{"id":10213,"date":"2023-02-14T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:43:41","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/holidays-in-the-movies-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies:  Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"850\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65DpZ_0nByE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1898 footage of Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Mardi Gras Massacre<\/em> (1978) : a serial killer roams the streets of Mardi Gras to make sacrifices to a Peruvian god.  Not a repeater for the Schmidt house.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dracula 2000<\/em> (2000) : the costume parade is not Halloween, it is Mardi Gras and the action takes place primarily in New Orleans when a recently re-awakened Dracula trails havok through the city with the colleagues of Van Helsing on his tail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Mardi Gras<\/em> (1958) :  as yet unseen by us musical with Pat Boone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Interview with a Vampire<\/em> (1994) :  so natural and yet it almost slipped my mind<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Flesh and Fantasy <\/em>(1943) : provided we can get a hold of it, this occult anthology seems right up our alley at the Schmidt house<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A Woman&#8217;s Secret <\/em>(1992) &#8211; Italian thriller with Margeaux Hemingway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Hatchet<\/em> (2006) &#8211; gory slasher!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Death Spa <\/em>(1988) &#8211; gory supernatural thrillery thing.  Why does everyone keep going to this place?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The Perfect Foil&#8221; <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em> (S2.E21) &#8211; Jessica Fletcher is visiting a distant cousin during Mardi Gras when he is accused of murder during a costume party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10213,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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