Happy New Year!

In a change to the proposed episode on The Woman in Black, Howard and Dan conclude their discussion of Milton Subotsky's horror anthologies, begun in the episodes listed below.

The Woman in Black episode will first be made available to Patreon supporters. Discussion excerpts are already available on our Patreon page.

Works Cited

Dr Terror's House of Horrors (Amicus Productions/Regal Film Distributors, UK 1964, director: Freddie Francis) - our episode on this, Torture Garden and Tales That Witness Madness

The House That Dripped Blood (Amicus Productions, UK 1971, director: Peter Duffell) - our episode on this

Asylum (Amicus/Harbor Productions Inc, UK 1972, director: Roy Ward Baker) - A Very British Horror on this

Tales from the Crypt (Amicus/Metromedia Sales Corporation, UK 1972, director: Freddie Francis)

The Vault of Horror (Amicus/Metromedia Sales Corporation, UK 1973, director: Roy Ward Baker)

From Beyond The Grave (Warner Bros./Amicus, UK 1974, director: Kevin Connor)

The Uncanny (Rank/Cinevideo, UK/Canada 1977, director: Denis Heroux)

The Monster Club (Sword and Sorcery Productions, UK 1980, director: Roy Ward Baker)

Cat's Eye (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, US 1985, director: Lewis Teague)

Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film (Manchester University Press, 2021)

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

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Merry Christmas!

In another gem from the archives of A Very British Horror, Chris and Paul discuss BBC-TV's classic 1976 Ghost Story for Christmas, The Signalman, based on the story by Charles Dickens. Plus there's a short update from Dan about what will come next from the main podcast.

Works Cited

The Signalman (BBC-TV 1976, director: Lawrence Gordon Clark)

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in The Tower (BBC-TV 2025, director: Mark Gatiss) is currently available on BBC iPlayer

A rough cut of our January episode, in which Howard and Dan discuss Amicus films, is now available for supporters on our Patreon page

AKA Halloween Retrospective #13.

In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise. Now, the journey concludes as the three discuss 2022's Halloween Ends.

Beware, the discussion includes a full summary of the film's story, including spoilers.

Introduction 00:00:00

Plot summary (spoilers) 00:04:27

Spoiler discussion with Howard 00:09:25

Spoiler discussion with Spider-Dan 00:34:50

Our next episode will be about the Amicus anthologies. For Patreon supporters, an early edit of this discussion will shortly be available on our Patreon page.

Works Cited

Halloween (Compass International Pictures, US 1978, director: John Carpenter) Soundtrack music clip used: "The Haunted House" composed and realised by John Carpenter and Dan Wyman)

Halloween II (Universal Pictures/De Laurentiis Corporation, US 1981, director: Rick Rosenthal)

Halloween (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2018, director: David Gordon Green)

Halloween Kills (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2021, director: David Gordon Green)

Halloween Ends (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2022, director: David Gordon Green)

Soundtrack clips used including music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies

Recommended listening:

Our episode on Halloween (1978) with Spider-Dan and Steve Timms

Our episode on Halloween II (1981) with Spider-Dan and Rob Stuart-Hudson

Our episode on Halloween (2018) with Spider-Dan and Ian Winterton

Our episode on Halloween Kills (2021) with Spider-Dan

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

To see a video version of our next episode, please visit our Patreon page and become a supporter

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All clips are used in the spirit of Fair Dealing (Commonwealth law) and Fair Use (US law) for the purposes of criticism and education.  No copyright infringement intended.

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AKA Halloween Retrospective #12.

In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise (then only 11 films strong). After several years away, Dan and Spider-Dan reconvene (with Howard chiming in via phone call) to discuss two recently-added entries in the series, beginning with 2021's Halloween Kills.

Beware, the discussion includes a full summary of the film's story, including spoilers.

Introduction 00:00:00

Plot summary (spoilers) 00:06:04

Spoiler discussion with Howard 00:10:31

Spoiler discussion with Spider-Dan 00:26:54

Our review of the next film, Halloween Ends, will be released on Halloween itself this year, although for Patreon supporters, a video version of this discussion is already available on our Patreon page.

Works Cited

Halloween (Compass International Pictures, US 1978, director: John Carpenter) Soundtrack music clip used: "The Haunted House" composed and realised by John Carpenter and Dan Wyman)

Halloween II (Universal Pictures/De Laurentiis Corporation, US 1981, director: Rick Rosenthal)

Halloween (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2018, director: David Gordon Green)

Halloween Kills (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2021, director: David Gordon Green)

Soundtrack clips used including music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies

Recommended listening:

Our episode on Halloween (1978) with Spider-Dan and Steve Timms

Our episode on Halloween II (1981) with Spider-Dan and Rob Stuart-Hudson

Our episode on Halloween (2018) with Spider-Dan and Ian Winterton

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

To see a video version of our next episode, please visit our Patreon page and become a supporter

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Paul and Chris discuss the ingenious late-period Hammer film Hands of the Ripper, which deals with the daughter of Jack the Ripper.

The next episodes of And Now The Podcast Starts.... will be released in time for Halloween, in which Howard and Dan will be joined by Spider-Dan to discuss Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). If you'd like to have early access to these discussions, please become a Patreon supporter: the unedited videos are available at our Patreon page.

Works Cited

Hands of the Ripper (Rank Film Distributors/Universal Pictures/Hammer Films, UK 1971, director: Peter Sasdy)

To complement the discussion of the Amicus anthology film The House That Dripped Blood in our episode #111, we're proud to present another gem from the archives of A Very British Horror, in which Chris and Paul discuss the following film in that series, 1972's Tales from the Crypt.

Works Cited

Tales from the Crypt (Metromedia Producers Corporation/Amicus Productions, UK 1972, director: Freddie Francis)

AKA Lee/Cushing, Howard/Dan #7 (Preview Version)

Howard and Dan reconvened in person for the first time since 2019 to record a new episode about a Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee film, and it's the 1971 horror anthology The House That Dripped Blood. This episode features only their conversation, but a more expansive edit - with illustrative music and other clips, as well as a specially-written comedy sketch, in keeping with earlier episodes on Cushing/Lee films - is being worked on and will be released to Patreon supporters at a later date.

Works Cited

The House That Dripped Blood (Amicus Productions, UK 1971, director: Peter Duffell)

Rigby, Jonathan. English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (Reynolds and Hearn, 2005)

Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film (Manchester University Press, 2021)

Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel and Edwards, Matthew (eds - with a chapter by TD Velasquez!). Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films (Routledge, 2024)

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

To see a video version of our next episode, please visit our Patreon page and become a supporter

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In another release from the archives of the sadly-missed podcast A Very British Horror, Chris Denton and Paul Monk discuss 1989's occult horror, Warlock.

Works Cited

Warlock (New World Pictures, US 1989, director: Steve Miner)

Ian and Dan discuss this summer's controversial hit from Zach Cregger, as well as the director's previous film, Barbarian. Warning: nothing but spoilers for both, as well as No Country for Old Men and Midsommar.

Works Cited

Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema, US 2025, director: Zach Cregger)

Barbarian (Twentieth Century Studios, US 2022, director: Zach Cregger)

Hereditary (A24, US 2018, director: Ari Aster)

Midsommar (A24, US 2019, director: Ari Aster)

No Country for Old Men (Paramount Pictures/Miramax, US 2007, directors: Joel and Ethan Coen)

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

To hear our next episode early please go to our Patreon page and become a supporter

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All clips are used in the spirit of Fair Dealing (Commonwealth law) and Fair Use (US law) for the purposes of criticism and education.  No copyright infringement intended.

Visit our website, andnowpodcast.com

Another release from the archive of the wonderful and sadly missed podcast, A Very British Horror, in which Paul and Chris discuss the 1971 Hammer horror film, Vampire Circus.