The Haunting of Hill House

Today, Lise and Kevin gush about the Shirley Jackson classic The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959 and made into the 1963 film The Haunting, written by Nelson Gidding and directed by Robert Wise.

Here is the YouTube video of David Warner reading the first chapter of the book.

Here is the Esquire article about the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House. For those who’re interested, I finally watched the end of the series, and I just found it…confusing.

Lastly, here is a hilarious video parodying the overwrought style of 1960s horror films.

April 27, 2019 0

A Man Called Ove

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Lise and Kevin cover the Swedish novel A Man Called Ove, published in 2012 by Fredrik Backman (translated into English in 2013), and made into a film in 2016 written and directed by Hannes Holm.

And here’s a correction and link: Lise talks about a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri. The actual title of the story is “The Third and Final Continent,” and it’s available in her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies.

April 13, 2019 0

House of Sand and Fog

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Lise and Kolleen take a look at House of Sand and Fog, a novel published in 1999 by Andre Dubus III and made into the 2003 film directed by Vadim Perelman and written by Vadim Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto.

March 30, 2019 0

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Lise and Kevin talk about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the YA book written by Stephen Chbosky and published in 1991, made into the 2012 film written and directed by Stephen Chbosky.

For those of you who might have missed it, here is Bambi Meets Godzilla, a forerunner of the “author as screenwriter and director” genre.

March 16, 2019 0

Out of the Past

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Lise and Kevin go over Kevin’s all-time favorite noir movie – 1947’s Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, based on the 1946 book Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring (writing as Geoffrey Homes), who also wrote the screenplay.

March 2, 2019 0

The Dead Zone

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Lise and Kevin cover The Dead Zone, written by Stephen King and published in 1979, made into the 1983 film written by Jeffrey Boam and directed by David Cronenberg.

February 16, 2019 0

Let the Right One In

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Lise and Kolleen get all fangirly over Let the Right One In, written by John Ajvide Lindqvist and published in Sweden in 2004, translated into English and published in the United States in 2008. The book was made into a film in 2008, directed by Tomas Alfredson with the screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist. (DO NOT WATCH THE AMERICAN REMAKE.)

Kolleen’s so in love with this film that she has a tattoo of Eli the vampire!

February 2, 2019 0

All You Zombies

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Lise and Kevin take on “All You Zombies,” a short story written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959, and made into the 2015 movie Predestination, directed by Michael and Robert Spierig and written by the Spierigs and Robert A. Heinlein.

January 19, 2019 0

Return of the King

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Lise and Kevin wrap up their discussion of The Lord of the Rings with Return of the King, written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1955, and adapted for the screen in 2003 in a film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson.

January 5, 2019 0