Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The Bottom 100 is a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast, a trip through some of the worst movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. The Bottom 100 is a special series of episodes that will be randomly interspaced with regular releases, covering the way in which the Internet Movie Database recently renovated their list of the worst movies ever made to include more populist fare.
This time Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote’s The Open House.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 11th August 2018.
- Note: Andrew misremembers Big Train‘s “Alfred Hitchcock’s The Working Class” as a Monty Python sketch.
- The Open House at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Jacob Hall at /Film on Disney’s plan for a streaming service, August 2017.
- Michael Schneider at Variety on the challenges that face traditional television networks in the streaming age, May 2018.
- John Landgraf discusses how the glut of content will inevitably affect quality at Polygon, August 2016.
- Todd Spangler at Variety on Netflix’s plans for 700 original series in 2018, February 2018.
- Alex Shephard at The New Republic on Netflix’s plans to take on Hollywood, April 2018.
- Nick Fletcher at The Guardian on the “FAANG” companies, June 2018.
- Flixable compares the number of movies available on Neflix in 2010 to the number available now.
- David Ehrlich at IndieWire on the mixed blessing of Netflix buying up festival circuit films, April 2017.
- Dylan Minnette discusses the production of The Open House with Teen Vogue, January 2018.
- Dylan Minnette discusses the nihilism of The Open House with MTV, January 2018.
- Justin Kroll at Variety on Netflix’s acquisition of The Open House, November 2017.
- Paul Tassi at Forbes on The Open House as an example of Netflix foregoing any real quality control, January 2018.
- John Doyle at The Globe and Mail discusses The Open House as an example of Stephen King style horror, January 2018.
- Danse Macabre by Stephen King at Amazon, August 1981.
- Aaron Sakulich at The Triangle on the truth behind The Amityville Horror, October 2005.
- Darren talks about economic horror at The Journal, October 2012.
- Matt Barone at Complex on whether black characters actually tend to die first in horror movies, October 2013.
- Aja Romano at Vox on how recent horror movies reflect American fears of home invasion, December 2016.
- Paul Doro at Frames Cinema Journal on how many home-based horrors are rooted in middle-class anxieties, December 2017.
- Big Train present “Alfred Hitchcock’s The Working Class“, January 2002.
- Darren talks about how the Internet Movie Database have renovated their list of the worst movies ever made, September 2018.
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