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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
Episodes
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Revisitations #4: Martin (1977) (or: Educating Ian)
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
It's April Fool's Day, so perhaps it's appropriate to admit our own foolishness in failing to put out our March episode actually in the month of March. Here it is instead, and you'll get a proper April episode in due course...
David Edwards, former film critic of the Daily Mirror and old mate of Ian's, is a great fan of and expert on George A Romero's unique 1977 vampire movie, Martin. He joins Ian (who is watching the film in its entirety for the first time) and Dan (who is rediscovering it after seeing the film when he was in his teens) to discuss this powerful movie in both spoiler-free and spoiler-detailed fashion. They also discuss the prospect of the recently-discovered extended version of the film.
Kirsty and Stella sadly couldn't be involved in this episode, but they'll be back!
00.00.41 Intro
00.04.22 Trailer and spoiler-free discussion
00.24.22 Background to the forthcoming extended version
00.39.37 Spoiler discussion
Recommendations
Ultraviolet (1998) is available to stream in the UK via All4
All film and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism. No copyright infringement of intended.
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Friday Mar 04, 2022
Mini Reviews #1: Sister Tempest (2020)
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Now that the major episodes of the podcast have moved to a monthly schedule, we'll be dropping occasional mini episodes in between, including reviews of new movies. Here is the first, as Kirsty and Dan sink their teeth into director Joe Badon's surreal dark comedy, Sister Tempest.
Relevant links:
Order Sister Tempest on Blu-Ray
Rent Sister Tempest to stream on Vimeo
Also - if you want to help the situation in Ukraine:
Donate to the DEC Ukraine Appeal (the UK government will match donations up to £20million)
Donate to the Red Cross Ukraine Appeal
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Friday Feb 18, 2022
Revisitations #3: Nosferatu (1922)
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
It's 100 years since the premiere of FW Murnau's Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror). Although not quite the first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, it's the one by which all others are measured - a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema that marks the beginning of modern screen horror.
For years Kirsty has been passing on her love of this classic to her students, and on such an important anniversary, Dan was more than happy revisit it with her.
Elsewhere, the two hosts discuss the trailers for the forthcoming films from Jordan Peele and Alex Garland, and there's a message from Howard.
Relevant links:
The music-free version of Nosferatu is public domain and can be easily found online, and a scored version is available on Amazon or DVD and Blu-Ray
1922: The Birth of Now, including an episode focused on Nosferatu. can be heard at BBC Sounds
All trailers and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism in the spirit of Fair Dealing (UK law) and Fair Use (US law). No copyright infringement is intended
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
Scream (2022) - Should they have called it SCREAMS?
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Dan spent quite a while thinking up the title for this episode...
Yes, having graduated from high school (or 'left secondary school' as we tend to say in this part of the UK) just as Wes Craven's seminal slasher comedy Scream (1996) first hit UK cinemas, Stella and Dan are franchise fans and wouldn't dare miss the latest in-no-way-confusingly-titled instalment, Scream (2022). Kirsty thought it looked fun too, and Covid allowed them all to get to the cinema to see it. Hear them chat about it.
Oh, and the answer to the question posed in the title of this episode is: no.
NB. Apologies to anyone who downloaded this episode within its first day of release as there were some editing problems we failed to spot. These have now been fixed.
00.00.00 Intro and Scream franchise chat
00.30.20 Scream (2022) review (non-spoiler)
01.01.30 Scream (2022) - spoiler thoughts
01.06.32 Recommendations
Relevant Links
Archive 81 is currently available to stream via Netflix in the UK
The X Files is currently available to stream via Disney+ in the UK
All trailers and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism in the spirit of Fair Dealing (UK law) and Fair Use (US law). No copyright infringement is intended
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Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Doctor Sleep (2019) and The Shining (1980)
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Kirsty, Dan and Ian discuss 2019's Doctor Sleep and whether it was a good idea to make a direct sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).
Also, Merry Christmas!
00.00.00 Intro
00.09.25 Doctor Sleep and The Shining (non-spoilers)
00.40.49 Doctor Sleep (spoilers)
Recommendations
Doctor Sleep (in both theatrical and Director's Cut versions) is currently streaming via Amazon Prime
The Lost Boys is currently streaming via BBC iPlayer
Hannibal Season One is currently streaming for free via My5
BBC iPlayer currently contains several Ghost Stories for Christmas, including Stigma, Whistle and I'll Come To You and the new production, The Mezzotint; plus all the episodes to date of Ghosts and What We Do In The Shadows
Room 237 (a documentary about the conspiracy theories surrounding The Shining) is currently available to stream via IMDB TV
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Questions of Horror #3: Which Horror Films Will We Never Watch (Again)?
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Kirsty and Dan ponder the horror films they've decided never to go near, and the reasons behind their choice. Elsewhere, Howard returns - for the first time over Zoom - to delve into the Bag of Death.
00.00.41 Intro with Dan
00.04.55 The Bag of Death with Howard
00.25.46 The Question of Horror with Kirsty
01.24.28 Recommendations with Dan
Recommendations and Relevant Links
Val Lewton's Cat People: Beyond the Shadows and The Horror Films of Val Lewton are available to stream from Dark Corners Reviews' YouTube page
Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944) are available to stream on the BBC iPlayer (in the Classic Films section)
Special thanks to Leah Marks. The Voiceover Social Podcast can be heard here
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Friday Nov 19, 2021
Missed Classics #9: When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Ian, Kirsty and Dan discover as one the highly influential 1979 thriller, When A Stranger Calls. Elsewhere, Dan rhapsodises about Shudder (where this film can actually be found... it's on Amazon Prime, too).
00.00.00 Intro
00.06.33 When A Stranger Calls spoiler-free discussion
00.16.39 When a Stranger Calls trailer (which contains a spoiler) and spoiler discussion
01.16.22 Recommendations
Do consider subscribing to our Patreon. Our discussion of Hannibal Season 2 has now been added, as has Dan and Kirsty's chat about which horror film's they'll never watch (to be released on the regular podcast feed next week)
All soundtrack clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement is intended
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Friday Oct 29, 2021
Revisitations #2: Dog Soldiers (2002) (or: Ian‘s Regret)
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
2002's Dog Soldiers is a fave for Stella, a 'like' for Kirsty and Dan, and frankly a source of personal angst for Ian. The foursome all get together to chew the fat on it (and somehow never mention that director Neil Marshall went on to be a key force behind our perennial love, TV's Hannibal). Elsewhere, Howard phones in for another pick from the Bag of Death.
Oh, and (sinister pause...) Happy Halloween!
Relevant Notes and Availability
(All these are relevant to the UK)
Dog Soldiers is out on DVD and Blu-Ray and can frequently be found on BritBox and All4
It (2017) is broadcasting on ITV1 in the UK at 9pm on Saturday 30th October, and It: Chapter 2 is streaming now via Amazon Prime
Ready Or Not (2019) is streaming now via Disney+
Us (2019) is streaming now via Amazon Prime
Doctor Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) and the rest of the 'Classic Hammer Horror Collection' are streaming now via Britbox
The Exorcist (1973) is broadcasting on BBC2 at 10.40pm on Saturday 30th October, and will thereafter be available for one month for streaming via BBC iPlayer
Halloween (1978) is broadcasting on FilmFour at 10.55pm the same night (and may thereafter be available to stream via All4 for a week, but you can never be sure)
The Horror Channel's Universal Monster Movie Marathon includes, on Saturday 30th October: Dracula (1931) at 1pm; Frankenstein (1931) at 2.30pm; Bride of Frankenstein (1935) at 3.55pm; The Wolf Man (1931) at 5.25pm and Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943) at 6.50pm. Then on Sunday 31st: The Invisible Man (1933) at 1pm; The Mummy (1932) at 2.25pm; The Mummy's Hand (1940) at 3.55pm; The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) at 5.15pm; and Revenge of the Creature (1955) at 6.50pm.
Rosemary's Baby (1968) is broadcasting on Great Movies at 9pm on Sunday 31st October.
What We Do In The Shadows (2014) is broadcasting on BBC2 at 10.45pm on Sunday 31st October and thereafter will be streaming for one month via BBC iPlayer. Also, the TV series is currently streaming via Disney+.
Please consider subscribing to our Patreon (our discussion of When A Stranger Calls [1979] has just gone up).
All soundtrack clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement is intended.
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Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Insane For The Strain
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
After being introduced to the show via Stella's American TV horror two-parter last year, Dan is now a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan and Carlton Cuse's FX series The Strain (2014-17). In this episode, Stella joins Dan for a spoilery chat about the whole series. Elsewhere, a pre-recorded Howard is present to pluck another random gem from The Bag of Death.
00.00.42 Intro and news
00.10.46 The Strain
01.09.20 The Bag of Death
01.32.15 Recommendations
Relevant Links
Details of the Horror Channel's films for Halloween weekend can be found at Den of Geek
Details of WildRumpus' Halloween film screenings in Stoke-on-Trent can be found here
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021 TV series) is currently streaming via Amazon Prime
Cellar Club with Caroline Munro runs from 9pm every Friday on Talking Pictures TV (UK Freeview 81)
All soundtrack clips are used for the purposes of criticism, in the spirit of Fair Dealing (UK law) and Fair Use (US law). No copyright infringement is intended.
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Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Halloween Retrospective #11: Halloween (2018)
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
FINALLY it's here, only three years after being recorded! Join Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan (known on this recording as Dan B), in the pub with Ian Winterton (in chronologically his first appearance on this podcast) to discuss their first impressions, in both spoiler-free and spoilery fashion, of David Gordon Green's 2018 Halloween film - just in time for the release of his eagerly-awaited sequel, Halloween Kills.
Elsewhere, in the present day, Stella and Dan are joyfully rejoined by Kirsty, recent life stresses all behind her, to indulge in excitement about the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Rob Savage's new film Dashcam, the trailer for Scream 5, and lots of other things!
00.00.41 Intro with Dan, Stella and Kirsty
00.25.11 Halloween (2018) discussion with Howard, Dan, Spider-Dan and Ian (and a bit of Stella)
01.58.45 Recommendations with Kirsty, Stella and Dan
Related Links and Recommendations
Danny Robbins' new podcast Uncanny is currently available via BBC Sounds
The Green Knight is currently streaming on Amazon Prime (and is also in cinemas)
There's Someone Inside Your House is currently streaming on Netflix
The Grimmfest Virtual Festival continues until 11.30pm on Sunday 17th October
All soundtrack clips are used for the purposes of criticism, in the spirit of Fair Dealing (UK law) and Fair Use (US law). No copyright infringement is intended.
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