Scream Scene Podcast

What's real and what's just in your head? This month's horror adjacent episode features the prestige Victorian thriller GASLIGHT (1944) from director George Cukor, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten!

Plus, discussion of how pervasive the term "gaslighting" has become, and whether the film is a good or bad portrayal of an abusive relationship -- spoiler alert: it's both!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 43:19; Discussion 53:50

Your dedicated hosts travel to Mexico for LADRÓN DE CADÁVERES (1957), written and directed by Fernando Méndez! The film stars Columba Domínguez, Crox Alvarado, Wolf Ruvinskis and Carlos Riquelme.

What do you get when you mix luchadores, mad scientists and King Kong? A pretty dope movie, that's what!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 20:56; Discussion 35:25; Ranking 41:57

AIP and Anglo-Amalgamated films were confronted with Hammer Films' success. Their response was CAT GIRL (1957)!

From director Alfred Shaughnessy and writer Lou Rusoff, this old fashioned CAT PEOPLE remake stars Barbara Shelley as the titular cat.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 20:23; Discussion 31:36; Ranking 48:45

Val Guest and Nigel Kneale return with THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1957)!

Starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker, will this Yeti movie make slogging through all the previous Yeti movies worth it?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 27:34; Discussion 39:07; Ranking 1:03:14

FROM HELL IT CAME (1957, Milner) to terrorize a Polynesian island and the American doctors living there! But, are we sure they don't deserve it?

Your deadicated hosts suffer through this B horror that stars Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins, John McNamara, Gregg Palmer and many, many others, and features a creature from Paul Blaisdell.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 12:26; Discussion 22:07; Ranking 38:20

On this month's horror adjacent episode, your deadicated hosts take on Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)!

What makes this spoof work? Does it age well? How do we deal with its... sexual politics? All this and more in August's bonus episode!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 1:11:49; Discussion 1:24:21

She's baaaaaack -- from the dead! This 1957 b-movie BACK FROM THE DEAD is directed by Charles Warren and stars Peggie Castle, Marsha Hunt, Arthur Franz and Don Haggerty.

What will your hosts think of this female-led horror? Does it deserve to remain in obscurity?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 19:45; Discussion 43:24; Ranking 57:38

They dared enter the Cave of Death only to encounter... THE UNKNOWN TERROR (1957)! From director Charles Warren comes this less-than-stellar B-picture from a writer who has... spore taste. You might even say this film has... questionable morels.

The film features John Howard, Mala Powers, Paul Richards and May Wynn as they face off against Mush-Men! (I hear they're not... fun guys to be around)

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 17:30; Discussion 41:02; Ranking 58:03

Screenwriter and producer Jack Pollexfen gives horror another go with DAUGHTER OF DR JEKYLL (1957)! Tapping director Edgar G Ulmer will go a long way to making your movie look good... but is it enough?

The film stars Gloria Talbott, John Agar and Arthur Shields.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 22:24; Discussion 35:22; Ranking 53:43

We received an appeal of THE SHE-CREATURE (1956, Cahn), currently ranked at #101.

Upon our review, we started to question... just why was it so dang high on the list?

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