Haunted Basement

What happens to a dream project when the dreamer dies? What elements of Walt Disney's utopia were actually constructed? Climb aboard the Carousel of Progress and experience the final part of EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow.

Part 3 of EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow opens with a secret trip to the swampy wilderness of Bay Lake, Florida. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1963, the year Walt Disney discovered the future home for his experimental community.

EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow continues with the story of Disneyland's long development and miraculous success. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1955, the year Walt Disney proved that he was both a master showman and an expert urban developer.

Haunted Basement: The Podcast returns with a 4-part miniseries, EPCOT: The City of Tomorrow, the story about Walt Disney's final and ultimately unrealized dream project. Join A.J. as he welcomes you aboard the Carousel of Progress and transports you back to 1938, the year of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and another formative event that lead to the development of EPCOT.

We bid adieu to Summer by basking in the autumnal glow of one of our favorite Fall movies: Little Giants (1994). Nearly thirty years after its release, this baby still holds up, so we figured we’d chat with the man responsible for this underdog classic: director/editor extraordinaire, Duwayne Dunham. If you’re not familiar, this guy’s the stuff of legend. Besides hitch-hiking across the country to charm his way onto the set of Jaws (1975), Duwayne got his start as an assistant editor on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) before getting hired as lead editor of Return of the Jedi (1983) and Blue Velvet (1986). He went on to edit David Lynch’s serial drama, Twin Peaks (1990-91), and the 2017 limited series, Twin Peaks: The Return, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and two nominations. Duwayne’s directorial credits include Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), Little Giants (1994), Halloweentown (1998), as well as the upcoming film The Happy Worker. If Janusz Kaminski’s use of Kodachrome in Little Giants doesn’t get you excited for Fall, fear not; we call our Mom for an unexpected helping of stew appreciation. ⁠⁠Haunted Basement⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a full-service video production company that creates content to tell the story of your business or brand. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠hauntedbasement.video⁠⁠⁠⁠ or contact ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ for more. 

After a summer break, we'll be back very soon with a great new full-length episode about another classic movie in the Serrano household. But first, an announcement! Here's a mini bonus episode detailing A.J.'s upcoming short horror film, Night Train. We discuss how A.J. came up with the idea for the film, who the target audience is, and how you can help him realize his goal. Become a supporter of Night Train on Seed & Spark and help get this project 100% funded. Haunted Basement is a full-service, boutique production company that creates professional video content to promote your business or brand. Visit hauntedbasement.video or contact [email protected] for more.

Producer extraordinaire and fellow cinephile, Brian Lemieux, returns to the basement to talk about this summer’s most anticipated movies. What’s coming out this summer? Oh, just a few small pictures called Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Mission: Impossible — Tom Cruise Jumps Off A Cliff On A Motorcycle Part One. Also, Rory and Reagan offer a tough but fair critique of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in a special segment of “Kidz Critic.” Spoiler alert: There are exactly 61 Spider-People in the movie. Tune in to this episode to get excited for your next favorite summer movie. ⁠⁠Haunted Basement⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a full-service, boutique video production company. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠hauntedbasement.video⁠⁠⁠⁠ or contact ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ for more. 

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Michael Lukk Litwak joins us in the basement to talk about his debut feature, Molli and Max in the Future, a sci-fi romantic comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions, and one space-cult. We cover the joys of When Harry Met Sally, just how much work goes into making a movie set on a different planet, and what Glorp actually tastes like. Plus, Bubba talks about crashing another couple’s honeymoon and having a pretty okay cup of coffee at the Double R, and Ashleigh makes #lofiforlife a thing. Oh my science, it’s a fun episode. Don’t be a Turboschmuck and miss this one. Trust us, it makes perfect nonsense. ⁠Haunted Basement⁠⁠⁠ is a full-service, boutique video production company. Visit ⁠⁠⁠hauntedbasement.video⁠⁠⁠ or contact ⁠[email protected]⁠ for more. 

Andrew Wong of Boston-based punk band Miracle Blood joins us in the basement for a conversation about making music in the age of streaming. We talk about stuff like Napster and LimeWire  (which, our lawyers would like to make absolutely clear, we’ve never heard of before), how the algorithms have influenced release strategies, and how to take care of your pipes whilst screaming about your desire to be a Pomeranian.  Plus, we urge Mr. Jason Waterfalls not to go, reminisce about a foundational Keane concert (aren’t they all?), and as a little bonus A.J. impersonates Louis Armstrong impersonating Creed (can you take me higher to see clouds of white when I’m six feet from the edge of a beautiful world?). Listen to Miracle Blood on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, or Youtube, and follow the band on Instagram. ⁠Haunted Basement⁠⁠⁠ is a full-service, boutique production company that creates professional video content to promote your business or brand. Visit ⁠⁠⁠hauntedbasement.video⁠⁠⁠ or contact ⁠[email protected]⁠ for more.  

Chris Liberge, President of entertainment consulting agency Enact Insight, joins us in the basement to spread the good word: Hollywood is alive and well! (Never mind what we said last episode - that was so two weeks ago.) Learn, laugh, and live™ as we talk about box office forecasts, our mutual love for the OG Spider-Man (2002), how Taylor Swift serves as an apt metaphor for the Marvel cinematic universe, the increasingly blurred boundary separating movies from television, and how the running time of Martin Scorsese’s latest films have waged war against our buttocks. Other noteworthy tidbits: Mom is henceforth known as #Renéefluencer and Haunted Basement: The Podcast is now Haunted Basement: The On Harvard Time Alumni Podcast. Good? Good. Haunted Basement⁠⁠ is a full-service, boutique production company that creates professional video content to promote your business or brand. Visit ⁠⁠hauntedbasement.video⁠⁠ or contact [email protected] for more.