OCCULT Pt 17: Drag Me To Hell (2009) & The House of the Devil (2009)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Scary occult movies are BACK! This week Mike is joined by two different guests to discuss two classics from 2009. In the first half of the episode, Mike is joined by Rob Watts to discuss DRAG ME TO HELL and in the second half Cat Davis joins Mike to discuss THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The After the success of movies like The Witches of Eastwick and The Craft, |
| 0:28.0 | Witches had very much moved out of the horror genre. |
| 0:32.0 | Through the late 90s and early 2000s, |
| 0:34.4 | Friendly witches filled the small screen in TV shows like Buffy, Charmed, and |
| 0:40.3 | Sabrina the teenage witch. It seemed nobody was frightened of the occult anymore. |
| 0:45.8 | You shamed me. |
| 0:48.8 | However, towards the end of the 2000s, filmmakers started looking back to the |
| 0:57.1 | heyday of a cult horror. After two decades of glossy starry horror movies, |
| 1:02.0 | something started to change. Suddenly, retro fashion, |
| 1:06.7 | 16 millimeter grainy film and scinty scores started seeping their way back into the genre. |
| 1:14.0 | Two movies in particular drew on the popular |
| 1:16.8 | grindhouse movies of the 70s and early 80s, |
| 1:20.0 | and with that they brought the creeping insidious dread of witchcraft and the occult and we discuss two |
| 1:38.9 | nostalgic occult gems drag me to hell and house of the devil. |
| 1:47.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:56.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and |
| 1:59.7 | dissect the evolution and history of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras one series at a time. |
| 2:06.6 | We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the occult in horror cinema, and |
| 2:11.1 | this is part 17, in in which as the intro suggested we are going to be |
| 2:15.6 | looking at two movies from about 10 years ago Sam Ramey's Drag Me to Hell and |
| 2:20.3 | Ty West's House of the Devil. |
| 2:23.6 | Please be warned, these will both be spoilerific reviews. |
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