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The Haunted Institute: Nazi Medicine, Movie Magic, and a Plastic Skull
The Haunted Institute: Nazi Medicine, Movie Magic, and a Plastic Skull
Horror rooted in engineered spectacle: the 1999 House on Haunted Hill used a styrofoam skull dissolved with acetone to simulate a brain, recycled a prop from 1981, and ran in theaters for sixty-one weeks - but why did a mainstream studio remake fold Nazi architectural and medical aesthetics into its scares?
In this episode, I describe how a remake of a 1959 film moved through three companies before landing at Warner Bros., how the original creator's daughter became a co-producer, and how design choices from Albert Speer…
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