Endnotes
1 “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000,” The Times (Munster, IN), September 12, 1963; David W. Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House at Decker,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (6).
2 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
3 Jeanne Suhrheinrich, “Front Row Center,” The Evansville Courier (Evansville, IN), September 5, 1962, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (33); Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House”; David W. Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done: Old Knox County House Setting for Horror Film,” The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN), July 22, 1962. Suhreinrich states Ed Stewart is owner, David Jackson wrote Stewart was a regional distributor for Republic Pictures.
4 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House”; Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
5 “Berry’s Brain Child: Local Resident’s Unique Movie to be Shown at Prewitt Theatre,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (39).
6 David Goodnow, “A House of (Movie) Dreams,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (20); Bill Bridges, “Preview of Mystery Film Being Made at Decker Discloses Pattern of Starling Drama and Horror,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (10).
7 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
8 “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000.”
9 “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000.”
10 Goodnow.
11 Suhrheinrich.
12 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House”; Marie McQuaid, “Experimental Thriller Is Set in Old Decker Home,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (34).
13 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
14 “Inflation Calculator,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 18, 2024, https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=10000&year1=196205&year2=202403.
15 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
16 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done”; Goodnow.
17 “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000.”
18 “Film Company Adopts Name,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (13).
19 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
20 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
21 “Spooky Home: I.U. Student Produces Horror Film,” The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), August 28, 1963; Bridges.
22 Bridges.
23 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
24 Bridges.
25 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
26 Bridges.
27 McQuaid.
28 Bridges.
29 Robert Berry, interview by Wayne Hastings, This Exhibit, 2023.
30 Kevin Lyons, “House of Dreams (1963),” last modified April 2, 2020, https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/house-of-dreams-1963/.
31 Goodnow; “Berry’s Brain Child.”
32 “Berry’s Brain Child.”
33 Bridges.
34 “Berry’s Brain Child.”
35 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
36 Suhrheinrich.
37 “Knox County Movie Premiere Scheduled,” Princeton Daily Clarion (Princeton, IN), August 28, 1963; “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000.”
38 William Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills) First-Night Audience Here,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (71).
39 Goodnow.
40 Goodnow.
41 Mt. Vernon Drive-In Theatre Advertisement: August 16-18. Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (37); Colonial Theatre Advertisement: October 23. Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (9); “‘Hoosier’ Movie Opens Today,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (12).
42 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
43 “Spooky Home: I.U. Student Produces Horror Film”; Fred Mound, Letter from Fred Mound to Robert Berry, November 4, 1963, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (8).
44 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done”; Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
45 Isam Yusbachi, Letter from Isam Yusbachi to Robert Berry, September 12, 1964, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (16).
46 George Mattox, Letter from George Mattox to Robert Berry, June 2, 1963, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (22).
47 Kathy Puyear, “Radio Teacher Writes, Films Real Shocker,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (31).
48 Gerald Bayles, “Tyro’s Film Gets ‘E,’ With Effort,” The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), September 12, 1963; “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000”; William Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills).”
49 William Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills).”
50 William Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills)”; Bayles.
51 Goodnow.
52 William Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills).”
53 “Rare & Unusual Films From LSVideo,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (2); LSVideo, Inc. Contents Page with House of Dreams Review Excerpts, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (52).
54 “Announcing the First (And Last Ever) Floor Sweepings Contest!,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (3).
55 Monsters in Motion: House of Dreams, October 11, 2011, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (114).
56 Jason Coffman, “House of Dreams,” Letterboxd, https://letterboxd.com/film/house-of-dreams/; “House of Dreams,” The Classic Horror Film Board, August, 2019, https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/house-of-dreams-1963-t73989.html.
57 Jeremy, “House of Dreams,” Horror Digital, March 25, 2011, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (116-120).
58 Coffman.
59 “The Shoe Is On the Other Foot,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (29).
60 “Theaters,” The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN), June 6, 1967; Bonnie Britton, “Hoosiers Recall Brushes with Hollywood,” April 9, 1995, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (60); Robert Berry, Letter from Robert Berry to David Kerr, July 21, 2011, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (55).
61 Goodnow.
62 Arthur De Vany and Ross D. Eckert, “Motion Picture Antitrust: The Paramount Cases Revisited,” Research in Law and Economics 14 (1991): 93.
63 Brian Albright, Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990: A State-by-State Guide with Interviews (North Carolina: McFarland, 2012), 6-8.
64 Albright, 6-8; Gracia Ramirez, “‘In the Best Interests of the Country:’ The American Film Institute and Philanthropic Support for American Experimental and Independent Cinema in the 1960s” (Doctoral Dissertation, Edinburgh Napier University, 2013), 4.
65 Goodnow; Suhrheinrich.
66 “Decker Becomes ‘Hoosier Hollywood’ World Premiere Sept. 11-14 ‘House of Dreams,’ Newspaper Advertisement, Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (69); Mt. Vernon Drive-In Theatre Advertisement.
67 James H. Madison, Lee Ann Sandweiss, and Jane Hedeen, Hoosiers and the American Story (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press. 2014), 289.
68 Madison, Sandweiss, and Hedeen, 289.
69 Noni Ford, “The 1968 Little 500 Sit-In Podcast,” Voices from the IU Bicentennial (blog), May 7, 2018, https://blogs.iu.edu/bicentennialblogs/2018/05/07/the-1968-little-500-sit-in-podcast/.
70 Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, “Annual Report 2022-2023,” Indiana University, https://diversity.iu.edu/doc/2023%20OVPDEI%20Annual%20Report%20APDF.pdf. 8.
71 Martin L. Johnson, “‘Did the Cameraman Film You?’ Finding the Folk in H. Lee Water’s Movies of Local People,” Western Folklore 64 (2005): 239; Mikel J. Koven, “Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey,” Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 460 (2003): 180.
72 Julia George, “The Horror Film: An Investigation of Traditional Narrative Elements,” Folklore Forum 15, no. 2 (1982): 159. https://hdl.handle.net/2022/1782.
73 Albright, 2; Joshua Ryan Coonrod, “Cheap Scares: An Ethnographic Study of Regional Independent Horror Film and Culture” (Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University, 2018), 5.
74 Albright, 4-5.
75 Albright, 3-4.
76 Albright, 8.
77 Coonrod, 43.
78 Albright, 13-14.
79 Albright, 13-14.
80 Albright, 13-14.
81 Coonrod, 5-6.
82 “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000.”
83 Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
84 “Decker Becomes ‘Hoosier Hollywood’ World Premiere Sept. 11-14 ‘House of Dreams.’”
85 Suhrheinrich; Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done”; Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House”; “Spooky Home: I.U. Student Produces Horror Film.”; Puyear. Suhrheinrich states ed Stewart as theater owner, these two Jackson sources put Stewart as an occupation of film distributor.
86 Jackson, “Horror Movie Being Filmed in ‘Spooky’ House.”
87 Suhrheinrich; Jackson, “Hoosier Thriller Nearly Done.”
88 Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills)’”; Lyons; Jeremy, Digital Horror.
89 Suhrheinrich.
90 Bayles; “I.U. Student Makes Movie For $10,000”; Bridges, “‘House of Dreams’ Entertains (and Chills)’”.
91 “‘House of Dreams’ About to Open,” Robert Berry Collection, 1962-2011, VAE4580, Indiana University Moving Image Archives, Bloomington (13).