Episode 298 - A Silent Night, Deadly Night Bonanza
Host Jon Cross and guest Axl Kay dissect, discuss and ask questions of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise from part 2 through to the 2012 remake. It’s a fascinatingly weird and sometimes wonderful franchise which rattles off into some mad places. Altogether now… GARBAGE DAY!
Episode 297 - Zombieland Double Tap
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace hang out at Paul’s Da Burger Joint where they don’t serve tea but the server does seem surprisingly up on new technology - there, our intrepid duo talk about the inevitable despair of modern times and the 10 year reunion sequel, Zombieland Double Tap.
At Twenty Five: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Episode 296 - John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire joins Jon Cross to discuss John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness from 1987
Episode 294 - The Urban Legend Trilogy
Jon Cross sits down with Matt Farley of moternmedia.com and they do the important work of movie podcasters and talk the forgotten trilogy of late era slasher films: The Urban Legend movies.
Laurie Strode in Halloween (2018) as a Reflection of the Evolving Narrative of Victimhood in the Slasher Film: An Essay
Our excellent movie maven, Lisa Gullickson went to Fantastic Fest and, after a screening of Halloween (2018), came back with this great think piece on the nature of the victim in slasher films…
The Women of Horrotober: Wendy Kaplan as Tina in Halloween 5
Michael ends his excellent run of The Women of Horrotober with another Halloween themed one, specifically the underrated Wendy Kaplan as Tina from Halloween 5.
Episode 233 - Horrotober '17 No.5 - A Scrotum of Draculas
On this our last Horrotober podcast for 2017, Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk two completely bizarre and quite probably awful Dracula films - Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Dracula 2000 with Gerard Butler as Dracula (which sounds like a Monty Python joke but isn't, it's painfully true)
The Women of Horrotober: Lili Taylor in The Addiction, 1995
Michael Campochiaro takes the month of Horrotober and his series on women of the horror genre to praise one of our favourite actresses, the incredible Lili Taylor in Abel Ferrara's disturbing, vampiric tale The Addiction from 1995.
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, debates the guilt in "guilty pleasure" sequel of Hammer's long-running Dracula franchise, 1972's Dracula A.D. 1972.
The Women of Horrotober '17: Laurie Zimmer, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Michael Campochiaro continues his fascinating and fantastic series looking at the women of genre films. This time it's Laurie Zimmer from John Carpenter's underrated classic Assault on Precinct 13 from 1976.
Episode 232 - Horrotober '17 No.4 - Suspiria
At 2 a.m. in the noisiest diner in all of New York, the tired & grumpy Jon Cross and the generally affable Jim Wallace sit down to try and work out just what Dario Argento's Suspiria is all about.
The Women of Horrotober '17: Shelley Duvall
Throughout Horrotober, Michael Campochiaro will be taking us through some of his favourite, stand out performances by the women of horror. In this third article, Michael is singing the praises of Shelley Duvall in her, often underappreciated, performance as an abused but brave wife and mother in The Shining.
Episode 231 - Horrotober '17 No.3 - Blood Games/The Catcher/Billy Club
Returning champ, Nick Consol joins us to discuss not one but three baseball themed horror films - Blood Games, The Catcher & Billy Club
Episode 230 - Horrotober '17 No.2 - Terror at London Bridge/Edge of Sanity/Bad Karma
Jon Cross is joined by Moe Porne of No Budget Nightmares and Dee Shaw of The 3 Black Geeks to discuss a trilogy of American takes on the Jack The Ripper legend - Terror at London Bridge, Edge of Sanity & Bad Karma. This podcast has got The Hoff, bricks, sweaty Perkins and more!
The Women of Horrotober: Belinda Balaski in The Howling
Throughout Horrotober, Michael Campochiaro will be taking us through some of his favourite, stand out performances by the women of horror. In this second article, Michael is singing the praises of Belinda Balaski - the unsung hero of Joe Dante's excellent werewolf movie The Howling.
The Women of Horrotober: Heather Langenkamp in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
Throughout Horrotober, Michael Campochiaro will be taking us through some of his favourite, stand out performances by the women of horror. In this first article, Michael is singing the praises of Heather Langenkamp in the massively underrated, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
Episode 229 - Horrotober '17 No.1 - Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse
For the first podcast episode of HORROTOBER '17 Jon Cross and Jim Wallace discuss Tobe Hooper's Carni-filled monster/slasher film The Funhouse.
The Slumber Party Massacre
Mr. Campochiaro covers another cool cult classic, The Slumber Party Massacre just in time for Halloween night...
The Windmill Massacre Review & Interview
Jon Cross takes a look at new horror film from Holland, The Windmill and talks to its director, Nick Jongerius.