It's the inaugural meeting of the SBG Book Club and we hope you've done your homework! We're talking about J. Sheridan Le Fanu's seminal vampire novella Carmilla and its place in the canon of bloodsucking lesbians.

Also includes discussions of Escape Room (2019), The Blood-Spattered Bride (1971), Vampyr (1932), Carmilla Hyde (2010) and more.

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Is it comedy-horror or horror-comedy? We're taking a look at some of the silliest horror movies to ever grace our screens and investigating the strange similarity between laughing and screaming.

Includes discussions of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931), The Houses October Built (2011), The Occupant (2025), The Time of the Wolf (2003), The Cat & the Canary (1927), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Young Frankenstein (1974), Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980), Juan of the Dead (2011), One Cut of the Dead (2017) and more.

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The hotly anticipated sequel to the hit supernatural horror film The Black Phone is here. Ethan Hawke returns as the strange and sexy villain The Grabber in Black Phone 2 which we think is a bit muddled and troublingly familiar.

Also includes discussions of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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It's our 100th episode! To mark the occasion, we stayed up all night watching the entire The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. From its humble, low-budget origins, Tobe Hooper's shocker has given birth to a distinctly odd horror franchise that never seems quite sure what it wants to be. How do you expand on something that's arguably perfect just how it is?

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After four movies and a few spinoffs we're bidding adieu to Ed and Lorraine Warren and their adventures in The Conjuring series. We take a look at the way the now-classic first instalment has influenced the horror scene, and how the latest film The Conjuring: Last Rites wraps up their story.

Also includes discussions of Hallow Road (2025), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and more.

Dark Nights Film Fest Volume 2 takes place October 9-12, 2025 at The Ritz in Randwick. 

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In this episode we explore a set of terrifying tales that might get a bit too close to reality. We explore the potent desperation, fear and hope that define stories about dystopia and authoritarianism, and how these stories illuminate our real circumstances.

Includes discussions of Black Water (2007), Punishment Park (1971), Terminal Island (1973), The Crazies (1973), Golem (1979), They Live (1988), Battle Royale (2000), They Cloned Tyrone (2022) and The Long Walk (2025).

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Zach Cregger's second feature Weapons has been one of the year's most impactful horror movies. We take a look at what makes this alternately serious and silly movie tick, and why it's been received with so much enthusiasm. What can we make of the loaded, potentially subversive symbolism at play in the film, and how does it tie in to the already-iconic villain?

Also includes discussions of War of the Worlds (2025), Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 5 (2011) and more.

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The mummy has carved out an interesting place in pop culture that reveals some odd quirks when you peel off the bandages. We investigate the exoticism and neo-colonialism that colours the image of the mummy in horror literature and film. How did this shambling corpse become so iconic and yet so divorced from its origins?

Includes discussions of Afraid (2024), #missingcouple (2024), The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Aztec Mummy (1957), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), Timewalker (1982), The Mummy (1999) Bubba Ho-tep (2002), Frankenstein vs. the Mummy (2015) and more.

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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Days Later is a film that holds up a lot better than a lot of its contemporaries. Following a disappointing middle entry, Boyle is back in the director's chair with the epic 28 Years Later. We discuss the distinctive trilogy's emotionally-charged place in the horror canon and the quirks of its writer and director's visions.

Also include discussions of Saw X (2023), Locked (2025), M3GAN 2.0 (2025), The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (video game, 2022) and more.

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Maybe grab a poncho because in our latest ep you will get wet! We take a look at the grisly, gleeful gore of the splatter sub-genre. The absurd, nihilism, and the tenuous nature of our society all underpin a genre that cuts much deeper than it seems on the surface.

Includes discussions of The Shrouds (2025), The Great God Pan (short story by Arthur Machen, 1894), Chain Reactions (2024), Jigoku (1960), Blood Feast (1963), The Gore Gore Girls (1972), The Beyond (1981), Demons (1985), Ichi the Killer (2001) and The Sadness (2021).

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