General Witchfinders
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGeneral Witchfinders: A British Horror Podcast.
Britain… An ancient kingdom with legends of violence, cruelty and torment in it’s blood.
Join your podcast hosts: Ross, Jon and James, as they bravely tread where few would dare.
Witness their journey into the horrific history of British horror.
Years later, as Jon found himself restless during lockdown, a reckless idea took hold: a horror podcast dedicated to rediscovering overlooked British treasures. To their surprise, after over 40 episodes, they're still at it. General Witchfinders, the number one Podcast (in Finland, for 'Film History', for one week), has become a haven for enthusiasts of the macabre, where cherished memories and forgotten classics are brought back to life, all with a splash of 'moronic prattle'.
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“Really entertaining and insightful. About half a dozen episodes done so far, and all on horror/supernatural things I personally love and wanted to hear more about. Lots of new facts and just downright entertaining takedowns. Great work.” - 5 Stars *****
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Episodes
44b - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - During Barty's Party
April 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBWelcome back to our “Beasts” Double Bill! Last time, we watched "The Dummy" from the infamous anthology series by General Witchfinders hero Nigel Kneale. We now leave the smashed-up movie set of "The Dummy" with its snarling Y-fronts-wearing jilted actor and join Angie and Roger Truscott in their secluded Hampshire home for "During Barty's Party." This episode features the only actual 'beasts' as the main threat: in this case, large, super-evolved, intelligent rats. Elizabeth Sellars pla...
44a - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - The Dummy
March 29, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBWe continue where we left off in episode 27 with our exploration of the 1976 British anthology series "Beasts," written by the legendary Nigel Kneale (who now has his own dedicated page on our website!), tonight we watch the first of two episodes "The Dummy." Directed by Don Leaver (not Cleaver), a veteran of many shows from our youth and boasts credits on two episodes of "Hammer House of Horror": "Witching Time" and "The Mark of Satan" Bernard Horsfal as Clyde Boydl: He appeared in class...
43 - 28 Days Later
February 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 131 MB28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film, our first film from the 21st Century. Ewan McGregor was the original choice to play the protagonist, ‘Jim’, but he and director Danny Boyle had a falling-out at the time over The Beach, in which McGregor was to play the lead but was replaced by Leonardo DiCaprio (McGregor and Boyle have since reconciled). After McGregor, the role was offered to Ryan Gosling, who passed, having a scheduling conflict, leading to the film being off...
42 - Nothing But The Night
January 25, 2024 14:44 - 1 hour - 126 MBNothing but the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by John Blackburn. A commercial failure, the film was the only production of Charlemagne Films, cofounded by Christopher Lee and Anthony Nelson Keys (producer of may Hammer films, this was his last listing on IMDB). #BigChrisLee and Charlemagne Films optioned two other books by John Blackburn, "Portrait of Barbara" and "Bu...
41b - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
December 31, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBThe Treasure of Abbot Thomas is a supernatural drama produced by the BBC as part of the A Ghost Story for Christmas series. Once again, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, the screenplay was written by John Bowen (Writer of the Series’The Guardians’ In a declining England of the 1980s, the UK has broken up and England is ruled by a fascist military force), with an atmospheric musical score by Geoffrey Burgon (Who also created the music for the BBC Narnia series and Monty Python’s the Life of ...
41a - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Stalls of Barchester
December 24, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 92 MBThe Stalls of Barchester was first broadcast on BBC 1 at 11:00 pm on December 24, 1971. It is based on the story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" from the 1911 collection More Ghost Stories by M. R. James, it was adapted, produced, and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, who directed every BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas between 1971 and 1977. Can you name them all, Jon? The Stalls of Barchester (1971) A Warning to the Curious (1972) Lost Hearts (1973) The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (19...
40 - The Brides of Dracula
November 15, 2023 23:58 - 1 hour - 139 MB"Dracula the Damned" is a 1960 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions starring ‘Big’ Christopher Lee… Scratch that… Rather, the original sequel to the first Hammer Dracula film was cancelled without explanation, although Christopher Lee's decision not to return due to fear of typecasting probably led to The Brides of Dracula taking its place. #BigChrisLee did return five years later, however, when he starred in Dracula, Prince of Darkness. The Brides of Dr...
39 - Lifeforce AKA Space Vampires
October 26, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour - 139 MBLifeforce (aka Space Vampires) is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, adapted by Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien!) and Don Jakoby, and starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, and Patrick Stewart. It also features John Forbes-Robertson as ‘The Minister’ The film is based on Colin Wilson's 1976 novel, The Space Vampires. It portrays the events that unfold after a trio of humanoids in a state of suspended animation are brought to Earth after bein...
38 - Nigel Kneale's - The Quatermass Xperiment / AKA The Creeping Unknown
September 21, 2023 06:39 - 2 hours - 186 MBTonight, we complete the Hammer Quatermass trilogy (albeit out of order) with The Quatermass Xperiment (a.k.a. The Creeping Unknown in the US) is a 1955 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, based on the 1953 BBC Television serial written by Nigel Kneale. Produced by Anthony Hinds, one of the of 37 films he made for Hammer. Hinds wrote a number of films under the pseudonym 'John Elder' which he adopted after Her couldn't afford a screenwriter for The Curse of the...
37 - Murder By Decree
August 06, 2023 09:59 - 1 hour - 133 MBMurder by Decree is a 1979 mystery thriller directed by Bob Clark (Director of ‘Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things’ and ’Dead of Night’ (not the brilliant black and white British film from 1945 - featured in episode 13, but the 1974 American film ), he also directed ‘Black Christmas’, ‘Porkys’ and ‘Porkys 2’ Murder by Decree was written by playwright John Hopkins, who scripted the Bond film Thunderball, and the Alec Guinness TV version of Smileys People. Hopkins referenced Conan Doyl...
36 - Nigel Kneale's / Susan Hill's - The Woman in Black (1989)
July 07, 2023 07:47 - 1 hour - 116 MBTonight we are discussing the 1989 British horror drama television film directed by Herbert Wise (most famous for I, Cladius, who worked solidly from 1957 to 2001 on everything from The Bill to 9 episodes of Tales of the Unexpected - including ‘The Landlady’ which may well be the episode that Jon talked about remembering in episode 29) It stars Adrian Rawlins (Harry Potters Dead Dad in the movies and Mr Pike in one episode of Neighbours), Bernard Hepton (I, Claudius, Get Carter Tink...
FIH005 - In The Earth (United Kingdom 2021)
May 28, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBAfter his involvement in the reboot of the Tomb Raider movie franchise was scuppered by the Pandemic, Ben Wheatley, director of Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England and High-Rise, announced in September 2020,that he had written and directed a horror film over the course of 15 days in August. This became In the Earth, a science fiction horror film staring Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth and Mark Monero. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave t...
Clip show - episodes 4-6
May 05, 2023 09:41 - 2 hours - 192 MBClips from the best bits from episodes four to six 4 - James Herbert - The Rats https://podfollow.com/general-witchfinders/episode/fcc6efe904b6f9160ab7a0656bc46dd0f5901e93/view 5 - Nigel Kneale’s - The Stone Tape https://podfollow.com/general-witchfinders/episode/ff8003920d88e2462eaa2353dc2a007a102c2789/view 6 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula https://podfollow.com/general-witchfinders/episode/75233646bd312312a10f794fb49b2ffed51b2a72/view Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show ht...
35 - The Shout
April 08, 2023 23:03 - 1 hour - 126 MBThe Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski (who is also an Actor was in Mars Attacks and played a General in Marvels The Avengers). It was based on a short story by Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius and great friend of Spike Milligan, with whom, from the 1960s until his death, he frequently exchanged letters, Many of which are collected in the book ‘Dear Robert, Dear Spike’) Grave's short story was adapted for the screen by Skolimowski and Michael Austin scr...
34 - Nigel Kneale's - Quatermass and the Pit / AKA Five Million Years to Earth
February 28, 2023 01:28 - 1 hour - 151 MBQuatermass and the Pit (or as it’s known in the US ‘Five Million Years to Earth’) is a 1967 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, a sequel to the earlier Hammer films The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2 (see General Witchfinders episode 17 for more details). Like its predecessors it is based on a BBC Television serial, of the same name, written by Podcast hero Nigel Kneale. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker (who is responsible for such highs as A Night to ...
33 - Ghost Adventures - Ancient Ram Inn
February 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBGhost Adventures is an American paranormal and reality television series that premiered on October 17, 2008, on the Travel Channel before moving to Discovery+ in 2021. An independent film of the same name originally aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 25, 2007. The program follows ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff (season 1–10), Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley as they investigate locations that are reported to be haunted. The crew also claims to have recorded spirit possessio...
32 - BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas - Whistle and I'll Come to You & Stigma
December 24, 2022 01:01 - 1 hour - 148 MB"Whistle and I'll Come to You" is a 1968 BBC television drama adaptation of the 1904 ghost story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" by M. R. James. It tells of an eccentric and distracted professor who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a Knights Templar cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a frightening supernatural force. The production starred Michael Hordern and was adapted and directed by Jonathan Miller. It was broadcast as part...
31 - The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires aka The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula
November 26, 2022 12:13 - 1 hour - 129 MBThe martial arts horror film The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was released in 1974. It stars. Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing Christopher Lee… oh hang on… John Forbes-Robertson as Count Dracula (Not the son of Johnston Forbes-Robertson, but did play Mr Badger in 2 episodes of Jonny Briggs) Robin Stewart as Leyland Van Helsing (29 episodes of Sons and Daughters) Julie Ege (pronounced eg-gay", not "edge") as Vanessa Buren (1962 Miss Norway and competed in Miss Un...
30 - Night of the Demon (AKA Curse of the Demon)
October 28, 2022 17:41 - 1 hour - 120 MBNOT The 1980 James C. Wasson film in which an anthropologist and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders… OR the 1988 Kevin Tenney film, Night of the Demons’ where Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween, awakening demonic spirits… Rather, we all, hopefully, watched the 1957 British horror film, produced by Hal E. Chester and Frank Bevis directed by Jacques (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie) Tourneur (or ‘Jack Turne...
29 - Tales of the Unexpected - The Memory Man
October 07, 2022 10:14 - 1 hour - 101 MBTales of the Unexpected was a British television series that aired between 1979 and 1988. Each episode told a story, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, with an unexpected twist ending. Every episode of series one, and a number of episodes in subsequent series were based on short stories by Roald Dahl, collected in the books Tales of the Unexpected, Kiss Kiss, and Someone Like You. Made by Anglia Television for ITV with interior scenes recorded at their Norwich studios, whi...
FIH004 - Possum (2018 - United Kingdom)
September 22, 2022 13:33 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBPossum is a 2018 British psychological horror film written and directed by Matthew (Garth Marenghi) Holness in his feature film debut, starring Sean Harris and Alun (Krull) Armstrong. It centres on a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront the abuse and trauma he suffered there. Possum is an adaption of Holness' short story of the same name, published in the horror anthology The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease, and partially inspired by the th...
FIH003 - The Wailing / Gokseong (2016 - South Korea)
August 27, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 93 MBIn this episode, we are joined by BOOMER from Podcast in the Woods https://linktr.ee/woodspodcast This is the episode Ross was in btw: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6G5TocltVLFUgVdPdPUC2V?si=fQ7JuHMLTP2mbSqlrpH20Q The Wailing is a 2016 South Korean horror film written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee. And was cited in the documentary “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” as an excellent example of international, specifically Asian, Folk...
FIH002 - The Ritual (2017 - UK / Canada)
July 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBThe Ritual is a 2017 British/ Canadian horror film starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton (grandson of two time General Witchfinder featured actor, Patrick - 2nd Doctor -Troughton, or as we like to call him Kinky Klove) The film is based on the 2011 novel The Ritual by Adam Nevill, which we've been told by listener ‘Mr London’, is pretty creepy. The original tagline that was used when advertising the film was 'They should have gone to Vegas'. But due to ...
28- Scars of Dracula
July 15, 2022 09:15 - 1 hour - 126 MBScars of Dracula is a 1970 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Films. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis (i should be so good for you) Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Patrick Troughton, and Michael Gwynn. Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: the Count is introduced as an "icily charming host;" he has command over nature; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle. It also ...
FIH001 - The Innocents (2021 - Norway)
June 30, 2022 20:29 - 1 hour - 116 MBThe General Witchfinders present: Folk in Hell! (a spinoff podcast) The Innocents NOT the 1961 film with Deborah Kerr, which we WILL be covering in the mothership show at some point, which has a far more comprehensive Wikipedia article than the sparsely covered film that we did watch, hence Ross adding in this short paragraph to bulk out the intro a little - Rather, we are talking about - The Innocents or De Uskyldige - a 2021 Norwegian supernatural thriller film directed by Eskil Vogt...
27 - Nigel Kneale Double Bill - The Road & Beasts: BABY
June 16, 2022 20:15 - 2 hours - 153 MBThomas Nigel Kneale was a British screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. This year is the 100 anniversary of his birth. Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass.. Kneale wrote well-received television dramas such as The Year of the ...
26 - An American Werewolf in London
May 08, 2022 19:07 - 1 hour - 148 MBAn American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, the film stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine. The film's plot follows two American backpackers, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while travelling in England, causing David to question whether he will become a werewolf under the next full moon. The film made $62 million world...
25 - Twins of Evil aka Twins of Dracula
April 15, 2022 17:55 - 1 hour - 112 MBTwins of Evil (also known as Twins of Dracula) is a 1971 British horror film directed by John Hough and starring Peter Cushing's in his first film after the death of his poor wife, Helen, along with Damien Thomas and the real-life identical twins and former Playboy Playmates, Mary and Madeleine Collinson. It also sees the return of one of General Witchfinders favourite cinematographers, Mr Dick Bush.* Twins of Evil was the third film in Hammer's "Karnstein trilogy," following The Vampire Lo...
24 - The Wicker Man
March 18, 2022 17:26 - 1 hour - 115 MBThe Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Big Chris Lee. In his 7th appearance on The General Witchfinders. The screenplay by Anthony (frenzy) Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of th...
Clip show - episodes 1-3
February 23, 2022 12:19 - 34 minutes - 39.4 MBHere are some clips from the first three episodes of the podcast, go and listen to the whole thing here... Dracula AD 1972 https://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/1-dracula-ad-1972 The Curse of Frankenstein https://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/2-the-curse-of-frankenstien Sapphire and Steel - Assignment 4 https://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/3-sapphire-and-steel-assignment-4 Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter....
23 - The Oblong Box
February 11, 2022 17:05 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBThe Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring, The King of the Grand Guignol The Merchant of Menace, The Master of Horror: Vincent Price, as well as Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee. Loosely based on the 1844 short story "The Oblong Box", it explores and combines several themes typical to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, such as premature burial and masked figures, with the non-Poe theme of voodoo rit...
22 - The Legend of Hell House
January 28, 2022 09:13 - 1 hour - 116 MBThe Legend of Hell House is a 1973 supernatural horror film directed by John Hough, and starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt. It follows a group of researchers who spend a week in Belasco House, the "Mount Everest of haunted houses." , originally owned by Emeric Belasco, an imposing, perverted millionaire and supposed murderer whose acts of debauchery were loosely based on the occultist Aleister Crowley. Belasco disappeared soon after a massacre occur...
21 - BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas - A Warning to the Curious & The Signalman
January 14, 2022 17:42 - 1 hour - 111 MBA Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived sporadically by the BBC since 2005. With one exception, the original instalments were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and (Like the first 3rd doctor Adventure, The Spearhead from Space) the films were all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story, in line with the oral...
20 - Alfred Hitchcock's - Frenzy
December 24, 2021 09:34 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBFrenzy is a 1972 British horror / thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (aged, at time of production, 71). It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay, centred on a serial killer in contemporary London and the ex-RAF serviceman he implicates, was written by Anthony Shaffer, based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, who, in a letter to the Editor of The Times, said he found Hitchcock's production and Shaffe...
19 - The Reptile
December 03, 2021 10:37 - 1 hour - 138 MBStaring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel and Jacqueline ‘Servalan’ Pearce, The Reptile is based in the fictional village of Clagmoor Heath in Cornwall where several locals are dying from what is deemed to be the "Black Death". Harry Spalding inherits his late brother Charles' cottage and arrives with his new bride, Valerie. The inhabitants of the village keep clear of the couple and only the publican, Tom Bailey, befriends them. Tom explains that the hostility exhibited by the to...
18 - Stephen Volk's - Ghostwatch
November 23, 2021 17:29 - 1 hour - 102 MBGhostwatch, a drama produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One, is a British reality–horror/pseudo-documentary television film, broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning. Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the show attracted a considerable furore, resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquirie...
17 - Nigel Kneale's - Quatermass 2 / AKA The Enemy From Space
October 25, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBQuatermass 2 (a.k.a. Enemy From Space in the United States and Canada) is a 1957 black-and-white British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, directed by Val Guest, that stars Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, and William Franklyn. Quatermass 2 is a sequel to Hammer's earlier film The Quatermass Xperiment, Like its predecessor, it is based on the BBC Television serial Quatermass II written by Nigel Kneale. Brian Donlevy reprises his rol...
16 - Xtro
October 05, 2021 19:15 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBXtro is a 1983 British science fiction horror film directed by Harry Bromley-Davenport. Starring Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer, and Simon Nash, the film focuses on a father who was abducted by, what could be seen as aliens, and returns to his family three years later, where he goes in search of his son. Even though the plot involves extraterrestrials, the creatures in this film are at no point referred to as aliens. Some fans like thinking of them as Lovecraftian-type beings coming from ...
Blast from the Past - Creeping With Armstrong
August 16, 2021 21:40 - 56 minutes - 77 MBBecause Jon is rushed off his feet with work, we haven’t been able to record a usual General Witchfinders, so to give you something to listen to, here is part of a podcast that Ross and James ran for about 10 years or so called Creeping With Armstrong. This is from April 2010 (we think) just after the first episode of Matt Smith’s Doctor Who, The Eleventh Hour, when we drove to Wales to talk to Jon about it.. There is a bit of horror in here but its not indicative of our usual show, please...
15 - The Earth Dies Screaming
August 01, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBThe Earth Dies Screaming is a black and white, 1964 British horror science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher ( who also directed The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - covered in episode 2 of the General Witchfinders, and went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) ‘Dies Screaming’ stars Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price. Human bodies are scattered around an English village,...
14 - The Omen
July 19, 2021 14:10 - 1 hour - 115 MBReleased on the 6th day of the 6th month in the year 1976, the week The Wurzels ‘Combine Harvester’, became number one in the UK (coincidence?)... The Omen, which was originally considered by Warner Bros, who thought it might be ideal for Oliver Reed, is an American-British supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, written by David Seltzer, and eventually starred Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and David Warner. One of Richard Donner's first requests to screenwriter Seltzer was to remo...
13 - Dead of Night
July 06, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour - 124 MBDead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios, was their sole attempt at making a horror movie. It Featured the following stories The Hearse Driver, based on "The Bus-Conductor" by E. F. Benson The Christmas Party The Haunted Mirror The Golfer's Story, based on "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost" by H. G. Wells and The Ventriloquist's Dummy The individual segments were directed by by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Deard...
12 - Clive Barker's Hellraiser
June 21, 2021 10:45 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBHellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker based on his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. The film marked Barker's directorial debut. Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box which summons the Cenobites, a religious sect in Hell known as the ‘Order of the Gash’, describing themselves as "explorers in the further regions of experience", and granting sadomasochistic pleasures to those who call upon them. The leader of the Cenobites is portrayed by...
11 - Doctor Who - The Horror of Fang Rock
June 07, 2021 11:25 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBHorror of Fang Rock is the first serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 September 1977. The TARDIS lands on the island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England in the early 20th century. Noticing that the lighthouse isn't functioning properly, the Doctor, in his fourth incarnation (or infinity+4 by today's reckoning) played by Tom Baker, decides to investigate. Upon arrival at the ...
10 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes
May 08, 2021 23:28 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBSelected for our 10th episode anniversary by our listeners, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British comedy horror film, produced by Ronald S. Dunas and Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest. It stars, in his first appearance on the podcast, mister Vincent Price. Its art deco sets, dark humour, and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again cult classics. The film also features Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith, with an uncredited Caroline Munro app...
9 - Death Line aka Raw Meat
April 24, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBLate one night at the Russell Square station in the London Underground, university students Patricia and her American exchange student boyfriend Alex find an unconscious man on the stairwell. Fearing that he may be diabetic, Patricia checks his wallet and finds a card that reads James Manfred, OBE. They inform a police officer, but find that Manfred has vanished. Inspector Calhoun is assigned to look into the disappearance. Calhoun questions Alex and suggests that he and Patricia robbed the ...
8 - Jeremy Dyson's Never Trust a Rabbit
April 10, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour - 107 MBJeremy Dyson is the co-creator of the West End play Ghost Stories, and a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen. The League initially began as a stage act in 1995, which was then transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, and then became a television series on BBC Two in 1999. Dyson has written several books including a novel ‘What Happens Now’ published in 2006, nominated for the Goss first novel award and enthusiastically reviewed by ...
7 - Horror Express
March 27, 2021 23:59 - 1 hour - 102 MBHorror Express - or Pánico en el Transiberiano translated as Panic on the Trans-Siberian, is an English language Spanish science fiction horror film loosely based on the novella Who Goes There? (also a basis for the Thing From Another World, which was in turn was remade as the classic The Thing by John Carpenter.) The film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña, George Rigaud and Ángel del Pozo in supporting roles, and Telly Savalas in ...
SAMPLE: Patreon Bonus 2 - Ghost Adventures
March 26, 2021 23:59 - 7 minutes - 7.74 MBSAMPLE Patreon Bonus 2 - Ghost Adventures Stardust Ranch Hello, you may have heard Ghost Adventures come up in a few of our podcasts, although it’s not British Horror we thought it would be a great thing for us to cover as an extra for our lovely supporters. We try to release a few extra titbits each month and also plan to allow patrons to vote on what we are going to cover in some of our episodes in the future. Here are a few highlights from a commentary we recorded for episode 12, seri...
6 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
March 14, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBTwo years after the events of Dracula AD 1972, a Secret Service agent barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are being celebrated. Before he dies, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society – a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist – are involved in a cult led by the satanic priestess Chin Yang. Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray is called in, for who Michael Coles reprises his role, to work on the case independen...