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Castle of Horror Podcast

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  • 468 Episodes
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Castle Talk: Professor/Author David Bowles on Rethinking and Replacing the Canon

Episode | 47 min | Dec 9, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with David Bowles, an award-winning author and translator from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. To his two dozen books, he'll soon be adding the space opera THE PATH, coming in 2021 from Castle Bridge Media. This is a special conversation in which Jason asks David about a conversation that recently ran wild on book Twitter-- about the "Canon," those works traditionally taught in school, and whether, why and how to rethink it.

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Castle of Blood (1964): Podcast Discussion

Episode | 94 min | Dec 7, 2020
This week we kick off a retrospective we call Dead Writers Writing with the 1964 film Castle of Blood. This is Episode 320.

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Castle Talk: Trey Tucker, star of What Lies Below (2020) - Podcast Interview

Episode | 9 min | Dec 4, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with Trey Tucker, who stars in the new movie What Lies Below.
In What Lies Below, Liberty (Ema Horvath), a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her Mother’s fiancé, John Smith (Trey Tucker), whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.

See What Lies Below On - Demand and Digital on December 4, 2020.

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The House on Sorority Row (Podcast Discussion)

Episode | 100 min | Dec 1, 2020
This week we continue our retrospective we call Creepy School with the 1982 film The House on Sorority Row.
The House on Sorority Row (also known as House of Evil in the United Kingdom) is a 1982 American slasher film written and directed by Mark Rosman, produced by John G. Clark, and starring Eileen Davidson and Kathryn McNeil. The plot follows a group of sorority sisters being stalked and murdered during their graduation party after they conceal a fatal prank against their house mother. The film was shot on location in Pikesville, Maryland in the summer months of 1980, with additional photography taking place in Los Angeles.
The House on Sorority Row was named one of the greatest slasher films of all time by Complex in 2017. A remake, titled Sorority Row, was released in 2009.
This is Episode 319.

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The Initiation of Sarah (1978) - Podcast Discussion

Episode | 103 min | Nov 16, 2020
This week we kick off a retrospective we call Creepy School with the 1978 film The Initiation of Sarah. The Initiation of Sarah is a 1978 American made-for-television supernatural horror film directed by Robert Day. It first aired on ABC on February 6, 1978 and starred Kay Lenz as a shy, withdrawn young woman who discovers that she has psychic powers after joining a sorority. This is Episode 318.

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Castle Talk: David Raboy on Directing Small-Town Horror The Giant (Releasing Friday the 13th)

Episode | 10 min | Nov 12, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with David Raboy, writer and director of the Giant, available from Vertical Entertainment on Demand November 13, 2020.
The GIANT- On her graduation night, Charlotte learns her first love has returned to her small Georgia town for the first time since vanishing the year before, in the midst of an awful trauma in her life.
But on that night, a girl her age is found dead – and then another.
Something terrible has arisen in this place, and as her final summer speeds towards a nightmarish conclusion, Charlotte gets the unshakeable feeling that somehow it is coming for her – in ways more troubling than she could ever know.

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Mad Love (1935): Podcast Discussion

Episode | 111 min | Nov 9, 2020
This week we wrap up a series of 1930s horror films with Mad Love, directed by Karl Freund and starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, and Colin Clive, and directed by Karl Freund in 1935. This is mainline Episode 317.

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Castle Talk: Director Alastair Orr on Crazy Suicide Vest Puzzle Movie Triggered

Episode | 7 min | Nov 2, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with Alastair Orr, director of the thriller/action/horror film, TRIGGERED which releases On Digital and On Demand November 6, 2020.

TRIGGERED stars Sean Cameron Michael (“Black Sails,” The Mummy), Liesl Ahlers (Friend Request, Daylight) and Reine Swart (The Lullaby, Detour). The film was directed by Alastair Orr (House on Willow Street, Indigenous) and written by David D. Jones, making his feature screenwriting debut.


SYNOPSIS: Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with SUICIDE BOMBS strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.

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Castle Talk: Erin Sanders on Starring in 80s Supernatural Horror The Call

Episode | 8 min | Oct 29, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with Erin Sanders (Zoe 101, Six Degrees of Separation) whose new movie THE CALL comes out on October 30th. From the creator of Final Destination, Lin Shaye and Tobin Bell star in this terrifying tale of death from the fall of 1987. After a tragic accident, a group of small town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple. One by one, their worst nightmares quickly become reality as they enter the realm of THE CALL. Four Friends. One Phone Call. 60 Seconds. Stay Alive.
Hosted by Jason Henderson, writer of the 1950s surfer girl horror book Night of the Book Man under the name Peyton Douglas.

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Castle Talk: Adrienne Biddle on Producing Family Grief Horror The Dark & the Wicked (Podcast Interview)

Episode | 14 min | Oct 28, 2020
Tonight we’re chatting with Adrienne Biddle, producer of The Dark and the Wicked, which releases November 6. Biddle is a founder with writer/director Bryan Bertino of Unbroken Pictures. The Dark and The Wicked follows two siblings who are summoned back to the family farm to await the inevitability of their father's death. What initially appears to be a timeless ritual of loss and remembrance turns out to be something very different. RLJE Films will release the horror film THE DARK AND THE WICKED In Theaters, On Digital and On Demand November 6, 2020.

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