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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.
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Dan used to love post-apocalypse horror, especially the BBC's 'humanity-destroying plague' classic, Survivors (1975-77). But he hasn't re-watched it since COVID-19 hit, as he feared it would be too much like real life; for the same reason he hasn't seen Steven Soderbergh's eerily prophetic film Contagion (2011), which has had a new lease of life on streaming since lockdown. Stella and Ian join him in rediscovering these chilling tales and to discuss horror in a time of pandemic. And there's another phone call from Howard, bringing The Bag of Death.
Please note, the general discussion of Contagion and the first episodes of the TV and audio versions of Survivors contains some minor spoilers (as well as a spoiler for the opening scene of the first episode of The Walking Dead).
00.00.41 Introduction and news
00.10.55 The Walking Dead opening analysis (includes a spoiler)
00.16.10 Pandemic horror introduction
00.20.07 Contagion chat
00.41.21 Survivors (TV) chat
00.56.50 Survivors (audio) chat
01.10.50 The Bag of Death (with Howard)
01.28.55 Recommendations
Relevant Links and Availability
Contagion (2011) is currently free to stream if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber in the UK
Survivors, the 1975-77 TV series, can be streamed via BritBox in the UK (as Stella mentions, some of it is also on YouTube - but it shouldn't be)
Survivors, the 2014-2019 audio series, is available to buy from the Big Finish website (they offer the first episode as a free download here)
Dan's review of Survivors Series Nine (2019) had been posted on our own blog page
Waco: Madman or Messiah is currently streaming on Netflix in the UK
End of Days and Two Minutes Past Nine are currently available as podcasts on BBC Sounds
Your Honour (starring Contagion's Bryan Cranston) is currently screening on Sky Atlantic and streaming on Now TV
The British Invaders podcast is available from their website and the usual podcast platforms (the Survivors episodes are here)
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Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
The brilliant drama/documentary podcast The Battersea Poltergeist has just completed its eight-part run on BBC Radio 4 (although a bonus ninth episode is due to be released in a couple of weeks), and it's also available on BBC Sounds and all the podcatchers. Kirsty and Ian have been raving about it for weeks, and finally Stella and Dan are caught up and just as enthused about its brilliant mix of investigation and storytelling.
The show's writer and host, Danny Robins, was kind enough to give us an hour of his time for a fascinating chat about the inspirations behind the series, his status as a 'hopeful sceptic' and the impact of the show itself. The first part of the chat is spoiler-free and there'll be a warning when spoilers are imminent. We're confident that, if you haven't yet listened to The Battersea Poltergeist, after hearing Danny talk for just a few minutes, you'll be switching podcasts (temporarily, of course).
Following this there'll be a call from Howard in his now-traditional Bag of Death segment.
0.00.00 News
00.09.17 Introduction to The Battersea Poltergeist (although Dan calls it 'The Battersea Podcast' because he's an idiot)
00.24.00 Danny Robins interview (non-spoiler)
00.47.30 Danny Robins interview (spoiler)
01.29.35 The Bag of Death (with Howard)
01.56.20 Recommendations
Relevant Links and Availability
The Battersea Poltergeist is available to stream worldwide via BBC Sounds and other podcast platforms
Of Danny's other shows, Folsom Untold is available on Audible, while Haunted is available on iTunes and other podcast platforms
Read more about 'the Philip experiment' at Dread Central
Ask A Mortician is available to watch on YouTube
The Death in the Afternoon podcast is here
The Terror is currently available from BBC iPlayer
Murder Among the Mormons is currently available on Netflix
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 Mar 06, 2021
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
NBC's Hannibal (2013-15) brought to the small screen, and re-imagined, the world of FBI profiler Will Graham and his colleague/nemesis, cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr Hannibal Lecter, after their introduction in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon (1981) and its subsequent sequels and film adaptations. Kirsty and (to a lesser extent) Dan have been talking about devoting episodes to it since the beginning of this podcast, and now the show is finally getting the spotlight it deserves with the first of a three-part, season-by-season retrospective.
Joining us on this journey will be two very special guest 'Fannibals'. Dr Rebecca Williams, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, and Dr Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, combine scholarly insight with irrepressible enthusiasm in an in-depth but (mostly) spoiler-free discussion with Kirsty and Dan of what makes this such a remarkable season. Following this, Stella, Ian, Kirsty and Dan give the season the traditional, more spoilery review.
Elsewhere, Howard calls in again, with another random pick from The Bag of Death.
00.42 News
09.52 Introduction to Hannibal
27.11 Discussion with Rebecca and Lori (non-spoilers)
02.00.56 Discussion with Rebecca and Lori (spoilers for Season One ending)
02.07.44 Spoiler review for Season One with Ian and Stella
02.45.04 The Bag of Death with Howard
03.02.52 Recommendations
Relevant Links and Availability
Hannibal is currently available to stream free for members of Amazon Prime in the UK
TVJunkie's trailer for the series can be viewed on YouTube
Dr Lori Morimoto's video essay on Hannibal can be seen at this link (warning: spoilers for all seasons)
Hannibal for Dinner (featuring Kirsty's essay) is now available to purchase from McFarland Books
Becoming: Genre, Queerness and Transformation in NBC's Hannibal (featuring Lori's essay) is available to purchase from Syracuse University Press
As Above, So Below is currently available to stream free for members of Amazon Prime in the UK
The Act is currently available to stream free for subscribers to Starzplay in the UK
The Battersea Poltergeist podcast is currently available to stream in the UK via the BBC iPlayer
The Strain is currently available to stream on Disney+ (via Star) in the UK
The Plague of the Zombies is currently available to stream on BritBox in the UK
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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Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Stephen Volk wrote Ghostwatch, the 1992 TV play which rated so highly on Kirsty, Stella and Dan's list of Movies That Scared Us The Most last year. And Ghostwatch is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Stephen's diverse array of horror output in a variety of media, including prose fiction: his new collection of stories featuring a teaming of the legendary literary detectives C Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, has just been released by PS Publishing.
In this lengthy interview, Stephen discusses these new and old triumphs, and many things that came between them in his remarkable career, including times spent in Hollywood, his work with directors Ken Russell and William Freidkin, and what he thought of Inside Number 9's Ghostwatch tribute episode from 2018. Ian, Stella, Kirsty and Dan were just thrilled to be able to speak to him, as will probably be apparent to the listener.
Elsewhere, Howard calls in to chat about how life is treating him in lockdown, what he's been watching on TV lately, and to pluck another surprise horror film from The Bag of Death.
Related Links and Availability
Stephen Volk's new book Under A Raven's Wing is available to order now directly from the PS Publishing website (Twitter: @pspublishingUK)
You can follow him on Twitter: @stevevolkwriter or visit his website stephenvolk.net
Bone Tomahawk (2015) is currently available to stream via Amazon in the UK, free to subscribers
Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe (1940) is currently screening weekly on Talking Pictures TV (UK Freeview channel 81) at 11.15am on Saturdays
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Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Stella, Kirsty and Ian have all seen lots of True Blood, HBO's steamy vampire romance, and love it to bits. On the other hand, Dan has only seen a bit of it, but he loved that. Listen to them wax lyrical and philosophical about why it's so good (except for, as Ian points out, when it isn't) and how it compares to the Charlaine Harris books it was adapted from. And if you've never seen it, the gang pretty much avoid spoilers, for once. Plus, we have another phone call with Howard and Dan as another random film is plucked from The Bag of Death.
Relevant Links and Availability
All seven seasons of True Blood are available to watch in the UK via NowTV
The Hotel and The Battersea Poltergeist are available for listening now via BBC Sounds
News of the World is available for streaming in the UK via Netflix
Byzantium is available for free streaming to subscribers of Amazon Prime in the UK
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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Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
It's time to return to our series of Halloween franchise reviews, recorded back in 2018. Dan and Howard are joined by returning guests Luke Richards (actor and writer-star of the upcoming Halloween fan film, One Night in Haddonfield) and Spider-Dan (host of the podcast Spider-Dan and the Secret Bores) for a spoiler-filled discussion of Rob Zombie's 2007 reboot of the franchise.
In more recently recorded material, Stella and Dan chat about their winter reading, viewing and listening, and Howard phones in to pluck another horror film at random from The Bag of Death.
Relevant Links and Availability
Halloween (2007) is out on DVD and Blu-Ray in both its original version and an extended director's cut
Wrong Turn (2003) is available for free streaming to subscribers to Amazon Prime in the UK
Overlord is currently streaming via Netflix in the UK
Sour Hall is available for purchase from Audible (or it's free if you're a member)
Luke Richards can be found on Twitter @Luke_Richards92 - follow him for more information about One Night in Haddonfield
Spider-Dan can be found on Twitter @dan_bores and his podcast can be found on whatever platform you're using now
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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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Kirsty, Stella, Dan and Ian have been raving about Host, last year's 'Zoom seance' movie from Shudder, almost since before it was released, and now they are blessed to be joined for a freewheeling chat by one of its writers, Gemma Hurley. Gemma talks about the experience of writing that film, her rollercoaster 2020, the challenges of pitching genre material for TV in the UK, and why she loves folk horror. Meanwhile, Howard calls in with another pick from The Bag of Death.
If you haven't yet seen Host, don't worry, the chat is spoiler-free - but why on Earth haven't you seen it yet? It's out now on Blu-Ray and even VHS (although only in the USA).
For a those wishing to cultivate a folk horror vibe, watch The Imagined Village's John Barleycorn on YouTube (it's from their 2007 debut album, available from Real World Records) and our previous episodes on Witchcraft and Paganism, Parts One and Two
Heathers can currently be streamed via Shudder
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Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Ian and Stella are both big fans of 1973's The Exorcist (it's Ian's favourite film), but neither have ever seen the occasionally-feted-in-cult-film-circles standalone sequel written and directed by original Exorcist author and producer William Peter Blatty, 1990's The Exorcist III. Dan has seen it before, and read Blatty's novel Legion, from which it was adapted, and was left with mixed feelings. Now it's time for all three to walk those Georgetown steps again. Warning: contains strong opinions...
Relevant Links and Availability
The Exorcist III is available on Blu-Ray from Scream Factory (including the original cut) and is also frequently shown on the UK Horror Channel
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer is currently available on streaming, free for subscribers to Amazon Prime
It’s A Sin is currently available to watch in its entirety via All4
Quatermass and the Pit is currently available for streaming via BritBox
Camp Cretaceous is currently available for streaming via Netflix
Barbara Shelley's obituary in The Guardian
Read more about The Exorcist III at Den of Geek and Bloody Disgusting
RedLetterMedia's video on The Exorcist III on YouTube
Matthew Danczak's video on The Exorcist III on YouTube
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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Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Kirsty, Stella, Ian and Dan return to their survey of Hollywood's procession of Gothic horrors from the 1990s with the one non-Columbia/TriStar/Zoetrope film on the list - but a film we couldn't possibly leave out - Neil Jordan's sumptuous adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. But how does it look to modern eyes? And is the apparently ageless Tom Cruise actually a vampire in real life? And which names will Ian drop this week?
Relevant Links and Availability
Interview with the Vampire, Byzantium and The Expanse are all currently available for free streaming to Amazon Prime subscribers in the UK (Interview is also available on DVD).
The Night Stalker is currently streaming via Netflix UK.
The Pembrokeshire Murders is currently available for streaming in the UK via the ITV Hub.
The Babadook is available for the next year via BBC iPlayer.
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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Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
After yet another delay (look, our rhythms haven't adjusted to the craziness of 2021 yet, okay), we're finally going in-depth on 1980's The Changeling. Ian, Stella and Dan talk about how the discovered this oft-overlooked gem of haunted house cinema, and what's great about it.
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