Castle Of Horror Podcast

Richard LeMay is the director of Dementia 13, a new gothic horror film coming this month. A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a family where everyone has a secret converge in one night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature film.

Michael Aronovitz is an author of weird fiction. His first collection titled "Seven Deadly Pleasures" came out through Hippocampus Press in 2009, and about two years ago we talked about the fantasy horror "The Witch of the Wood," and now he's back with a new release from CEMETERY DANCE Publications. He's a Professor of English and the English Department Chair for a Philadelphia charter school. He lives with his wife Kim and their son Max in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The new book is called Alice Walks from Cemetery Dance Publications.

We kick off a retrospective on a series no one knew would be a series with Flatliners, the 1990 science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. Special guests Destiny 2 writer Adam Foshko and prolific writer David Bowles join.

Filmmakers Bobby Roe and Zack Andrews, co-writers of HOUSES THAT OCTOBER BUILT 2. Bobby is director and Zack is the producer, and they also make up a significant piece of the cast in this second movie about Halloween-loving friends who go looking for the country's best haunted houses, only to find trouble.

This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 2002 Miniseries Rose Red. Special guest Jamie Bahr of Danger*Cakes, with music from Danger*Cakes new horror-themed song Love Bites!

We take a look at a movie that has become part of our vocabulary: the original STEPFORD WIVES. NOTE: This is an archive episode and may contain ambient noise.

We chat with Paul Tremblay, whose new book Disappearance at Devil's Rock (William Morrow) is a harrowing story of the disappearance of a young boy and the possibly supernatural phenomena that occur in the aftermath. We talk about the book and the dangers (real and imagined) of childhood.

Julia and Jason chat with the comedy duo of Bridget Nelson & Mary Jo Pehl, whose new Rifftrax commentary is for the film Deadly Instincts, a bizarre college-alien-invasion film.

We talk to C. Robert Cargill, AKA Aint it Cool News' Massawyrm. He is a co-writer of the horror films Sinister and Sinister 2, and Marvel's Dr. Strange. His new book is "Sea of Rust," in which 30 years after the destruction of humanity by robots, a scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by the war in this post-apocalyptic “robot western.”

We discuss the 2017 film "IT," one of the most anticipated Stephen King films ever.

A chat with Patrick Hemstreet, the author of the new Harper Voyager book The God Peak, a thriller in which humanity's fate hinges on the actions of test subjects named the Alphas. It's an explosive tale of how expanding the mind to godlike levels can lead to our ultimate annihilation.

We discuss Part 2 of the classic miniseries IT. (Early episode-- there may be ambient noise!)

We discuss Part 1 of the miniseries that influenced everyone's fear of Tim Curry in clown makeup: IT. (Note: Early Episode; there may be ambient noise!)

We kick off our latest Stephen King retrospective with an ode to youth in America and car culture, John Carpenter’s 1983 film based on Stephen King’s novel CHRISTINE.

Bushwick is a new thriller starring Brittany Snow and Dave Bautista in which the pair must navigate through the invasion of New York by a new rebellion: a Southern Army launching a second Civil War. We chat about the making of this scary, fast-moving film. 

There are few writers as prolific and successful as Kevin J. Anderson, publisher at Wordfire Press and author of over 130 books, 54 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. With lots of his own books as well as hit Star Wars, X-Files and Dune novels. Kevin has won or been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shamus, Hugo, Nebula, Scribe, and Colorado Book Award. We chat about Kevin's new releases: Tales of Dune, an anthology in the Dune world, and the zombie-PI collection Zomnibus.

WARNING: Contains Content and Frank Discussions Not Suitable For All Ages (No Video) LIVE! From Dallas, Texas for our second year, we record on stage at the Animefest of 2017. Our subject: Wicked City, a 1987 Japanese anime about a pair of cops, one human and one demon, tasked with protecting a key figure in an upcoming human/demon treaty signing. But what really drives this conversation is a frank discussion of sexual assault in anime, and how we are to take such art. Lots of audience participation in this one!

We discuss the third JAWS movie and ponder: what is this movie? A bad horror movie? An excellent disaster film? Something else?

UNION FURNACE is a new horror film out on Blu-Ray this month, a terrifying tale that evokes the grinding economic realities of the Rustbelt . The story involves a young crook who's given a chance at wealth that involves gambling with his life amidst a horde of masked sadists. Our guests today are Union Furnace's director and writer Nicholas Bushman and co-writer-producer-star Mike Dwyer. They talk about the inspirations of Union Furnace and share wisdom for new filmmakers.

Best-selling author Jonathan Maberry of the Dead of Night series talks about the brand-new anthology in the world of George Romero's zombie films, Nights of the Living Dead (St. Martins/Griffin).