Castle of Horror Podcast Archives

This week we kick off a retrospective dedicated to the films of Bela Lugosi, beginning with Lugosi’s iconic star turn in the 1931 Dracula. This is a

The Castle team did TWO Halloween episodes this week because we're so in the spirit-- the first is a shorter episode on a very strange curio you may have

On this episode of Castle of Horror, we take a look at the 1953 CLASSIC, "War of The Worlds", which is way grittier than you remember.

Jordi O'Dael is one of the co-founders of Aberrant Theatre, a brand-new horror-centric theatre company, and the director of The Ghost Light Anthology -

This week on Castle of Horror, we continue our countdown to the Halloween reboot with the second part of the continuity-crazed "Thorn Trilogy" of the

This week we kick off a return to our Halloween Retrospective with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers. In anticipation of the 2018 reboot which

We continue our 1950s Teen Horror Retrospective with the 1957 I Was a Teenage Frankenstein starring Whit Bissell as the narcissistic Professor Frankenstein.

We spin off the Atomic Age Horror Retrospective with a summer retrospective on Teenage Horror of the Mid-century, starting with I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

We discuss Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), which has two main points: aliens are not to be trusted, and monuments look amazing when being blown up.

We augment the Atom Age Horror Retrospective with a strange, problematic expedition movie from adventure/disaster maestro Irwin Allen: The Lost World.

We discuss the 1958 film The Blob. What is it about this independent film about a strange visitor that continues to command attention today?

We take on the best giant lizard movie ever to be filmed around Lake Dallas, 1959's The Giant Gila Monster. Also, a few thoughts on Godzilla 1985.

This week we introduce a new podcast on America's fascination with Tiki, which made everyone suddenly put on Hawaiian shirts and start downing rum drinks.

We look at giant-bug movie Tarantula, which actually has a lot to say about small towns and the real fear of radioactivity. Plus we discuss whether there ever can be something "so bad it's good."

Gary Rhodes talks about his new book culled from thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film (Edinburgh University Press).

This week we look at a film that set the vocabulary for paranoid film from its release in 1956 to today: the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Kevin McCarthy.

This week we continue our look at Atom Age Horror with I Married a Monster from Outer Space. We cover the luridly named paranoid SF movie -- a film rife with subtext about homophobia, gender roles, and the claustrophobia of small-town America.

We kick off our new series on Atom Age Horrors, from Big Bugs to Teenage Monsters, with Them!, a well-made, high-budget-for-its-time 1954 story about giant ants threatening America. Then we have a spoiler-filled discussion of Avengers: Infinity War, because we've been aching to compare notes.

We talk about Larry Blamire's knowing ode to 1950s low-budget sci-fi films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. We ask, what is this movie? Is it camp (deliberately bad) or parody (good, observing the bad?)

On Friday, April 13, 1984, the world saw the release of a movie Roger Ebert called "an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash" -- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. That's enough to get us interested in looking once more at this film, which features Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover.

This week's discussion is on the 1972 thriller Frenzy directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, about a serial killer at large in London and an unlikable jerk framed for the murders, is daring, clever and sometimes very hard to watch.

Known in the US as Attack of the Mushroom People, the movie tells the story of a group of famous people who all get shipwrecked, only to discover that their uncharted desert isle is infested with deadly, transforming mushrooms.

This week, the Castle Team discusses the best-awarded film we've ever discussed: Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water. We ask why this movie is del Toro's Oscar breakthrough and where the movie soars.

This week the Castle team go back to a movie that is the undeniable blueprint for Ridley Scott's Alien-- the 1966 Queen of Blood, starring Dennis Hopper, John Saxon, and Basil Rathbone.

Rachel Stavis (who has published four horror novels under the name R.H. Stavis) is an honest-to-goodness exorcist, doing her work pro bono and without advertising her services.

After the 1976 Brian DePalma film, after Carrie 2 and the 2002 TV reboot, the Castle gang come to the latest and final film in our Carrie retrospective: Carrie (2013) starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

We talk about the 2002 Carrie starring May's Angela Bettis, in a version of Carrie that also acts as a strange pilot for a TV series that never was.

The Castle of Horror Podcast is back! We're kicking off the 2018 season with the Carrie Retrospective, focusing on everyone's favorite example of what Jean Grey would be like in a world without the X-Men We're starting with the 1999 film The Rage: Carrie 2, which has some interesting things to say about telekinesis, consent,[...]

Jason chats with Johnathon Schaech, who plays a wily, muscular zombie in a new reimagining of a classic, Day of the Dead: Bloodline.

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