Rewatchables Reference

• The gas mask seance scene – the face licker shows up, Elise's team has old-school analog equipment.
• The first demon reveal – hard cut showing the demon behind Patrick Wilson at the kitchen table with a loud bang.
• Moving to the new house and realizing the haunting followed them (Tiny Tim needle drop plays).
• 'It's not the house that's haunted, it's your son' – the swerve moment.
• Rose Byrne discovering the handprint on the child.
• Kid falls off the ladder in the attic – sets everything up.

• The music/score by Joseph Bishara – Bill's son thinks it's the single scariest score other than 'The Shining'.
• Patrick Wilson's horror IMDB – 'Insidious', Conjuring, basically 'horror daddy' / the Scream King.
• What they did with the $1.5 million budget – incredible amount squeezed from it.
• Rose Byrne's performance – utterly believable especially in the early scenes.
• Barbara Hershey – something super creepy about her; effective callback to The Entity (1982).
• The creepy house – Bill rates it 8.5/10 on the creepy house scale (Amityville Horror being a 10).

• The first 60% of the film is better than the last 40% – the setup is better than the resolution/payoff.
• The special effects / low budget – the seance scene where guys get thrown across the room and you can see Patrick Wilson just jumping backwards, 'like pro wrestling in the 80s'.

• Ethan Hawke turned down the lead role – one year later he took Sinister, which Bill says is not as good.
• The film was originally going to be named 'The Further' – Chris thinks 'Insidious' is a better horror title.

• Lin Shaye as Elise – she brings a lot to it (Chris's pick).
• The Face Licker / Red-Faced Demon – 'kind of going for it' (Sean's pick).

• Lin Shaye (Elise) – Bill says she might be his all-time #1 'that guy'; also Magda in There's Something About Mary, appeared in Kingpin and A Nightmare on Elm Street; sister of Bob Shaye (New Line Cinema founder).
• Barbara Crampton mentioned alongside Shaye as the two iconic horror actresses still working.

• Specs and Tucker (Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson).
• Barbara Hershey – 'she left it on the table, it was hers to win'.
• Joseph Bishara – nominated for the Red-Faced Demon.

• Bill wished the kid (Ty Simpkins) had been someone who became famous later – like Jacob Elordi or Noah Centineo.
• Otherwise Bill liked how the movie was cast.

• In Josh's classroom scene, James Wan put Easter eggs – his name on the chalkboard, cast member names, Saw references.
• The old woman demon was played by a man – it wasn't until the sequel that they decided the character was a man dressed as a woman.

• James Wan – debated; already had Saw, but this made 100x its budget and opened the door for everything after; counter-argument that Conjuring is his actual apex.
• Joseph Bishara – yes, scored the film AND played the demon; 'like if Jonny Greenwood also acted in There Will Be Blood'.
• Astral traveling – having a big moment, also featured in Behind Her Eyes on Netflix.
• Patrick Wilson – no; Rose Byrne – no.

• Rose Byrne is a terrible mother – protection standards not high enough; everyone should sleep in the same room.
• Patrick Wilson staying late to 'grade papers' when his wife says there's a demon – 'the divorce papers are signed the first time he doesn't come home'.
• How do they not notice the weird figure in the different pictures?
• Little kids do NOT go into attics – confirmed by Bill's son Ben.
• Elise's rate of $600 per exorcism – not enough to pay the bills; Sean jokes 'They have a Patreon pod too'.

Essentially already done – Haunting of Hill House on Netflix is like a blown-out version of 'Insidious'.

• Why does the wife always know something is wrong with the house before the husband does?
• Where does Dalton rank in the possessed kid power rankings? Regan from 'The Exorcist' is #1; Danny from 'The Shining'; Chris says Dalton is 'not that impressive' since he spends most of the movie in a coma.

The gas mask – everyone agrees.

• Bill: James Wan – 'completely changes the course of his career and the horror movie genre with one choice'.
• Chris: Rose Byrne – 'a really, really good mother and terror performance'.
• Sean: Lin Shaye – goes from 'that guy woman' to a linchpin of horror movies for 10 years.