Laser boobs, neck fetuses, and a cavalcade of insensitive racial stereotypes. It’s the Manitou. The Manitou on Wikipedia Show Notes We watched the Amazon Prime version of this flick but there is a re-release available from Scream Factory. I first heard about this story from Grady Hendrix’s truly, truly great pop history of horror publishing, […]

Laser boobs, neck fetuses, and a cavalcade of insensitive racial stereotypes. It’s the Manitou. The Manitou on Wikipedia Show Notes We watched the Amazon Prime version of this flick but there is a re-release available from Scream Factory. I first heard about this story from Grady Hendrix’s truly, truly great pop history of horror publishing, […]

A long one! To make up for lost time and for the previous episode, which we can count as a BONUS episode, Andrew and Matt review the spoopy 1965 Japanese ghost anthology KWAIDAN.

Hi! It’s been awhile. Technical difficulties have killed several recordings but here is a double episode featuring Andrew and Matt discussing Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf and Mario Bava’s Kill Baby Kill.

Andrew and Matt discuss the 1968 George Romero film Night of the Living Dead Topics Discussed Podcast and movie introductions Fathom Events Perfect Blue Andrew does the plot recap “They’re coming to get you Barbara!” The films of George Romero and Dawn of the Dead in particular Ganja and Hess Duane Johnson The peculiar 20th […]

Happy Halloween everyone! Andrew and I are getting together very soon to record some horror movie episodes but I wanted to have something out on Halloween, so this is something a little bit different. This is an excerpt from a work in progress – a rough draft of a chapter from a new work. Please […]

Andrew and Matt discuss the 1964 Kaneto Shindo film Onibaba Topics Discussed Podcast and movie introductions Andrew does the plot recap Abandon the Old in Tokyo Japanese Comics in general Onibaba as a folk tale Social class in Onibaba Uncanny Japan Late 90’s Anime craze, working at Borders Winter Tide Valerie and Her Week of […]

The Horror Chamber of Doctor Faustus/the Manster double bill Topics Discussed Podcast and movie introductions Andrew does the plot recap The movie’s place in French cinema Critical reception of Eyes without a Face Blood of the Beasts A reaction to the modern world Citation: Postwar Facial Reconstruction Hotel des invalides (misdescribed in the podcast somewhat) […]

Did you know that Kuroneko means “Black Cat” in Japanese? I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays! We both really enjoyed Kuroneko. In the podcast, you can hear us discuss some of the interesting pieces of this film. Andrew specifically called out the sound design. We also talked about interesting uses of symmetry and juxtaposition throughout. […]

Our first time covering Mario Bava on this show! Gothic chiller Black Sunday is this month’s entry in our series on foreign horror films before 1979. This series has proven to be fairly popular with Andrew. I don’t know if anyone remembers the premise of this show now, 41 episodes and several years in, but […]