The Horror 101 crew finally spotlights a Hammer film.  A Terence Fisher film by a Richard Matheson script from a Dennis Wheatley novel.  This is a rare time Christopher Lee is the hero in a Hammer Horror.,  We hope you enjoy our coverage of The Devil Rides Out.  

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:00 The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee...
06:00 Our First Rated G film...
07:30 Favourite Lee films...
13:30  Where's Simon?
17:00  A Most Dangerous Game...
21:15  Don't Look at the Eyes...
24:24  Pursuing Tanith...
29:00  The Goat of Mended...
38:10  Mocata's Visit...
45:00  The Circle of Protection...
52:00  Scarcely in the Name of God...
54:15  Zero Consequences...
58:30  Scoring the film...
70:00  Conclusion!  Thanks for Listening!

Welcome to Episode 155!  For the first time we're covering a 70s sleeper which Cash has never seen before.  Now he is the student on his own show.  The crew takes a leap of faith on a film which has been hailed as "criminally underseen".  If David Lynch had made a Zombie film, this would be it.  We hope you enjoy the Horror 101 treatment of Messiah of Evil from 1974!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
06:38  Picking tonight's film...
11:00  They say that Nightmares are Dreams Perverted...
13:30  Arletty Getting Gas...
16:45  Arriving at The Beach House...
18:30  Blind/Mute Art Dealer...
20:00  The Seven Seas...
22:40  You Have to Burn Him...
23:55  I Let Them Stay...
26:40  Laura's Escape...
31:00  That Wasn't My Father...
32:50  Creepy Movie Theatre...
35:55 Deteriorating...
36:40  Father Descends...
42:00  Beach House Massacre...
44:35  No one Will Hear You Scream!
47:08  Scoring the Film...
58:00 Conclusion!  Thanks for Listening!

Welcome to our first podcast of 2025.  We're making a conscious effort to go back to the heart of the Horror 101 project and cover some of the more obscure films of the Horror Genre.  We're going to start with an early 80s slasher that features some memorable Tom Savini gore effects.  We hope you enjoy our Horror 101 Treatment of Joe Zito's The Prowler.

Show Highlights:

01:00  Prelude to Terror...
05:50  A Reset...
08:20  Choosing The Prowler...
14:14  A Dear John Letter...
16:30  Double Homicide in '45
17:55  Reminds us of Bloody Valentine...
18:45  Budget Amy Steel
23:00  Longest Shower Ever...
29:15  Searching Chatham's
33:30  Pool Massacre...
37:40  The Cemetery...
40:40  Putting the Audience of Hold...
43:50  Back to Chatham's
50:00  The Final Scare...
52:45  Scoring the Film...
59:45  Conclusion!  Thanks for Listening!

This is it!  Our final podcast of 2024.  We have a full house this episode with our friend and special guest, Elvis joining us.  We recorded this show on Friday, December 13th and decided to break out the hockey mask once again.  Part 7 is celebrated for Kane Hodder's inaugural performance as the unstoppable killer.  Although the MPAA cut the violence to ribbons its the stunts and Jason work that really sells this pinnacle entry in the Friday series.  Join us as we give the Horror 101 treatment to John Carl Buechler's Friday the 13th Part 7:  The New Blood.

Show Highlights:

01:00  Prelude to Terror
04:00 Friday the 13th talk...
12:45  Opening Monologue...
13:30  Inadvertent Manslaughter...
15:40  Returning to the Lake...
17:30  Matchbook Exercise...
20:10  Resurrection...
23:40  First Victims...
27:45  I Saw Him Again...
30:30  Sleeping Back Death...
35:50  You Never Intended to Help...
38:00  Maddy's Death...
41:10  Human Shield...
43:20  We were ROBBED!
45:30  Battling The New Blood...
50:15  The Stairs Stunt...
56:00  The Longest Burn...
57:25  The Last Scare...
59:45  Scoring the Film...
69:50  Conclusion...Happy New Years!

To honour the recently passed Tony Todd we're giving the Horror 101 treatment to Bill Condin's Candyman Farewell To The Flesh from 1995.  We share our experience with Tony himself and one of our podcasters has to fly home in the middle of the recording.  Don't miss this show!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude To Terror...
05:20  We owe a tribute to Tony Todd...
12:25  Purcell's Demise...
17:55  Ethan Confesses...
20:45  The Old Home...
22:25  Classroom Calling...
23:40  I Am The Writing on the Wall...
26:10  Nefarious Paul B's Ordeal...
30:50  Matthew Disappears...
34:55  The Mirror...
39:40  Police Evisceration...
42:10  Family Secrets...
45:30  Slave Quarters...
47:30  Be My Witness...
50:25  Scoring The Film...
56:45  RIP Tony Todd!  Thanks for Listening!

For all those who've messaged us over the years about covering a Rob Zombie film.  HERE YOU GO!!  Its finally happening.  For our 151st show and this year's Halloween Special we're giving the Horror 101 treatment to Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.  His inaugural film.  A true love letter to nasty 70s horror.  Happy Halloween to all our listeners!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror
04:40  Eugene joins us again...
07:30  People have been asking for YEARS!
09:00 This was ALMOST Halloween IV...
12:00  Perhaps you had better start from the beginning...
13:00 Robbing Spaulding...
16:30  Murder Ride...
19:30  Hitchhiker...
21:50  Invitation to dinner...
26:10  Showtime!!!
28:20  Almost Escape...
29:50  Helping Private Ryan...
32:36  Murder/Torture...
35:00  Futile Investigation...
36:30  Its all true...The Boogeyman is real!
41:00  Decent into Madness...
45:00  The End?
46:15  Reflections...
48:45  Scoring the film...
58:15  Conclusion!  Happy Halloween!

We recorded our milestone 150th episode on Friday, September 13th and decided to mark the occasion by covering the 2nd film in the Friday franchise.  With our special guest Eugene we're going back to 1981 to revisit the original Baghead Jason.  This film made absolutely no sense considering the info from the first movie.  Audiences didn't care.  More deaths, more destruction.  Come, revisit the Friday before the hockey mask.  Join us as we give the Horror 101 treatment to Steve Miner's Friday the 13th Part II.

Show Highlights:

01:00  Prelude to Terror...
04:00  Special Guest, Eugene!
07:40  The phases of Jason Voorhees...
12:00 The LONG recap (Adrienne King returns)...
14:00  Exploding words! (Jason makes a phone call?)
15:10  You're all Doomed!!
16:30  Councillors in training (Ginny is late!)...
19:10  Telling of the Tale...
21:05  Crazy Ralph gets his...
22:33  Trespassing...
28:00  "What if there is a Jason?"
30:30  Wheelchair Machete...
32:15  Running through the pair...
33:00  Baghead Revealed...
36:35  "There's Somebody in This Room..."
38:40  Pitchfork the car...
39:52  Saved by cheap furniture...
41:20  The Shrine of Mother...
46:30  Yanked through the Window...
49:00  Scoring the Film...
58:00  Conclusion!  Thanks for listening!

On our 149th show we're going to back to 1980 to focus on a satirical horror starring Rory Calhoun and Nancy Parsons.    This film made the cover of Fangoria #9.  Ebert liked it much more than my crew did.  What's all that strange noise coming from inside Vincent's secret garden? Join us as we give the Horror 101 treatment to Kevin Connor's Motel Hell.

Show Hightlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:20  Our recent mistake (with C-Bass)...
08:45  Introducing Motel Hell...
12:50  The first trap...
16:40  Spot Check...
18:18  Gurgling Garden...
23:00  Stupid Cows...
25:25  The Kinks...
30:10  Tubing...
33:30  Stockholm Syndrome...
36:25  Harvesting...
50:35  Chainsaw Duel...
48:40  Scoring the Film...
57:50  Final Thoughts and Conclusion.

We decided to stick with the Gothic Poe era for one more show.  On this 148th episode we're going back to revisit this 1960 film and re-covering the first Corman/Price feature.  We hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 treatment to House of Usher!

Show hightlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:00  Celebrating 13 years of podcasting...
08:20  Comparing Usher to Masque...
09:00  Approaching in Desolation...
11:00  How dare you admit anyone into this house?
13;45  We are Dying...
16:50  The Fissure...
23:00  The Sleepwalker...
25:15  The Waiting Crypt...
27:00  The House of Evil...
30:00  Catalepsy...
34:00  Buried Alive...
36:30  Be Done!!
39:00  The Fall of the House of Usher...
40:40  Scoring the Film...
49:00  Conclusion.  Thanks for Listening!

On our 147th show we are once again paying homage to a recently lost treasure.  We lost Roger Corman at the age of 98.  The amount of talent that was realised through his projects is innumerable .  The man was a Hollywood Kingmaker.  Nobody could make a film as quick and as cheap as Roger Corman yet he still produced solid, entertaining films.  We hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 Treatment to Corman's classic The Masque of the Red Death from 1964, starring Vincent Price.  

Show Highlights:

01:00  Prelude to Terror
06:40  Corman the Kingmaker...
10:40  Choosing Masque to feature...
15:40  The Day of Their Deliverance...
21:10  Esmeralda and Hop Toad...
24:50  Manipulation and Debauchery...
28:30  Midnight Terrors...
30:45  Scarlatti and his Wife...
34:00  Hop Toad and Alfredo...
36:45  Failed Escape...
39:40  Five Daggers...
41:40  The Final Ritual...
46:00  Destruction of the Villagers...
49:30  The Burning Gorilla...
51:25  Someone Wearing Red...
53:30  The Dance of Death...
57:40  The Convening Deaths...
59:00  Scoring the Film...
69:15  Farewell Mr. Corman...
72:30  Conclusion.  Thanks for Listening!