Castle of Horror Podcast
925 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/castleofhorrorpodcast, a panel show on horror movies, vampire movies, and all around awesomeness. With "Alex Van Helsing" and "Ben 10" comic creator Jason Henderson, "Halloween Man" comic creator Drew Edwards, "Psy-comm" and "Clockwerx" manga creator and "Deserts of Mars" frontman Tony Salvaggio, and attorney Julia Guzman. (Formerly "Castle Dracula Horror Movie Podcast.")
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Castle Talk: Rose Williams, star of new 1974 haunted-hospital horror The Power releasing 9/21
September 18, 2021 22:34 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBTonight we’re chatting with Rose Williams, star of The Power, which is releasing from RLJE on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on September 21, 2021. LOS ANGELES, (Aug. 19, 2021) – RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, THE POWER from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. RLJE Films will release THE POWER on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD on September 21, 2021. Written and directed by BAFTA-nominat...
Castle Talk: Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, dirs/writers of Shelter in Place, releasing on digital September 14, 2021
September 17, 2021 15:20 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBTonight we’re chatting with Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, directors and writers of Shelter in Place, releasing on digital September 14, 2021. Directed and Written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, SHELTER IN PLACE stars Brendan Hines (The Tick, Lie to Me), Tatjana Marjanovic (Great White, Purgatory), Kevin Daniels (Atypical, Modern Family, The Big Leap), Ola Kaminska (The Madness Within), and Jey Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: A honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel...
Candyman (2021) - Podcast/Discussion
September 17, 2021 15:09 - 1 hour - 123 MBThis week we kick off a look at the Candyman films with the 2021 film CANDYMAN. And this week we have a special guest! Lead Singer, slap bassist for Austin's Rockabilly Riot Grrrl band, Danger*Cakes, and upright bassist for the Queergrass/Americana outfit, Brand New Key, Jamie Bahr is also the Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Girls Rock Austin, empowering girls, trans and non-binary youth through music education and mentorship. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://ww...
Castle Talk: Death Drop Gorgeous is a Wicked Good Time
September 14, 2021 14:46 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBTonight we’re chatting with Michael J. Ahern, Brandon Perras-Sanchez, Ryan Miller, and Wayne Gonsalves, creators of the new film Death Drop Gorgeous, releasing from Dark Star Pictures in theaters and on demand and digital September 10. Death Drop Gorgeous, an ode to John Waters and Wicked Queer festival hit, premieres this month on demand and digital from Dark Star Pictures. About the film: A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen fight to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife ...
Castle Talk: Artist-Essayist Stephen Bissette on COLD WAR CREATURES
September 10, 2021 15:25 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBTonight we’re chatting with Stephen R Bissette, historian and critic, who writes a series of essays included in the new Blu-Ray box set from Arrow, Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman. Bissette is also a well-known comic artist whose work has graced so many great works from DC’s 80s Swamp Thing revival to independent, Eisner-nominated fare like Taboo. Katzman was a prolific studio exec that produced hundreds of films starting in the early 1930s and concluding in 1972, gaining gre...
The Curse of the Cat People (Podcast/Discussion)
September 06, 2021 15:23 - 1 hour - 133 MBThis week we continue a retrospective of films from famed producer Val Lewton with the 1944 film The Curse of the Cat People. The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 American psychological fantasy thriller film[1][2][3] directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, and Jane Randolph. Its plot follows Amy, a young girl who befriends the ghost of her father's deceased first wife, Irena, a Serbian fashion designer who descended from...
Castle Talk: Tera Cuskaden, Managing Editor for the Scream app
September 03, 2021 15:50 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBTonight we’re chatting with Tera Cuskaden, Managing Editor at Crazy Maple Studio for KISS and Scream apps. She explains how Scream brings scary reading to new readers who avoid traditional book-reading apps. Tera is a RITA award-winning editor who started working in publishing in 2004 as a reviewer and proofreader. Tera has edited many New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and is the first editor to hit the New York Times bestseller list with a digital-only title. She spent nine ye...
Castle Talk: Patricia Gomez Zlatar, co-writer of Anti-Fast-Fashion, Killer-Pants Movie SLAXX
September 02, 2021 22:45 - 13 minutes - 17.9 MBTonight we’re chatting with Patricia Gomez Zlatar, co-writer of SLAXX, which arrives from RLJE Films on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD on September 7, 2021. In SLAXX, a possessed pair of jeans is brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company’s flagship store, the killer jeans proceed to wreak carnage on staff who are locked in overnight to set up the new collection. SLAXX is “stylish, sharp, and not to be overlooked” (Pajiba.com) and “jus...
Cat People (1942): Podcast/Discussion
August 30, 2021 15:02 - 1 hour - 120 MBThis week we kick off a retrospective of films produced by famed producer Val Lewton with the 1942 film from director Jaques Tourneur, Cat People. This is Castle of Horror Episode 346. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
The Last Matinee (Podcast/Discussion)
August 23, 2021 14:39 - 1 hour - 116 MBThis week we have a standalone episode, a look at Maxi Contenti’s new film THE LAST MATINEE. Maxi Contenti is also the director of the video for the Castle of Horror Podcast's theme music, "Send More Gasoline" by Tony Salvaggio and Deserts of Mars. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDuCRF4ODQ) This is Castle of Horror Episode 345. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Maxi Contenti, Director of The Last Matinee
August 16, 2021 20:51 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBTonight we’re chatting with Maxi Contenti, director of THE LAST MATINEE, coming to VOD, Digital and DVD on August 24, 2021. The Castle of Horror Podcast has a connection to Contenti, in fact-- he's the director of the video for SEND MORE GASOLINE from castmember Tony Salvaggio's band Deserts of Mars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDuCRF4ODQ). Directed by Maxi Contenti (Muñeco viviente V, Neptunia) from a script by Manuel Facal (High Five, Fiesta Nibiru) and Contenti, THE LAST MATINEE star...
Castle Talk: Drew Edwards & Brian Crowley of REVENGE OF THE CREEPING DREAD Comic
August 10, 2021 15:54 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBTonight we’re chatting with Drew Edwards and Brian Crowley, writer and artist/inker of the Aerobicide Lucy Chaplin Science Starlet Crossover “Revenge of the Creeping Dread.” Drew Edwards (Story/Script/ Creator of Dr. Lucy Chaplin) is an award-winning comic book writer, horror film historian, music journalist, rock promoter, and showman extraordinaire; these are all guises of the creative force known as Drew Edwards. Best known as the writer and creator of the long-running underground comic bo...
Cemetery Girls AKA Vampire Hookers (1978) - Podcast/Discussion
July 26, 2021 14:26 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis week we say Sayonara for the Summer with the 1978 film Sensuous Vampires AKA Vampire Hookers. This is Castle of Horror Episode 344. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Grady Hendrix on Final Girl Support Group
July 23, 2021 15:18 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBTonight we’re chatting with Grady Hendrix, author of the new book The Final Girl Support Group. Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. His new book The Final Girl Support Group” is being adapted as a forthcoming series, his previous, the New York Times Best Selling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, was optioned for series adaptation by Amazon Studios following a ten buyer bidding war. There’s a lot more, he’s the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winnin...
To the Devil a Daughter: Summer Satanic Panic Series (Podcast/Discussion)
July 19, 2021 13:31 - 1 hour - 115 MBThis week we continue our Summer 2021 Satanic Panic series with the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter, sometimes called CHILD OF SATAN. To the Devil...a Daughter is a 1976 British-West German horror film directed by Peter Sykes, produced by Hammer Film Productions and Terra Filmkunst, and starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski and Denholm Elliott. It is based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Dennis Wheatley. It was the final Hammer production to featu...
Wes Craven's Summer of Fear (1978): Summer Satanic Panic Podcast/Discussion
July 12, 2021 13:52 - 1 hour - 139 MBThis week we continue our Summer 2021 Satanic Panic series with the 1978 film Summer of Fear AKA Stranger in Our House directed by Wes Craven. Stranger in Our House is a 1978 American television horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken, and Jeff East. It is based on the 1976 novel Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan. The film premiered on NBC on October 31, 1978, and subsequently received theatrical releases in Europe under the title Su...
Great White dir. Martin Wilson on Sharks and Gorgeous Waters
July 10, 2021 15:05 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBThis episode Jason chats with Martin Wilson, director of GREAT WHITE, in Theaters, On Demand and Digital - July 16, 2021. In GREAT WHITE, a blissful tourist trip turns into a nightmare when five seaplane passengers are stranded miles from shore. In a desperate bid for survival, the group try to make it to land before they either run out of supplies or are taken by a menacing terror lurking just beneath the surface. The film is written by Michael Boughen, and stars Katrina Bowden, Aaron Jakube...
Curse of the Demon: Satanic Panic Summer 2021 (Podcast/Discussion)
July 06, 2021 14:22 - 1 hour - 137 MBThis week we continue our Summer 2021 Satanic Panic series with the 1957 film Night of the demon, AKA Curse of the Demon. Night of the Demon (a.k.a. Curse of the Demon) is a 1957 British horror film, produced by Hal E. Chester and Frank Bevis,[1] directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. It is adapted from the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes" (1911). The film's storyline concerns an American psychologist who travels to England to investig...
Castle Talk: Craig Moss on directing Let us In (New July 2)
June 29, 2021 16:12 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MBTonight we’re chatting with Craig Moss, director of the new film Let Us In, a family sci-fi thriller on Digital and On Demand July 2. LET US IN stars Makenzie Moss (“The Unicorn,” Do You Believe?), Sadie Stanley (The Sleepover, “Dead To Me”), Mackenzie Ziegler (20.6 million TikTok followers, “Dance Moms”), Siena Agudong (Upside-Down Magic, Alex & Me), O’Neill Monahan (“The Middle.” “General Hospital”) and Tobin Bell (Saw franchise). The film was directed by Craig Moss (Bad Ass, Bad Ass 2) who...
Crowhaven Farm: Summer Satanic Panic 2021 (Podcast/Discussion)
June 28, 2021 13:58 - 1 hour - 125 MBThis week we continue our Summer 2021 Satanic Panic series with the 1970 film Crowhaven Farm. Crowhaven Farm is a 1970 American made-for-television supernatural horror film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Hope Lange, Paul Burke and John Carradine. It originally aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on November 24, 1970. This is Castle of Horror Episode 340. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Witchboard: Summer Satanic Panic 2021 (Podcast/Discussion)
June 21, 2021 14:52 - 1 hour - 132 MBThis week we kick off our Summer 2021 Satanic Panic series with the 1986 film Witchboard. This is Castle of Horror Episode 339. Witchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on a student who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was accidentally left behind at her party, where she becomes terrorized by an evil sp...
Thinly Veiled: the 70s Launch Party with the Authors
June 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBCastle Bridge Media presents a Zoom panel on the new Castle of Horror Anthology book, Thinly Veiled: the 70s (https://amzn.to/3xpqKya). Enter a very strange wing of the Castle of Horror-- a wing of reflections of the familiar. Specifically: reflections of the 1970s, from TV sitcoms like THE ODD COUPLE to films like HALLOWEEN and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. But every one of them-- from the mismatched roommate bachelors to the bus-traveling pop star family-- are all "thinly veiled" and sent into ...
The Snake Woman (1961) - Podcast/Discussion
June 15, 2021 05:13 - 1 hour - 106 MBThis week we have a one-off episode with the 1961 film The Snake Woman. This is Castle of Horror Episode 338. The Snake Woman (a.k.a. The Terror of the Snake Woman) is a low budget black-and-white 1961 British horror film produced by George Fowler and directed by Sidney J. Furie. It stars Susan Travers and John McCarthy.[1] The film was shown on a double bill in the UK with several movies, including re-releases of The Split (a.k.a. The Manster) (1959) and The Vikings (1958), and as the second...
Castle Talk: Ava Reid on The Wolf and The Woodsman and Jewish/Hungarian #Ownvoices
June 11, 2021 00:09 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBTonight we’re chatting with Ava Reid about her book The Wolf and the Woodsman, which comes out this June from HarperVoyager/Harpercollins in audio and hardback, as well as ebook. The book follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant. Publisher’s Weekly said, “Reid’s fast-paced debut examines religious freedom through the lens of myth and magic. … The convincing enemies-to-lovers romance, fascinating ...
Castle Talk: Kevin Tenney on Directing WITCHBOARD
June 03, 2021 18:41 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBJason chats with Kevin Tenney, director of the 1986 cult film Witchboard which comes to the ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. Witchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on a student who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was accidentally left behind at her pa...
Castle Talk: Damian Mc Carthy, Writer/Director of CAVEAT - June 3 on Shudder
May 28, 2021 14:19 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBTonight we’re chatting with Damian Mc Carthy, whose new film Caveat premieres on Shudder on June 3. A stunningly creepy and atmospheric thriller rich with dread and supernatural intrigue, CAVEAT is the feature debut for Irish filmmaker Damian Mc Carthy following a string of award-winning shorts. Set in a decrepit house on a remote island, and filmed in the picturesque countryside of Cork, Ireland, the film follows an amnesiac man tasked with watching over a troubled young woman - but the wall...
The Girl on the Train (2016) - The Gaslight Retrospective (Podcast/Discussion)
May 24, 2021 13:51 - 2 hours - 166 MBThis week we continue our retrospective on what we're calling gaslight movies with the 2016 film The Girl on the Train. This is Castle of Horror Episode 337. We're joined by Leigh Fryling, the voice of the Night of the Book Man audiobook from Castle Bridge Media. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Leigh Fryling on Losing the Taste for Certain Horror as a Parent
May 21, 2021 20:14 - 52 minutes - 72 MBTonight we’re chatting with Leigh Fryling, who recently published an essay in Medium called called A Taste For Blood- How life in my 30’s changed my love of the Horror Genre- maybe forever. Leigh Fryling is the voice behind the audio version of Jason's book NIGHT OF THE BOOK MAN. Leigh Fryling would be right at home as a hobbit of the Shire, but since she lives in this reality she makes do with being an adventuress, itenerant teacher, musician and writer. When she isn't busy running a high sc...
Castle Talk: Christopher Sequeira, editor of Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3
May 19, 2021 20:35 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBTonight we’re chatting Christopher Sequeira, editor of Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3. The book collects Lovecraftian Tales with an Australian bent. In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos writer H. P. Lovecraft said “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity…” Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of Lovecraft’s vision writing today would choose to unveil ever-evolving and terrible fears besetting t...
Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte (Gaslight Retrospective) - Podcast/Discussion
May 17, 2021 14:17 - 2 hours - 165 MBThis week we continue our retrospective on what we're calling gaslight movies with Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. This is Castle of Horror Episode 336. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Writer/Directors Mercer & Testin on the Harrowing Dementia Part II
May 16, 2021 23:26 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBTonight we’re chatting with Matt Mercer and Mike Testin, the writer/director team behind Dementia Part II, a new horror film about Matt Mercer’s character Wendell, a parolee who takes a handyman job working for an old woman whose tasks get more and more dark and bizarre. But the backstory of this film is just as compelling: the film was conceived and shot in just five weeks-- on a dare. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting will release the midnight horror film DEMENTIA PART II in theater...
Castle Talk: Lit Agent Pam Pho's Advice to Writers on Twitter
May 12, 2021 14:22 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBTonight we’re chatting with Pam Pho of the D4EO Literary Agency about writers on social media. Pam began her career as a literary assistant to an agent in 2012. In her first two years as an agent, Pam brokered 24 deals, with publishers such as Knopf, Scholastic, NAL, ACE, Grand Central, and others. She joined D4EO in June 2014, where she continues to build her list. She has a passion for genre fiction as well as children's literature. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker....
Castle Talk: The Insanity of Querying with Writer Juliana Savia Clayton
May 11, 2021 18:11 - 12 minutes - 17 MBTonight we’re chatting with Juliana Savia Clayton, who writes young adult novels and picture books and does a lot of editing, and also tweets under the name @kidlit_writer. Her website is http://First-chapters.com. Recently she posted an essay that Jason wanted to talk about: Querying 101: A Guide To Following Absolutely Every Absolute Rule At The Same Time (In An Industry With No Absolutes). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--42687...
Castle Talk: Neil Marshall on The Reckoning Coming May 13 to Shudder
May 11, 2021 14:33 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBTonight we’re chatting with Neil Marshall, whose film The Reckoning comes to Shudder on May 13. Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced that THE RECKONING will be available to stream on the platform starting on May 13, 2021. The film made its world premiere at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival. In THE RECKONING, after losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace Haverstock (Kirk) is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed i...
Gaslight (1944) - The Gaslight Retrospective (Podcast Discussion)
May 10, 2021 05:12 - 1 hour - 135 MBThis week we kick off a Gaslight Retrospective with the 1944 film GASLIGHT. This is Castle of Horror Episode 335. Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in an Oscar-nominated screen debut (Best Supporting Actress). The film is adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938), about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is goi...
Castle Talk: Ryan Kruger, director of Fried Barry, New on Shudder
May 07, 2021 14:28 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBTonight we’re chatting with Ryan Kruger, director of Fried Barry, which comes to Shudder on May 7th. The film marks the feature debut for director Ryan Kruger following a string of celebrated shorts (including the original Fried Barry short that inspired this feature) and an award-winning career directing music videos in South Africa. In FRIED BARRY, an alien abducts a deadbeat and takes his body for a spin around the darker side of Cape Town. Fried Barry follows the story of a drug-addled...
Castle Talk: The Teen Agers: Katharine Coldiron on Why We Are Obsessed With Old, Disposable Movie
May 06, 2021 16:13 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBTonight we’re chatting with Katharine Coldiron, who’s just published a piece of criticism called Intentionally Disposable Art: The Teen Agers Films in the film crit site Vague Visages. Katharine Coldiron is the author of the 2020 book Ceremonials and a forthcoming piece on Plan 9 from Outer Space. Her work as a book critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, NPR, and elsewhere; her work as a film critic has appeared in Bitch, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Video Librarian. She earn...
Drew Edwards on the Aerobicide/Lucy Chaplin Crossover Indiegogo to Support Creator Terry Parr
May 03, 2021 14:57 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBJason chats with Halloween Man creator Drew Edwards on the Indiegogo to support Terry parr, creator of the comic Aerobicide with the Aerobicide/Lucy Chaplin Science Starlet Crossover. Find the indiegogo here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aerobicide-lucy-chaplin-science-starlet-crossover#/ Says Drew: Everybody knows the last year has been filled with unprecedented challenges. It felt like Covid-19 changed the world overnight and we all were just in a rush to keep up with those changes...
Mighty Joe Young (1949) (Godzilla/Kong Retrospective) - Podcast/Discussion
May 03, 2021 05:32 - 1 hour - 147 MBThis week we are back with the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young. This is Castle of Horror Episode 334. Mighty Joe Young is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933). Produced by Merian C. Cooper, who wrote the story, and Ruth Rose, who wrote the screenplay, the film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stars Robert Armstrong (who appears in both films), Terry Moore, and Ben Johnson in h...
Castle Talk: John Berardo, director of new thriller INITIATION
May 02, 2021 19:45 - 15 minutes - 21 MBTonight we’re chatting with John Berardo, director and co-writer of the new film Initiation, which releases in theaters, on demand and on digital May 7. Check out the trailer: https://youtu.be/fI0fttWFkiQ In INITIATION, during a university’s pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind...
Castle Talk: Vampire the Masquerade: Walk Among Us authors Cassandra Khaw, Genevieve Gornichec and Caitlin Starling
April 30, 2021 01:36 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBThis time we're talking about Vampire the Masquerade: WALK AMONG US by Genevieve Gornichec, Cassandra Khaw, and Caitlin Starling. Due out May 4, Walk Among Us is a collection of three horror novellas set in “Vampire: The Masquerade's World of Darkness,” a massively popular role-playing game (RPG). Walk Among Us is the next frightening read for those superfans or fans of Anne Rice, True Blood, Twilight, or Buffy. - In Gornichec's “A Sheep Among Wolves,” depression and radicalization ...
Castle Talk: Chris Baugh, director of Boys from County Hell on Shudder
April 29, 2021 17:07 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MBTonight we’re chatting with Chris Baugh, director of Boys from County Hell, new to Shudder streaming service, described as a rowdy irish vampire horror-comedy. Strange events unfold in Six Mile Hill – a sleepy Irish town that claims to have been traveled by the famed author Bram Stoker – when construction on a new road disrupts the alleged grave of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire said to have inspired Dracula. Deadly and sinister forces terrorize the work crew led by Francie Moffat and ...
Castle Talk: Mia Manansala on her Cozy, Food-Filled Mystery Arsenic and Adobo
April 28, 2021 12:50 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBTonight we’re chatting with debut author Mia P. Manansala about her culinary cozy mystery, ARSENIC AND ADOBO, which launches May 4 with Berkley. Mia Manansala is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. Drawing from her own Fil...
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - (Godzilla/Kong Retrospective) - Podcast/Discussion
April 27, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour - 135 MBThis week we are back with the 1975 film Terror of Mechagodzilla. This is Castle of Horror Episode 333. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Ryan Spindell, writer/director of The Mortuary Collection
April 21, 2021 14:24 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBJason chats with Ryan Spindell, writer and director of the horror anthology THE MORTUARY COLLECTION, for which Clancy Brown just won a Chainsaw Award from Fangoria. THE MORTUARY COLLECTION is now out on VOD, VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on April 20, 2021. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
Castle Talk: Rebecca Fraser, author of Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract
April 20, 2021 14:01 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBTonight we’re chatting with Rebecca Fraser, author of the new collection Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract Rebecca Fraser is an Australian author who writes genre-mashing fiction for both children and adults. Her short stories, flash fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous award-winning anthologies, magazines, and journals, and her first novel Curtis Creed and the Lore of the Ocean was released in 2018 (also with IFWG Publishing Australia). Coralesque and Other Tales t...
SON OF KONG (1933) - (Godzilla/Kong Retrospective) - Podcast/Discussion
April 19, 2021 04:45 - 1 hour - 122 MBThis week we are back with the 1933 film SON OF KONG. This is Castle of Horror Episode 332. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.
SON OF KONG (1933): Podcast/Discussion
April 19, 2021 04:45 - 1 hour - 122 MBThis week we are back with the 1933 film SON OF KONG. This is Castle of Horror Episode 332.
Castle Talk: The John Wick of Poker -- Talking Kathryn Hore's The Wildcard
April 13, 2021 13:04 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBTonight we’re chatting with Kathryn Hore, author of the new thriller The Wildcard. Kathryn is a Melbourne writer of speculative and thriller fiction with a taste for blending dark genres in twisting ways. Her short fiction has been published in several anthologies and magazines, including Aurealis and Midnight Echo. When not writing, she works in archives, libraries and records management, and has a couple of small children to keep her busy. The Wildcard is her debut novel. THE WILDCARD Je...
SHIN GODZILLA (2016) - Podcast Discussion
April 12, 2021 05:21 - 1 hour - 158 MBThis week we are back with the 2016 film SHIN GODZILLA. This is Castle of Horror Episode 331.