Castle of Horror Podcast

On August 4, Castle Bridge Media presented a panel on mid-century Gothic horror films featuring leading voices in horror fiction and commentary. The panel was made in celebration of the release of the book Nightwalkers, a new look at Gothic horror ranging from the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, home of Christopher Lee's Dracula and […]

This episode we're talking to Daniel Kraus, author of The Living Dead: A New Novel (Tor), a book written in part by Night of the Living Dead's (and so much more) George Romero and then expanded and completed by Kraus—expanded, in fact, to a door-stopping, Micheneresque zombie magnum opus that melds ideas from Romero over the course […]

It’s a delightful film about a pair of teens (Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz)-- one a switchboard operator and the other the local deejay-- investigating what might be the appearance of aliens in a small town when all eyes are on the high school basketball game.[caption id="attachment_1216895" align="aligncenter" width="600"] L-R: The official poster for The[...]

The MMHH appeared in late 2019, and every episode, they feature at least one newly-designed cocktail to go with whatever classic horror film they discuss.[caption id="attachment_1197392" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Top left: The official logo for the Castle of Horror podcast and used with permission Bottom left: The official logo of Monster Movie Happy Hour and used[...]

Recently the Castle of Horror asked listeners what kinds of films they'd like us to discuss, and the winner far and away was "more anthologies." That's probably because horror anthologies are always fun and rarely wear out their welcome—generally, if you're not crazy about the segment you're watching, if you hang around a few minutes, […]

Join us! Listen here:https://api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/23984602/download.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9jljvGocVE Check out the Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xc9hqXMFpg Castle of Horror Podcast:The Team: Hosted by Jason Henderson, author of Young Captain Nemo and editor of the upcoming Castle of Horror Anthology; Featuring Drew Edwards, creator of Halloween Man; Tony Salvaggio, lead singer of the band Deserts of Mars, lead guitarist of the band Rise from Fire, and co-creator of Clockwerx from Humanoids; attorney Julia Guzman of Guzman Immigration of Denver; and Jamie Bahr,[...]

It’s a prime example of someone not stopping to ask, “What are we doing? We should start over.”We discussed the special in an episode of the Castle of Horror Podcast Whether you watch the special is up to you, but give it a listen.Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/pdcn.co/e/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special_rev.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GcQIOyXRkIYou can also check out the Star Wars Holiday[...]

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 The House That Screamed, or La Residencia. We chose it as an excellent example of Eurotrash horror. Eurotrash horror is a slightly unfortunate term for mid-century horror films […]

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 Netherlands. We could have chosen any of a number of films in which the "hat on head/suit that's red" brought cinematic mayhem, but what made Saint special was […]

  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 made by one fascinating, iconoclastic director—Larry Cohen, who would give us movies like the 1985 commercial-culture horror satire The Stuff and the bizarre 1982 giant-monster film […]

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 Hauer. Directed by Mikael Salomon for TNT, Salem's Lot had to fight an uphill battle, to begin with. Tobe Hoober of Poltergeist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre had delivered a scary, […]

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 Trenches with Roger and Julie Corman. An extraordinarily prolific director and producer, Corman occupies a unique place in Hollywood history, because as much as he was responsible for […]

[SPOILERS FOR THE SHINING] This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Ewan MacGregor as Danny Torrance, the boy who escaped the Overlook Hotel at the end of The Shining. Which The Shining, you might ask? There are so many: from the Stephen King book came […]

The hotel feels homey and approachable, and the long, pleasant lobby is galaxies away in tone from the sinister space of Kubrick's studio-built 1980 lobby.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, which of course is as[...]

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 audio commentary team Bridget & Mary Jo, where she and comedian Mary Jo Pehl riff on features, industrial shorts, often with an eye on the social lives […]

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 House of 1000 Corpses. 3 From Hell follows the remaining members of the Firefly family as they run from the law and try to make sense of their future. The film debuts […]

Order yours-- we've got stories from Kevin J Anderson, Dark Shadows' Lara Parker, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' (IDW) Tom Waltz, and more, all bringing their personal spin to our new horror anthology series. Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/lake_dracula_endgame_rev.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyj7_SgXcUQCheck out the Trailer for Lake of Dracula:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWCtbSjmR6MCastle of Horror Podcast:Join us over on Facebook to chime in.The show is hosted here[...]

Join us!Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_rev2.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZA4VCakIHwCheck out the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lwgm7ORM8Castle of Horror Podcast:Join us over on Facebook to chime in.The show is hosted here[...]

Jose Ferrer plays the first version of Captain Nemo that is essentially a superhero.Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Amazing_Captain_Nemo_rev.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2n7uFRRSACheck out the beginning:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSuyuwm3pA&list=PLrmx15jWLl-0K9mifqp8M14YAZ9Uyi2rSCastle of Horror Podcast:Join us over on Facebook to chime in.The show is hosted here[...]

We had fun discussing it.Listen here:http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/Captain_Nemo_City_rev.mp3Listen on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEokjOKIz2oCheck out the Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_eHLnKnEAA&t=19s Castle of Horror Podcast:Join us over on Facebook to chime in.The show is hosted here[...]