Shudder ’s docudrama seriesCursed Filmsreturns this week , and since season one make the expectant hitters out of the way of life ( Poltergeist , The Omen , The Exorcist , The Crow , Twilight Zone : The Movie ) , season two allows for a somewhat loose interpretation of the series theme — though Hollywood nightmares still burst .
The first episode of season two signals a shift for the series — which was antecedently only concerned with horror moving-picture show — by digging intoThe Wizard of Oz , addressing many of the well - know stories and legends about the 1939 classic . These admit : original form extremity Buddy Ebsen had to quit after the suffocating Tin Man make - up shore him in the hospital ( true ) ; a cast phallus hung themself on - lot , a calamity say to still be seeable in sure cutting of the film ( false , and extensively discussed here ) ; and the actors who played the Munchkins partied fiercely throughout the production ( false , though Cursed Films II does show the infamous talk of the town - show clip of Judy Garland gayly give raise to that rumor ) . Brisk editing ( each Cursed Films episode is around 45 transactions , which palpate just proper ) and some surprising yet welcome interview national keep thing lively — the latter in this font including Steve Rash , theatre director of 1981 ’s notorious Oz - themed Chevy Chase comedy Under the Rainbow , and comedian Gregg Turkington , who makes a deadpan case for being considered Under the Rainbow ’s boastful fan .
With Oz expert and offspring likewise count in — including Margaret Hamilton ’s son , who recalls his mother recovering from life-threatening burn after a special - outcome malfunction during one of the Wicked Witch of the West ’s dramatic exit fit — the most insightful verbalize read/write head might be former Mythbusters hostAdam Savage . He evoke that calling movies “ cursed ” is really a way for devotee to cope with unfortunate , but not necessarily cosmically pre - prescribed , thing that might have happened during a particular motion-picture show ’s creation . “ Do we remove some magic about a narrative by busting a myth about that tale ? I submit ‘ no , ’ ” Savage says . “ I submit that no one ever minds have intercourse more about a issue . you could for certain demystify thing and still celebrate them at the same clock time … While some people may complain that in telling the true stories about some narration , we ’re somehow reducing some of its magic , I do n’t opine that ’s true for most the great unwashed . ”
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installment two dips back into horror with Roman Polanski ’s occult thriller Rosemary ’s Baby , which came out in 1968 — a time of great cultural and political garboil , something that ’s hand helpful context here . It was also just a year prior to Polanski ’s meaning married woman , Sharon Tate , and others being brutally killed by members of the Manson family . As such , it comes across that the “ curse ” of Rosemary ’s Baby is more , “ bad things that pass off after the movie ” rather than “ bad things that happened as part of the movie . ” The Manson story mystify a husky tan here ( as does the foreign life account of Rosemary ’s Baby co - star Victoria Vetri ) ; there ’s also the fact that the Dakota , the New York Cityapartment buildingwhose exterior was used in the film , was the site of John Lennon ’s murder over a decade later . ( Polanski ’s later legal troubles , however , go unmentioned . )
Cursed Films II — which is drop a line and calculate by Jay Cheel — premieres with The Wizard of Oz episode today on Shudder . New episodes drop weekly thereafter and the matter affair this time of year is overall rather instigate ; along with Rosemary ’s Baby , episodes will focus on Andrei Tarkovsky ’s 1979 sci - fi film Stalker , Wes Craven ’s 1988 Haitian Vodou geographic expedition The Serpent and the Rainbow , and Ruggero Deodato ’s notorious 1980 “ found - footage ” trailblazerCannibal Holocaust . you could also pelt all of Cursed Films ’ first season now on Shudder .
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