Latest Discoverhorror Podcast Episodes
Episode 74 - Silent German Expressionist Films
Discover the Horror Podcast - July 11, 2024 23:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Golem (1920), and Waxworks (1924). In the very beginning of cinema, it was the German filmmakers who took cinema to the next level, even when it was still in its infancy. Creating strange angles, weird landscapes and buildings, and bizarre stories, these...
Episode 73- Pre-Code Horror Comics
Discover the Horror Podcast - June 25, 2024 20:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the mid 1950's an overzealous witch hunt took place in the United States focused on the corrupting effects of comic books on young people, which ended in horror comics being banned from the shelves by a draconian comics code. But why? What did those comics contain that got people so riled up...
Episode 72: 50's Giant Creepy Crawlers
Discover the Horror Podcast - June 11, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThem! (1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), and The Black Scorpion (1957) The decade of the 1950s gave horror fans a ton of different giant monster flicks, but usually taking something seemingly harmless, such as ants or grasshoppers, but somehow, someway, are mutated into growing into gigantic pr...
Episode 71 - Infectious Body Horror
Discover the Horror Podcast - May 29, 2024 00:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSplinter (2008), Thanatomorphose (2012), and Contracted (2013) When discussing films that deal with body horror, David Cronenberg and his work usually come up in the conversation. How can he not, when so many of his earlier films all dealt with some sort of body horror, mutations, and transfor...
Episode 70 - Universal's Creature from the Black Lagoon Films
Discover the Horror Podcast - May 11, 2024 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCreature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). And now, we come to the end of our Universal Monster episodes, having made our way through all the Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Mummy, and the Wolf Man films, we now take a dive ...
Episode 69 - Horror at the Music Box with Programmer Will Morris
Discover the Horror Podcast - April 27, 2024 17:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsObviously, many of us film fans see movies in theaters througout the year, whether it be at a national chain or at an independent, arthouse theater - or both. Some of us are even hitting film festivals, special screenings, and for the truly unhinged cinephiles, film marathons. For these kind of ...
Episode 68 - Made for TV Horrors 3
Discover the Horror Podcast - April 15, 2024 22:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964), Crowhaven Farm (1970), and Cruise into Terror (1978) With this being our 3rd episode covering these little television terrors, one would get the idea that there is a lot of teleplays, or TV-movies, out there that deserve our attention. And you would be corr...
Episode 67: Film Preservation and Archiving with Special Guest Oscar Becher
Discover the Horror Podcast - March 31, 2024 19:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDuring conversations with serious film collectors, you might hear terms like inter-positive, or first negative, or even OCN, and have no clue to what they actually mean. Don’t feel bad because a lot of us are in the same boat. These are some of the many terms used when discussing the preservatio...
Episode 66 - Women Directors
Discover the Horror Podcast - March 17, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsChained (2012), Honeymoon (2014), and Relic (2020) With over 60 episodes so far in our podcast history, we realized that in all that we covered, we had never covered anything by a woman director. We knew we needed to change that. Going through the history of women directors, we realized that n...
Episode 65 - Universal Monster Rallys
Discover the Horror Podcast - March 02, 2024 22:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), and House of Dracula (1945). Some say that the monster rally films marked the end of the Universal creature features, which could partially be true, but we feel it is for different reasons than the actual films themselves, a...
Episode 64 - Severin Films with David Gregory
Discover the Horror Podcast - February 18, 2024 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis truly is a great time to be alive as a crazy cinephile. Just about every day, new amazing looking releases of some of our favorite films are announced, as well as some almost forgotten films brought back from the edges of obscurity for a whole new generation of fans to enjoy. And one of the...
Episode 63 - Amicus Anthologies
Discover the Horror Podcast - February 03, 2024 16:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The House that Dripped Blood (1971) and Tales from the Crypt (1972) Amicus Productions was most known for their anthology films, even though that was a small percentage of the types of films they did make in over the years. But because of the quality of th...
Episode 62 - Bigfoot!
Discover the Horror Podcast - January 21, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBigfoot (1970), Creature from Black Lake (1976), and Abominable (2006). Tales of a mysterious, giant beast that wanders the wooded areas of the U.S., has never really proven to exist, but even to this day, is believed by many to really be out there, still hidden from mankind. Starting with Big...
Episode 61 - Norman J. Warren
Discover the Horror Podcast - January 05, 2024 03:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSatan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977), and Terror (1978) There are a lot of directors out there that might not have a huge filmography, or even be that well known to the general population of film fans, even in the horror genre. So there is always room to discover them! In this episode, we take a ...
Episode 60 - 2023 Wrap Up
Discover the Horror Podcast - December 22, 2023 22:54 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnother year ending means another Wrap Up episode where we go over our top picks for the year, as well as discussing some other titles we've seen in 2023. While most of the films we do cover here as our favorite viewings for this year are from the last few years, they are not all from 2023. But ...
Episode 59 - Ghost Stories for Christmas
Discover the Horror Podcast - December 09, 2023 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTower of London (1962), Ghost Nursing (1982), and Stir of Echoes (1999). Believe it or not, but it's a tradition to tell spooky stories around Christmas time. Just think of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol! While some tales might be told to give one pause about how they are acting towards ot...
Episode 58 - Universal's Werewolf Films
Discover the Horror Podcast - November 26, 2023 19:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Werewolf of London (1935), The Wolf Man (1941), and She-Wolf of London (1946) When the night falls and the full moon rises, it is time to talk about werewolves. Not just any werewolves, but the ones that came from Universal Studios. While still riding the wave of their successes with the ...
Episode 57- Black Friday Sales
Discover the Horror Podcast - November 21, 2023 22:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThere are few events in horrordom quite as joyfully gluttonous as the Black Friday sales put on by our favorite boutique film labels. As the season approaches, speculation on social media and in rapid-fire in-person conversations reaches a fever pitch. What new films? What new merch? What grea...
Episode 56 - Turkey Day 2023
Discover the Horror Podcast - November 14, 2023 01:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Sting of Death (1966), APE (1976), and Brutal Sorcery (1983) It's November, so that must mean it's Turkey Time! Yes, that's right, for the last 20 years, Jon has been holding his Turkey Day Marathon Event, where we spend Black Friday delving into some of the strangest, weirdest, cheesiest,...
Episode 55: Universal's The Invisible Man
Discover the Horror Podcast - October 31, 2023 01:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Invisible Man (1933), The Invisible Man Returns (1940), and The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944). In the pantheon of Universal Classic Monsters, some might say the Invisible Man is the least terrifying in the monster heritage, or maybe even bordering on if they even belong in the horror genr...
Episode 54- Boxed Sets
Discover the Horror Podcast - October 04, 2023 14:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLet’s face it: horror fans are, as a group, a little bit obsessive. When we sink our teeth into something we do not do it barely or easily, we take a big, honkin’ bite. If we become infatuated with a director, we want to see every film they’ve made, read a book about them, hear people talk abou...
Episode 53- Herschell Gordon Lewis
Discover the Horror Podcast - October 04, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBlood Feast (1963), Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), The Gruesome Twosome (1967), The Wizard of Gore (1970) When Herschell Gordon Lewis made his first nudie cutie film in 1961, nobody would have expected that he'd become one of the most important names in the history of horror. But with the rel...
Episode 52 - Álex de la Iglesia
Discover the Horror Podcast - September 15, 2023 01:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPerdita Durango (1997), Common Wealth (2000), Witching and Bitching (2013) There are a few directors like Álex de la Iglesia. No matter what kind of film he's making, he weaves in and out of different genres like changing lanes on a busy highway. But no matter what, you will usually see his tw...
Episode 51 - Universal Mummies
Discover the Horror Podcast - September 04, 2023 15:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), and The Mummy's Curse (1944). In this episode, we go back the Universal Classics and take on one of the most unusual of the classic monsters, the Mummy. It's probably one of the best costumes and memo...
Episode 50 - LIVE!
Discover the Horror Podcast - August 30, 2023 02:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTo celebrate our 50th episode of Discover the Horror, we decided to do a live event, giving our listeners a chance to ask questions or make comments in the chat room while we answer them live during the show. We don't have any particular topic we planned to discuss, but we sure did go through a ...
Episode 49 - Fanzines with Dave Kosanke
Discover the Horror Podcast - August 08, 2023 02:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the things that was realized at some point after the creation of Famous Monsters magazine, was that there was this horror fandom, or fan base, of all these horror fans around the country, in a variety of ages, that realized that they were not alone in their love of horror. While there wer...
Episode 48 - Witches
Discover the Horror Podcast - July 26, 2023 10:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNight of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn (1962), Eyes of Fire (1983), Pyewacket (2017) Welcome to Episode 48, where we discuss one of the oldest perceived monsters in our history . . . witches. But as we know, in film there are many different types of witches, therefore a lot of different type...
Episode 47 - William Castle
Discover the Horror Podcast - July 12, 2023 22:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHouse on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959), and Mr. Sardonicus (1961). In the world of ballyhoo, nobody comes close to being a master at it than producer/director William Castle. From giving insurance policies to filmgoers in case they die of fright, promising the horrors onscreen will com...
Episode 46 - Horror and Heavy Metal
Discover the Horror Podcast - June 28, 2023 23:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHorror movies and heavy metal music have almost gone hand in hand, since the real first heavy metal band, Black Sabbath- which was even named after a horror film! Horror films were a huge influence on the metal genre, from imagery on the album covers, to the lyrics, and even the sound and style ...
Episode 45 - Hong Kong Black Magic
Discover the Horror Podcast - June 13, 2023 21:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCorpse Mania (1981), Red Spell Spells Red (1983), The Rape After (1984) Obviously, the title of our show, and its mission statement is about discovering new horror, In the past we’ve always brought films to the table that we already liked and wanted to discuss. But on this episode, we were g...
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