Digging into the Grisly True Story of Ed Gein [Murder Made Fiction Podcast]

“Can I rely on you not to get me killed?”

What happens to our souls when we die? Do we return in another body to live life again? Do we wink out of existence like an imploding star? Or do we become ghostly spirits, doomed to haunt the world of the living? If this is what waits for us when our bodies expire, what form will our ethereal spirit’s take? Will we appear as our ideal selves, at the peak of our physical existence? Or will we be doomed to spend eternity confronting the remnants of our demise, our final moment etched into our skin till the end of time? Steve Beck’s Thir13en Ghosts presents just such a fate. Not only are twelve angry spirits forced to appear as representatives of their brutal deaths, they’ve been trapped in a house and conscripted to serve an even more upsetting agenda.

Arthur (Tony Shalhoub) is still grieving the loss of his wife and struggling to care for his two children when a distant uncle dies, leaving him a hefty windfall. He’s inherited a unique mansion filled with rare artifacts and constructed of glass etched with mysterious latin phrases. There’s just one catch (other than the see-through bathroom walls), the basement is filled with twelve angry ghosts just waiting to escape their ectoplasmic cells. They’ve been painstakingly collected one by one in order to open the eye of hell. But Rafkin (Matthew Lillard), the man responsible for their supernatural imprisonment, has second thoughts about his role in this devious plan  and risks his life to help Arthur’s family escape.

The Lady Killers kick off a month of Halloween Horror with Beck’s unfairly maligned Dark Castle  film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams and Mae Shults are joined by Shawn Murphy and Clayton Jones II from the Men Who Like Men Who Like Movies! podcast to chat about nude ghosts, child podcasters, lecherous lawyers, and early aughts ghosts. Why does Arthur need a live-in nanny? What age is Shannon Elizabeth’s character supposed to be? Where can they get a pair of those cool ghost glasses, and who needs a plot when you’ve got Matthew Lillard? They’ll dig into the special feature backstories for each lady ghost while exploring the female archetypes on which they’re based.

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