Castle Of Horror Podcast

This week we continue a retrospective we call Dead Writers Writing with the 1970 film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Italian: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is a 1970 giallo film directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. The film has been credited with popularizing the Italian giallo genre.[3] It is the first installment in the Animal Trilogy, and was followed by The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972).The film was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award for best motion picture in 1971. Upon its release the film was a huge box office hit, grossing 1,650,000,000 Italian lira (roughly about $1 million US), twice the production cost of $500,000. The film was also a success outside of Italy, gaining €1,366,884 admissions in Spain.This is Episode 322.Endorsements this week:Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (on Netflix)Beyond Tomorrow (1940 fantasy film)All the Colors of Giallo (documentary)The Castle of Horror Podcast Book of Great Horr

This week we continue our retrospective we call Dead Writers Writing with the 1970 film Web of the Spider. Web of the Spider (Italian: Nella stretta morsa del ragno) is a 1971 horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti. The film is about the writer Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) who accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and his friend Thomas Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to stay a night in Blackwood's castle. At the castle, Foster meets Blackwood's sister Elisabeth (Michèle Mercier) and Julia (Karin Field). Foster has sex with Elisabeth and wakes up to find that she was stabbed by someone whose body vanishes, allowing Foster to realize the house is possessed by ghosts.Web of the Spider is a color remake of Margheriti's earlier film Castle of Blood.This is Episode 321.

Tonight we’re chatting with Shawn Linden, director of Hunter Hunter a new thriller/horror/suspense film to be released by IFC Midnight in select Theaters, On Digital and On Demand on December 18, 2020. HUNTER HUNTER stars Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Idle Hands), Nick Stahl (Bully, Disturbing Behavior), Camille Sullivan ("The Man in the High Castle") and Summer Howell (Curse of Chucky). The film was directed and written by Shawn Linden (The Good Lie, Nobody). HUNTER HUNTER follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in the act, Joseph leaves his family behind to track the wolf. Anne and Renée grow increasingly anxious during Joseph’s prolonged absence and struggle to survive without him. When they hear a strange noise outside their ca

Tonight we’re chatting with Liam O’Donnell, director of Skylines (In Select Theaters, On Digital and VOD December 18, 2020.) SKYLINES is the third installment of the Skyline franchise and stars Lindsey Morgan (“The 100,” Inside Game), Jonathan Howard (Thor: The Dark World, Godzilla: King of the Monsters), Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Doomsday), Alexander Siddig (“Gotham,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) and James Cosmo (Braveheart, “Game of Thrones”). The film was directed and written by Liam O'Donnell (Portals, Beyond Skyline).SYNOPSIS: When a virus threatens to turn earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley (Lindsey Morgan) must lead a team of elite soldiers on a mission to the alien’s world in order to save what's left of humanity.

Tonight we’re chatting with John Suits, Director of BREACH starring Cody Kearsley and Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis stars in the action-packed, Sci-fi thriller. Fleeing a devastating plague on Earth, an interstellar ark comes under attack from new threat; a shape-shifting alien force intent on slaughtering what is left of humanity. Breach comes to Theaters, On Demand and Digital on December 18, 2020.

Tonight we’re chatting with David Bowles, an award-winning author and translator from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. To his two dozen books, he'll soon be adding the space opera THE PATH, coming in 2021 from Castle Bridge Media. This is a special conversation in which Jason asks David about a conversation that recently ran wild on book Twitter-- about the "Canon," those works traditionally taught in school, and whether, why and how to rethink it.

This week we kick off a retrospective we call Dead Writers Writing with the 1964 film Castle of Blood. This is Episode 320.

Tonight we’re chatting with Trey Tucker, who stars in the new movie What Lies Below.In What Lies Below, Liberty (Ema Horvath), a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her Mother’s fiancé, John Smith (Trey Tucker), whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human. See What Lies Below On - Demand and Digital on December 4, 2020.

This week we continue our retrospective we call Creepy School with the 1982 film The House on Sorority Row.The House on Sorority Row (also known as House of Evil in the United Kingdom) is a 1982 American slasher film written and directed by Mark Rosman, produced by John G. Clark, and starring Eileen Davidson and Kathryn McNeil. The plot follows a group of sorority sisters being stalked and murdered during their graduation party after they conceal a fatal prank against their house mother. The film was shot on location in Pikesville, Maryland in the summer months of 1980, with additional photography taking place in Los Angeles.The House on Sorority Row was named one of the greatest slasher films of all time by Complex in 2017. A remake, titled Sorority Row, was released in 2009.This is Episode 319.

This week we kick off a retrospective we call Creepy School with the 1978 film The Initiation of Sarah. The Initiation of Sarah is a 1978 American made-for-television supernatural horror film directed by Robert Day. It first aired on ABC on February 6, 1978 and starred Kay Lenz as a shy, withdrawn young woman who discovers that she has psychic powers after joining a sorority. This is Episode 318.

Tonight we’re chatting with David Raboy, writer and director of the Giant, available from Vertical Entertainment on Demand November 13, 2020. The GIANT- On her graduation night, Charlotte learns her first love has returned to her small Georgia town for the first time since vanishing the year before, in the midst of an awful trauma in her life.But on that night, a girl her age is found dead – and then another.Something terrible has arisen in this place, and as her final summer speeds towards a nightmarish conclusion, Charlotte gets the unshakeable feeling that somehow it is coming for her – in ways more troubling than she could ever know.

This week we wrap up a series of 1930s horror films with Mad Love, directed by Karl Freund and starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, and Colin Clive, and directed by Karl Freund in 1935. This is mainline Episode 317.

Tonight we’re chatting with Alastair Orr, director of the thriller/action/horror film, TRIGGERED which releases On Digital and On Demand November 6, 2020. TRIGGERED stars Sean Cameron Michael (“Black Sails,” The Mummy), Liesl Ahlers (Friend Request, Daylight) and Reine Swart (The Lullaby, Detour). The film was directed by Alastair Orr (House on Willow Street, Indigenous) and written by David D. Jones, making his feature screenwriting debut.SYNOPSIS: Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with SUICIDE BOMBS strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.

Tonight we’re chatting with Erin Sanders (Zoe 101, Six Degrees of Separation) whose new movie THE CALL comes out on October 30th. From the creator of Final Destination, Lin Shaye and Tobin Bell star in this terrifying tale of death from the fall of 1987. After a tragic accident, a group of small town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple. One by one, their worst nightmares quickly become reality as they enter the realm of THE CALL. Four Friends. One Phone Call. 60 Seconds. Stay Alive.Hosted by Jason Henderson, writer of the 1950s surfer girl horror book Night of the Book Man under the name Peyton Douglas.

Tonight we’re chatting with Lance Jones who runs Gwandanaland Comics, which publishes new reprint paperbacks of classic public domain comics and magazines, from super-heroes to the first, now public-domain issues of Famous Monsters Magazine.

Tonight we’re chatting with Adrienne Biddle, producer of The Dark and the Wicked, which releases November 6. Biddle is a founder with writer/director Bryan Bertino of Unbroken Pictures. The Dark and The Wicked follows two siblings who are summoned back to the family farm to await the inevitability of their father's death. What initially appears to be a timeless ritual of loss and remembrance turns out to be something very different. RLJE Films will release the horror film THE DARK AND THE WICKED In Theaters, On Digital and On Demand November 6, 2020.

This week we have a one-off Halloween episode, a look at the 2019 film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. For those counting at home this is mainline Episode 316.

This week we continue a series of 1930s horror films with the 1932 film The Mummy. For those counting at home this is mainline Episode 315.This episode is a special event because we're also celebrating the one year anniversary of the creation of our good friends the Monster Movie Happy Hour Podcast and so with us tonight are 2/3 of the Monster Movie Happy Hour: historian, raconteur and cocktail wizard Scott Chesebrough and artist David Geister .

In a special episode in honor of the 20th Anniversary of Drew Edwards' comic hero HALLOWEEN MAN, the gang discusses Sam Raimi's 1990 DARKMAN.Hosted by Drew Ewards, featuring musician/activist Jamie Bahr, writer David Bowles, and animator/musician Tony Salvaggio.

Jason chats with Hadrien Royo about the audio series Crypto-Z, which you can find on any podcast app. Hadrien is an award-winning filmmaker, who has helped independent features come to life and get prestigious festival runs. He is the producer and director of Crypto-Z, an audio drama podcast and the founder of euphonie™, a creative agency dedicated to developing original stories across media channels and helping their creator reach their audience where they are now.He is also a professor in the prestigious graduate film program of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts where he also graduated.