Just like it wouldn’t be October without a few blood-curdling screams, it wouldn’t be HOFF’S PUBLIC DOMAIN HORRORFEST without some bloody good laughs. Join in on the “HOFFTOBER” celebrations as your well quarantined host, Hoff Matthews, invites you into his lair for an evening of movies, segments, games plus special guest, actor/comedian Brett Davis (The Podcast for Laundry, National Lampoon Radio Hour, Our Cartoon President) shenanigans. This time the screening of choice will be, none other than, the delicious murder mystery, “The Bat,” starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.
The film is based on the 1920’s Mary Roberts Rinehart-Avery Hopwood play of the same name. Like most movies, it started as a novel. Quelle suprise! In this case, that novel was written by Rinehart, the “American Agatha Christie,” who utilized what came to be known as the “Had-I-But-Known” rhetorical device. It should be noted that she came up with the story for the novel after visiting a real Virginian Gothic revival castle named “Melrose Castle,” built between 1856 and 1860. You can’t make this stuff up! In the film, a country house known as “The Oaks” becomes the site of mysterious and life-threatening activities and a violent criminal known as “The Bat” is on the prowl. This mystery villain should not be confused the Batman, but the character sure does drum up a lot of trouble. Enjoy every drop of Hoff’s comedy show and horror movie screening before 2020 gets the best of you.
Mentions: Show 9pm-11pm EST. Watch for FREE on YouTube. Learn more at www.hoffshorrorfest.com. Watch previous livestreams HERE.