Scream Scene Podcast

Vaguely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe comes 1935's THE RAVEN starring our favourite boys Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff! Directed by working man director Louis Friedlander, this film hits all the horror notes, Bateman!

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AWOOO! It's the first Hollywood werewolf picture ever, but your deadicated hosts find that its bark is worse than its bite: it's Universal's 1935 WEREWOLF OF LONDON directed by Stuart Walker and starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, and Lester Matthews.

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Tod Browning and Bela Lugosi chase past glories in this 1935 horror MARK OF THE VAMPIRE! This remake of Browning's 1927 LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT features a truly Halloween atmosphere with Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt.

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The monster demands a mate! Your deadicated hosts dive into Whale's 1935 sequel BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN! Featuring the return of Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, and Ernest Thesiger, and introducing Elsa Lanchester into horror!

What is the relationship of horror to camp? To goth or queer culture? And, of course, a thorough discussion of how BRIDE relates to its preceding film, FRANKENSTEIN.

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On a very special episode of Scream Scene: your deadicated hosts tackle the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code, William H Hays, Joseph Breen, and how the 1934 amendment and enforcement affected horror, and all, films until 1968.

MANIAC, also known as SEX MANIAC is your deadicated hosts' first foray into exploitation horror -- and certainly won't be the last. Beware, this 1934 Dwain Esper classic is something to be experienced to truly be believed!

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Columbia Pictures offers us our last pre-code horror film: the disappointing BLACK MOON (1934) directed by Roy William Neill and starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, and Dorothy Burgess. Based off the 1933 novel of the same name by Clements Ripley. It's, uh, not good.

The film that could not possibly fail... your deadicated hosts review Edgar G Ulmer's 1934 pre-code classic THE BLACK CAT, bringing together Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, with third wheels David Manners and Julie Bishop.

Hungary and Austria collide in this film about a satanic cultist by a Czech director. To contextualize this conflict, we cover Austria-Hungary's role in World War One. It's relevant, we promise!

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Your deadicated hosts review the poverty row film from Monogram Pictures HOUSE OF MYSTERY (1934) directed by William Nigh and starring Ed Lowry and Verna Hillie. Discover the mysterious origins of this Old Dark House rip-off, with added monkey!

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From the behind-the-scenes drama of James Whale's 1933 horror THE INVISIBLE MAN, to HG Wells' writing process, your deadicated hosts explore Claude Rains' iconic role as the Invisible Man!

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