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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And on today's episode of Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick.

And on today's episode of Weird House Cinema, we're going to discuss not a feature, TV or direct-to-video film, but rather a standalone episode of an anthology series.

Now, this is something we did once before when we discussed Panos Cosmodus's excellent The Viewing,

produced and released as part of Netflix's Guillermo's Cabinet of Curiosities.

This time, we're going to be discussing 1989's The Soldier and Death,

the fifth episode of Jim Hinson's The Storyteller, and an episode that Hinson himself also directed.

Joe, were you familiar with this series?

I had seen, I think, one episode before, so not very familiar.

And I don't think I'd seen anything from the season with John Hurd.

I'd seen something from the Greek season.

Yeah, the Greek myths. I think it's like four-episode follow-up that came afterwards.

Different narrator, same dog. Is that right?

Yeah, same dog, but you had Michael Gambon playing the Greek storyteller.

And in this case, the storyteller is, as we'll discuss, played by John Hurt. This is such a

terrific series. And the Greek myth's also terrific, in my opinion. In this particular episode,

The Soldier in Death, I think it just nicely represents what the show is all about. It is,

it's probably my favorite episode. It's the one I go to if I'm like, okay, I want to rewatch an episode of the storyteller, which one should it be?

It's going to be the soldier in death.

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