Toys. Not for just kids anymore, are they? Especially when you're talking about toys created from our nightmares and the countless horror films that we have devoured in our lifetime. It is amazing the amount of horror toys that are out now, as well as the wide variety of them too! From our favorite monster characters, to the classics, to the obscure, they are out there. Listen in to hear about the ones we "grew up with" as well as a little history lesson, especially about the Living Dead Dolls!

Movies mentioned in this episode:

Alien, The Black Hole, Candyman, Clash of the Titans, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dune, Escape from L.A., Escape from New York, Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, The Fly, Friday the 13th, Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, Groovie Goolies, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Jaws, London After Midnight, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Masters of the Universe, The Munsters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nekromantik, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shawn of the Dead, Sleepaway Camp, Star Wars, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Toxic Avengers, Transformers, Virus, Wishmaster, The Wolf Man

Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960), The Damned (1963), Plague of the Zombies (1966). These are the three titles covered in this episode, as well as a little discussing on what can be considered "horror" when talking about the famous Studio that Dripped Blood. While some of these titles don't immediately come to mind when you think of Hammer Horror, digging a little deeper, you might discover it to be there after all. These are the titles mentioned in the episode: Cross of the Devil (1975), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Damned (1963), The Ghost Breakers (1940), Horror of Dracula (1958), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Plague of the Zombies (1966), Paranoiac (1963), The People Who Own the Dark (1976), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), To the Devil a Daughter (1976), White Zombie (1932)

When most horror fans they first get into the genre, they tend to look for the juicy, red, and meaty stuff . . . the gore. Okay maybe not all horror fans, but a lot of us. Always looking for the next over-the-top or extreme, or just being dazzled by the top-notch gory makeup effects that were bursting out from the screen, we ate that shit up! In this episode, we highlight some of our favorite moments of gore. Joining us on our journey through the gore-soaked trenches is the incredible artist Putrid!

Alien (1979), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Anthropophagus (1981), The Beyond (1981), Beyond the Darkness (1979),Black Past (1989), Blood Feast (1963), Blood Freak (1972), Bloodsucking Freaks (1976), Bone Tomahawk (2015), Braindead (1992), The Burning Moon (1992), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), City of the Living Dead (1980), A Company of Wolves (1984), Dard Divorce (2007), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Deep Red (1975), Dellamorte Dellamore (1994), Dream Home (2010), Dr. Lamb (1992), Dust Devil (1992), Ebola Syndrome (1996), Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead (2013), Evilspeak (1981), Faces of Death (1978), The Fly II (1989), The Fog (1980), Found (2012), Friday the 13th (1980), The Gore Gore Girls (1972), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), House by the Cemetery (1981), The Howling (1981), The Initiation (1984), Irreversible (2002), Maniac (1980), Mermaid in a Manhole (1988), Nekromantik (1987), New York Ripper (1982), No Reason (2010), Opera (1987), Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997), The Queen of Black Magic (1981), The Raid (2011), Rampage (1987), Robocop (1987), Scanners (1981), The Shining (1980), Society (1989), Splatter Farm (1987), Starship Troopers (1997), Story of Ricky (1991), Suspiria (1977), Tenebre (1982), The Thing (1982), Tonight She Comes (2016),Total Recall (1990), The Toxic Avengers (1984), Traces of Death (1993), Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), The Untold Story (1993), Videodrome (1982), Violent Shit (1989), Wizard of Gore (1970), Woodchipper Massacre (1988), Zombie (1979)

King Dinosaur (1955), The Cyclops (1957), & Food of the Gods (1976). Tune in to this GIANT episode when we discuss Mr. B.I.G., the one and only Bert I. Gordon, and three of his films. Known for films that featured giant monsters, such as giant grasshoppers, spiders, teenagers, and rats, he usually had some sort of small threat that is made larger with either shooting them on smaller sets or super imposing them over a back projector screen. Fun usually ensues.  Movies we mentioned in this episode:

Beginning of the End (1957), Brides of Blood (1968), Cannibal Ferox (1981), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Cyclops (1957), Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977), Empire of the Ants (1977), Faces of Death (1978), Food of the Gods (1976), Holy Mountain (1973), The Howling (1981) Hunchback of the Morgue (1973), The Innocents (1961), King Dinosaur (1955), The Legend of Hell House (1973), Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Night of a 1000 Cats (1972), Of Mice and Men (1939), The Spider aka Earth vs the Spider (1958), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), El Topo (1970), War of the Colossal Beast (1958), Wild Beasts (1984), and The Wolf Man (1941)

Before the Internet, horror reference books are where you'd go to learn about the genre. Whether it was film and video guides, biographies, or just general information titles, we learn about new titles as well as learn more about the ones we already knew. And it is still as effective today! In this episode, we cover some titles that were essential to us, as well as some of our favorite titles today.

Books Mentioned in this episode:

Analog Nightmares: The Shot on Video Horror Films of 1982-1995

The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual Horror Films

Beyond Horror Holocaust by Chas Balun

Biology of Science Fiction Cinema by Mark C. Glassy

Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey by Joseph A. Ziemba

Bleeding Skull! A 1990's Trash-Horror Odyssey by Annie Choi, & Joseph A. Ziemba

Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1 by John Skipp & Heather DrainCut! Horror Writers on Horror Films by Christopher Golden

Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema by Johnathan Risner

Films of the New French Extremity by Alexandra West

Gore Score by Chas Balun

Hammer Complete by Howard Maxford

Hammer Dracula Scrapbook by Wayne Kinsey

Hammer Films Legacy by Wayne Kinsey

Hammer Frankenstein Scrapbook by Wayne Kinsey

Hammer's Grand Design by Wayne Kinsey

Hidden Horror edited by Aaron Christensen

Horror 101: The A-List of Horror Films and Monster Movies edited by Aaron Christensen

Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir

Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir

Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir

Horror Films of the 2000s by John Kenneth Muir

Immoral Tales Pete Tombs & Cathil Tohill

Infogothic by Alister Hughes

It Came from Hunger by Larry Buchanan

J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge, and Beyond by David Kalat

Killing for Culture by David Kerekes & David Slater

A Look of Horror

Mondo Macabro by Pete Tombs

Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. 1 & 2 John McCarty

Overlook Film Encyclopedia - Horror by Phil Hardy

A Pictorial History of Hammer Films edited by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton

Profondo Agento by Alan Jones

Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film by Michael Weldon

Re/Search: Incredible Strange Films

Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film by Nicholas G. Schlegel

Spanish Horror Films by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll

Sweet and Savage: The World through the Mondo Film Lens by Mark Goodall & Jeremy Dyson

Universal Horrors Tom Weaver, Michael, and John Brunas

Unsung Horrors edited by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton

A Vault of Horror: A Book of 80 Great British Horror Movies from 1956-1974 by Keith Topping

Video Hound's Horror Show by Mike Mayo

Video Wasteland's Rental, Reference, and Review Guide by Ken Kish

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977), Beyond the Darkness (1979), Anthropophagus (1980), Absurd (1981). These are the four films from the one and only Aristide Massaccesi, better known as Joe D'Amato! Joining us in this fun discussion is HorrorHound's Managing Editor, Aaron Crowell! 

If you know horror art, you probably know Ghoulish Gary Pullin, and even if you don't know his name, you know his work. From Rue Morgue magazine to posters to album covers and more, Gary's signature style is everywhere you look in our little fandom community, so we talk to him about his career, the nature of horror art, and various other odds and ends. 

 

In this episode, we discuss:  Dawn of the Dead Night of the Living Dead Halloween Halloween 2 Jaws A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Hilarious House of Frightenstein Phantasm The Old Dark House Evil Dead 2 A Nightmare on Elm Street Ghoulies 4 Day of the Dead The Blair WitchProject House of 1000 Corpses Jason X Jason Goes to Hell Event Horizon The Changeling Creepshow Creepshow 2 Martin Knightriders Terror Train Monster Squad Return of the Living Dead My Bloody Valentine

The Norliss Tapes (1973), A Cold Night's Death (1973) & Salem's Lot (1979). Did you know that once upon a very earthy time, major broadcasters made films specifically to be shown on TV, and that of the thousands that were made, a whole bunch were horror films? On this episode, we transport you back to a time of shag carpet, rotary phones and pants-wettingly scary films with commercial interruptions. 

The movie soundtrack can be just as important and effective as anything we're seeing on screen, especially when it comes to the horror film. Just think of The Omen, The Exorcist, or even Creepshow. This episode we discuss some of our favorites and why we think they are effective. 

Vampyres (1974), Fascination (1979), & Vampyros Lesbos (1971) - In this episode, we delved into some of the lesser known vampire films that go off the beaten path when compared to traditional vampire films, from three different countries, and from three different filmmakers (Jose Larraz, Jean Rollin, and Jess Franco).