles and excellent jewelry!
And that DARN Cat!
The Legend of Hell House (1973) d. John Hough starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt.
and ps. fuck you FOX.
