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Castle of Horror Podcast

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  • 468 Episodes
  • Since 2020

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Castle Talk: Tricia Hoover, author of Castle of Doom: A Pick Your Own Quest Gamebook

Episode | 20 min | Aug 23, 2024
Tonight we’re chatting with P. J. Tricia Hoover, whose new book is out under her other other name, Connor Hoover, and its title is Castle of Doom, a Pick Your Own Quest Book.P. J. (Tricia) Hoover wanted to be a Jedi, but when that didn't work out, she became an electrical engineer instead. After a fifteen year bout designing computer chips for a living, P. J. started creating worlds of her own. She's the award-winning author of THE HIDDEN CODE and THE KNIFE OF OSIRIS, featuring a fourteen-year-old King Tut who's stuck in middle school. Under the Connor Hoover pseudonym, she is also the author of the popular Pick Your Own Quest series, which are interactive adventures perfect for everyone. When not writing, P. J.  loves spending time practicing kung fu, fixing things around the house, and solving Rubik's cubes. For more information about P. J. (Tricia) Hoover, please visit her website www.pjhoover.com.

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A Bucket of Blood (1959) - Podcast/Discussion

Episode | 76 min | Aug 21, 2024
This week we have a look at the 1959 horror film A Bucket of Blood.  This is Episode #440! A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in the West Coast beatnik culture of the late 1950s. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film, produced on a $50,000 budget, is about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes a serial murderer.A Bucket of Blood was the first of a trio of collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, which include The Little Shop of Horrors (which was shot on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood) and Creature from the Haunted Sea.

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Little Shop of Horrors (Podcast/Discussion)

Episode | 68 min | Aug 6, 2024
This week we have a look at the horror film The Little Shop of Horrors.  This is Episode #439! The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about a florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller, who had all worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film combines dark comedy with farce and incorporates Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $28,000 (equivalent to $288,000 in 2023). Interiors were shot in two days, by utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.

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Frankenstein Unbound (Podcast/Discussion)

Episode | 58 min | Jul 23, 2024
This week we have a look at the horror film Frankenstein Unbound.  This is Episode #438! Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film based on Brian Aldiss' 1973 novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost fifteen years. This is his final film as a director before his death in 2024.

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Castle Talk: S. B. Caves, author of the new thriller HONEYCOMB (Out July 9)

Episode | 27 min | Jul 11, 2024
Tonight we’re chatting with internationally bestselling author S.B. Caves, whose new book HONEYCOMB comes out July 9 from Datura Books. Born and raised in North London, Caves is the internationally bestselling author of A Killer Came Knocking and I Know Where She Is, which The Sun described as 'sinister, unsettling and gripping'.Honeycomb has been described as Big Brother meets Black Mirror -- suspense and intrigue arise when a burned-out pop star is recruited for an experimental reality show in which contestants are exposed to a mysterious new drug in a secluded mansion.

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Castle Talk: Robert Kiviat, director of The Mandela Effect Phenomenon

Episode | 20 min | Jul 10, 2024
Tonight we’re chatting with Robert Kiviat, Director and Writer for the new documentary The Mandela Effect Phenomenon, which comes out on digital July 9. Something mind-blowing is happening, where half the people swear reality's been altered, like they're from another timeline. Millions claim movies are different, and TV show titles, celebrities' names, logos and brands, other cultural touchstones and even the Bible are not what they once were. Is a supernatural force "Editing" history?

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The Undead (Podcast/Discussion)

Episode | 57 min | Jul 9, 2024
This week we have a look at the horror film The Undead.  This is Episode #437!The Undead is a 1957 horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Pamela Duncan, Allison Hayes, Richard Garland and Val Dufour. It also features Corman regulars Richard Devon, Dick Miller, Mel Welles and Bruno VeSota. The authors' original working title was The Trance of Diana Love. The film follows the story of a prostitute, Diana Love (Duncan), who is put into a hypnotic trance by psychic Quintus (Dufour), thus causing her to regress to a previous life. Hayes later starred in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). The film was released on February 14, 1957 by American International Pictures as a double feature with Voodoo Woman.

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Castle Talk: Shane Dax Taylor, director of the new WWII film Murder Company

Episode | 14 min | Jul 4, 2024
Tonight we’re chatting with Shane Dax Taylor, director of MURDER COMPANY which releases in select theaters, on digital and demand July 5, 2024. In the film, in the days leading up to the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.

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The Haunted Palace (1963) - Podcast/Discussion

Episode | 83 min | Jul 2, 2024
This week we have a look at the horror film The Haunted Palace.  This is Episode #436!The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer. The film was directed by Roger Corman and is one of his series of eight films largely based on the works of American author Edgar Allan Poe.Although marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace", the film actually derives its plot from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. The film's title is derived from a 6-stanza poem by Poe, published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story.

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VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972) with special guest SKYFALL/SWEENEY TODD screenwriter John Logan (Podcast/Discussion)

Episode | 93 min | Jun 25, 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.

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