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The definitive podcast about “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (“Notre-Dame de Paris”) by Victor Hugo and its many adaptations! Reviews, interviews, commentaries, and more.Contact us: thehunchcast@gmail.com
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“Big Man on Campus” (1989) ft. screenwriter and star Allan Katz (opens the original)
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We’re going back to school with the fish-out-of-water comedy “Big Man on Campus,” a loose retelling of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” set at UCLA! Written by and starring renowned television writer Allan Katz (who joins us for an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW about his experience working on the film), this movie follows Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga (one Malooga, four Loogas), a feral hunchback living in UCLA’s abandoned clocktower. When the psychology department seeks to educate and civilize Bob, wacky
“The Hunchback” (1997) (opens the original)
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This episode, we’re discussing “The Hunchback,” which premiered on TNT in 1997! Filmed in Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War, this movie, starring Mandy Patinkin and then-rising star Salma Hayek, borrows dialogue and plot points from RKO’s 1939 adaptation to grapple with themes of censorship and freedom of expression. Why is this movie set in 1505? What are the implications of reducing Phoebus’s role? What the heck happened to the south belltower? Join us as we reckon with these questi
“The Secret of the Hunchback” (1996) ft. Emily of Notre Dame (opens the original)
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On this episode of the world’s first “Hunchback of Notre Dame” podcast, we’re diving into the wide, wide world of mockbusters with UAV Entertainment’s “The Secret of the Hunchback” (1996)! Acclaimed Notre-Dame cathedral tour guide Emily MacKinnon joins us from Paris, France to discuss another animated musical, this time featuring a Gaston knock-off, jazzy grotesques, angels in disguise, and a good old-fashioned drag show. Why aren’t the voice actors credited? What is the secret of the hunchback?
“Crossed” by Emily McIntire (2023) (opens the original)
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On this episode of the definitive “Hunchback of Notre Dame” podcast, we’re discussing the dark romance novel “Crossed” by New York Times-bestselling author Emily McIntire! This reimagining of Victor Hugo’s novel set in 21st-century Vermont portrays Claude Frollo as a serial killer, Esmeralda as a sex worker, and Quasimodo as an iPad kid. Has trope marketing gone too far? Why is this novel set in Vermont? Is this good neurodivergent representation? Can a book truly be so bad it’s good? Listen alo
Jean Delannoy’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1956) (opens the original)
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On this episode of the definitive “Hunchback of Notre Dame” podcast, we discuss Jean Delannoy’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1956)! This Technicolor film, which Guillermo del Toro regarded as “one of the most misguided adaptations of the Victor Hugo classic,” was famously shot in both French and English simultaneously. Director Jean Delannoy and producers Robert and Raymond Hakim sought to create the most “human” Quasimodo, adapt Victor Hugo’s novel more faithfully than any studio had, and out
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