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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
Episodes
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
"It's a bit like The Beatles..."
Returning after a long delay, Dan, Stella, Ian and (in a surprise telephone cameo) Howard commence their latest series with a discussion of 1976's The Omen, the first in a series of retrospectives on The Omen Trilogy, inspired by the fact that all three films (plus the 2006 remake of the original) are now on Disney+. (However, Omen IV: The Awakening, 1991's forgotten TV movie continuation, is nowhere to be seen, and won't be discussed.)
Go to Disney+ to watch the 1976 film and the remake, both discussed here.
To watch's Dan's short film Terror of the Many-Coloured Slinky (2003), go here.
Like that film (and, indeed, The Omen), this episode is absolutely lathered in the gorgeous musical score of composer Jerry Goldsmith, conducted by Lionel Newman, just for fun. No copyright infringement is intended, of course.
Kirsty will be back in our next episode, which will focus on Mike Barker's Midnight Mass.
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Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Kirsty wanted to talk about one of her true loves, Robert Wiene's 1920 Expressionist masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and Dan was only too happy to indulge. Although he drew the line at pronouncing the film's German title ('Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari') because he was chicken about pronouncing two syllables wrong.
The restored Blu-Ray version of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to which Dan and Kirsty frequently refer is this release.
Kirsty's essay about Caligari and Hannbal is here.
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Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
We're fishing some unreleased content from the vault this week, to present a 2021 discussion between Stella, Ian and Dan about Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski's still-powerful 1968 tale of inner-city Satanism, from the novel by Ira Levin.
We discuss how the film draws satirical parallels between fears of Satanism and anti-Semitism, how its meaning has changed for us since we first watched it 20-some years ago, and a little about the stigma of its criminally-convicted director. (Unfortunately the recording was interrupted at this point - that's why we never released it before - but for a discussion between Dan and Ian about problematic creators, listen to our episode on Alien Resurrection.)
Warning: spoilers from the start, so if you've never seen the film, make sure you watch it before listening to this.
Rosemary's Baby is available for rental streaming via YouTube and Amazon.
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Not horror, but in many ways horror-adjacent, 2022's extremely quirky sci-fi comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All At Once was announced this week to be the unlikely recipient of 11 Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress (twice), Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Film Editing and Best Costume Design. Kirsty and Dan wanted to talk about it. And they don't mention Short Round once. Although I just did, typing this.
Links
Everything Everywhere All At Once is available for rental streaming on YouTube and is free with Amazon Prime
The video essay Kirsty references is The Terror of Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Daniels' podcast interview is with Scriptnotes on Spotify
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Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Stella and Dan have wanted for some time to discuss their love of Steven Spielberg's 1971 cinematic debut, Duel, written by Richard Matheson. However, they'd never seen the shorter, original intended-for-television version of the film before recording this episode, and therefore spend a lot of it speculating about what that version was like and how Spielberg might have made changes to Matheson's story to expand it for the cinema screen.
Then, after the recording, Dan did something he really should've done earlier - checked YouTube. For there, the (commercially unreleased) TV version is readily available. Therefore Dan had to watch it and insert additional comments into the original discussion to correct anything he and Stella had earlier guessed wrong. We hope you enjoy the result.
Links
The cinema version of Duel is available on DVD, BluRay, YouTube and Amazon
The TV version of Duel (and the 1974 TV movie Killdozer and 1977 short film Panic, both referred to by Dan) are available on YouTube
Josh Olson on Duel for Trailers from Hell
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
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Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Following up (after a few delays) on our recent Lee/Cushing episode on the Star Wars franchise, the wonderful Sean Mason returns to the podcast to discuss the more recent instalments of George Lucas' cinematic legacy. He is joined by another favourite returning guest, Spider-Dan of the Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores podcast.
Relevant links
All films discussed are available for streaming via Disney+
The Star Wars: Force Commander cut scenes are on YouTube
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
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Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Happy New Year!
As a counterpoint to the previous episode featuring Howard and Dan's archival music chats, here, as a final flourish of Christmassyness, is a more contemporary selection from Kirsty, Ian and Dan (again). Each of them has chosen three music tracks to talk about, which are excerpted in the episode, but you can find the full tracks at the YouTube links below:
Bela Lugosi's Dead (plus Ian's 'definitive' Trent Reznor version - and also Lakme)
Theme from Children of the Stones
That Funny Feeling (from Inside, available to watch on Netflix)
The Dogs Attack from The Omen (available to watch on Disney+)
Willow's Song (though possibly not the original Annie Ross version but a very close cover)
Main Title from Jaws the Revenge (as recently discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores)
Goodbye from Dark (available on Netflix)
The promised Star Wars update episode is still on its way!
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
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Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
In our last ep of 2022 Dan & Howard unearth musical gems from the archive of the Lee/Cushing Podcast - with never-before-heard material. Here's to 2023, folks!
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Apologies, yesterday's upload had a technical issue - this should now be fixed.
Blurb coming soon!
But make sure you visit Lucid Dimensions on YouTube
And Dan's daily Christmas comedy podcast is The Faces At The Window
Friday Dec 16, 2022