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

And this is Joe McCormick.

And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1989

Italian rock and roll haunted house thriller Paganini horror, directed by Luigi

Coatsy, who we actually just talked about a few weeks ago on the podcast because he was also the director of Star Crash, which will come up again in the making of section of this episode.

I want to lead off today by, I wonder if you have any counter examples to this, Rob, because I think of all the films we've ever covered on Weird House,

this might be the most quintessential example of to combine sort of two different showbiz

cliches, a patchwork script emerging from development hell.

Can you think of any other contenders that are really like as much to the same degree as this one?

Maybe not as much as this one, yeah, because this one really feels fractured and all over the place.

It feels like a corporate brainstorming session for a music-themed horror film that, um, it should have gone through

various other stages, but they ended up just filming the list.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I, oftentimes that some sort of, um, you know, behind the scenes, like reorganizing

of things can certainly make for some memorable, a memorable mismatch in tone or style.

One film that we're going to refer to a few different times is, of course, extraterrestrial

visitors known to MST3K fans, is Pod People.

One of my favorite films that we've discussed in Weird House Cinema, just straight up

in and of itself.

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