Jon Towlson is a UK-based journalist and film critic and has written for various magazines and papers on film. Jon is the author of a few works on horror cinema and throughout this episode we discuss two of his books titled "Subversive Horror Cinema Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present" and "The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936" which understands and dissects the way horror has become a cultural phenomenon.