2 JUL 2024 · This week we have a look at the horror film The Haunted Palace.  This is Episode #436!The Haunted Palace is a 1963 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film released by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Pictures, starring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Jr. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancy. The film was directed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman and is one of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Pictures#List_of_Corman-Poe_films largely based on the works of American author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe.Although marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace", the film actually derives its plot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward, a novella by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft. The film's title is derived from a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace_(poem), published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story.

25 JUN 2024 · This week we have a look at the 1972 horror film Vampire Circus.  This is Episode #435 – and we have a very special guest joining us: John Logan! John has received the Tony award for his play Red and wrote the book for the Tony award-winning Moulin Rouge. As a screenwriter, he has been nominated for the Oscar three times and has received Golden Globe, BAFTA, WGA and Edgar awards. His film work includes Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Rango, Sweeney Todd, They/Them, The Last Samurai, and Any Given Sunday. He also created the television series Penny Dreadful for Showtime. This November his musical Swept Away opens on Broadway and next year will see the release of his movie Michael, about Michael Jackson. Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young and starring Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins. It was written by Judson Kinberg, and produced by Wilbur Stark and Michael Carreras (uncredited) for Hammer Film Productions. The story concerns a traveling circus, the vampiric artists of which prey on the children of a 19th-century Serbian village.

20 JUN 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with Directors Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda of the new  horror film MIND BODY SPIRIT which is out now on VOD.  In MIND BODY SPIRIT, Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, embarks on a ritualpractice left behind by her estranged grandmother. She documents the practice on her YouTubechannel for the world to watch, allowing her audience intimate access to her journey. But whatstarts as a spiritual self-help guide quickly evolves into something much more sinister.MIND BODY SPIRIT is a high-concept supernatural screenlife horror film that molds the ancientpractice of yoga with the modern social media landscape, all with the backdrop of a nightmarishsupernatural horror mystery that keeps audiences guessing.

19 JUN 2024 · We're back! This week we have a look at the horror film Island of Terror.  This is Episode #434! Island of Terror directed by Terence Fisher, also known as Night of the Silicates, is a 1966 British https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film released by Planet Film Productions. The film was released in the United States by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Studios on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bill with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Projected_Man (1967). Island of Terror was filmed right after Fisher’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966).

17 JUN 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with producer-director Princeton James and lead actress April Hale of the new film QUEEN RISING which comes out on VOD June 18. In the film, struggling school teacher Madison (Hale) strikes a lucrative book deal to help solve her financial troubles. As she dives into her dark past surrounding the "College Town Slayings," she realizes it may still be a part of her present after all. QUEEN RISING is directed and produced by Princeton James. Written by Allison Chaney and Henry E. Reaves III. Produced by Emily James, Mitch Martin, and May Todd. Executive produced by Reaves III. Edited by Martin. Cinematograpy by Jordan Danelz. A Nero Studios production. An Enhanced Media production.

13 JUN 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with Carol LaHines, author of the new book The Vixen Amber Hollaway – a thrilling, feminist jailhouse confessional of women's rage and a revenge fantasy about a professor of Dante who descends into darkness after learning about her husband's affair.

12 JUN 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with Lori Brand, whose new book Bodies to Die For is out this month from Blackstone Publishing. she’s had articles published in STRONG Fitness Magazine, T-Nation, Inside Fitness Magazine, D’FYNE Fitness Magazine, and more. Bodies to Die For takes a hard look at social media, the $70 billion diet industry, and the war on women's bodies--the wars we wage with each other, and with ourselves.Popular fitness influencer Gemma has transformed herself from a Before into an After, complete with washboard abs, thriving business, and gorgeous husband. But social media can be deceiving. Offline, the cutthroat world of bikini bodybuilding may just eat her alive. That's if she's not first devoured by the secret nemesis that lurks beneath her polished surface, waiting to destroy her.Software engineer Ashley is fat and frustrated. Frustrated with failed diets. With a world that wants her to shrink. With biased doctors, online trolls, and even her own mother. Until Ashley falls in with a mysterious and radical sect of Fat Activists who are fighting back ... by any means necessary. She's never felt so alive, so full of purpose. She'll do whatever it takes to ride this high, destroy Diet Culture, and win the approval of her charismatic leader.But when Gemma's toughest rival turns up dead, and more fitness girls fall like dominoes, it's beginning to look like the body image war has gone too far.

5 JUN 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with http://www.victoriahelenstone.com/, author of the new book https://bookshop.org/p/books/follow-her-down-victoria-helen-stone/20650931?ean=9781501255977 (June 4); Victoria Helen Stone is the nom de plume for USA Today bestselling authorhttps://www.victoriadahl.com/, author of over 25 novels.In the thriller FOLLOW HER DOWN, Elise is getting her life together finally, running a bungalow hotel she owns in California, when she’s pulled into a new mystery that might connect the traumatizing loss of her sister years ago and now the murder of a married man she briefly dated. It’s a mystery that spends a lot of time thinking about the toxic waves of damage that violent crime does to those the victim leaves behind.

27 MAY 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with Nicholas Tomnay, Director/Writer for WHAT YOU WISH FOR, coming May 31 .  SYNOPSIS: Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incoming guests. After assuming his friend's identity to take over the lucrative gig, Ryan comes to realize he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

23 MAY 2024 · Tonight we’re chatting with Elka Ray, author of A FRIEND INDEED, which is new out from Blackstone Publishing.Elka has spent two decades living as an expat in Vietnam, working as a journalist, researching, copy editor and communications consultant.  Early last year, she saw a meme going around social media of a drawing of two women yielding faux-antique dress wielding shovels and the caption read: “Real friends help you hide the bodies.” And it got her thinking… “How far would I go to help my best friend?”  A FRIEND INDEED is the result.Twisty and ingenious, A FRIEND INDEED is an engrossing psychological thriller perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Ruth Ware. Shocking and fast-paced, this is a riveting tale about the power of friendship and the deadly weight of lies.