Castle Of Horror Podcast

We take a moment in our Stepford Wives retrospective to consider a film that explores the central idea of replacing living loved ones with better-than-human simulations. In this case, an AI so sexy you can fall in love with it. Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson star in HER.

The Stepford Wives Series gets reductive, weird and very 80s-fashion-conscious in THE STEPFORD CHILDREN starring Barbara Eden.

We talk to mystery author Sarah Fox on her Music Lovers mystery series!

We wrap up our look at Amicus anthologies with a collection featuring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Doctor Who's Jon Pertwee.

We chat with the author of a new book featuring Chinese ghosts, hopping vampires and a very real look at the evolution of Chinese culture in San Francisco.

We talk about the second Amicus film based on EC Comics, Vault of Horror, AKA Tales from the Crypt II.

We continue our look at classic horror anthologies from Amicus with TORTURE GARDEN, starring Peter Cushing, Jack Palance and Burgess Meredith.

We kick off a retrospective on Amicus, the studio that brought us the greatest horror anthologies of the 60s and 70s, with one of Amicus last and most famous films: TALES FROM THE CRYPT, starring Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, and The Crypt Keeper-- in a very different guise.

We talk to Josh Viola, editor of the new horror anthology NIGHTMARES UNHINGED on what makes for great horror fiction, and the process of working with many voices.

We talk to Colin Geddes and Sam Zimmerman, curators of Shudder TV, the app/channel dedicated to all kinds of horror, from Gothic to J-Horror and everything in between.

We celebrate the unluckiest day of the year with a look at one of the best outings of the avatar of Friday the 13th himself: Jason Voorhees.

At the Colorado Horror Con, the Castle of Horror Podcast talks Nightmare on Elm Street live-- and gets some questions from the crowd!

We look at Wes Craven's 1989 attempt to launch another horror icon: body-hopping, electric-powered slasher Horace Pinker.

We look at Craven's foray into Hollywood thrillers with Red Eye, in which Rachel McAdams is dragged into an assassination plot aboard a cross-country flight.

Simon Toyne's new book "The Searcher" has been compared to King and Koontz and already optioned to film-- we talk about what goes into writing a gripping thriller.

We talk to USA Today Best-seller Susan McBride about her new book "Say Yes to the Death" and about the fine art of the mystery.

We look Wes Craven's ultra-meta Nightmare on Elm Street reprise.

We kick off a look at the career of Wes Craven with his 1996 film SCREAM, which reinvigorated the slasher genre by injecting self-aware humor and mystery.

We talk to Bram Stoker Award finalist Paul Tremblay, whose new book A Head Full of Ghosts is a terrifying riff on The Exorcist, in which a teenage girl's apparent demon possession results in TV stardom and genuine, hair-raising chills.

We look at one of the most bonkers alien invasion films ever made, the infamous 1967 MARS NEEDS WOMEN, which gets a special boost from Batgirl herself, the recently departed Yvonne Craig.