I chatted to Eliza Power and Philip Clyde-Smith, the writer and director of new comedy horror short A Hand to Hold. We talked about "grief porn", working with Frances Barber and favourite 80s horror movies.

Moira, an elderly Irish woman, finds herself literally attached to her deceased husband Patrick. When his hand refuses to let go after death, it leads to increasingly grotesque events. Everyone in the couple’s orbit, from their daughter to the local doctor, a farmer, a priest, and a Satanist, all try to intervene with horrific consequences. 'A Hand to Hold' blends horror with pitch-black Irish comedy, exploring themes of grief and toxic relationships. The film features an original score by Golden Globe nominated composer Brian Byrne.

A Hand to Hold will be showing at the following film festivals. Keep an eye out, it's a wonderfully brilliant film!

Cleveland International Film Festival - 10th + 11th April

Miami Film Festival - 14th April

Shorts in Paradise, Gold Coast Film Festival - 2nd May

Southside Film Festival - 10-13th June

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I chatted to Tom about his movie Relentless, the action movies I really should watch and I have another bit of a revelation and existential crisis. Relentless (which originally screened at Grimmfest as Syphon) is available in the US to stream now on Prime, Apple TV and Fandango.

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Who better to talk to about a fucked up movie than queen of the extreme, Zoe Rose Smith? Zobo joins me to talk about Caye Casas’ The Coffee Table (and Can Evrenol’s The Turkish Coffee Table), one of my favourite movies from the last few years. Zoe is awesome and I’ve not bothered to edit out my fangirling - we are embracing the cringe 🤓🙌🏻

Up now on Spotify and on video on YouTube soon 👶🏼

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Part two of my 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple nattering with Abbie. This episode contains spoilers for both movies! We got to see The Bone Temple in the first screening in the world and excitedly shared our thoughts on the drive home. If you missed part one, we discussed our thoughts on the first movie and our predictions for the second instalment of the trilogy (spoilers for Years, spoiler free for TBT)

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A first for Horror Hyperfixations - a two-part episode! Myself and Abbie were very lucky to see an incredibly early screening of The Bone Temple back in December. In typical Sam and Abbie chaotic fashion, we recorded an episode in the car on the way to the screening 😅 Episode one contains spoilers for 28 Years Later and our predictions for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Episode two has our reactions on the way home, so contains spoilers! Episode two will be available on Wednesday 14th January at 8pm

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Join me and Loucifer in an unhinged game of "Smash or pass?" as we discuss our favourite movie monsters that we (probably shouldn't) fancy. But we also have some really insightful (honestly!) conversations around being attracted to monstrous beings, seeing ourselves in the weird little guys of horror and why slimy, scaly monsters are always better than human men.

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I chatted with the brilliant Melanie Light, an award winning writer-director and all-round badass human. The plan was to talk about female serial killers, but we talked about a whole host of things - as often happens when two ADHD gremlins get together! Mel's short film "The Herd" has had over 5M views on YouTube - go check it out before listening to the episode!

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The incredible Marcella chatted with me about Where the Wild Things Are, children's horror and the uncanny. Marcella shared some of her research into why she thinks Where the Wild Things Are can be interpreted as a story of growing up neurodivergent - it's absolutely fascinating. Brb, going to go live with some monsters on an island...

There are a few little audio buzzes from time to time - I'm not sure where they came from, but maybe there were some Wild Things causing havoc?

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It's been a while since I've done a rambly update, so here's a chaos goblin update, a re-introduction of sorts and sharing about starting ADHD meds. My brain is braining worse than usual at the moment - sometimes you can hear my brain reboot mid-sentence and start again. I cut most of it out, but left a few in for a li'l summin' summin'.

I jibber away to myself about seeing Ghost Stories for the 6th, 7th and 8th times, all the festivals I've attended and how bloody hard it's been since starting on meds.

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I am super excited to share this episode, as I had such a brilliant time talking about staging in horror with Robin. I put Robin on the spot to share 5 movies that are worth a(nother) watch, to pay attention to all the little details. Listen to the episode and then go (re)appraise the staging!

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