The History of Our Favorite Horror Movies
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, from Nosferatu and Dracula to Friday the 13th and Saw, Matt Castro brings us the full history of all your favorite horror films. Check out his YouTube channel for more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
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| 0:44.6 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:51.7 | Up next, the history of horror films from the earliest silent versions |
| 0:56.4 | straight through all of the classics. You have your own favorites? We have ours. To tell the story |
| 1:02.6 | is Matt Castro, and he has the definitive version of horror film history on YouTube. Go and search |
| 1:09.5 | his name, Magic Carp Used Fly, which has over |
| 1:12.6 | a million subscribers, and has all kinds of other interesting items as well. |
| 1:17.6 | Go to Matt Castro at YouTube and you will find all of his work. |
| 1:22.6 | Here's Matt to tell the story of the history of the horror film. |
| 1:32.8 | Our first stop on the train of terror begins in the early days of the film industry from the 1900s until the beginning of the 1930s. During this time, the film industry was smitten with the likes |
| 1:37.5 | of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which is what occupied American theaters in the 1920s. |
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