A History of Horror Podcast

Introducing the latest podcast from Christopher Brown. All about horror, cinema and storytelling.

What next for horror and cinema in general? The last episode tries to see what the future is.

Films are more freely available than they ever have been. Horror films can stream on Youtube and Netflix but people are still heading towards the cinema

Nigeria and South Africa dominate a brief discussion on film from this part of the world

A brief look at films from Egypt, Turkey and a Tobe Hooper film from the UAE

After the twin tower attacks horror changed. The birth of torture porn and the return to retro shocks. America realised that the reason the killer might be the house was that they might not just like them.

In the 1990s what was, in Japan, a return to retro-styles of horror felt fresh for Western audiences. Vicious violence and sex fell away to be replaced by scary ghosts coming to get you

From serial killers, to a new breed of slasher movie and to seeing dead people. The USA 90s horror landscape had plenty going for it.

A trip to China shows the split between Hong Kong and the mainland, India is a Bollywood treat and Pakistan only had their first gore film in 2007

At Christmas time there’s plenty of reasons to be afraid. Here we look at the traditions of telling ghost stories this time of year.