Scream Scene Podcast

Your hosts delve underground and encounter THE MOLE PEOPLE (1956) from Universal Pictures and director Virgil Vogel!

Learn about the Boomer Bill Nye the Science Guy aka Dr Frank Baxter, plus Mesopotamian cultures and the latest updates to the Hollywood Production Code!

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Your hosts experience flashbacks to algebra with X THE UNKNOWN (1956) from director Leslie Norman and stars Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman and Leo McKern.

With full face meltage, you won't want to miss this latest horror from Hammer Films!

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From Warner Bros comes THE BAD SEED (1956), directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack!

The original novel from William March was an instant best seller; the Broadway adaptation by Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer; but is the film version as subversive as it really wants to be?

Strap in, children, for this jam-packed episode! Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 42:36; Discussion 1:10:20; Ranking 2:04:07

Hypnotized! Your deadicated hosts experience THE SHE-CREATURE (1956) from director Edward L Cahn and starring Chester Morris, Maria English and Lance Fuller. Plus, an exciting announcement awaits!

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Roger Corman is back with the sci-fi horror film IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956) starring Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef (no really!), Beverly Garland and Sally Fraser. Will this Venusian save us from ourselves??

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Your deadicated hosts return to Japan for YOTSUYA KAIDAN (1956) from director Masaki Mori and starring the Lone Wolf himself, Tomisaburo Wakayama! The previous 1949 adaptation failed to make the list... will this B-movie version suffer the same fate?

Please note the episode includes discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault and suicide due to the plot(s) of YOTSUYA KAIDAN.

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Can the sympathetic werewolf figure be separated from Lon Chaney's Larry Talbot?

We try to answer that question with THE WEREWOLF (1956) from director Fred Sears and producer Sam Katzman! Steven Ritch plays the science-based werewolf facing off Don Megowan's small town sheriff.

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This 1956 throwback to the classic Universal horror of the '40s strikes at your hosts' hearts and brains! It's THE BLACK SLEEP from director Reginald LeBorg starring horror icons Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson.

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Will Gill-man finally get his girl?

The final Gill-man movie and the end of Universal's classic monster series arrives with THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (1956) from director John Sherwood and starring Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason and Leigh Snowden.

Ricou Browning returns as the (water-based) Gill-man while big boy Don Megowan plays Gill-man on land.

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What would auteur theory have to say about Jerry Warren? Listen and find out! Jerry Warren produces, writes and directs MAN BEAST (1956) starring Tom Maruzzi, Virginia Maynor and Brianne Murphy.

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