Latest The omen Podcast Episodes
25 - Twins of Evil aka Twins of Dracula
General Witchfinders - April 15, 2022 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsTwins 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 ...
24 - The Wicker Man
General Witchfinders - March 18, 2022 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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 nove...
Clip show - episodes 1-3
General Witchfinders - February 23, 2022 12:19 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHere 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-fr...
23 - The Oblong Box
General Witchfinders - February 11, 2022 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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 ...
22 - The Legend of Hell House
General Witchfinders - January 28, 2022 09:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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...
21 - BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas - A Warning to the Curious & The Signalman
General Witchfinders - January 14, 2022 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsA 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 doct...
20 - Alfred Hitchcock's - Frenzy
General Witchfinders - December 24, 2021 09:34 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsFrenzy 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 b...
19 - The Reptile
General Witchfinders - December 03, 2021 10:37 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsStaring 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...
18 - Stephen Volk's - Ghostwatch
General Witchfinders - November 23, 2021 17:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsGhostwatch, 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 ...
17 - Nigel Kneale's - Quatermass 2 / AKA The Enemy From Space
General Witchfinders - October 25, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsQuatermass 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. Quatermas...
16 - Xtro
General Witchfinders - October 05, 2021 19:15 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsXtro 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 o...
Blast from the Past - Creeping With Armstrong
General Witchfinders - August 16, 2021 21:40 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsBecause 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 af...
15 - The Earth Dies Screaming
General Witchfinders - August 01, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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, includin...
14 - The Omen
General Witchfinders - July 19, 2021 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsReleased 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 ...
13 - Dead of Night
General Witchfinders - July 06, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsDead 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 Golfe...
12 - Clive Barker's Hellraiser
General Witchfinders - June 21, 2021 10:45 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHellraiser 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 ...
11 - Doctor Who - The Horror of Fang Rock
General Witchfinders - June 07, 2021 11:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHorror 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...
10 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes
General Witchfinders - May 08, 2021 23:28 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsSelected 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, da...
9 - Death Line aka Raw Meat
General Witchfinders - April 24, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsLate 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, O...
8 - Jeremy Dyson's Never Trust a Rabbit
General Witchfinders - April 10, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsJeremy 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 t...
7 - Horror Express
General Witchfinders - March 27, 2021 23:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHorror 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 ...
SAMPLE: Patreon Bonus 2 - Ghost Adventures
General Witchfinders - March 26, 2021 23:59 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsSAMPLE 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 titb...
6 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
General Witchfinders - March 14, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsTwo 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 f...
5 - Nigel Kneale’s - The Stone Tape
General Witchfinders - February 28, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Stone Tape was broadcast on BBC Two as a Christmas ghost story in 1972. It was written by Nigel Kneale, best known as the writer of Quatermass, for whose juxtaposition of science and superstition is a frequent theme. Peter Brock played by Michael Bryant is the petulant head of a research te...
4 - James Herbert - The Rats
General Witchfinders - February 14, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsWarning this book has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depiction, which may cause offence today. Harris, a young East London art teacher, notices that one of his students has a bloodied bandage around his hand. Meanwhile, a baby girl and her dog are killed by a mischief of giant rats. ...
3 - Sapphire and Steel - Assignment 4
General Witchfinders - January 31, 2021 00:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsSapphire and Steel are two interdimensional operatives. Time is a corridor that surrounds everything, but there are weak spots where Time – implied to be a malignant force – can break into the present and take things. There are also creatures from the beginnings and ends of time that roam the c...
2 - The Curse of Frankenstein
General Witchfinders - January 17, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratings19th century Switzerland! On the eve of his execution for the murder of his maid, Baron Victor Frankenstein confesses his story to a visiting priest. As an orphaned teenager the Baron engages scientist Paul Krempe to tutor him and they begin collaborating on scientific experiments. After succ...
1 - Dracula AD 1972
General Witchfinders - January 03, 2021 17:44 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsRoss, Jon and James discuss: Dracula AD 1972 from Hammer Available to buy or rent on Amazon and Apple in the UK. The seventh Hammer film featuring the count, and the sixth to star Christopher Lee as the count. Featuring the return of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing for the first time since The ...
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