House By The Cemetery Radio Spot 1984 (US)

Note: Quick history on this radio spot. This 45 rpm record with two Radio Spots on it was the first I ever bought at a flea market in Chicago in 1987. Once the digital age came about I converted both spots into MP3 format. Some time in 2000 the 45 was accidentally sold at a garage sale (blame my wife for that one). Unfortunately all I have left is a badly edited version of Spot #1 that I made for airplay on a now defunct all "Horror" internet radio station. The complete rips of both tracks sit somewhere on an old hard drive in my closet. Someday I'll rescue both tracks.

The original version was 1 minute 30 seconds and the voice over was done superbly by Brother Theodore (Credits include the movie "The Burbs" and many voice over credits- most notably for DIOTD fans-he was the narrator at the beginning of "Horror Of The Blood Monsters").

The audio is badly edited and I apologize for that.

In any event, a little bit of art is better than none at all, so I present the truncated version of this Radio Spot for all to enjoy.

Format: Radio Spot
Released In US: March 1984
Director: Lucio Fulci
Distributor: Almi Pictures

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• horror
• movie
• trailers
• house
• by
• the
• cemetery
• radio
• spot
• 1981
• 1984

[mkelo1]

I wrote and produced these radio spots back in the `80s for the now defunct ALMI Pictures. When I pitched Theo as the narrartor, they thought I was insane. I took the exec to see Theo's live show on 13th Street in NYC - and she was sold! In all, I wrote and produced 2 radio spots, a TV spot and a theatrical trailer. Working with Theodore was a BLAST - and it led to a nice friendship. Perhaps one day, when time allows (!), I'll post the outtakes and pristine versions of all the spots.

[dkublin]

i watched this saturday night!!! I loved this movie and really scary!!! great flix!!

[TheAltair4]

@Skulldini It's possible, i suppose. I know that in the novel of The Shining Jack goes after his family with a roque mallet and in the Kubrick film he uses an axe, very similar to what James Brolin did at the end of Amityville Horror.

[Skulldini]

@TheAltair4 Well, I always thought it was because the plot of Amityville Horror was also taken a little bit from the Shining novel. Imean, I know there was that real life case that it was suposedly based on. But when they made it into a flick they probably used story elements from that same book to fashion the premise. Thats what I always asumed .

[TheAltair4]

@Skulldini Ah, yes! The Sentinel is one of my faves, as is Amityville Horror, which i'm sure Kubrick borrowed from when he made his version of The Shining.

[Skulldini]

@TheAltair4 The Beyond also had elements from The Sentinel ( seen that ? ) and Amityville Horror too, .. . which, as a matter of fact, The Shining also had elements in common with .

[Skulldini]

@slave2moonlight Theodore Gotlieb a.k.a. "Brother Theodore".

[Johnlindsey289]

@slave2moonlight

Yes and he was the original Gollum in Rankin-Bass's Hobbit/Return of the King and he was in The Last Unicorn as Ruhk

[slave2moonlight]

Is that the voice of one of the neighbors from "The Burbs"? Ha.

[TheAltair4]

@Johnlindsey289 Well, this is essentially a haunted house movie, so i'm sure that Fulci was influenced by a meriad of spooky films when he made this one. The Beyond was almost certainly influenced by The Shining though.

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

Do you think Fulci was inspired by The Shining when he did this movie? it's sort of like Beetlejuice meets Pet Sematary and House (1986). Maybe this movie did inspired those films of the similar premise.

[TheAltair4]

One of Fulci's best and most underrated classics.