Castle Of Horror Podcast

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.

We return to the Carrie Retrospective with the 1999 film THE RAGE: CARRIE 2, which has some interesting things to say about telekinesis and consent.

Jason chats with TIM HUNTER (Riverdale, Mad Men, The River's Edge), director of Looking Glass, a new thriller starring Academy Award Winner Nicholas Cage, Robin Tunney and Marc Blucas about a man who discovers that the motel he just bought contains a strange hidden hallway that lets him spy on the hotel's guests, leading to a story of obsession, suspicion and murder. The movie debuts February 16.

In this encore episode we discuss CARRIE, a story of a meek, bullied girl with the power to exact revenge on her entire 1970s high school.

ENCORE PRESENTATION: We celebrate the holiday season with one of the first slasher films, the cult favorite BLACK CHRISTMAS, AKA SILENT NIGHT, EVIL NIGHT and STRANGER IN THE HOUSE.

Jason chats with Johnathon Schaech, who plays a wily, muscular zombie in the new re-imagining of George Romero's classic "Day of the Dead. We talk "Day of the Dead: Bloodline."

We take a look at the spooky, moving 1970 musical version of A Christmas Carol, SCROOGE starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness. 

Jason chats with Greg Sestero, whose memoir of the making of the cult drama The Room has been turned into a new film with James Franco. 

Tony and Jason chat with Gene Pao, VP Digital at Shout! Factory about what makes the premiere brand of cult film and TV tick. We talk about the amazing brand that is "VHS Vault," and the surprising resilience of MST3K, no matter the medium.

In honor of the great George Romero, we look at his disturbing take on the vampire genre, the 1978 Martin.

We talk about the second half of Stranger Things' Second Season and wrap up our thoughts on the series so far.

We talk about the first half (episodes 1-4) of Stranger Things 2 from Netflix-- and get into nostalgia, class consciousness in the 80s, and whether binge-watching is killing the culture.

Jon Schnitzer is the director of HAUNTERS: The Art of the Scare, which presents two competing visions for haunted attractions in america—the traditional boo-scare style of haunt as seen in the guise of Shar Meyer, legendary scare actress, and haunt designer Donald Julson, as opposed to the new “extreme” vision exemplified by Russ McKamey of the McKamey Manor in San Diego.

Grady Hendrix's new book is a non-fiction chronicle of the boom in horror paperback publishing in the Seventies and Eighties that followed in the wake of Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and Thomas Tryon's The Other. It's called Paperbacks from Hell.

This week we look at the brand new documentary HAUNTERS: The Art of the Scare directed by Jon Schnitzer, about the growing rift between people who continue to put on traditional "boo-scare" haunted attractions and newer "extreme" experiences."

We discuss the strange third film in the Halloween series, this time a non-slasher Halloween story about an evil warlock industrialist out to use technology, witchcraft and Halloween masks to conduct a massive human sacrifice.

Michael Okon is the author of the new book MONSTERLAND from Wordfire Press, about a theme park called "the scariest place on Earth." With real werewolves, vampires and zombies as the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?

Michael Okon is the author of the new book MONSTERLAND from Wordfire Press, about a theme park called "the scariest place on Earth." With real werewolves, vampires and zombies as the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?

We take a look at a the 1990 psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder, in which Tim Robbins plays a Vietnam vet dealing with the trauma of his wartime experiences and increasingly unnerving visions of demons in New York City.

This week we continue our two-week Flatliners retrospective with the 2017 film Flatliners. Is it worth the trouble of remaking the original? Featuring novelist David Bowles and Destiny 2 writer Adam Foshko.