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47 - Inside Number 9 - The Devil of Christmas
General Witchfinders - July 06, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsInside No. 9 is a British black comedy anthology series that aired from February 5, 2014, to June 12, 2024. Written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith and produced by the BBC. The only recurring elements are a setting related to the number 9 and a hidden brass hare statue. The show blends ...
46 - The Survivor (based on the James Herbert Novel)
General Witchfinders - June 14, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIntro music from: Arthemis - Survivor (Destiny's Child Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYCOtYjCY4 The Survivor is a 1981 supernatural horror Australian-British co-production directed by David Hemmings and starring Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, and Joseph Cotten. In Adelaide, Australi...
45 - Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
General Witchfinders - May 10, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe return to Hammer Productions with Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell, filmed at Elstree Studios in 1972. It marked the final chapter in the Hammer Frankenstein saga and director Terence Fisher's last film. The Film Features: Peter Cushing in his sixth and final portrayal of Baron Vict...
44b - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - During Barty's Party
General Witchfinders - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome 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 th...
44a - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - The Dummy
General Witchfinders - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe 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)...
43 - 28 Days Later
General Witchfinders - February 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratings28 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...
42 - Nothing But The Night
General Witchfinders - January 25, 2024 14:44 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsNothing 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...
41b - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
General Witchfinders - December 31, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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...
41a - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Stalls of Barchester
General Witchfinders - December 24, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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 BB...
40 - The Brides of Dracula
General Witchfinders - November 15, 2023 23:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratings"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 d...
39 - Lifeforce AKA Space Vampires
General Witchfinders - October 26, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsLifeforce (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 Mini...
38 - Nigel Kneale's - The Quatermass Xperiment / AKA The Creeping Unknown
General Witchfinders - September 21, 2023 06:39 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 8 ratingsTonight, 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 ...
37 - Murder By Decree
General Witchfinders - August 06, 2023 09:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsMurder 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’, ‘Por...
36 - Nigel Kneale's / Susan Hill's - The Woman in Black (1989)
General Witchfinders - July 07, 2023 07:47 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsTonight 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 J...
FIH005 - In The Earth (United Kingdom 2021)
General Witchfinders - May 28, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsAfter 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...
Clip show - episodes 4-6
General Witchfinders - May 05, 2023 09:41 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 8 ratingsClips 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/ff8003920d88e2462eaa2353dc2a...
35 - The Shout
General Witchfinders - April 08, 2023 23:03 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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 unt...
34 - Nigel Kneale's - Quatermass and the Pit / AKA Five Million Years to Earth
General Witchfinders - February 28, 2023 01:28 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsQuatermass 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). Lik...
33 - Ghost Adventures - Ancient Ram Inn
General Witchfinders - February 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsGhost 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 ...
32 - BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas - Whistle and I'll Come to You & Stigma
General Witchfinders - December 24, 2022 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratings"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 Ea...
31 - The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires aka The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula
General Witchfinders - November 26, 2022 12:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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...
30 - Night of the Demon (AKA Curse of the Demon)
General Witchfinders - October 28, 2022 17:41 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsNOT 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 ...
29 - Tales of the Unexpected - The Memory Man
General Witchfinders - October 07, 2022 10:14 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsTales 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 shor...
FIH004 - Possum (2018 - United Kingdom)
General Witchfinders - September 22, 2022 13:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsPossum 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 a...
FIH003 - The Wailing / Gokseong (2016 - South Korea)
General Witchfinders - August 27, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 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 H...
FIH002 - The Ritual (2017 - UK / Canada)
General Witchfinders - July 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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...
28- Scars of Dracula
General Witchfinders - July 15, 2022 09:15 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsScars 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 do...
FIH001 - The Innocents (2021 - Norway)
General Witchfinders - June 30, 2022 20:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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 R...
27 - Nigel Kneale Double Bill - The Road & Beasts: BABY
General Witchfinders - June 16, 2022 20:15 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThomas 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...
26 - An American Werewolf in London
General Witchfinders - May 08, 2022 19:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsAn 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 backpac...
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