Tea For Terror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Robert Shearman inadvisably go out playing in the muddy hell of a working farm of the mid 1970s, where children routinely fall foul of rat poison, falling iron gates and cow shit stinking slurry pits. Together they explore the nasty world of the British public information film Apaches (1977). Bleak, unpleasant and irresistibly watchable, this John Mackenzie short is a thing to behold. You have been warned, kids.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Aaron Carruthers take an inadvisable trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Beset by deadites, freezing cold temperatures and spattered with homemade blood, they try to make some sense of Sam Raimi’s spooky debut feature The Evil Dead (1981). What could possibly go wrong?

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and screen actor Simon Bamford (Butterball in Hellraiser/Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves trapped in an old farmhouse. Its boiling hot, they’re surrounded by rotting corpses and the only thing on the menu is them. Despite their imminent peril, they still find the time to examine Tobe Hooper’s masterful horror movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and returning guest James Whittington (NYX, Legend, The Horror Channel) put on their Santa hats, load their sacks with various instruments of butchery and head off into Christmas Eve to examine Bob Clark’s seminal festive horror Black Christmas (1974). Often cited as being a major influence on the later slasher movies, especially Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the Canadian movie remains genuinely shocking retaining all of its early 70s grim power.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Exploitation Retrospect head honcho Dan Taylor break into the lab to conduct some questionable experiments in order to resurrect the mid-80s American splatter movie Re-Animator (1985). This Stuart Gordon directed cult classic torn from the pages of H.P. Lovecraft, is a neon-lit, violent horror show which is both funny and playful, as well as being outrageous and gob-smackingly visceral.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jez Conolly find themselves struggling with the world’s worst case of deja vu as they get caught in the time-looped nightmare of Dead of Night (1945). This post-war Ealing Studio’s horror, provided the template for the anthology movie and pre-dated the gothic stylings of Hammer by a good 10 years. Weird, creepy, quirky and terrifying, it provides a brilliant and strange jigsaw of horrific design.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and John Harrison get all freaked out by David E Durston’s acid trip-rabies-horror, I Drink Your Blood (1970). Undoubtedly influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968) but pre-dating Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972), the movie is an uneven yet entertaining mix of violence, rabies and bad acting laced through with hypnotic visuals and a killer soundtrack.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and We Belong Dead editor Darrell Buxton go way back in time to unravel a tale of madness, manipulation and amputation in Tod Browning’s weird circus-set silent horror The Unknown (1927). They discuss flesh, fiends, Joan Crawford, and of course legendary screen shapeshifter, Lon Chaney.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies don their best gas masks and tramp off to the Peak District to unpack kitchen sink horror Dead Man’s Shoes. Directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, A Room for Romeo Brass) and starring Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon, Hot Fuzz), it’s a dark and brooding serial killer revenge flick grounded in reality and barbed with a very British sensibility.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and director of The Love Witch, Anna Biller delve into the black and white proto-Amicus movie, City of the Dead AKA Horror Hotel (1960). Starring Hammer legend Christopher Lee, this witchy oddity taps into modern fears and new world ideas, riffing on many of the same themes as Psycho, Black Sunday and Peeping Tom.