Castle of Horror Podcast

Tonight we’re chatting with Perry Blackshear, writer and director of When I Consume you which comes out this month from 1091 Pictures. A unique urban folktale set and filmed in Brooklyn, When I Consume You confronts the vulnerabilities that people struggle with every day through a genre lens to create a chillingly intimate indie horror nightmare.

When I Consume You marks the third feature for New York-based filmmaker Perry Blackshear following his award-winning psychological horror feature debut They Look Like People and celebrated sophomore effort, the aquatic supernatural horror romance The Siren. All three of his films have been widely embraced and praised both on the festival circuit and upon release, with They Look Like People winning a Jury Honorable Mention at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival upon its premiere.

Blackshear again teams up with creative collaborators MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Margaret Ying Drake for When I Consume You, who, alongside Libby Ewing, deliver a heartfelt family drama about grief and redemption.

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Mary Jo Pehl is a writer, comedian and commentator, published everywhere from magazines and anthologies to NPR’s All Things Considered, and she’s the author of the 2022 book DUMB DUMB DUMB: My Mother's Book Reviews which came out this past May. But a lot of us know her as one of the voices and minds behind the Peabody-Award winning Mystery Science Theater 3000, and over the last few years as a part of the comedy duo Bridget and Mary Jo on the Rifftrax video series. Their most recent release is a new riff on the 1962 cult film The Brain that Wouldn’t Die.

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Charles R. Rutledge is the author of Dracula's Return and three novels in the Griffin & Price series, written with James A. Moore. His short stories have appeared in over thirty anthologies and he has co-edited several anthologies as well. Charles owns entirely too many editions of Dracula, keeps soil from Transylvania in an envelope on his desk, and is seldom seen in daylight.

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This week we have a look at the 1974 film Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter . This is Episode #397! Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter is a 1974 British swashbuckling action horror film, written and directed by Brian Clemens, produced by Clemens and Albert Fennell for Hammer Film Productions, and starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, and Caroline Munro. The music score was composed by Laurie Johnson, supervised by Philip Martell. Belatedly released on 7 April 1974, the film was intended as the first in a series focused on the title character and his companions. Due to the film's violence and sexual subtext, Captain Kronos was rated R in North America. This was Clemens' only film as a director.

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This week we have a look at the 1973 Spanish horror film The Loreley's Grasp directed by Amando de Ossorio. This is Episode #394! The Loreley's Grasp (Spanish: Las Garras de Lorelei, lit. 'The Claws of Lorelei') is a 1973 Spanish horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio,[1] and starring Tony Kendall,[2] and Helga Liné.[3] The film centers on a series of horrific murders in a German town by the Rhine river perpetrated by a deadly water spirit known as the Lorelei.The film was released in theaters in the United States under the title The Swinging Monster on August 24, 1976, but most famously a few years later under the title When the Screaming Stops

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Jason chats with Kimberly G. Giarratano, author of DEATH OF A DANCING QUEEN: A Billie Levine Mystery (out Feb 14). The highly anticipated first release is new from from Datura Books, a crime fiction imprint of Angry Robot Books.Readers are in for a treat when they meet Billie Levine, a bad-ass Jewish P.I, who finds herself involved in a dangerous gang war while looking for a murder suspect. This page-turning crime novel will appeal to readers of Tana French, fans of Veronica Mars and popular true-crime podcasts.

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This week we have a look at the 1977 film Suspiria directed by Ssario Argento. This is Episode #395!Suspiria (Latin: [sʊsˈpiːri.a]) is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy but realizes, after a series of brutal murders, that the academy is a front for a supernatural conspiracy. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.The film is the first of the trilogy Argento refers to as The Three Mothers, which also comprises Inferno (1980) and The Mother of Tears (2007). Suspiria has received a positive response from critics for its visual and stylistic flair, use of vibrant colors and its score by Argento and the progressive rock band Goblin.Suspiria was nominated for two Saturn Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Bennett in 1978, and Best DVD Classic Film Release, in 2002. It is recognised as one of the most influential films in the horror genre. It served as the inspiration for a 2018 film of the same title, directed by Luca Guadagnino.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Gabriel Bier Gislason, writer and director of the new horror film Attachment *STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SHUDDER* FEBRUARY 9th, 2023. About the film: ATTACHMENT, the feature debut from Denmark-based writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason, a horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore. Maja (Josephine Park, Baby Fever), a Danish has-been actress, falls in love with Leah (Ellie Kendrick, Game of Thrones, An Education), an academic from London. After Leah suffers from a mysterious seizure Maja returns with her to her childhood home. There, she meets Leah's overbearing mother, Chana (internationally acclaimed Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl, The Undoing, The Killing), a woman who could hold dark secrets.

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This week on Castle Talk Jason chats with Mark Earl Burman, writer/director of Ambush, an intense, gritty Vietnam War epic. In the film, when a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground in a terrifying and unfamiliar mission. The film is released by Saban Films February 24 in theaters, on demand and on digital.

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This week we have a look at the 1972 film Deathmaster directed by Ray Danton. This is Episode #396! Deathmaster is a strange creature, a sort of sequel to Count Yorga and Return of Count Yorga starring the star of those films, except this time Robert Quarry plays Khorda, who appears in Southern California as a cult-leader guru to a bunch of local young people.

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