Join Kirsty, Dan and Stella as Stella makes her case for why the generally disparaged horror film remake is a valuable and worthy part of the horror genre.  To test this, the trio discuss four key examples of horror remakes from the last 20 years: The Grudge (2003), Let Me In (2010), The Crazies (2010) and Carrie (2013).

Please forgive the teammates occasionally being less coherent than usual, which was down to being forced to record the episode in the morning, rather than the usual afternoon!

Relevant links and availability:

MGM on Amazon Prime - to watch Carrie (1976 or 2013 versions) in the UK.  UK TV viewers can also catch the 2013 film at 10.55pm on Monday 15th June on Channel 5.

The Grudge (2003) is not currently available for streaming - you will have to seek out an old DVD!

My5 - to watch Let Me In in the UK

Amazon Prime - to watch The Crazies (2010) in the UK

The Left Right Game podcast

Murder in the Outback streaming on All4 in the UK

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This week, Kirsty, Stella and Dan each present their two scariest film experiences, encountered at different times in their lives, and discuss why they found the films so terrifying, and whether the fear lingers years later.  Prepare for a six-film menu of extreme horror!  What would your choices be?

In addition, Kirsty has news that her husband and ace recordist Sven (@svenworrow on Twitter) is subjecting himself to a heroic and possibly horrific sacrifice this weekend - shaving off his beard for the first time in their marriage.  He's doing this to raise money for NHS Charities, Stonewall and Black Lives Matter UK.  See the video of his beard-off on Facebook and donate to the good cause if you can!

Referenced works:

Kirsty's recommendation this week is the podcast Tanis.  Give it a try!

...but that would spoil the surprise!  Rest assured, they're all available on DVD or Blu-Ray.

In Howard and Dan's first 'new' recording (actually recorded in September) on a Lee/Cushing film since 2017, the duo are joined by uber-fan Tim Shaw to discuss an often-overlooked gem in the canon, 1972's Spanish period genre mash-up co-starring Telly Savalas, Horror Express.  Somehow they manage to talk about the film for two hours without mentioning the brilliant editor Robert Dearberg, but apart from that, it's fairly in-depth!

Stella also drops in with present-day Dan to discuss the state of coronavirus Britain, horror highlights streaming in the UK, and her favourite fact about Christopher Lee.

Referenced works:

Horror Express is available on Amazon Prime in the UK, YouTube and various free platforms as well as Arrow Blu-Ray.  Dead Set is currently available on All4 in the UK, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will join it from June 2020.  The Platform is currently available on Netflix.  Apparitions is currently available on Amazon Prime.

Tim Shaw's Ghosts In The Machines episode about Ghost watch can be heard here.

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In our final (for now) re-upload of old material from The Lee/Cushing Podcast, Howard and Dan look at the Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee's sixth film together, and third for Hammer Films. 1959's The Hound of the Baskervilles starred Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville.

In a separate discussion (recorded in an unfortunately noisy cafe) they also consider the numerous other film and TV productions which saw either Lee or Cushing venturing into Arthur Conan Doyle's world.

Referenced works:

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and the existing episodes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968) have been released on DVD.  Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years (1991) is available to view on Amazon Prime.

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In the third of four re-edited re-uploads from their previous series The Lee/Cushing Podcast, Howard and Dan discuss an unusual Amicus/American International Pictures co-production that billed Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing alongside Vincent Price, without the three stars ever sharing the screen: Scream and Scream Again (1970), a unique science fiction-horror-conspiracy thriller from director Gordon Hessler.

They also take some time to discuss the career of Price, the British horror star who wasn't British.  This episode was recorded in 2016, shortly after the death of Rod Temperton, the songwriter behind Price's last major horror success - Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Referenced works:

Scream and Scream Again is available on DVD and Blu-Ray and for rental on Amazon Prime.

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In the second of four re-edited re-uploads from their previous series The Lee/Cushing Podcast, Howard and Dan discuss the first of the many all-star horror anthologies from Amicus Productions, Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), in which Cushing plays a train-based teller of strange tales, and Lee one of the travellers who share his carriage.

They also touch on two related anthologies from director Freddie Francis: Torture Garden (1967) and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).

Referenced works:

Dr Terror's House of Horrors is available on DVD, YouTube Movies and is part of Amazon Prime's current package.  Torture Garden and Tales That Witness Madness are available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Dr Terror's House of Horrors is available on Amazon Prime and is periodically shown on the UK Horror Channel.

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Howard and Dan will soon resume their epic quest to document in podcasts every filmic collaboration between actors and sometime horror stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.  As a curtain-raiser, Kirsty offered to bring her perspective to the table and accept an introductory exploration of this unique filmography from Dan.

As part of this, Kirsty sampled two particular examples from either end of the Lee/Cushing horror pantheon, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) - the film which inspired our lovely Brian Gorman podcast artwork - and brings her academic perspective to bear on both films.

Howard and Dan's original 2015 podcast about The Curse of Frankenstein will be added to this podcast feed soon after this episode is uploaded, and will be followed by other previously-available discussions of Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Scream and Scream Again (1970) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) before our upload of a brand new Howard/Dan Lee/Cushing episode, on Horror Express (1972), next week.

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In the first of our occasional strand of 'Missed Classics' - episodes focusing on a milestone work of horror cinema or TV that one or more of the hosts has just never got around to watching - we are devoting an episode to discussing Dario Argento's seminal 1977 Italian shocker, Suspiria.

Dan had never seen the film before watching it for this podcast, but Kirsty and Stella, with their academic background, are more familiar with it.  The three spend the bulk of the episode discussing Suspiria's unique stylisation, its story and themes and its place within the horror genre.

It's also Stella's first time 'live' on the podcast, interacting directly with Kirsty and Dan, so the trio take a few minutes to compare their horror favourites, as well as pick a few recommendations of quality horror currently available to stream in the UK.

Thanks to Steve Timms for the use of his Suspiria retrospective from storgy.com.

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