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 ❤️
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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).
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…
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.
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 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 '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 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! ❤️
👩🏻💻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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
This was great. I've always loved the visual humor in the Deet's house from Beetlejuice. It's literally the embodiment of late-80's, early-90's nouveau riche, tacky aesthetic. Great stuff.
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. :)
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.
too me the Jordan Peel house from 'Get out' is a very common, style in the south, its more of an up scale home. It could be set in burbs or in the countryside. Its hybrid of a cottage style and colonel-plantation. People in the south love porches, bc its warm through most of year. So provides shade as well bc many parts of the south can be quite humid so helps protect the house from moisture. Also pre air conditioning it, people would even sleep on the porch. *also want to mention with the porches are place often you hang out with neighbors and friends. Especially in denser neighborhoods. But interestingly this house always felt so isolated. The bare-ness of the porch is also interesting it looks too new for a people who have lived there for at least a generation. Which stuck me as interesting. The chairs don't look set in. Also its weird how the chairs set they facing each other rather facing the street like the normally are. That was a very deliberate. It shows that a porch which is normally a friendly social gathering is closed off.
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.
