Half Price Horror

Ed and Lorraine Warren might be dead, but they're ready to pass the torch on to a new generation of paranormal investigators in this, their final case. Or at least so says Tony Spera, Ed's son-in-law who had script approval over this derivative, repetitive, and highly inaccurate "based on a true story" Conjuring sequel. Will Tony Spera be accepted as the true heir to Ed and Lorraine's work? Will Judy Warren turn out to have powers just like Mom? Listen to this and find out!

Man, it might be the third time we've covered a movie called 'The Mummy' but it feels like the first time all over again. That's because it is, as we tackle the 1932 original with Boris Karloff, an iconic monster makeup from the legendary Jack Pierce, and all the reincarnation you can shake a stick at! Enjoy!

As is now the tradition here at HPH, we're spending Halloween weekend with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and this time she's got us a bona fide political thriller to watch! Can Dean Stockwell shake the werewolf's curse in time to save the President's daughter? Can he even get his fingers unstuck from the President's bowling ball? Or will he be doomed by the pentagram and the Pentagon? Find out in... The Werewolf of Washington!

Where do you go after covering the movie that originated every single vampire movie trope? To the movie that originated every single mad scientist trope, with Boris Karloff, flat-top heads, lightning reanimating corpses, and "IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!!!" Dive on in with HPH and have yourself a blast reliving one of the undisputed classics of cinema.

In the 1980s, Stephen King was at an absolute peak of popularity, and Stanley Kubrick was already an undisputed master in his chosen craft thanks to a number of popular and critically acclaimed films. But was the meeting of the two men doomed to mix like oil and water? Or did it not matter when they both had so much talent to spare? Find out in this episode!

Before Jigsaw, before Art the Clown, before Freddy and Michael and Jason and Leatherface, there was a single icon of horror that the world recognized and it was Bela Lugosi's Dracula. So let's go back--not to the very beginning, perhaps, because beginnings are always tricky to define--but to a landmark moment in the history of horror as we kick off October with Universal's 'Dracula'!

Some movies just keep feeling more and more relevant as time goes by, and it's hard not to hope that this movie stops being one of them. Because it's a story about an obsessive, domineering techbro using his wealth, power and privilege to stalk and harass his ex, and boy does that become more and more recognizable as the years go by. So let's talk 'The Invisible Man', and all the ways it has its pulse squarely on the mindset of the Silicon Valley billionaires that are making all our lives hell.

It's one of the most influential horror films of the 20th century, a masterpiece of cinematography with gorgeous, lush exterior vistas and claustrophobic interiors, and yes, it's often cited as a perfect adaptation of a difficult-to-film novella that captures the ambiguity of its unreliable narrator... but what does a guy with a podcast think of it? Well, listen and find out!

Everyone talks about the Universal Monsters, but the studio did a lot of horror that didn't feature its iconic stable of creatures and plenty of movies that featured its legendary actors in very different roles. So join HPH, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Junior, and Richard Greene in exploring the perils of... the Black Castle!

[This is a repost of an earlier episode erroneously removed by Spotify due to a copyright claim on the public domain theme used by this podcast. A new theme has been substituted.]

Time to celebrate another trip around the sun, although this time with a solar eclipse and a trio of killer kids to liven things up in the cult classic 'Bloody Birthday'! Can Joyce and her little brother Timmy survive the onslaught of murderous tweens? Will they ever even notice that there's a mystery to be solved? Listen and find out!

[This is a repost of an earlier episode erroneously removed by Spotify due to a copyright claim on the public domain theme used by this podcast. A new theme has been substituted.]