Severed d**ks! Kicking off 2026 with Street Trash (1987) and the reimagined Street Trash (2024) featuring special Scouse African guest, Ryan Kruger. We talk 80s bush, scrapyard Ouija boards, whores in vans, Fried Barry, The Last Drive-in, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and The Prince Charles Cinema. The Lament Configuration Podcast… Your listening will be legendary - even in hell.

Massive zombie schlong! Greg Knox and Ria Fend have gorged on a solid diet of horror this year and request your ‘Presence’ for their top five of 2025 and one least favourite. We’ve been spoiled this year - it’s been a ‘Keeper’! Has your year been a ‘Good Boy’ or just ‘The Long Walk’? We ‘Bring Her Back’ in this episode. The Lament Configuration Podcast… Explorers in the further regions of horror.

Jesus wept. It’s almost that time of year again and, if you’re like Ria Fend and Greg Knox, you love a good Christmas horror film. On this episode, we discuss two more slasher films from 1980 - Christmas Evil and New Year’s Evil - plus reviews of Frankenstein, Black Phone 2, Shelby Oaks and more. Featuring a killer Santa played by Fiona Apple’s dad, a grown man spying on children, naughty kids called Moss, Morbid Knowledge, a police lineup of Santas, Shadow and Made in Japan, absolutely hideous 80s fashion choices, voice distorters, and terrible disguises. The Lament Configuration Podcast… May your suffering be festive.

0:00 Intro

3:04 Frankenstein

6:38 Black Phone 2

9:01 Shelby Oaks

12:07 Keeper

13:07 Meat Kills

16:28 The Surrender

18:24 Ria's Halloween adventures at The Nickel

19:59 Thoughts on Christmas horror

24:46 Christmas Evil

43:26 New Year's Evil

1:04:55 Social media

Well, I’ll be dogged! Ria Fend and Greg Knox return to talk more 80’s Video Nasty slasher films plus London Film Festival 2025. Heavily featuring PEAS (yes, the vegetable), Nowhere Fast, a laughing killer, Mistake, Kiss make-up, a pensioner hit and run killing and an absolute turkey of a slasher. Blimey! The Lament Configuration Podcast… Come with us, taste our pleasures.

Schools out and Greg Knox and Ria Fend are back with more Section 3 Video Nasty reviews - this time 80’s slasher films! Radish and Wildman, 80s hair, Linnea Quigley, track sports, Felony (the band) and more cheese than a French delicatessen. FYI - If you make out with your date in a convertible at night, you’re going to die. The Lament Configuration Podcast… We’ll tear your soul apart.

Greg Knox and Ria Fend get into the meat and bones of more Italian Zombie movies - they’re slow as sh*t, but they’re coming for you! Plus FrightFest 2025, Lucio Fulci, zombies with a table saw, teleportation, spaceship sound effects, saucy couples and one VERY controversial theme. But does Ria really hate the church? The Lament Configuration Podcast… We have such films to show you.

Ria Fend and Greg Knox use their polite British voices to talk about more horrific video nasties, in the BBFC’s section three of banned films. Hold your socks on for a fun Italian Zombie movie episode... scout's honour! But are they really zombies? A short history of zombie movies, a spooky lawnmower, zombies in sandals, a creprie and the Unalive Scribe quits. The Lament Configuration Podcast… Horror has a podcast. Allow us to show it to you.

0:00 Intro

1:38 What we've been watching

8:06 A brief history of zombie films

12:57 Nightmare City

44:28 Zombie Holocaust

Greg Knox and Ria Fend drink the Kool-Aid and return to Video Nasties, with the BBFC’s section three of banned films. A surprisingly light, humorous Extreme Cannibal movie episode - giving the aura of a cult leader with a stupid haircut. This episode may as well be sponsored by J&B Whiskey and funky jazz. The Lament Configuration Podcast… Demons to some, angels to others.

0:00 Intro2:07 What we've been watching5:09 What is Section 3?7:01 Recap of Cannibal Films9:05 Eaten Alive!39:38 Jungle Holocaust58:58 Savage Terror

Greg Knox and Ria Fend are back after a seven-year hiatus to tear your soul apart – with the best Easter resurrection since JHC (and Hellraiser’s Frank). We cover over 30 of the best horror movies of 2010-2025. Should we make a comeback with more episodes? The Lament Configuration Podcast… You opened it. We came.

0:00 Intro

3:14 What we've been up to

10:00 Thoughts on current horror

12:48 Horror in the 2000s

17:27 2010

23:49 2011

29:03 2012

35:16 2013

42:11 2014

46:54 2015

52:48 2016

57:03 2017

1:00:08 2018

1:06:23 2019

1:13:24 2020

1:20:52 2021

1:25:56 2022

1:30:17 2023

1:36:23 2024

1:42:00 2025 so far

1:43:21 Favourite directors