Happy Halloween!

Have a safe and happy October 31st!

 

Skywald's Psycho Magazine

The Bloody Pit #183 - Inner Sanctum Radio Shows

Since we will be covering four more Inner Sanctum films in 2024 it was suggested that I might want to acquaint podcast listeners with some of the old radio shows. I love these wonderful horror and suspense tales but most folks have never sought them out. They are quite entertaining as examples of ‘Theater of the Mind’ exercises and, as I explain in my introductions, the Inner Sanctum show may have been the starting point for a horror trope that persists to this day.

 

I have picked three interesting episodes that I think will give you a good idea of the tone the program trafficked in and there is even a performance from Boris Karloff to get us started! He is the main character in an adaptation of Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart while Richard Widmark stars in the second grisly story about man’s lust for immortality. The final story I chose because it fits the October season with the title A Corpse for Halloween. Enjoy!

If you have any comments or suggestions thebloodypit@gmail.com is the place to send them. Thanks for listening and Happy Halloween! 

DC Comics' Ghosts Cover Gallery

 

Wild, Wild Podcast Season 6: Episode 2 - Luana, the Girl Tarzan (Luana la figlia delle foresta vergine, 1968)

Stop us if you've heard this one before: a plane crashes in the jungle killing the adults onboard and leaving a solitary three-year-old girl to fend for herself. Communing with the animals, she grows into a beautiful young woman who the local tribes worship and fear as a goddess. Yes, if you asked AI to write you a jungle girl movie, it wouldn't be all that different from the plot of Luana, but here on the Wild, Wild Podcast we love it, and her, anyway!

You can learn more about the star of the film, Mei-Chen, and see plenty of pictures, over on Pulp International. You can also check out the amazing Luana comic strips and Frank Frazetta artwork HERE. And of course, if you want to watch Luana, it's available on YouTube.

We would love to hear from you if you have any favorite Jungle Girl films, or if you ever got lost in the jungle yourself and ended up befriending the animals or becoming a god to a local tribe. You can contact us on Twitter and Instagram or by email at wildwildpodcast@gmail.com. Please also remember to rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice!

THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963) Lobby Cards and Poster Art

One of the best of the Corman Poe series even though it is an adaptation of Lovecraft.

Ray Bradbury's OCTOBER COUNTRY Halloween Radio Program

This Unicef show from October 30th, 1984 was broadcast live from The Directors Guild of America in Hollywood and is a Ray Bradbury anthology, featuring dramatic adaptations of three of his stories: "The Emissary" "There Was an Old Woman" and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone.” It also features a brief appearance by Bradbury himself at the top of the show.

Directed by John Clark, based on Ray Bradbury’s book The October Country, adapted for radio by Rick Libert, Deborah Hansen, Jack Nierob, Sharon Benoit, and John Clark. It stars Robert Brown, Barrie Ingham, June Lockhart, Lynn Redgrave, Casey Kasem, Jean Kasem, Gary Owens, Danny Cooksey, Frank Welker (Scooby-Doo) and announcer Marvin Miller. 

New Yorker Halloween Covers

Poster Art for THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964)