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Castle of Horror Podcast

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  • 473 Episodes
  • Since 2020

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The Trollenberg Terror AKA The Crawling Eye

Episode | 69 min | Feb 1, 2022
This week we continue a series of Abominable Snowman movies with a special film that acts as sort of a companion to the British The Abominable Snowman, we’re talking about the 1958 film The Trollenberg Terror AKA The Crawling Eye. This is Episode #358!

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Castle Talk: Michael Gingold, "Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s"

Episode | 21 min | Jan 31, 2022
Jason talks to Michael Gingold, author of Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s, a year-by-year deep dive into the Gingold archive, with more than 700 ads. Within its pages you'll see rare alternate art for film franchises such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child’s Play, Jaws, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Exorcist. You'll also revel in oddities including Invasion of the Blood Farmers, Psycho from Texas, Dracula Blows His Cool, Zombie Island Massacre, Twitch of the Death Nerve, and many more.

Gingold also provides personal recollections and commentary, and unearths vintage reviews to reveal what critics of the time were saying about these films.

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Castle Talk: Grace Gillam, Star of SUPERHOST

Episode | 12 min | Jan 30, 2022
Tonight we’re chatting with Gracie Gillam, the title character of SUPERHOST, which comes out on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray February 1, 2022.
In SUPERHOST, Teddy and Claire are travel vloggers who run a channel called “SUPERHOST” where they travel and share their experiences in and around vacation homes, and until recently, had become successful doing it. With a dwindling subscriber count, they find the perfect opportunity to create content that people want to see when they meet Rebecca, the host of their most recent trip. Slowly they start to realize that something isn’t right with Rebecca, and as they investigate it further, they unlock a horrifying truth. She doesn’t just want a great review, she wants something far worse.

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Castle Talk: Matt Glass & Jordan Wayne Long, dirs. of Ghosts of the Ozarks

Episode | 12 min | Jan 27, 2022
Tonight we’re chatting with Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long, directors of Ghosts of the Ozarks, which premieres In Select Theaters, On Demand and Digital February 3. The film stars Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette, Angela Bettis, Thomas Hobson, Phil Norris and Tara Perry.
About the film: In post-Civil War Arkansas, a young doctor is mysteriously summoned to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover that the utopian paradise is filled with secrets and surrounded by a menacing, supernatural presence.

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The Greatest 3 Minutes of the Castle of Horror Podcast: Tony Schools Jason on His Choices

Episode | 4 min | Jan 26, 2022
In our episode on Embrace of the Vampire (1995), Tony schools Jason on his choices of film.
From the episode "Embrace of the Vampire: The Sexy Vampire Retrospective."

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Abominable (2006) - Podcast/Discussion

Episode | 80 min | Jan 24, 2022
This week we continue a series of Abominable Snowman movies with Abominable (2006). This is Episode #356! Abominable is a 2006 American monster film, directed and written by Ryan Schifrin. Starring Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, Lance Henriksen, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace, Phil Morris, Paul Gleason and Haley Joel. The film follows paraplegic widower Preston Rogers (McCoy) as he moves back into the remote cabin where he and his now-deceased wife once lived. Preston quickly realizes that a sadistic Sasquatch is stalking the woods around the cabin, but nobody believes him.

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Castle Talk: Edoardo Vitaletti, writer/dir. of THE LAST THING MARY SAW

Episode | 15 min | Jan 19, 2022
Tonight we’re chatting with Edoardo Vitaletti, writer and director of THE LAST THING MARY SAW, his feature length film debut, a Shudder Original Film premiering exclusively on Shudder Thursday, January 20.
THE LAST THING MARY SAW stars Stefanie Scott (INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3), Isabelle Fuhrman (THE NOVICE, ORPHAN), and Rory Culkin (LORDS OF CHAOS, SCREAM 4) and has been a hit on the festival circuit leading up to its hotly anticipated launch on the platform. It follows the story of Mary, a young woman living in Southold, New York, in the year 1843. Mary finds herself in a loving relationship with Eleanor, her family's young maid, and what first begins as a story of religious punishment turns into something much more dark and wicked.

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Discussing Valley of the Dolls with Film Writer Katharine Coldiron

Episode | 80 min | Jan 18, 2022
Tonight we have a special conversation with author Katharine Coldiron on the subject of bad film and The Valley of the Dolls, a film that has divided audiences since its debut—is it bad or do we even know what that word means?
Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials and a recent book from PS Publishing on Plan 9 from Outer Space. Her work on film has appeared in many online journals and routinely appears for free on Twitter.
Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 film directed by Mark Robson that follows three women in the entertainment industry.

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Snowbeast (1977): Podcast/Review

Episode | 90 min | Jan 17, 2022
This week we continue a series of Abominable Snowman movies with Snowbeast (1977). This is Episode #355! Snowbeast is a 1977 American made-for-television horror film starring Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan and Clint Walker. It was directed by Herb Wallerstein from a teleplay written by Joseph Stefano (who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho). The film originally premiered as the NBC Thursday Night Movie on NBC on April 28, 1977. This was the #1-rated television program in the USA the week of its release.

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Castle Talk: Lawrence Fowler, dir "Jack in the Box: Awakening"

Episode | 13 min | Jan 14, 2022
Tonight we’re talking to Lawrence Fowler, writer director of Jack in the Box: Awakening, a new film that follows on Fowler’s film Jack in the Box, releasing Jan 18, 2022 (VOD, Digital HD & DVD) in the U.S. In the new film, terminally ill heiress Olga Marsdale acquires a mysterious gothic box containing a captured demon - Jack. The powerful entity within makes a deadly deal with Olga and her devoted son Edgar - deliver six victims to Jack and Olga will live.
Lawrence Fowler is a multi-award winning Welsh Film Director and Writer. Working alongside his producing partner Geoff, Fowler Media Limited was born to produce genre feature films and TV projects for world-wide audiences. His 2020 film 'The Jack in the Box' earned a Best Feature Award at the British Horror Film Festival and held its premiere at prestigious Leicester Square.

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