If you're taking plantation columns and using them in your "white people are all racist towards the wewuzkangz folk" isn't very shocking when your movie is going to be about racism. You're just a tool!
It's interesting how the haunted house ideal is quickly shifting from the "classic" victorian houses which were symbolic of the post-great depression era to the modern mcmansion, symbolic of the post-2008 crisis.
@@uwpride thanks! i was watching "the watcher" on netflix and i thought this subtext was made pretty obvious in that lol (even if the house in the series is older, it did remind me of some modern monstrosity. i was like why are y'all so obsessed with this house, it's ugly af)
I think its far from moving away from the ancient manor tho, haunted haunted houses are still old Victorian houses in mostly haunted houses movies and series.
I've really never been a fan of the "after" of the Beetlejuice house, but this guy helped me appreciate it and understand its architectural influence. :D
Please keep Michael Wyetzner for as long as he will do these Architectural videos!!! The way he speaks is educational and so passionate at the same time ❤️
I very much enjoy the speed at which the information comes flying at me from the videos featuring this architect and whoever is editing them. I *love* it when he’s talking about something and on the screen, you’re being shown a photo with the words appearing as he speaks. Thank you to the editors and to this architect for their talents.
The Get Out house seems very thematically appropriate then-- plantation styling sticking out of a more unassuming architecture is very much resonant with the story.
My problem with it is that it's a little obvious. The moment you know what the plots going to be for the movie you already know that they're going to reference plantation homes in the houses design. A little on the nose.
You know another reason the Overlook/Timberline might have a deep, strongly pitched roof? Heavy snowfall. A steeply pitched roof will discourage lots of snow build-up which could collapse a flatter/more shallowly pitched roof. There are ways to reinforce a roof against heavy snow-load so that it doesn't need to be so deep but that can get pricey (and bulky.)
One thing that wasn’t mentioned about the Overlook/Timberline is that the interior shots of the hotel are all on a soundstage. The actual interior is akin to a massive log cabin, lots of timber and very rustic.
and somewhat cramped! There's constant traffic jams in that thing, almost everywhere except right in front of the big fireplace. Especially in the halls off the rooms.
I washed a load of laundry while we stayed there. It was an unsettling experience after reading and watching The Shining. I had to go down stairs into the basement, past the boilers on a metal catwalk and down more stairs to reach the laundry machines. It gave my active imagination a spooky workout.
Hill House in the Haunting was fantastic. The building is stunning externally. Of course nothing matches up on the interior set, but the set itself reminds me of the FOX theatres in Detroit and Michigan. It's gigantic in scale.
Loved the building since I saw the film as a child. The exterior they used was of Harlaxton manor in Lincolnshire . My home county, sadly never been able to visit as it’s a university campus. The style is jacobethan a merging of Jacobean and Elizabethan architecture , remains my favourite style.
@@OrganMusicYT Completely agree. That opening shot revealing the mansion in the mist with the muted sun in the distance is one of my favorite in cinema.
The beetlejuice house was a real house that was about 10 mins from my hometown. The outside at least. And the whole town it was shot in too! It’s so sweet to think they’re driving through a place I’ve been to many times
I work at a nursing home that was built around the 1930s. The dining room looks eerily familiar to the stairwell room in The Shining. I'm always tempted to start bouncing a ball off the walls.
Even though the house in Get Out isn't on a hill, the porch is raised in such a way that we have to look up to see the entrance. The door is higher than the windows next to it, making it look like it doesn't belong to the house. Both the door and those windows look like you couldn't escape from them.
I would love to see more of this. More old creepy houses like The Woman in Black, The Others…. And newer more modern houses like the Paranormal Activity series. Ooh, and haunted abandoned asylums. The architecture on these is so interesting. Like the Kirkbride design.
When I was a kid I loved the 80s modern Beetlejuice house renovation both inside and out, in fact I loved Delia's style all around and I was confused as to why Lydia didn't like it when it seemed to suit her attitude so well.
I think every town had a dilapidated Victorian house that the kids all thought was haunted. Hitchcock was so great at digging into the American psyche...I love that Beelejuice actually has this comment on architecture and the tension between restoration and renovation. We automatically see the renovators as villains and the restorers as the heroes.
The glass house in Thir13en Ghosts (2001) is one of my favorites, without the movie itself being a favorite. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) and the Watson & Webber short The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) are also striking. And the octagonal Armour-Stiner House in The Nesting (1981).
Love these Michael Wyetzner architecture videos. Very interesting, knowledgeable and well made. I'd love it if you did a video on theatres. Keep up the great work.
I love the Timberline Lodge/Overlook Hotel from _The Shining,_ but one of the things I love most about it is how incongruous the interior set is compared with the location exterior. It really underscores the unease about the house when it has the sort of impossible quality. The house from Get Out in some ways reminds me of the house from _Poltergeist,_ which was really turning the haunted house trope on its head way back in 1982. An ordinary, almost pedestrian suburban house, that is now pretty iconic.
To me, I was always fascinated that Kubrick chose so many different styles of architecture to portray The Overlook in The Shining. I have stayed at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite which is the interiors, or should I say the replicas of the Interiors which were built on a soundstage in England. The exteriors were Timberline Lodge which I have often stayed and stopped over on ski trips on Mount Hood outside of Portland Oregon. The Styles simply don't match!!!😮
Very cool! I would love more of these, including the family house from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A beautiful old Victorian home with a whole lot of evil lurking inside…
how could u have missed out the MOST famous of them all-The Amityville house....i mean the Psycho house is on set anyway,by far the most iconic!can u do part 2 maybe?
The 'dilapidated' house at 1:24 is located in Astoria Oregon. They're actually renovating it, but it has a fascinating history of a rich family that gradually fell into health issues, isolation, and estrangement.
I wasn't expecting the Adirondack Style to have such an influence on the rest of the architecture around the states! Grew up in Upstate NY and can confirm that the "Laid Back" feel is amplified around these parts
As someone who vacationed on Long Island ( also NY) I would sugest that the “ shingle style” probably Queen Anne archetecture we had also feels creepy cool- and old school resortish ( example: House of Woody Allen’s Interiors, beach bubgalow in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Metropolitan). Not to forget real homes like the Beal’s Grey Gardens, Warhol’s, Halston’s and Ralph Lauren’s
👩🏻💻The last house was very balanced, pleasing to the eye, symmetrical, implying in my mind as safe, solid, and long standing. I have taught the concept of Symmetry to 1st grade students for 17 years. These kids just soaked up the equalness and comfort of a symmetrical shape and looking for Symmetry in their world and how excited they are to find it in what ever form. I have not seen the movie but it would be jolting to have scarey moments inside a welcoming residence. All the other houses leave me restless, questioning, and resisting. Thank you for your channel, from an Architect's Daughter. Much love and peace. 🙋♀️🪔🌠🐞🥰&♎🇬🇧🇺🇲
I love horror movies and I have had a growing interest in architecture. Thank you so much for this video because I just nerded out in a whole new way! ❤️
I really enjoy his videos. He's so knowledgeable and yet he knows how to explain complex things in a simple manner so that a complete non-architect like me can understand. He has one on the types of old New York apartments that is most excellent.
About the maze set. Most people dont realize but, the daytime shots of Wendy and Danny walking through the maze were shot on an indoor sound stage. Kubrick is that good at lighting. He can actually create an overcast sky seen in camera above the actors as they walk through the maze but it is all studio lighting cleverly disguised
Loved the bates house and the interior works so well. Love the house used in American horror story which of course does exist. Love these videos with Michael. He’s excellent.
I wish they had done the house in the movie The Pact. When I saw it premier at Fantasia, the director said that when they saw the house, they knew the movie had to be filmed there. It was just some house that someone actually lived in, but it was incredibly perfect for the story
We have a lot of historic Victorian era houses here in Evansville, IN. I love them. They’ve also painted them in outrageous colors and schemes that it makes it even better. I love it when houses are works of art themselves.
love this video but i’m surprised you didn’t mention the interior of the hotel in The Shinning was a different hotel than the exterior despite showing inside during this video. Great catch on the hedge maze though!
God, i can't help but say that the Timberline Lodge just isn't done justice in photos. I know people love it, but if you turn around and look down the mountain the view is breathtaking. We were lucky enough to catch it at both Sunrise and Sunset when we visited. It was gorgeous!
About “The Overlook Hotel” exterior: That deep pitched roof makes sense in the mountains with all the snow, wanting to have minimal accumulation on the roof. So that beautiful deep pitch has a practical application to it as well. And much like you do, I really appreciate the artistic touch of continuance of line with the roof lines being brought all the way to the ground in places. You mentioned the hedge maze being a part of the sets in England. The interiors were also in the massive studios in England, and the interiors are based on the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. As terrifying as “The Shining” is, I still love the interiors. They are a wonderful juxtaposition of beauty and grandeur to the horror that unfolds in the film, and I could get into how the climax starts in the openness of the lounge and gradually becomes more and more claustrophobic until we’re locked inside the apartment bathroom with Wendy hiding from Jack as he chops down the door, but that’s a cinematic discussion.
Amazing well presented. Your never too old to learn, for well over 40 years i have adored victorian high but flat topped roofs with spiked rails, only today learnt their name, Mansard roofs.. love it , am 48, still learning small new thinga every day.
This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much.
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As a writer and occasional screenwriter with a penchant for the spooky and architecture, I found this video particularly interesting. I already love to drive around and look at houses, "vetting them" for their spookiness. This video gave me more brain candy to chew on during my drives. :)
I think this video is a brilliant idea! How very clever! I'm 70 and have loved horror movies all my life; that you would look at the architecture and the information to be found from each style is just wonderful. I think you just made my Halloween, lol!
The irony of a contemporary architect liking a house built as a parody of contemporary architecture and not understanding he is precisely what the movie is criticizing 😅
I remember a story about a couple who took a tour of a home in India. The guide was very enthusiastic and described the murder that happened there in great detail. They couldn't figure out why, but there was something creepy about it. Later, they learned the tour guide had committed the murder but had gotten off on a technicality. He worked as a tour guide of the house ever since.
Another influence for the Bates House is the Kittredge Family Mansion in Santa Cruz. Hitch lived in nearby Scotts Valley and would have seen the mansion, which sits on Beach Hill, it its then imposing, dilapidated state. It's now completely refurbished and the Sunshine Villa retirement community. My friend worked there and says the staircase matches the one in "Psycho", which freaked her out to no end.
Check out the staircase in the Victorian hotel in Vertigo, filmed two years before. It’s the same. Now I know why Hitchcock named it the Kittredge Hotel.
When I see a deep roof, the attic is not my first thought.... Deep roofs are utility, they are used on homes in areas with heavy snowfall. So a really steep roof makes me wonder how much snow am I going to have to shovel in the winter. Which is a horror all on it's own. Quite enjoyed this video. Liked and Subscribed.
The section on the GET OUT house was new and interesting to me. I had seen other architecture analysis of the house in Psycho and Beetlejuice. But the Get Out house was very clever.
This was fascinating. I never noticed that The Overlook Hotel from "The Shining" (aka Timberline Lodge) architecturally reflected the general shape of the mountainous landscape behind the hotel. My favorite was the "after" version of the house in Beetlejuice. The revised structure made no sense, was funny, derivative, pretentious, scary, and odd which perfectly symbolized that entities (living and dead) who resided inside.
the added stuff to the beetlejuice house is to me all style over substance. like he said, nothing actually adds additional space or utility, even the huge beams, usually functional things, are there only for show. there is also the argument that the structures added don't actually "enhance" what was there before but actively obscures it. a second layer of the exact same that hides the original.
One of the houses on my bucket list is the Winchester Mystery Mansion. It inspired Stephen King to write Rose Red, which was filmed at Thornwood Castle in the Seattle area.
Fun Faq,,the Beetlejuice house was first constructed in the Deetz contemporary style and then "deconstructed "and aged to be the Maitland house for filming logistics in 1987(1988 release).
The "Get Out" house is a typical modern example of what is commonly called French-Acadian architecture. Mostly found in South Louisiana, but from what I can tell the movie was filmed in Alabama, which is a stone throw away. I think the brick gables could be a hold over from buildings in the French Quarter where you can see brick walls protrude above rooflines as a firewall between row houses.
Aw, you left out my favorite detail about the Overlook in the Shinning; it's interior architecture makes no sense. The halls and rooms twist and turn in an impossible manor, and the coolest one is that at the beginning, when Jack is talking to the owner or whoever about his duties, the office is in the middle of the hotel, yet there's a window showing bushes.
I think Jordan Peele was also trying to convey the facade of a northeastern cape cod home with the backbone of a southern plantation home. Emphasizing the twofaced beliefs of many wealthy white Americans
Victorian (Second Empire, Italianate, Queen Anne, etc.) is my favorite style of architecture. Normally I would have been offended by the remodel of the Beetlejuice house, but to me, the "before" looks like a house that has been stripped of its decorative elements (millwork around the windows, etc.), which happened a lot because the woodwork would have deteriorated from lack of maintenance, especially in places with harsh weather. So what was left was just a blank canvas, with windows that appear way too small, etc. The Victorian decorative elements were an essential part of what made the proportions look correct on those houses, and once they were gone, the houses look strange. The remodel actually created a "modern" interpretation of those decorative elements that originally served no structural purpose, but made the house interesting to look at.
While I do appreciate that you get straight to the point, I would've liked some mention of the interior architecture, even if it's just a facade on sound stage. 👻
The House from Get Out having Doric collumns reminiscent of plantation mansions is a brilliant piece of foreshadowing for the big reveal.
If you're taking plantation columns and using them in your "white people are all racist towards the wewuzkangz folk" isn't very shocking when your movie is going to be about racism. You're just a tool!
It's interesting how the haunted house ideal is quickly shifting from the "classic" victorian houses which were symbolic of the post-great depression era to the modern mcmansion, symbolic of the post-2008 crisis.
Well said
@@uwpride thanks! i was watching "the watcher" on netflix and i thought this subtext was made pretty obvious in that lol (even if the house in the series is older, it did remind me of some modern monstrosity. i was like why are y'all so obsessed with this house, it's ugly af)
That's an excellent observation.
I think its far from moving away from the ancient manor tho, haunted haunted houses are still old Victorian houses in mostly haunted houses movies and series.
I think it's because they are too much money to keep up.
i love that someone finally talks about how brilliant the house was in beetlejuice.. I liked it both before and after.
yes and the first conjuring house!
I've really never been a fan of the "after" of the Beetlejuice house, but this guy helped me appreciate it and understand its architectural influence. :D
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, ………. Beetlejuice!! 😂
Please keep Michael Wyetzner for as long as he will do these Architectural videos!!!
The way he speaks is educational and so passionate at the same time ❤️
I very much enjoy the speed at which the information comes flying at me from the videos featuring this architect and whoever is editing them. I *love* it when he’s talking about something and on the screen, you’re being shown a photo with the words appearing as he speaks. Thank you to the editors and to this architect for their talents.
me too, although they need to smooth the dialogue, it sound jumpy every time there's a cut in his words.
The Get Out house seems very thematically appropriate then-- plantation styling sticking out of a more unassuming architecture is very much resonant with the story.
Same with the concept of the true size being understated but still present, especially as a symbol of the wealth of the white family
Also how symmetrical it is raises alarms in my brain
@@alexschofield8085but it also isn’t exactly, as it has three dormers but four French windows - it’s subtly wrong
My problem with it is that it's a little obvious. The moment you know what the plots going to be for the movie you already know that they're going to reference plantation homes in the houses design. A little on the nose.
I was surprised the dutch colonial from The Amityville Horror didn’t get a mention! Huge roof, and those eye-like attic fan windows
I was just about to say basically the same thing.
I agree - there is nothing noteworthy about the Get Out house. Amityville should have been show. Or the stairway and house from The Exorcist.
@@mattropolis7857 those stairs are all the more terrifying, being real (not as close to the house as in the movie, but still)
Yes! That's what I was hoping for too
Yeah but Amityville’s a real house and the owners would not like to be bothered.
Also that movie was dull.
You know another reason the Overlook/Timberline might have a deep, strongly pitched roof? Heavy snowfall. A steeply pitched roof will discourage lots of snow build-up which could collapse a flatter/more shallowly pitched roof. There are ways to reinforce a roof against heavy snow-load so that it doesn't need to be so deep but that can get pricey (and bulky.)
I'd be interested in an analysis of the Parasite house. (Also on a hill, but no attic. and purposefully shot to feel cold).
That would be awesome. That house MADE that movie.
One thing that wasn’t mentioned about the Overlook/Timberline is that the interior shots of the hotel are all on a soundstage. The actual interior is akin to a massive log cabin, lots of timber and very rustic.
and somewhat cramped! There's constant traffic jams in that thing, almost everywhere except right in front of the big fireplace. Especially in the halls off the rooms.
Yes, it's very 1930s rustic. They used HUGE old growth redwood tree trunks to hold up the roof. You could not even do that now (rightfully).
Also the floor plan deliberately does not match the exterior.
I washed a load of laundry while we stayed there. It was an unsettling experience after reading and watching The Shining. I had to go down stairs into the basement, past the boilers on a metal catwalk and down more stairs to reach the laundry machines. It gave my active imagination a spooky workout.
The interiors of the Overlook were heavily based on those in the Ahawahnee lodge in Yosemite
I am always rushing to watch Architectural videos by Michael Wyetzner 😍 If he ever does a Masterclass on Architecture, sign me up!
I have three favorites:
1. The Hill House mansion in The Haunting (1999)
2. Whipstaff Manor in Casper (1995)
3. The Crimson Peak (2015) house
I was just thinking about Hill House, the house that was born bad. I think it was the scariest house in cinema.
Hill House in the Haunting was fantastic. The building is stunning externally. Of course nothing matches up on the interior set, but the set itself reminds me of the FOX theatres in Detroit and Michigan. It's gigantic in scale.
Loved the building since I saw the film as a child. The exterior they used was of Harlaxton manor in Lincolnshire . My home county, sadly never been able to visit as it’s a university campus. The style is jacobethan a merging of Jacobean and Elizabethan architecture , remains my favourite style.
@@OrganMusicYT Completely agree. That opening shot revealing the mansion in the mist with the muted sun in the distance is one of my favorite in cinema.
@@horticc Like you I would love to spend hours exploring the house and the grounds. Take a ton of photos and videos.
The beetlejuice house was a real house that was about 10 mins from my hometown. The outside at least. And the whole town it was shot in too! It’s so sweet to think they’re driving through a place I’ve been to many times
The house was a shell built for the movie. Hence the windows being way too small.
I work at a nursing home that was built around the 1930s. The dining room looks eerily familiar to the stairwell room in The Shining. I'm always tempted to start bouncing a ball off the walls.
Just beware if the layout starts to feel a bit off :-o
Even though the house in Get Out isn't on a hill, the porch is raised in such a way that we have to look up to see the entrance. The door is higher than the windows next to it, making it look like it doesn't belong to the house. Both the door and those windows look like you couldn't escape from them.
This guy's never been in a bad video
Would love to see a part 2! Very interesting stuff, especially with the more subversive horror like Get Out.
Glad to see house on haunted hill get some love. Such a great halloween movie that doesn't get mentioned enough.
I would love to see more of this. More old creepy houses like The Woman in Black, The Others…. And newer more modern houses like the Paranormal Activity series. Ooh, and haunted abandoned asylums. The architecture on these is so interesting. Like the Kirkbride design.
Or Amityville
Look for Second Empire architecture.
When I was a kid I loved the 80s modern Beetlejuice house renovation both inside and out, in fact I loved Delia's style all around and I was confused as to why Lydia didn't like it when it seemed to suit her attitude so well.
I think every town had a dilapidated Victorian house that the kids all thought was haunted. Hitchcock was so great at digging into the American psyche...I love that Beelejuice actually has this comment on architecture and the tension between restoration and renovation. We automatically see the renovators as villains and the restorers as the heroes.
The glass house in Thir13en Ghosts (2001) is one of my favorites, without the movie itself being a favorite. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) and the Watson & Webber short The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) are also striking. And the octagonal Armour-Stiner House in The Nesting (1981).
Love these Michael Wyetzner architecture videos. Very interesting, knowledgeable and well made. I'd love it if you did a video on theatres. Keep up the great work.
I love the Timberline Lodge/Overlook Hotel from _The Shining,_ but one of the things I love most about it is how incongruous the interior set is compared with the location exterior. It really underscores the unease about the house when it has the sort of impossible quality.
The house from Get Out in some ways reminds me of the house from _Poltergeist,_ which was really turning the haunted house trope on its head way back in 1982. An ordinary, almost pedestrian suburban house, that is now pretty iconic.
To me, I was always fascinated that Kubrick chose so many different styles of architecture to portray The Overlook in The Shining.
I have stayed at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite which is the interiors, or should I say the replicas of the Interiors which were built on a soundstage in England. The exteriors were Timberline Lodge which I have often stayed and stopped over on ski trips on Mount Hood outside of Portland Oregon.
The Styles simply don't match!!!😮
Very cool! I would love more of these, including the family house from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A beautiful old Victorian home with a whole lot of evil lurking inside…
The original was original for the movie. It still stands.
You forgot to mention that the walkway leading up to the Bate's house is known as the "Psycho Path"
Omigod. Whose father are you? That's totally a dad joke.. 😂
This type of content is so interesting! Keep it coming
I was excited anticipating a discussion of the house from Casper (1995). It's a shame it was omitted.
Good house, decent movie, but not really a horror; I think that's why it's out :).
That's my favourite, I love the doors and windows. Beautifully art nouveau
how could u have missed out the MOST famous of them all-The Amityville house....i mean the Psycho house is on set anyway,by far the most iconic!can u do part 2 maybe?
I would love to travel with him and get tours. So much knowledge and the way he explains everything is fascinating.
I've been fascinated by the Ennis House since Blade Runner. The unique beauty is so rare in architecture. It's so aesthetically pleasing.
The 'dilapidated' house at 1:24 is located in Astoria Oregon. They're actually renovating it, but it has a fascinating history of a rich family that gradually fell into health issues, isolation, and estrangement.
I wasn't expecting the Adirondack Style to have such an influence on the rest of the architecture around the states! Grew up in Upstate NY and can confirm that the "Laid Back" feel is amplified around these parts
As someone who vacationed on Long Island ( also NY) I would sugest that the “ shingle style” probably Queen Anne archetecture we had also feels creepy cool- and old school resortish ( example: House of Woody Allen’s Interiors, beach bubgalow in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Metropolitan). Not to forget real homes like the Beal’s Grey Gardens, Warhol’s, Halston’s and Ralph Lauren’s
i love the red el camino in the driveway in the beetlejuice reno photo. pairs with the yellow ridge beams so well
This was such a fun video!! would love more horror architecture 😍
More! More! More videos with Michael! Keep'em coming
what a cool video! if there’s ever a sequel, i’d love to see whipstaff manor/hill house/ practical magic house mentioned!!
Oh, Practical Magic is a great suggestion.
Oh yeah, the Practical Magic house is great. I'd add the house from Crimson Peak.
This guy is expressive and insightful! His videos are the best!
The buildings in Midsommar would be really interesting! The cultural elements of the design and how it plays into the horror aspect
I would have loved to see the American Horror Story house. The best part is that it’s also a real house.
another house that was also in buffy the vampire slayer!
I think my favorite thing about movies is how they blend in all art forms.. very cool video, keep ‘em coming!
This video was amazing! He is so smart and articulate, I really learned so much, lol.
I love the psycho house. It actually is what made me fall in love with Victorian architecture
LOL, me too. It sounds nuts to some people but I really do want Norman Bates's house. Without the corpse in the basement, of course.
👩🏻💻The last house was very balanced, pleasing to the eye, symmetrical, implying in my mind as safe, solid, and long standing. I have taught the concept of Symmetry to 1st grade students for 17 years. These kids just soaked up the equalness and comfort of a symmetrical shape and looking for Symmetry in their world and how excited they are to find it in what ever form. I have not seen the movie but it would be jolting to have scarey moments inside a welcoming residence. All the other houses leave me restless, questioning, and resisting. Thank you for your channel, from an Architect's Daughter. Much love and peace. 🙋♀️🪔🌠🐞🥰&♎🇬🇧🇺🇲
I love horror movies and I have had a growing interest in architecture.
Thank you so much for this video because I just nerded out in a whole new way! ❤️
As a filmmaker I find these very interesting! Excited to see more!
I really enjoy his videos. He's so knowledgeable and yet he knows how to explain complex things in a simple manner so that a complete non-architect like me can understand. He has one on the types of old New York apartments that is most excellent.
About the maze set. Most people dont realize but, the daytime shots of Wendy and Danny walking through the maze were shot on an indoor sound stage. Kubrick is that good at lighting. He can actually create an overcast sky seen in camera above the actors as they walk through the maze but it is all studio lighting cleverly disguised
I cannot emphasize just how much I loved this video
Loved the bates house and the interior works so well. Love the house used in American horror story which of course does exist. Love these videos with Michael. He’s excellent.
I wish they had done the house in the movie The Pact. When I saw it premier at Fantasia, the director said that when they saw the house, they knew the movie had to be filmed there. It was just some house that someone actually lived in, but it was incredibly perfect for the story
We have a lot of historic Victorian era houses here in Evansville, IN. I love them. They’ve also painted them in outrageous colors and schemes that it makes it even better.
I love it when houses are works of art themselves.
love this video but i’m surprised you didn’t mention the interior of the hotel in The Shinning was a different hotel than the exterior despite showing inside during this video. Great catch on the hedge maze though!
God, i can't help but say that the Timberline Lodge just isn't done justice in photos. I know people love it, but if you turn around and look down the mountain the view is breathtaking. We were lucky enough to catch it at both Sunrise and Sunset when we visited. It was gorgeous!
About “The Overlook Hotel” exterior: That deep pitched roof makes sense in the mountains with all the snow, wanting to have minimal accumulation on the roof. So that beautiful deep pitch has a practical application to it as well. And much like you do, I really appreciate the artistic touch of continuance of line with the roof lines being brought all the way to the ground in places.
You mentioned the hedge maze being a part of the sets in England. The interiors were also in the massive studios in England, and the interiors are based on the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite.
As terrifying as “The Shining” is, I still love the interiors. They are a wonderful juxtaposition of beauty and grandeur to the horror that unfolds in the film, and I could get into how the climax starts in the openness of the lounge and gradually becomes more and more claustrophobic until we’re locked inside the apartment bathroom with Wendy hiding from Jack as he chops down the door, but that’s a cinematic discussion.
Amazing well presented. Your never too old to learn, for well over 40 years i have adored victorian high but flat topped roofs with spiked rails, only today learnt their name, Mansard roofs.. love it , am 48, still learning small new thinga every day.
This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much.
As a writer and occasional screenwriter with a penchant for the spooky and architecture, I found this video particularly interesting. I already love to drive around and look at houses, "vetting them" for their spookiness. This video gave me more brain candy to chew on during my drives. :)
The textile block house by Wright is beautiful 😍
The house from Blade Runner was the set for the soap opera within a soap opera, Invitation to Love on Twin Peaks
I think this video is a brilliant idea! How very clever! I'm 70 and have loved horror movies all my life; that you would look at the architecture and the information to be found from each style is just wonderful. I think you just made my Halloween, lol!
I love Michael Wyetzner. Would love to see more videos featuring him. Fun concept!
I would also love to see a breakdown of different versions of Collinwood from Dark Shadows! This was so fun!
Would love to see one on the Crimson Peak house!
The irony of a contemporary architect liking a house built as a parody of contemporary architecture and not understanding he is precisely what the movie is criticizing 😅
I remember a story about a couple who took a tour of a home in India. The guide was very enthusiastic and described the murder that happened there in great detail. They couldn't figure out why, but there was something creepy about it. Later, they learned the tour guide had committed the murder but had gotten off on a technicality. He worked as a tour guide of the house ever since.
Great video, sharing to my horror film friends. I actually have that Changing New York book that you have on the desk.
Is this lovely man an educator? I could listen to him talk about houses all day.
This is fun, I'm an environmental design student, who loves horror!! I really enjoyed your axon of the Wright house, love all these movies!! Thanks AD
Another influence for the Bates House is the Kittredge Family Mansion in Santa Cruz. Hitch lived in nearby Scotts Valley and would have seen the mansion, which sits on Beach Hill, it its then imposing, dilapidated state. It's now completely refurbished and the Sunshine Villa retirement community. My friend worked there and says the staircase matches the one in "Psycho", which freaked her out to no end.
Check out the staircase in the Victorian hotel in Vertigo, filmed two years before. It’s the same. Now I know why Hitchcock named it the Kittredge Hotel.
When I see a deep roof, the attic is not my first thought.... Deep roofs are utility, they are used on homes in areas with heavy snowfall. So a really steep roof makes me wonder how much snow am I going to have to shovel in the winter. Which is a horror all on it's own. Quite enjoyed this video. Liked and Subscribed.
This was lots of fun! I wish to glimpse at it again!
The section on the GET OUT house was new and interesting to me. I had seen other architecture analysis of the house in Psycho and Beetlejuice. But the Get Out house was very clever.
Does this incredible man have a book I could buy? He is so knowledgable!
I love this video!! It’s so interesting and I would love to see more like this. ❤
This was fascinating. I never noticed that The Overlook Hotel from "The Shining" (aka Timberline Lodge) architecturally reflected the general shape of the mountainous landscape behind the hotel. My favorite was the "after" version of the house in Beetlejuice. The revised structure made no sense, was funny, derivative, pretentious, scary, and odd which perfectly symbolized that entities (living and dead) who resided inside.
I found this fascinating. As a interior design graduate. I love all forms of design.
Would have loved to see a reaction to Monster House.
Thanks for the dive into these spooky houses!
the added stuff to the beetlejuice house is to me all style over substance. like he said, nothing actually adds additional space or utility, even the huge beams, usually functional things, are there only for show. there is also the argument that the structures added don't actually "enhance" what was there before but actively obscures it. a second layer of the exact same that hides the original.
Great episode!!!! Thank you.
I loved this! Thank you.
I really liked this. I'd love to see a part two of it.
8:58 the high roofs and long lines ===> allows snow to slide off
10:07
Now that's how you should use resources! It's just at epic as it is ethical.
One of the houses on my bucket list is the Winchester Mystery Mansion. It inspired Stephen King to write Rose Red, which was filmed at Thornwood Castle in the Seattle area.
This video was so interesting I’ve recommended it to everyone
Need this live version on spotify!
Fun Faq,,the Beetlejuice house was first constructed in the Deetz contemporary style and then "deconstructed "and aged to be the Maitland house for filming logistics in 1987(1988 release).
I hope I live long enough for Ennis House to be opened to the public. I truly believe it is the most beautiful house in the world.
Sooo interesting
Please more of him !
Agree, would love a part II
Very interesting. I learned a lot. Thank you.
I spent the first 2 minutes of this trying to figure out what it was an AD for before realising it stood for Architectural Digest.
Would've loved if he included the beautiful lake house from What Lies Beneath.
The "Get Out" house is a typical modern example of what is commonly called French-Acadian architecture. Mostly found in South Louisiana, but from what I can tell the movie was filmed in Alabama, which is a stone throw away. I think the brick gables could be a hold over from buildings in the French Quarter where you can see brick walls protrude above rooflines as a firewall between row houses.
Aw, you left out my favorite detail about the Overlook in the Shinning; it's interior architecture makes no sense. The halls and rooms twist and turn in an impossible manor, and the coolest one is that at the beginning, when Jack is talking to the owner or whoever about his duties, the office is in the middle of the hotel, yet there's a window showing bushes.
I think Jordan Peele was also trying to convey the facade of a northeastern cape cod home with the backbone of a southern plantation home. Emphasizing the twofaced beliefs of many wealthy white Americans
Victorian (Second Empire, Italianate, Queen Anne, etc.) is my favorite style of architecture. Normally I would have been offended by the remodel of the Beetlejuice house, but to me, the "before" looks like a house that has been stripped of its decorative elements (millwork around the windows, etc.), which happened a lot because the woodwork would have deteriorated from lack of maintenance, especially in places with harsh weather. So what was left was just a blank canvas, with windows that appear way too small, etc. The Victorian decorative elements were an essential part of what made the proportions look correct on those houses, and once they were gone, the houses look strange. The remodel actually created a "modern" interpretation of those decorative elements that originally served no structural purpose, but made the house interesting to look at.
great video. my favourite is Psycho! very spooky
While I do appreciate that you get straight to the point, I would've liked some mention of the interior architecture, even if it's just a facade on sound stage. 👻