Hellbent for Horror

Sharing the movie experience with a theater full of people can be exhilarating or frightening—sometimes both.  You put yourself in the hands of the filmmaker to take that ride, not knowing where or how it’s going to end. 

In rare cases a movie can provide an audience with an ecstatic, transcendent experience, almost religious in its power that leaves you walking on air afterward and running back to grasp that experience again. 

Sometimes the audience isn’t ready for that story or style and the shared experience with the audience is much darker and marked with disapproval…and sometimes outright hatred.  It’s as if the film has committed sacrilege against your expectations for it. 

When that happens in a horror film is it the fault of the film or filmmaker, or the audience not prepared for the “horrible-beautiful” imagery and storytelling that challenges the comfort zone? 

In this episode we discuss religious and sacrilegious experiences in movie theaters, and the unwritten pacts that audiences make with filmmakers, and how the shared experience in a theater affects your own experience of the film

Movies Discussed:

In 1895, the Lumiere Brothers showed their film “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station”.

Lumiere Brothers

The Blackboad Jungle

The Exorcist

the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease discuss The Exorcist http://mindhacks.com/2008/05/25/mental-illness-following-the-exorcist/

Rocky

1970’s, The golden Age of Hollywood Cinema http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2007/jul/13/the70swasthegoldenageof

Jaws

John Carpenter’s The Thing

Examining the critical reaction to The Thing http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-thing/28921/examining-the-critical-reaction-to-the-thing

“First Kiss” Fan Recommendations:

Friday the 13th Part 6

Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone (It’s a Good Life w/ Billy Mumy)

Nightmare On Elm Street

Fright Night

“Death’s Other Dominion” from Space: 1999

A Cauldron of Witches

Anne Rice

The Wolfman

The Wolfman makeup: https://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128775c636b970c-600wi.jpg

Famous Monsters of Filmland comic books issue 54

The Crestwood House Monster Series

Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense

This is S.A. Bradley, and I’m a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.  Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

 The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome.  Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out.  I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror. 

I’ve been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

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We aren't out of the woods yet...

Welcome to Episode 2.5!

This is a companion piece to Episode Two, "If You Aren't Afraid in The Woods, You Haven't Gone Deep Enough", which delved into the world of Folk Horror.

Here we'll discuss movies and books I'd loved to have talked about in the episode, but they just didn't fit into "the story" completely, or there just wasn't enough time.

However, the campfire still has some embers left, and there's a little time before dawn. Just enough time for a few more stories.

Enter The Addendum of Doom!

Show Notes- for Episode 002.5- Addendum of Doom

"Blood on Satan's Claw" (1971)

Director: Piers Haggard

"Wake Wood" (2009)

Director: David Keating

"Kill List" (2011):

Director: Ben Wheatley

Extra Credit: Ben Wheatley's film, "A Field in England" (2014)

Referenced films:

"Point Blank" (1967):

Director: John Boorman

"The Wicker Man" (1973):

Directed by: Robin Hardy

S.A. Bradley's (Incomplete and Ready-For-Debate) Additional List of Folk Horror Films and Television:

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

Viy (1967)

The Devils (1971)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Kwaidan (1964)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Rites of Spring (2011)

Black Death (2010)

Television shows:

Note: Both of these are British and from the 70's, and were made as CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING. It's hard to even fathom either of these being broadcast on PBS in the United States. I think it's safe to say that Britain has a more comfortable relationship with their ancient past.

Children of the Stones (1977)

The Owl Service (1969-1970)

This is S.A. Bradley, and I'm a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode. Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome. Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out. I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror.

I've been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

https://www.facebook.com/hellbentforhorror/

We aren't out of the woods yet...

Welcome to Episode 2.5!

This is a companion piece to Episode Two, “If You Aren’t Afraid in The Woods, You Haven’t Gone Deep Enough”, which delved into the world of Folk Horror.

Here we'll discuss movies and books I'd loved to have talked about in the episode, but they just didn’t fit into "the story" completely, or there just wasn’t enough time.

However, the campfire still has some embers left, and there's a little time before dawn. Just enough time for a few more stories.

Enter The Addendum of Doom!

Show Notes- for Episode 002.5- Addendum of Doom

“Blood on Satan’s Claw” (1971)

Director: Piers Haggard

“Wake Wood” (2009)

Director: David Keating

“Kill List” (2011):

Director: Ben Wheatley

Extra Credit: Ben Wheatley’s film, “A Field in England” (2014)

Referenced films:

“Point Blank” (1967):

Director: John Boorman

“The Wicker Man” (1973):

Directed by: Robin Hardy

S.A. Bradley’s (Incomplete and Ready-For-Debate) Additional List of Folk Horror Films and Television:

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

 Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

Viy (1967)

The Devils (1971)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Kwaidan (1964)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Rites of Spring (2011)

Black Death (2010)

Television shows:

Note: Both of these are British and from the 70’s, and were made as CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING. It’s hard to even fathom either of these being broadcast on PBS in the United States. I think it’s safe to say that Britain has a more comfortable relationship with their ancient past.

Children of the Stones (1977)

The Owl Service (1969-1970)

This is S.A. Bradley, and I’m a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.  Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

 The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome.  Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out.  I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror. 

I’ve been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

Scary stories from nights long ago.

The ultimate horror is fear of the unknown, and if you've ever been lost in the woods you might know this one deeply.

We talk about Folk Horror, a little known type of horror that stems from old folklore, the land, and the scary monsters that live deep in Nature.

Show Notes- for Episode 002, ""If You Aren't Afraid in The Woods, You Haven't Gone Deep Enough"

Movies Discussed:

The Witch: A New England Folk Tale (2015):

Director: Robert Eggers

"A History of Horror" (2010):

Starring: Mark Gatiss:

(Extra Credit: The Sequel Mark Gatiss Documentary- Horror Europa (2012):

"Witchfinder General" (1968):

Director: Michael Reeves

Starring: Vincent Price

"The Devil Rides Out" (1968):

Director: Terence Fisher

Starring: Christopher Lee

"Mark of the Devil" (1970):

Director: Michael Armstrong

Starring:

Herbert Lom

Udo Kier

"The Bloody Judge" (1970):

Director: Jess Franco

Starring Christopher Lee

"The Wicker Man" (1973):

Directed by: Robin Hardy

Written by: Anthony Shaffer

Starring:

Edward Woodward:

Britt Ekland:

Christopher Lee

"The Hallow" (2015):

Director: Corin Hardy

"Eyes of Fire" (1983):

Director: Avery Crounse

Books and Authors:

H.P. Lovecraft:

Quote from the book: "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

Algernon Blackwood:

Short Story: "The Wendigo" (1910)

From the Collection: "The Lost Valley and Other Stories"

Extra Credit: Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" (1907)

From the Collection: "The Listener and Other Stories"

This is S.A. Bradley, and I'm a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode. Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome. Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out. I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror.

I've been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

Scary stories from nights long ago. 

The ultimate horror is fear of the unknown, and if you’ve ever been lost in the woods you might know this one deeply. 

We talk about Folk Horror, a little known type of horror that stems from old folklore, the land, and the scary monsters that live deep in Nature.

Show Notes- for Episode 002, ““If You Aren’t Afraid in The Woods, You Haven’t Gone Deep Enough”

Movies Discussed:

The Witch: A New England Folk Tale (2015):

Director: Robert Eggers

“A History of Horror” (2010):

Starring: Mark Gatiss:

(Extra Credit: The Sequel Mark Gatiss Documentary- Horror Europa (2012):

“Witchfinder General” (1968):

Director: Michael Reeves

Starring: Vincent Price

“The Devil Rides Out” (1968):

Director: Terence Fisher

Starring: Christopher Lee

“Mark of the Devil” (1970):

Director: Michael Armstrong

Starring:

Herbert Lom

 Udo Kier

“The Bloody Judge” (1970):

Director: Jess Franco

Starring Christopher Lee

“The Wicker Man” (1973):

Directed by: Robin Hardy

Written by: Anthony Shaffer

Starring:

Edward Woodward:

Britt Ekland:

Christopher Lee

“The Hallow” (2015):

Director: Corin Hardy

“Eyes of Fire” (1983):

Director: Avery Crounse

Books and Authors:

H.P. Lovecraft:

Quote from the book: “Supernatural Horror in Literature”

Algernon Blackwood:

Short Story: “The Wendigo” (1910)

From the Collection: “The Lost Valley and Other Stories”

Extra Credit: Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” (1907)

From the Collection: “The Listener and Other Stories”

This is S.A. Bradley, and I’m a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.  Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

 The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome.  Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out.  I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror. 

I’ve been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

What's the "First Kiss?" The First Kiss is the event that hooks you into your passion and obsession. Budding horror fans are carefully fed safe increments of scares by kiddie movies with frightening edges that end up with happy endings. But what are the moments we stumble upon that aren't carefully supervised? What movies, books, stories are the first reveal of the shock and surge that good horror can produce in its fans? We talk about that first thrill, that first shock, that first kiss.

Show Notes:

Them! – 50's horror-

Tarantula-

The Thing From Another World-

Shock Theater-

EC Comics- AND more info: The 10 Cent Plague

Home Box Office Origination: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62911/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-hbo

Poseidon Adventure:

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry:

White Lightning:

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean:

The Seven-Ups:

The Getaway:

The Stone Killer:

Nicolas Roeg:

Don't Look Now (Movie):

Don't Look Now (Daphne DeMaurier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_After_Midnight#Don.27t_Look_Now

Don't Look Now- Opening Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yqq6uBrKc

Donald Sutherland's reaction to Don't Look Now Opening Sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbjATtxS6w

Nicolas Roeg discusses "Don't Look Now": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOsVYHjabo

This is S.A. Bradley, and I'm a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode. Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome. Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out. I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror.

I've been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

What's the "First Kiss?" The First Kiss is the event that hooks you into your passion and obsession.  Budding horror fans are carefully fed safe increments of scares by kiddie movies with frightening edges that end up with happy endings.  But what are the moments we stumble upon that aren’t carefully supervised?  What movies, books, stories are the first reveal of the shock and surge that good horror can produce in its fans?  We talk about that first thrill, that first shock, that first kiss.

Show Notes:

 Them! – 50’s horror-

Tarantula-

The Thing From Another World-

Shock Theater-

EC Comics- AND  more info: The 10 Cent Plague

Home Box Office Origination: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62911/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-hbo

Poseidon Adventure:

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry:

White Lightning:

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean:

The Seven-Ups:

 The Getaway:

The Stone Killer:

Nicolas Roeg:

Don’t Look Now (Movie):

Don’t Look Now (Daphne DeMaurier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_After_Midnight#Don.27t_Look_Now

Don’t Look Now- Opening Scene:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yqq6uBrKc

Donald Sutherland’s reaction to Don’t Look Now Opening Sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbjATtxS6w

Nicolas Roeg discusses “Don’t Look Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOsVYHjabo

This is S.A. Bradley, and I’m a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.  Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.

 The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome.  Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out.  I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror. 

I’ve been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho

On this podcast we will talk movies, books, music, legends and lore, real-life horror, campfire stories, whatever connects together to tell a story.

The door swings wide, and all are welcome. Whether you love Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage Horror, French Extreme Cinema, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, Classic EC Horror Comics, Creature Features and Horror Hosts, Italian Zombies, Spanish Zombies, Romero Zombies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok films, Atomic Age Horror Films, Roughies, the list goes on...we will have discussions about them and any you bring close to the campfire!

We welcome fellow horror obsessives, obsessives-in-training, and especially anyone who has just been bitten by the horror bug and wants to know more. We are equal-opportunity sleep destroyers!

On this podcast we will talk movies, books, music, legends and lore, real-life horror, campfire stories, whatever connects together to tell a story. 

The door swings wide, and all are welcome. Whether you love Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage Horror, French Extreme Cinema, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, Classic EC Horror Comics, Creature Features and Horror Hosts, Italian Zombies, Spanish Zombies, Romero Zombies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok films, Atomic Age Horror Films, Roughies, the list goes on...we will have discussions about them and any you bring close to the campfire!

We welcome fellow horror obsessives, obsessives-in-training, and especially anyone who has just been bitten by the horror bug and wants to know more. We are equal-opportunity sleep destroyers!