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We talk about Larry Blamire‘s knowing ode to 1950s low-budget sci-fi films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. We ask, what is this movie? Is it camp (deliberately bad) or parody (good, observing the bad?) Meanwhile we discuss the amazing The Dragon Lives Again,...
On Friday, April 13, 1984, the world saw the release of a movie Roger Ebert called “an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash” — Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. That’s enough to get us interested in looking once more at this film, which features Corey Feldman and ...
This week’s discussion is on the 1972 thriller Frenzy directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, about a serial killer at large in London and an unlikable jerk framed for the murders, is daring, clever and sometimes very hard to watch. Trigger warning for those who are sensitive about...
This week we discuss Matango, a Japanese film from Ishiro Honda (director of the original Godzilla) that trades giant monsters for a more creeping, sinister kind of horror. Known in the US as Attack of the Mushroom People, the movie tells the story of a group of famous people who all get sh...
Jason chats with Johnathan Schaech, who plays a wily, muscular zombie in the new re-imagining of George Romero‘s classic Day of the Dead. We talk Day of the Dead: Bloodline. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Bloodlines_schaech_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: Check out...
In honor of the great George Romero, we look at his disturbing take on the vampire genre, the 1978 Martin. Is the youthful-seeming Martin actually a near-1oo-year-old vampire, or just a serial killer who’s frustrated by his inability to connect with the ladies? This is one of...
We talk about the second half of Stranger Things 2 and wrap up our thoughts on the series so far. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Stranger_things_2_part2_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAxG5cJWIKM Castle of Horror Podcast Links: Join us over...
We talk about the first half (episodes 1-4) of Stranger Things 2 from Netflix — and get into nostalgia, class consciousness in the ’80s, and whether binge-watching is killing the culture. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Stranger_things_2_1-4_rev.mp3 Listen on Y...
We catch up with Jon Schnitzer, director of Haunters: The Art of the Scare, which presents two competing visions for haunted attractions in America. There’s the traditional boo-scare style of haunt as seen in the guise of Shar Meyer, legendary scare actress, and haunt designer Donald ...
This week we look at the brand new documentary Haunters: The Art of the Scare directed by Jon Schnitzer. The film shows the growing rift between people who continue to put on traditional “boo-scare” haunted attractions and newer “extreme” experiences. Listen...
This week, we discuss the strange third film in the Halloween series, this time a non-slasher Halloween story about an evil warlock industrialist out to use technology, witchcraft and Halloween masks to conduct a massive human sacrifice. Listen...
This week’s guest Michael Okon is the author of the new book Monsterland from Wordfire Press, about a theme park called “the scariest place on Earth.” With real werewolves, vampires and zombies as the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong? Listen...
To cap off our Flatliners retrospective, we take a look at a related film: the 1990 psychological horror film Jacob’s Ladder, in which Tim Robbins plays a Vietnam vet dealing with the trauma of his wartime experiences and increasingly unnerving visions of demons in New York City. Special...
This week we continue our two-week Flatliners retrospective with the 2017 film Flatliners, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, who brought us the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film series. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting...
This week, weird-fiction author Michael Aronovitz talks about his new release Alice Walks from Cemetery Dance Publications. This is a classic ghost story about a tight-knit group of boys whose graveyard dares lead to the return of a recently drowned girl as a terrifying ghost. We talk about...
We kick off a retrospective on a series no one knew would be a series with Flatliners, the 1990 science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical...
RLJE Films has shared a map of “America’s Scariest Haunted Houses” presented by The Houses October Built 2, in theaters and available On Demand/Digital HD September 22nd. The film features a horror tale that stretches across multiple real-world haunted house attractions in the...
