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The Evolution of Horror

The Haunting of Bly Manor: Eps 1 to 5

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

We're back with a 2 part special to discuss the new Netflix / Mike Flanagan horror show, The Haunting of Bly Manor, in spoilerific detail. In this episode Mike and Rhianna Dhillon will be discussing episodes 1 to 5 (but there won't be any spoilers beyond ep 5)... Mike is also joined by friend of the pod Liam Gavin, director of episodes 4 and 5.

Music by Jack Whitney.

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0:00.0

The Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

0:21.2

If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this

0:24.0

podcast usually we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror

0:28.4

genre by looking at particular sub-jumras one series at a time. Now we are currently in the middle of exploring

0:34.8

the mind and body in horror cinema but we are in a bit of a mid-season hiatus at

0:41.4

present so we're not going to be bringing you regular episodes

0:44.4

through the month of October. However there's so much other exciting stuff happening

0:50.4

through October not least the haunting of Bly Manor.

0:55.2

This is Mike Flanagan and Netflix's brand new series.

0:59.2

It's the kind of follow-up to, although it doesn't really have anything to do with, the

1:03.2

haunting of Hill House, which came out a couple of years ago and was just one of

1:08.1

my absolute favorite horror TV shows of all time, so I've been really excited to watch this follow-up. Bly Manor of course is an

1:16.1

adaptation of the Turn of the Screw which has also been adapted into a brilliant film

1:20.1

Jack Clayton's The Innocence from 1961, so I was really intrigued to see what they were going to do with this particular series.

1:27.0

Now, we're going to be bringing you a two-part special in which we discuss Bly Manor.

1:32.0

This episode is part one and we are only going to be covering episodes one through to five.

1:38.0

These will be spoiler-rific discussions, but only up to episode five. We will not be spoiling or discussing anything

1:45.0

that happens from episode six onwards. Then part two is going to drop in a

1:50.3

few days time and we will be discussing episode six through to the end in

1:54.8

spoiler ific detail. Okay so for this episode I will just say spoiler alert for

1:59.6

episodes one to five. I watch the entire series with my other half the brilliant

2:05.1

film critic Rihanna Dylan who bless her she's not good with horror she doesn't

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