Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Invitation to Hell (1984)
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the bonkers 1984 Wes Craven made-for-TV movie “Invitation to Hell,” starring Robert Urich, Joanna Cassidy and Susan Lucci. (originally published 8/1/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:10.9 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:12.3 | And today we are sharing an episode that originally published. |
| 0:15.8 | Let's see, 8-1-2020-5. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Invitation to Hell from 1984. This is a West Craven made for TV movie with some |
| 0:26.0 | really fun, like, horror, sci-fi qualities to it. You think you know West Craven, well, this is a |
| 0:33.1 | weirder, deeper cut. Let's jump right into the episode. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:50.9 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 1:11.3 | And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are going to be talking about the 1984 ABC made-for-TV horror movie Invitation to Hell, directed by none other than Wes Craven. Did you know he made made for TV movies? |
| 1:11.8 | Yes. |
| 1:12.8 | Multiple. |
| 1:16.1 | Was this before Nightmare on Elm Street or after? |
| 1:23.1 | We'll get into this in a bit, but I believe this came out right before and or in the same year as Nightmare. |
| 1:26.2 | So we had a couple of different things happening at the same time here. |
| 1:26.6 | Wow. |
| 1:39.2 | So, An Invitation to Hell, starring Robert Eurek, Joanna Cassidy, and Susan Lucci of apparently, I didn't know this when I first watched this movie, but apparently of like soap opera royalty. |
| 1:42.3 | Oh, yeah. Superstar in the soap opera world. |
| 1:48.8 | But this movie is about an expensive and exclusive West Coast Country Club that is, in fact, run by Satan. |
| 1:51.6 | It's true. |
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