Happy Halloween Spookies! Welcome to the HGB Halloween Special for 2026. Our Halloween specials have covered a favorite of topics from the history of certain elements of Halloween like craving pumpkins and trick or treating to clowns to the history of Disney’s Haunted Mansion to the history of haunted attractions to vintage Halloween decor to horror hosts to 1980s Halloween horror movies and so much more. We have a very cool interview for this special as we explore the history of the guillotine through the black comedy/horror/pseudo documentary film named Guillotine with the co-writer, producer and director of that film, Iranian-American Filmmaker Ray Izad-Mehr. You can watch Guillotine on Amazon Prime or TUBI and we believe you are going to enjoy it!

Film synopsis: The guillotine was built on the ideals of The Enlightenment, an attempt to instill grace to an otherwise brutal expression of justice. Told through the lens of 5 true tales, we explore the Guillotine’s role in history, from The French Revolution to the Fall of Saddam Hussein. At times humorous and ironic, poignant and thoughtful, these stories also reflect the morality of their times, tracing the philosophical attitudes about capital punishment, and the power structure that allows it to be. From a necessary evil to cold-blooded amusement, the blade falls with no less detachment.
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