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All tagged Horrotober
Host Jon Cross and guest Axl Kay dissect, discuss and ask questions of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise from part 2 through to the 2012 remake. It’s a fascinatingly weird and sometimes wonderful franchise which rattles off into some mad places. Altogether now… GARBAGE DAY!
Jon Cross and Jim Wallace hang out at Paul’s Da Burger Joint where they don’t serve tea but the server does seem surprisingly up on new technology - there, our intrepid duo talk about the inevitable despair of modern times and the 10 year reunion sequel, Zombieland Double Tap.
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire joins Jon Cross to discuss John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness from 1987
Jon Cross sits down with Matt Farley of moternmedia.com and they do the important work of movie podcasters and talk the forgotten trilogy of late era slasher films: The Urban Legend movies.
Old friend of the show, fellow podcast, film journalist extraordinaire and all round groovy chap, Brad Gullickson from In the Mouth of Dorkness and Film School Rejects joins Jon Cross to talk ghosts, 80s politics, gross out effects, curses, Spielberg and Tobe Hooper rumours and much more when they take on The Poltergeist trilogy!
Our excellent movie maven, Lisa Gullickson went to Fantastic Fest and, after a screening of Halloween (2018), came back with this great think piece on the nature of the victim in slasher films…
Michael ends his excellent run of The Women of Horrotober with another Halloween themed one, specifically the underrated Wendy Kaplan as Tina from Halloween 5.
Michael Campochiaro Vs. Michael Myers in his annual revisit of the perennial seasonal favourite, John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).
On this our last Horrotober podcast for 2017, Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk two completely bizarre and quite probably awful Dracula films - Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Dracula 2000 with Gerard Butler as Dracula (which sounds like a Monty Python joke but isn't, it's painfully true)
Michael Campochiaro takes the month of Horrotober and his series on women of the horror genre to praise one of our favourite actresses, the incredible Lili Taylor in Abel Ferrara's disturbing, vampiric tale The Addiction from 1995.
MORTAL REMAINS is a “shockumentary” which examines the life of Karl Atticus, a notorious filmmaker from the Vietnam era whose works have been mysteriously purged from cinematic history and its having is world wide release NOW!
We have the trailer, the viewing links, an interview and more!
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, debates the guilt in "guilty pleasure" sequel of Hammer's long-running Dracula franchise, 1972's Dracula A.D. 1972.
Michael Campochiaro continues his fascinating and fantastic series looking at the women of genre films. This time it's Laurie Zimmer from John Carpenter's underrated classic Assault on Precinct 13 from 1976.
At 2 a.m. in the noisiest diner in all of New York, the tired & grumpy Jon Cross and the generally affable Jim Wallace sit down to try and work out just what Dario Argento's Suspiria is all about.
Lisa Gullickson brings you songs! scares!! and Sondheim!!! with her look at the musical horror, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - nope not the Burton/Depp one - the Angela Lansbury one from 1982!
Owen Durivage, our explorer in the darkened, damp, dingy corners of VHS/movie land, tells us all about the barely-animated, Halloween themed film Lumpkin The Pumpkin.
In his own words "It’s not good, but I feel everyone should see it at least once.
Throughout Horrotober, Michael Campochiaro will be taking us through some of his favourite, stand out performances by the women of horror. In this third article, Michael is singing the praises of Shelley Duvall in her, often underappreciated, performance as an abused but brave wife and mother in The Shining.
Returning champ, Nick Consol joins us to discuss not one but three baseball themed horror films - Blood Games, The Catcher & Billy Club
Jon Cross revisits Stephen King's Pet Sematary and finds lots to love amongst the crudely written gravestones and zombie cats.
