The Haunted Davenport Podcast

Greetings Gremlins and Ghouls! We are back to share another hour of spooky clips and songs that we broadcast from our front yard cemetery scene Halloween Night. Happy Halloween from our haunt to yours!

Hours 1 and 2 of KRIP 103.1 can be found here:

https://www.thehaunteddavenport.com/e/krip-1031-hour-1/

https://www.thehaunteddavenport.com/e/krip-1031-hour-2/

 

We're back, just in time to celebrate the Halloween season in the haunted Hollywood Tower Hotel! Join us as we talk about The 1997 Disney made for television film "Tower of Terror", starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst.

Watch "Tower of Terror" (1997):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOZjIrNgUA

 

Check out the 1994 Tower of Terror ride promo video featuring Gilbert Gottfried:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlGUe5PkWgU&t=11s

 

Watch a POV video of the Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXRJsNuuoY

 

Listen to Retro Movie Geek's Spooky Flix Fest:

https://retromoviegeek.com/

 

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring

 

 

Grab a bottle of ketchup and pack your bags for Transylvania, because it's the time of year when we get animated on the Davenport. We talk about the excellent late 1980s British horror comedy series for kids: Count Duckula.

Check out clips and full episodes of Count Duckula here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCDNqvrI9lIVI8zVk3DIWlg

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Count Duckula" by Mike Harding

 

Watch "Tower of Terror" (1997):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOZjIrNgUA

You are about to embark on a journey that takes you to a place familiar, but somehow strange and frightening. You find yourself with four people on a davenport in the middle of The Twilight Zone...

Join us as we talk about scary dolls, mannequins, and mistreated robots in four episodes of The Twilight Zone. There will be spoilers for the following classic episodes: "The After Hours" (season 1, episode 34), "The Lateness of the Hour" (season 2, episode 8), "The Dummy" (season 3, episode 33), "Living Doll" (season 5, episode 6).

We also talk about plot elements from the following films: Her, Magic, Jacob's Ladder, Mannequin, Blade Runner, Westworld, The Matrix, and Pixel Perfect.

Check out Retro Movie Geek's Spooky Flix Fest featuring scary dolls:

https://retromoviegeek.com/category/podcast/page/22/

Check out The Sci-Fi Podcast episode: "More Human Than Human":

https://thescifipodcast.com/the-sci-fi-podcast-ep-3-more-human-than-human-and-chappie-2015/

The trailer for "Primal Screen" on Shudder:

https://youtu.be/5m9tLAEkzs4

 

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Showroom Dummies" by Señor Coconut (a cover of the original song by KRAFTWERK)

We take a journey down memory lane with the Bates family as we talk the made-for-television Showtime film: Psycho IV: The Beginning, from 1990.

Check out the Post Mortem podcast by director Mick Garris:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-mortem-with-mick-garris/id1204949508

 

The Making of Psycho documentary:

https://youtu.be/bTusPxB76AM

 

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Mother" by The Police

 

We go in depth with an excellent 1994 HBO science fiction anthology hosted by George Clinton. Join us as we discuss the three stories that make up "Cosmic Slop".

*Correction for this episode: when we discuss the segment "Tang" I misread my notes and mistakenly called actress Paula Jai Parker (who plays Tang in this segment) Jai Parker. My apologies.

- Allyson

 

Watch Cosmic Slop here: https://youtu.be/IfBpjkgn5pY

Check out this article by Kai Arnold of Shadow and Act:

https://shadowandact.com/sci-fi-slop-revisit-hbos-bizarre-thought-provoking-film-that-seems-to-have-been-forgotten

 

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Cosmic Slop" by Funkadelic

 

Join us on the Davenport as we explore the 2001 horror anthology series: Night Visions, hosted by Henry Rollins. We go in-depth with four stories from two episodes: "A View Through the Window" and "Quiet Please" from episode 3, and "Bitter Harvest" and "My So-Called Life and Death" from episode 8.

 

You can watch Night Visions episodes here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwtpyMFgjLbqlL_CLRjoH4IBof3YSMiQk

 

Music Credits:

"Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"I Can't Get Behind That", performed by William Shatner and Henry Rollins

 

Take a virtual trip to the movie theater with us as we discuss the Disney made for TV film "Phantom of the Megaplex" from the year 2000.

Check out Horror Movie Podcast episode 206: Meta Horrors of the Silver Screen:

https://horrormoviepodcast.com/horror-movie-podcast-ep-206-horror-movies-on-the-silver-screen/

 

Consider supporting a great independent theater like The Clinton Street Theater: https://cstpdx.com/

 

Music Credits:

"The Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife" by Mastadon

We return to the Night Gallery and go in depth with the following story segments: "The Little Black Bag" (season 1, episode 2), "Make Me Laugh" (season 1, episode 4), "Death in the Family" (season 2, episode 2), and "The Diary" (season 2, episode 8).

Watch Night Gallery episodes online:

https://www.nbc.com/night-gallery

CBS Radio Mystery Theater:

https://www.cbsrmt.com/

 

 

Music Credits:

"The Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"Make 'Em Laugh" from Singing in the Rain, performed by Donald O'Connor

Val wasn't available when we recorded our Halloween episode on the 1980 TV film "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", so we recorded a bonus segment to hear her thoughts on it.

Music Credits:

"The Haunted Davenport Theme" by Chris Howcroft

"The Headless Horseman" by Kay Starr and the Billy Butterfield Quintet