As always, I’ll be doing #31DaysOfHorror & #31daysofHalloween this month! I’ll be watching the following films along with #TCMParty tonight. Stay tuned for posts featuring related articles, historical tie-ins, folklore and more! https://twitter.com/tcm/status/1312059781029527552">https://twitter.com/tcm/statu...
Did anyone in the U.S. actually believe in vampires? Yes, and the reality is just as strange and disturbing as any horror film, including digging up the dead, and cannibalism
#Dracula #TCMParty https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87985/how-tuberculosis-inspired-19th-century-new-england-vampire-panic">https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/8...
How Tuberculosis Inspired the 19th-Century New England Vampire Panic

Some families were so desperate they were willing to try anything, even exhuming their loved ones.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87985/how-tuberculosis-inspired-19th-century-new-england-vampire-panic
I love that the um, ‘pets’ in Dracula (1931) had their own coffins https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚰️" title="Sarg" aria-label="Emoji: Sarg">

#Dracula #TCMParty
People also have questions about the armadillos in this vampire menagerie. No one seems to have answers (see link below) but there’s some folklore about armadillos digging up coffins & dining on corpses.
#Dracula #TCMParty https://medium.com/@toothpickings/the-dracs-menagerie-a7da23816e7d">https://medium.com/@toothpic...
The Dracs Menagerie

What’s with the zoo in Castle Dracula?

https://medium.com/@toothpickings/the-dracs-menagerie-a7da23816e7d
‘Cat People is not a movie about the psychological power of folktales; it is itself a folktale.’

#catpeople #TCMParty
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4228-cat-people-darkness-betrayed">https://www.criterion.com/current/p...
A cat’s power in horror is to bear witness, and hold humans accountable for their transgressions.

#CatPeople #TCMParty https://daily.jstor.org/dial-meow-for-murder/?utm_campaign=generalmarketing&utm_content=facebook,twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter">https://daily.jstor.org/dial-meow...
Dial Meow for Murder | JSTOR Daily

Notes on the figure of the feline in horror.

https://daily.jstor.org/dial-meow-for-murder/?utm_campaign=generalmarketing&utm_content=facebook,twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter
Funerals for cats were a WHOLE THING in the Victorian era. Cat owners commissioned undertakers to build elaborate cat caskets. Clergymen performed cat burial services. And stone masons chiseled cat names on cat headstones #CatPeople #TCMParty https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/01/21/cat-funerals-in-the-victorian-era/">https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/01/2...
Cat Funerals in the Victorian Era

During the early 19th century, it was not uncommon for the mortal remains of a beloved pet cat to be buried in the family garden. By the Victorian era, however, the formality of cat funerals had...

https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/01/21/cat-funerals-in-the-victorian-era/
The magnificent house featured in #HouseOnHauntedHill was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The horrors described in the film are reminiscent of the tragic real life ones that took place in another one of Lloyd Wright’s homes in 1914
#TCMParty https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedy">https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/2...
The Terrible Crime at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin 

The servant locked the door, and started pouring in the gasoline.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedy
Halloween costume inspo https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎃" title="Halloweenkürbis" aria-label="Emoji: Halloweenkürbis">
I’ll need some rollerskates...

#houseonhauntedhill #TCMParty
William Castle was king of gimmicks, so when the skeleton emerges at the end of #houseonhauntedhill in the theatre a fake skeleton on a wire was suspended over the audience. It elicited more laughter than screams and folks threw candy & popcorn at it. #TCMParty
Shirley Jackson was inspired to write her book which #TheHaunting is based on, after reading about the Society for Psychic Research. About their research Jackson said:

#TCMParty
...”the story that kept coming through their dry reports was not at all the story of a haunted house, it was the story of several earnest, I believe misguided, certainly determined people, with their differing motivations and backgrounds.” #thehaunting #TCMParty
It’s been said that this scene inspired the ‘breathing’ door in #Disneyland https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">’s #Hauntedmansion
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