Scream Scene Podcast

Your deadicated hosts uncover a copy of Ramón Peón's 1933 horror LA LLORONA with "English subtitles." Hear the stories behind Mexico's first horror film, and legendary Crying Woman legend!

Context setting 00:00; synopsis 22:25; discussion 33:39; ranking 43:38

Boris Karloff returns to the UK and to the show with T Hayes Hunter's 1933 THE GHOUL; our first British horror film, and the first film rated H for horror!

Context setting 00:00; synopsis 20:08; discussion 32:49; ranking 50:57

Your deadicated hosts encounter the pre-code poverty-row picture NIGHT OF TERROR from 1933 directed by Benjamin Stoloff. Despite what Bela Lugosi brings to this horror film, NIGHT OF TERROR is overwhelmingly monotonous and derivative of many films before it.

Context setting 00:00; synopsis 10:28; discussion 20:11; ranking 33:29

The deadicated hosts confront the first so-bad-it's-good film on the list: SUPERNATURAL (1933) from the Halperin Bros starring Carole Lombard and Alan Dinehart.

Context setting: 00:00; synopsis 12:29; discussion 27:34; ranking 41:07

Your deadicated hosts review Paramount Pictures' 1933 MURDERS IN THE ZOO, featuring the myriad of actors who either before or after this movie had established careers in law, politics, and the military. Plus, the spooky history of zoos!

Context setting 00:00; synopsis 27:32; discussion 45:36; ranking 1:11:32

The deadicated hosts talk the morbid origins of wax figures and the lines between mystery thrillers & horror in this review of Curtiz's 1933 two-tone technicolour horror MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Glenda Farrell.

Context setting 00:00; synopsis 26:11; discussion 37:41; ranking 1:05:33

Your deadicated hosts endure Majestic Pictures' 1933 mockbuster THE VAMPIRE BAT, directed by Frank Strayer and starring Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas and Dwight Frye!

Context setting 00:00; plot summary 13:06; discussion 23:33; ranking 39:44

In this adaptation of HG Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau," the deadicated hosts dive in to Erle C Kenton's 1932 ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, starring Charles Laughton and Richard Arlen, a film banned in the UK for showing vivisection and its transgressive subject matter.

Context setting 00:00; plot summary 28:52; discussion 39:20; ranking 1:16:45

It's a bonus episode! The deadicated hosts find and review Richard Oswald's 1932 UNHEIMLICHE GESCHICHTEN, featuring a journalist (Harald Paulsen) hounding a charismatic murderer (Paul Wegener), which surely has no relation to historical context...

Context setting 00:00; plot summary 33:59; discussion 46:41; ranking 1:05:52

Our deadicated hosts review Karl Freund's directorial debut, 1932's THE MUMMY, starring Boris Karloff! We give historical context to both Ancient Egyptian burial practices and the film itself, while discussing the film's tepid middle-of-the-road nature and relationship with racism & colonialism.

Context setting 00:00; plot summary 39:32; discussion 47:36; ranking 1:23:52