A Year In Horror

So as a little taster to the massive 1940s episodes which go live here on April 1st we are dropping this single film focused episode here today in celebration of a fantastic new record. You see, Albert Lewin directed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman in 1951 and The Moon and Sixpence in 1941 but The Picture of Dorian Gray is easily his best known work, sadly, he is not known for a lot else. So When I asked musician Charles Moothart from Fuzz to pick a movie to cover for this show, imagine my delight when he came back with Dorian Gray as his choice. This is a discussion about his new solo record and the Angela Lansbury starring 40s horror movie The Picture of Dorian Gray. Seriously. What a belter!

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Special guest, Charles Cave, the horror loving bass player from UK indie rockers White Lies speaks with us today about the 1988 underseen classic The Vanishing. Plus we get into his introduction to horror movies, hearing his music being played in films & just why the band's song titles are so upsetting!

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Today I chat with Preston Bryant, the guitarist, keyboard player and backing vocalist for the Phoenix, Arizona folk punkers AJJ who in 2023, released their latest album 'Disposable Everything'. We chat all things horror and dip into the bizarre body horror masterwork from director David Cronenberg: Videodrome.

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Holy Smokes, it's one of my very favourite bands of the 'right now' chatting about one of my very favourite films from the 'back then'. Los Bitchos discuss Rosemary's Baby to play out this  big hitter of A Year In Horror where we are exploring the greatest horror movies from 1968.

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It's time for one of those huge episodes. Well, it's a three parter anyways. 1968 was a ground breaking year for horror movies, well, as far as the big hitter films are concerned anyways. The highs are really high & the lows are few & far between. But, what do I think was the very greatest horror movie that came out during 1968? Well, here we have the top 10. The worst 10. A slew of also rans. Some awesome mates. Some special guests. Several pints of beer and over 4 hours of running time split over 4 episodes. This is 1968, A Year In Horror.

• 0.32 - The Devil Rides Out (w/ Ian Martineau)
• 34.47 - Witchfinder General (w/ John Tantalon)
• 1.05.20 - Targets
• 1.10.34 - Night of the Living Dead
• 1.18.56 - Rosemary's Baby
• 1.21.39 - Outro

It's time for one of those huge episodes. Well, it's a three parter anyways. 1968 was a ground breaking year for horror movies, well, as far as the big hitter films are concerned anyways. The highs are really high & the lows are few & far between. But, what do I think was the very greatest horror movie that came out during 1968? Well, here we have the top 10. The worst 10. A slew of also rans. Some awesome mates. Some special guests. Several pints of beer and over 3 hours of running time split over 4 episodes. This is 1968, A Year In Horror.

• 0.00 - Sci-Fi Corner
• 3.43 - Barbarella (w/ Kelly McNeely)
• 37.58 - Planet of the Apes (w/ Lee Beamish)
• 57.56 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (w/ Clay Tatum & Whitmer Thomas)

It's time for one of those huge episodes. Well, it's a three parter anyways. 1968 was a ground breaking year for horror movies, well, as far as the big hitter films are concerned anyways. The highs are really high & the lows are few & far between. But, what do I think was the very greatest horror movie that came out during 1968? Well, here we have the top 10. The worst 10. A slew of also rans. Some awesome mates. Some special guests. Several pints of beer and over 5 hours of running time split over 4 episodes. This is 1968, A Year In Horror.

• 0.00 - Introduction
• 13.31 - The Worst 10 Horror Movies from 1968
• 21.54 - Kuroneko
• 27.24 - Seeds
• 33.03 - Twisted Nerve
• 38.53 - Also Rans
• 48.34 - Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
• 54.57 - The Boston Strangler

Today I chat with Steve Hackett, the legendary guitarist from Genesis about the Francis Ford Coppola directed masterpiece, Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Steve is now 30 albums deep into an incredible solo career which this week has seen the release of his latest opus, a rite of passage concept stunner entitled 'The Circus And The Nightwhale'. This episode is a cracker. Enjoy!

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I think Eye of the Devil is an undercard for 1966

• In the USA you had William Shatner starring in 'Incubus' and John Saxon And Dennis Hopper in 'Queen of Blood'
• In Spain you had Jess Franco’s 'The Diabolical Dr Z'
• In Italy Mario Bava put out 'Kill, Baby Kill'
• In Japan 'Daimajin' was released as well as 'Irazumi'
• And in the UK you had Hammer Horror’s 'Plague of the Zombies', "The Witches' and 'Dracula Prince of Darkness'
• All I think stronger titles than 'Eye of the Devil'

But there is no denying there is something magical about it. I just can't put my finger on it.

J. Lee Thompson directed Cape Fear in 1962, Happy Birthday to Me in 1981 plus a couple of Planet of the Apes movies as part of his genre sweep during his career. Eye of the Devil is often overlooked which is a real shame. When I asked the fantastic satanic doo-woppers TWIN TEMPLE to pick a movie to cover for this show, imagine my delight when they came back with that very choice. YES! Today we are joined by singer Alexandra Jones and her guitarist husband Zach. That's right! It's the time of the Temple. Right here, right now.

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Yes, Yes, Yes. This is one of the big hitter episodes that I planned out before even episode 1 of A Year In Horror. I get to watch every single Stephen King adaptation and then rank them from worst to best. That's right, EVERY ONE! Well, here we have the top 10. The worst 10. A slew of also rans. Some awesome mates. Some special guests. Several pints of beer and over 7 hours of running time split over 4 episodes. This Stephen King, A Lifetime In Horror.

• 00.30 - It (1990) 
• 09.58 - Creepshow (1982)
• 25.29 - Also Rans (Part 3)
• 38.14 - Doctor Sleep (2019)
• 45.15 - The Mist (2007)
• 52.21 - Misery (1990)
• 1.00.31 - Carrie (1976)
• 1.07.34 - The Shining (1980)
• 1.19.16 - Outro