Jason Henderson Archives

Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1986 film Dead End Drive-In is one of those movies that appears to be one thing—in this case, a post-apocalyptic thriller in a sea

This episode we’re chatting with Theresa Mercado, curator of the Scream Screen film series in Denver, and her current series of films “Hell on Wheels,”

This episode we’re chatting with Daniel Kraus, author of Bent Heavens, a new, horrific SF novel from Henry Holt/Macmillan Books. As of this writing the

Imagine that you walk into a record store and suddenly find yourself in a time that looks almost like our own, except that nothing you use to navigate

This episode we’re chatting with Simon Cox, the writer, director, and producer of Invasion Planet Earth, a new film about a doctor who leads a group of

This episode of Castle Talk we’re chatting about Color Out of Space, a new science fiction horror film that marks the return to feature directing from

Underwater, which opened this weekend in theaters and stars Kristin Stewart and Vincent Cassell, is a welcome throwback to a movie min-genre we haven’t

This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. I don’t think I’ve heard the term fan service more in the years since it’s become a

I watched the Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time on November 17, 1978, the one and only time it broadcast, when it bumped that week’s episodes

This week for a “hangout” episode (between more structured panel reviews) the podcast looked at a couple of films, one of them being the 1969 Spanish film

This week we spoke to Kathryn Leigh Scott and Steve Smith, the reader and publisher of a new series of audiobooks releases of the Dark Shadows audiobooks

This episode we’re chatting with Tara Westwood, who stars in Sony’s new reboot (more on that later) of The Grudge. The film will release in theaters on

In our final Castle of Horror movie panel discussion of the year, we focused on a Christmas movie: Saint (2010) also known as Sint in its native

In Beyond the Gate, scientists are returning from an edition only to be turned into a pile of gray, mushroom-like mush, and that’s not nearly as scary as

This episode we’re chatting with Adam Egypt Mortimer, director and co-writer of Daniel Isn’t Real, which the studio describes thus: Daniel Isn’t Real is

  This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 1987 film A Return to Salem’s Lot directed by Larry Cohen. This is a film

Antrum is a new horror film from directors David Amito and Michael Laicini with a decent gimmick and a better movie in the middle. The gimmick is the

  This episode we chat with David Moody, whose new book Chokehold comes from St. Martin’s Griffin books. The book ends a couple of book cycles for

There are a lot of lists of movies to watch over the Thanksgiving holiday, and most of them focus on togetherness and family. So when faced with putting

We’re chatting with Cory Doctorow a science fiction writer and futurist who wrote the Walt Disney World attraction Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress

This week we continue our Stephen King Retrospective with a look at the 2004 miniseries Salem’s Lot, starring Rob Lowe and Andre Braugher and Rutger

The Castle Talk Podcast chatted with Leanna Renee Hieber while the prolific author was pulled over “in Amish Country” on the way to the Steampunk and

This week we talk with Roger Corman, who with wife and filmmaker Julie Corman are the focus of the new Shout Factory series Cult-tastic: Tales From The

This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Ewan MacGregor as Danny Torrance, the boy

With the soon arrival of Doctor Sleep in theaters, the Castle of Horror podcast is exploring a few Stephen King movies, starting with the 1997 Shining.

This week, Castle Talk podcast chatted with Frank Sabatella, writer and director of the new film The Shed. The Shed tells the story of a bullied young man

  Paradise Hills is Spanish fashion creative and photographer Alice Waddington’s science-fiction thriller feature debut, in which Emma Roberts plays

Drew Edwards is writer of the long-running underground comic series Halloween Man and winner of the 2018 Best of Austin Award (and 2019 nominee) from the

Bridget Jones Nelson is a writer and comedian known for her work on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and for the past several years as half of the RiffTrax

3 From Hell is Rob Zombie's long-awaited followup to the crime film The Devil’s Rejects, itself a sequel to the nightmarishly bloody and phosphorescent