Murder House @ World Expo

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 20:47:53 CST 2019


Haven't seen the Hulu show, but I think the Expo "Murder House" was a built
"replica" with trap doors, chutes, etc. A house designed for murder.
Replica house a macabre amusement. Fascination with serial (psycho) killers
runs deep.

David Morris

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:13 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Meanwhile, Scorcese is working on a feature film of the same story,
> with his new muse, Leonardo DiCaprio slated to star as Holmes. I think
> they're taking the position (fictionally at least) that world-traveler
> Holmes was Jack the Ripper.
>
> Makes you wonder who among today's stars could be cast to play Carl
> Panzram... particularly for his African "adventures".
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:02 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> https://www.archdaily.com/911813/hulu-series-to-feature-the-world-expos-murder-castle
> >
> > Hulu has announced that they will be adapting a story of H.H. Holmes,
> > America’s first documented serial killer, into a television series on
> the 1893
> > World’s Columbian Exposition
> > <
> https://www.archdaily.com/873081/ad-classics-worlds-columbian-exposition-daniel-burnham-and-frederick-law-olmsted
> >
> >  in Chicago <https://www.archdaily.com/city/chicago>. Based on the
> > nonfiction book *The Devil in the White City *by Erik Larson, the series
> > will explore murder and architecture around the so-called “Murder
> Castle."
> > The show will feature the labyrinthine structure that Holmes built and
> > stories around architect Daniel H. Burnham's
> > <https://www.archdaily.com/tag/daniel-burnham> infamous World Expo.
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