Bloodbath at the House of Death
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Accompanied by Westley from Mos Eisley Happy Hour and As Yet Unexplained, the team visit Headstone Manor for “Bloodbath at the House of Death” - a harrowing account of a real life haunting and multiple murder (well, not really, but if it’s good enough for those bullshit artists The Warrens, it’s good enough for Kenny Everett). A film in which we see a surprisingly faithful homage to that bit in Empire Strikes Back when Luke fights Vader on Dagobah; Gambit from The New Avengers is VERY friendly with Philip from Rising Damp (probably bonded over a Nescafé); and Vincent Price trades insults with a regular from “On The Busses”. Along the way we discuss “Fear Street Part 1”, “Loki”, “Highlander” and Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece “The Room”. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND QUALITY ISSUES -CURRENT QUARANTINE MEASURES MEANT WE HAD TO RECORD THIS EPISODE REMOTELY.
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Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
Chris I'm Chris.
Adam I'm Adam.
Lee And we are joined this evening as, I can't remember if we mentioned or if we just teased the fact that we were going to be joined this evening.
Lee by a star of the Mosleyley Happy Hour, Wes. How you doing, Wes?
Wes Hello.
Chris And as yet unexplained.
Lee And as yet unexplained, of course.
Lee I think yeah.
Adam Didn't get to explain anything though.
Adam That's the reason you're here is because obviously there's a lot of real sort of like occult law in this and it's based on real folk legends and everything. So we thought we'd better get you in to get that full understanding. yes, so as promised, we are here to discover to to discuss, should I say, the slightly unusual, Bloodbath at the House of Death. But before we get into any of that kind of nonsense, we are going to discuss as usual what we've been watching. So, Chris, we'll start with you. What have you been watching horror-wise?
Chris So I've been continuing the adventure of Castlevania.
Chris So the second season is is so far, I think I'm halfway through it and it has been I it's it's slow in the first one, but it's a lot of character development and really makes the story far deeper and far more interesting than I'd expected it to be when we saw season one.
Chris so yeah, it's it's great fun. Still really enjoying that.
Chris and and not it's I suppose it's probably, I haven't seen that many different Dracula adaptations, it's it's absolutely still one of the best computer game adaptations, but as far as Dracula goes, it seemed like an unusual twist as far as I can tell on what I've always thought of Dracula.
Chris So I suppose that's that was perhaps their plan.
Chris it's also not entirely clear who you're following, as in, you know, who you're siding with.
Chris They're all bad and good, which that I don't know that does seem to be sort of a modern thing, I don't know, I seem to be seeing that in a lot of films where it's less clear exactly who's good and who's bad.
Lee Yeah, there's sort of more dimensions to the characters.
Adam I mean essentially more realistic.
Chris Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Adam Which helps ground something that's that fantastical as well, obviously.
Chris Yeah.
Chris So yeah, so that's been really good.
Chris and then we've also been watching Loki continuing the Marvel viewing.
Chris So that that's been really fun.
Adam Oh, my internet's called
Lee Yeah.
Chris Oh yeah, yeah, then blast our guy.
Chris Yeah, no, it's it's absolutely I think it's.
Chris And funnily enough, the the episode I just saw, it started to make me think of Terry Pratchett, because it's it's gone quite silly, but you know, it's still got the sort of fantastical sci-fi sort some science elements in that regard and it's yeah, it's it's fun and yeah, just a bit odd.
Lee Nice.
Lee West, what have you been watching horror-wise recently that you'd like to discuss?
Wes This week I watched the House on Haunted Hill, the original one.
Adam Oh.
Lee Nice.
Wes Then Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Lee Oh.
Adam Again.
Wes But I bought The Reptile on Blu-ray and for some reason I watched a whole bunch of other things I had I've already seen a million times before, so that's the way it goes, I suppose, isn't it?
Lee Oh, the Reptile is fantastic.
Adam That's definitely one to cover.
Lee
Adam That that and Plague of Zombies, because they're like basically made at the same time.
Wes They're all the same set and costumes, isn't it?
Adam Yeah, same set, same costume, same locations, it's the works and most of the same cast.
Lee Yeah.
Wes Yeah.
Lee Plague of Zombies is.
Adam Yeah, they just don't get the love they deserve.
Lee No.
Adam They don't get the love they deserve and I'm and I'm convinced it's because of the lack of big hammer names.
Lee
Adam You haven't you haven't got you haven't got Mr. Lee, you haven't got the Cush.
Adam So people are like, oh well, you know, that's he's he's okay. No, he's fucking brilliant. Yeah. Jeez, it really.
Wes Just because I was watching that the Peter Cushion moth one that I can never remember the title of.
Adam Oh, The Blood Beast Terror.
Wes Yeah, that reminded me that, oh, I haven't seen The Reptile for a while, so that's why I got that.
Adam Peter Cushion is in The Reptile though, isn't he?
Adam I'm just thinking.
Wes I don't think he is. I'm not sure.
Adam I can't remember now because I might I might be getting I might be getting him confused I'm getting him confused with The Ghoul.
Adam The Peter Cushion Ghoul where it's like someone's locked away and he's come back from a far away land and so on and so forth.
Lee yeah, no, you're right, he isn't, no.
Lee I thought he had a lesser role in that, but he does not appear to.
Adam I thought he was some reason in my head he's Jacqueline Pierce's dad in it and no he's clearly not, so yeah.
Lee Yeah.
Lee I clearly need to re-watch that as well. So I think I might actually, yeah, do the same, yeah, and possibly, yeah, with Plague of Zombies and do it as a double feature at some point during the week.
Wes You can you can also get them on
Adam Oh, yeah.
Wes You can get them very good, see them on Amazon, you can get the one where they released a couple of years ago.
Wes Where you get the DVD, the Blu-ray and the bonus disc all for about 12 quid, I think it is.
Wes That's quite good.
Adam Yeah, they got pretty good it's quite nice that we've now got to the point where you can clean up a bit on Hammer Blu-ray because they've actually they've actually realised, yeah, we've sold it to everyone who can afford the 20 quid.
Adam So one fucking film.
Wes I've also got the first Frankenstein Hammer film.
Wes And that comes with a free film, The Four-Sided Triangle.
Adam Oh, really?
Wes Yeah, as a bonus feature, so but because it's on Blu-ray it doesn't come with the collector's book that the DVD does come with.
Adam Right.
Wes Yeah.
Wes It depends how much you like reading, I suppose.
Adam Or reading.
Wes Or reading, yeah.
Adam He's all right.
Wes You know, it's a train journey, isn't it?
Adam I went to that, I went to that reading festival that they advertised. Couldn't hear myself think them fucking bands playing in the field next door.
Wes Consider it.
Adam I'm trying to read fucking.
Wes You could write a letter.
Adam I did.
Wes Good.
Adam Heard nothing back. Apparently people don't communicate like that anymore.
Wes That's because they don't read.
Adam That's why. Royal Royal Mail just put all letters in a big burning furnace now because they're like, well, if you could if you couldn't email them, fuck you. That's what that's that's the Royal Mail's current current message as well if they're translated into Latin.
Lee excellent.
Lee Adam, have you been watching anything horror related?
Adam Well, it's sort of well, basically last week Clare and Ted got bronchitis, so I was so I'll sing sing a lot of phlegm and sort of things like that.
Adam You know, I'm going to definitely put that in the basket with horror.
Adam I will apologise as well. I think I I've picked a much milder form up, but if my voice suddenly goes, yeah, I I will please bear with me while I have a coughing fit off mic.
Adam So, you know.
Lee who's
Adam Mike.
Adam He's well he's the bloke who comes around and does, you know, I've got a man who does, you know, I don't don't want to go into it further not on not on broadcast, no.
Adam Fair enough.
Adam But speaking of watching things you've watched a thousand fucking times though, I've taken the plunge and started buying the fucking Doctor Who Blu-ray classic series. So I've been watching loads of those. I know it's because they've come out in not they've come out slightly cheaper in not so fancy packaging.
Adam And it's like, right, if I missed if I missed the boat this time, I'm going to be pissed off with myself and spend the whole time going, well, so I followed the message from butthole surfers and all all of it's better to regret something that you have done than something that you didn't do.
Adam yeah, so I've been watching those, but equally, the other oh, excuse me, the other night we watched the true a true life horror of The Room, which I introduced Claire to Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus, his magnum magnuson.
Adam
Lee Yeah.
Adam Which you know, I mean, we can't count it as horror, but you do see a lot of his grotesque arse.
Adam bobbling bobbling around in sheets. There is a spot on it. It's, you know, I I would argue that a man impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger whilst looking like Willem Dafoe's been pulled inside out.
Adam I think is a, you know, that that counts as horror for me.
Adam So there we go.
Adam And one that might and this is something that's kind of adjacent, it's much more fantasy, and something that I think might cause horror to everyone on the show possibly, when they find out it's my first time I've ever watched Highlander.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So there we go.
Lee Oh, no.
Chris You beat me to it.
Adam Oh, you've never seen it, Chris?
Chris No.
Lee That's
Wes Yeah, that's a really good film.
Lee Oh, man. I thought it was a really good film.
Lee And then I re-watched it about a year ago and it turned out it was absolute Todd, it was terrible.
Wes The when he's when he starts when he's the when he's receiving the quickening and they carefully place lightning.
Wes You know, it's it's it's quite good. A towel, I thought.
Adam I've never thought of it before as receiving the quickening.
Adam But now that is the only way I shall refer to it.
Wes Don't watch Highlander 2, because it's called Highlander 2, the quickening.
Wes It actually that's what it is.
Wes The quickening.
Adam Yeah. By the way, that is literally anything that anyone has said to me when I was because I think it was like, I'd watched it and then it was like, oh, there's a couple of podcasts that covered it.
Adam And I didn't listen to it because I hadn't seen the film at that point.
Adam So I went back and listened to them and all of those basically all start with, yeah, it's not Highlander 2, don't watch that, it's shit.
Adam So I'm I'm way I'm way stamping well away from that.
Adam But yeah, it was just I think I might be lucky in that I didn't watch it the first time round, so I think I was actually, oh, that was good.
Adam So.
Adam I didn't I enjoyed it, I but also rather than shit, the first time I watched this, I didn't realise the flaws.
Adam I was watching it this time going, the flaws are some of the best bits in this.
Adam And obviously Mr. Krabbs is the main villain, so that's, you know.
Wes The Corgon.
Adam yeah, and that was and obviously, yeah.
Adam Fucking the one Scotsman in it is playing a fucking Egyptian by way of Spain.
Lee Yeah, precisely.
Lee And he's playing a terrible Scotsman.
Lee What's going on?
Adam I also did find I found this out about it though is apparently Christopher Lambert is allergic.
Adam Like has an allergy thing so he can't wear contact lenses, without his glasses he is fucking blind.
Adam So although the sword fights suddenly became a lot more impressive or certainly the bravery of the people competing with him because yeah.
Adam You just got some mad French bastard at you you can't see fuck all in front of his face.
Adam So yeah.
Adam But overall, I think I and I also respect any film that has that many ideas.
Lee Yeah.
Adam It's the it's the phantasm thing again where it's like not all of this hits, but well done on not just literally the opposite of The Room.
Adam Where Claire was waiting for a plot and I said, no, you know the plot.
Adam It's just waiting for that now.
Adam And, you know, football games in a like hula hoop sized area of the ground.
Adam So.
Adam and yeah, so unfortunately, unfortunately.
Lee So it's a bit like this evening's movie did very much the same, not wishing to spoil it, but yeah, a slasher and a satanic cult movie.
Lee And it turns out they're all aliens anyway, spoiler alert, yeah.
Adam Yeah, actually.
Adam Yeah, it's nice to see it's nice to have too many ideas, I think.
Wes Yeah, throw enough shit at the wall, some of it's bound to stick.
Lee Exactly.
Lee so I caught up with the new Netflix movie Fear Street part one.
Chris Oh yeah.
Lee Which I I really enjoyed.
Lee I had a really good time watching it.
Lee I mean, it again, it's that thing that Netflix do of it's nothing entirely new, but they just give it so much heart that it's, yeah, a really endearing, really good fun, I had a fantastic and I thought I hadn't read anything about it.
Lee I thought it was going to be one a month or one every couple of months or whatever.
Lee yeah, and I watched it last Saturday and then yesterday, the second part came out, so it looks like they're going to release them over three weeks, which is yeah.
Lee Yeah, it's good, so you've got a film each week to look forward to.
Adam I've no, I've literally I saw that there's a pop-up video store in London to advertise it.
Lee Oh, really?
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think Daryl's working there.
Lee Yes, yes, friend of the show, Daryl. I knew he was working at a VHS store, I didn't know it was a pop-up one to do with Fear Street. Oh, that's cool.
Adam Yeah, I think it's I think it's to do with Fear Street, so yeah.
Adam but other than that, I know literally nothing.
Lee It's.
Lee So it's it's a kind of supernatural slasher movie.
Lee set in the set now, I believe.
Lee Oh no, it's called 94.
Lee So it happened in 94.
Lee
Lee You will love it, Adam, the soundtrack is fantastic.
Lee It's every song you remember from the early 90s.
Lee
Adam Oh, okay.
Lee It's all that kind of, you know, like garbage and Paul's head and all those bands.
Lee
Adam It's trip hop, isn't it?
Adam That's that's.
Lee Yeah.
Lee Like sounds of it.
Lee Yeah.
Lee And it's it's.
Adam I will I I definitely will enjoy it because when my throat went, I was just listening, I'd do my usual thing which is I'm just going to listen to tricky because it's the only person I can sing along with at the moment.
Lee Yeah.
Lee but yeah, so and it's got a really good IMDB, which is why I wanted to catch it, you know, the first couple of days after it came out.
Lee But it's one of those don't there's a lot of hype, try not to read anything or know anything going in.
Lee This so for the second, I'm not even going to watch the trailer.
Lee I'm just going in cold.
Lee but yeah, just know it's really good fun and yeah, you'll enjoy it.
Lee and that's all I've watched really, except I did catch up with the newly released trailer for Last Night in Soho.
Lee The new Edgar Wright horror movie.
Adam Oh, yes.
Lee
Lee Yeah, it looks interesting.
Lee It looks interesting.
Lee But I was listening to an interview with him and he basically said what he's trying to do is make an Italian giallo movie set in Soho in the 60s.
Lee So.
Adam Yeah.
Lee Not exactly my favourite of any of those genres, but it's Edgar Wright, if anyone can make that stuff work, I think he's probably going to be the man to do it, so,
Adam And also I presume I presume it's not got Kevin Spacey in this movie.
Lee No.
Lee No, he's started to get stuff.
Adam Couldn't couldn't afford the insurance.
Lee Yeah.
Lee Speaking of which, onto tonight's main film.
Lee
Lee So yeah, 1984's Kenny Everett starring Bloodbath at the House of Death.
Lee I knew obviously we would be getting very much into British comedy TV from the 70s and 80s, which is why we have Wes with us here.
Lee
Lee Because I know that obviously he and Adam are are really into that stuff, so I thought it'd be good to to bring you in and get your thoughts.
Lee And again, it's just your sense of humour, this one, Wes, so,
Lee
Wes Oh, yeah.
Wes Totally agree, you know.
Lee So Chris, what did you make of Bloodbath at the House of Death?
Chris You you know what the answer's going to be.
Lee Yeah.
Chris I it's what what a very entertaining film.
Chris I I clearly need to watch a bit more Kenny Everett.
Chris Because I I I remembered the name when you mentioned him and I I probably saw like maybe adverts or you know something like that.
Chris I don't remember seeing actually anything full length with him in, so I don't know if I was a bit too young or I guess he was a bit adult, most of his stuff, was it?
Lee Yeah, he was amazingly proper.
Lee
Chris So.
Adam A lot of people
Lee going too far.
Adam A naughty boy.
Chris Oh, okay.
Chris So he was a he was a bit controversial at the time.
Adam Right.
Chris Yes, so and and then of course and Vincent Price as well, which you know, you probably mentioned it and I saw his name come up in the credits.
Chris I think, but like he's his role in this.
Chris I was thinking, oh, how's that going to work?
Chris He like because I figured this was maybe a bit too much of a comedy.
Chris But it's amazing how he fits into it perfectly.
Chris He he just and I think because he still can play.
Chris He he almost like he's playing both a serious and a ridiculous character at once and doing them both fantastically and you know, he's like his speech is fairly long sort of monologues with quite impressive vocabulary and it just works in both ways, you know, and so.
Adam Yeah.
Chris Yeah.
Chris So.
Chris He's he's great.
Chris And I guess he's a bit older in this as well, isn't he?
Lee Yeah.
Chris I think the other films, all the other films we've seen him in.
Adam Yeah, when when did he, was he 87, he died?
Adam So it's very late in his career, because it was around the time it was around the time he made Elvira's Mistress of the Dark, wasn't it?
Wes I thought that was a 90s film, an early 90s film.
Wes Sort of 89, 90.
Adam For some reason in my head, he's like about 87, but I might be wrong.
Lee I think it was his last film, it was his last film because he because that was the point, wasn't it, he did a scene in it and that was the last the last thing he ever filmed, I believe.
Lee I'm checking on IMDB now.
Chris That's interesting.
Chris I should probably watch that then.
Adam
Adam It's yeah, I've totally nothing to do with it, but when I went to see him, but his hands, I had a nose bleed.
Adam And I was wearing a white t-shirt and I came out and I look like I've been stabbed.
Adam So there you go.
Chris That probably encouraged a lot of people to.
Adam Oh, yeah, yeah.
Adam I came I came out fairly quiet so it looked like the people I've were beaten me up.
Chris but yeah, so like even from the start in this, you know, obviously this it's it kicks off pretty full on straight away, but in a funny sort of way, but then I I really quite liked the as he bought the comedy into it, the way it had each of them the couples in the car and explaining what they're doing.
Chris And just something was like, yeah, that's that's pretty good. They're obviously, you know, I I guess pointing out a little too much exactly what their place in this is.
Chris
Chris But yeah, just I don't know, it was I was warmed to it straight away.
Chris Really.
Chris And yeah, it continued throughout being very entertaining.
Adam Yes, less less than subtle.
Chris Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wes I just love the opening line.
Wes Oh, shit.
Adam Oh, with the guy in the bushes, yeah, I forgot about that.
Wes That's a great way of opening the film.
Wes With the Oh, shit.
Wes Even Vincent Price for me, even the when he was swearing.
Wes The acting, you could tell he was above everyone else.
Wes It was like.
Wes Yeah, this is me off.
Adam You pissed off.
Wes Yeah, that was.
Adam Brilliant.
Adam Actually, I watched I watched like there's a there's an extra on the DVD, I watched it just before they started and they said oh like they were it was like a Australian interview with Kenny Everett because despite the fact this died on its ass over here, it did very well in Australia.
Adam
Adam And yeah, he he said, oh no, everyone was great. he said, I thought Pamela Stevenson was quite snooty though because she was just not she wasn't a team player, she'd just keep going off to her dressing room and everything.
Adam And it was just when he said, so we're sitting there with Vincent and everything and it's like, you know, that's just fantastic.
Adam Vince Price just mucking in with like all these stalwarts of British TV comedy.
Adam
Adam But as it turns out, the reason that Pamela Stevenson kept whipping off is actually she was pregnant.
Adam So she was honking her rivets up between takes and didn't tell anyone.
Lee
Lee Yeah, that that extra on the disc, I watched that as well, literally as soon as the film finished when I watched it the other week.
Lee yeah, and I found it really interesting, you know, just telling you about how it was all privately funded, yeah, and what a massive flop this film was, unfortunately.
Lee he never really made that money back.
Lee And I suppose lends to why it became a lost film for so long.
Adam Yeah.
Adam Well, I mean, the story behind that was is that because obviously, yeah, it died on its ass at the box office mostly and we'll get into Kenny because I he just for an idea for certainly for our our international listeners.
Adam Kenny Everett doesn't appear on the cover of Bloodbath at the House of Death video that was released in America.
Adam It's only Vincent Price because literally, they won't know who Kenny Everett is, but we can sell it on the basis that Vincent Price is in it.
Adam
Adam But yeah, well, as I say, we'll get into that.
Chris He's his picture on the front is very good.
Lee I think they should have released, yeah.
Chris That does sum it up perfectly, really.
Adam They they are very carry on like illustrations as well, the thing, yeah.
Adam And the but yeah, so it's sort of Kenny Everett had controversially.
Adam The week before they started filming and this they said that was one of the reasons why their funding got lynched, was Kenny appeared at the Conservative Party conference in 1983.
Adam And I saw another interview with Kenny Everett where he's talking about it and basically he said, because at the time everyone was like, oh, fucking hell, Kenny Ever's Tory, fucking and just, you know, and so and they they said literally that was why the Blood Baths that came out in at a point where he was at his lowest sort of popularity amongst well not necessarily the public, but certainly sort of with media darlings, etcetera.
Adam And
Adam And but he actually said, oh yeah, I went and did that, why did you why did you do the Tory Party conference?
Adam And he said, well, they asked me first.
Adam And yeah, I don't think he had much of a but apparently Michael Winner wound him up before he went on.
Adam He said, there, you've got to go and be outrageous so you get in the papers.
Adam And he said to him, well, what's outrageous then, let's bomb Russia.
Adam Perfect.
Adam And yeah, so that so he went, so yeah, that was that was when he did the party conference.
Adam It wasn't just that he'd done the party conference.
Adam He came out in the brotherly love giant foam pointy fingers and said and said, let's bomb Russia and let's kick Michael Foot's stick away.
Adam And Michael Foot was the.
Adam was the leader of the Labour Party at the time.
Adam Who had a walking stick.
Adam And
Lee Irony.
Adam Yeah.
Adam Yeah, exactly.
Adam And so.
Adam So, but I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema, and it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly. Streaming will kill it when people were moaning about multiplexes.
Adam But they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam So like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam So.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do is they'll store it for you.
Adam But they charge you for it and eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam So.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
Adam So.
Adam It disappeared disappeared from sort of distributions and stuff like that.
Adam No one was really asking for it.
Adam It was never sold to television, strangely enough.
Adam because they yeah, they never they it was released on video, but just like commercial video cassette.
Adam It wasn't sort of there wasn't a good copy anywhere, let's put it that way.
Adam And then in 2008 or whatever it was, there so the company that made the DVD, Nucleus Films, basically there I think it's what's it name? Mark Morris who runs Nucleus Films.
Adam He said, I've got a wall filled with my old video tapes and I if if I'm just trying to think of something, I look at them and just go, I'd like to see that again.
Adam Or I'd like to see that come out and Bloodbath at the House of Death was one of them.
Adam But he found out that he couldn't get hold of a print because no one wanted it, it flopped totally and this was like 20 odd years later.
Adam
Adam Couldn't find it had never been sold to telly, so he couldn't get like a VT copy of it that might be passable for a DVD transfer or anything like that.
Adam And then he asked he went to talk to the original production company, but the original production company went bust while they were making the fucking film.
Adam yeah, that was a bit of a non-starter.
Adam But so what they did was they he started ringing the actual processing labs and at the end credits in every film you get which lab processed the foot the footage.
Adam And obviously.
Adam Not hoping for much, but whatever he then he spoke to this particular lab, and they still had the negative, so rather than releasing like a shitty VT version of it, they actually managed to get the negative and strike a new copy from it and, you know, because it does look really fucking incredible.
Adam It's probably like for for the film of its age.
Adam There is no way on God's earth it should look that good.
Lee Absolutely.
Wes I I haven't got the DVD or video or anything.
Wes I managed to see it on YouTube and even then it was crystal clear.
Adam Yeah.
Adam I think I think it's an upload from the because you can't get the DVD anymore.
Wes No.
Wes You can get the novelisation though for about 20 quid on eBay.
Adam Oh.
Adam Interesting fact about the novelisation, you know in the you know, you know in the list of dead people where it's like four people were skewered in their own bed and someone watching that blew up.
Adam apparently in the book, the person who blew up was Marcel Wave, you know the French character that Kenny used to do.
Lee Oh, yeah.
Adam Yeah, with the false chin.
Adam And yeah, so it was Marcel Wave who was too turned on by four feet and bees stabbed with a spear that he spontaneously combusted.
Adam Again, gives gives you gives you a level of the film, doesn't it?
Adam but yeah, so they they found it in storage, but the trouble is is what what a lot of companies obviously do.
Adam Is they'll store it for you, but they charge you for it.
Adam And eventually they chuck it away because, you know.
Adam Fortunately, they hadn't chuck Bloodbath away, but the the accrued storage fine was 25,000 pounds.
Lee Oh.
Lee Wow.
Adam And again.
Adam Let's face it.
Adam It's not it's not a hidden Kubrick, it's not, you know, sort of like Alfred Hitchcock's first like home videos or whatever like that.
Adam It's not going to it's not going to make back 25, 25 fucking grand.
Adam So.
Adam But.
Adam But again.
Adam Mark Morris sort of hammered at it and basically he managed to talk them down on the price because it was like, look, this way you will get some money for this.
Adam Otherwise, what else are you doing with this because literally no one else is interested.
Adam So make some money or chuck it away.
Adam And no one's got anything.
Adam So.
Adam So.
Adam But I didn't realise this that they said at the time, oddly, because everyone thinks, oh, multiplexes, that killed cinema.
Adam And it's like, no, streaming did, don't be silly.
Adam Streaming will kill it.
Adam When people were moaning about multiplexes, but they actually said with multiplexes, this film could have done better, but because they were like the average, it was like a three screen cinema was probably the biggest cinemas that you had certainly in England.
Adam And
Adam Yeah, if your film wasn't doing well, they just pulled it because they had loads of other films to show, and, you know, if you had like five big films that week, that cinema was only showing three of them.
Adam And yeah, so if your film wasn't doing well.
Adam It's like, well pull that because this other one's doing great.
Adam And we'll.
Adam Yeah.
