Castle of Horror Podcast

This week we have a look at the 1969 film Assignment Terror. This is Episode #399!
We're joined by our friends at the Monster Movie Happy Hour podcast, historical book illustrator David Geister, historian Mary Challman, and historian/raconteur/cocktail wizard Scott Chesebrouugh
Los Monstruos del Terror (translation: The Monsters of Terror), also known as Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Assignment: Terror, is a 1969 Spanish-German-Italian horror film co-directed by Tulio Demicheli and Hugo Fregonese. It is the third in a series of 12 films that Paul Naschy wrote and starred in featuring the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, a role that was always played by Naschy. It stars Paul Naschy, Michael Rennie (his last film), Craig Hill and Karin Dor.
It was filmed in early Spring, 1969. The film was first released theatrically in Germany (as Dracula vs Frankenstein) on February 24, 1970, and in Spain (as The Monsters of Terror) on August 28, 1971. The film was also shown in France and in the U.K. as Dracula vs Frankenstein. In Belgium, it was shown as Dracula and the Wolf Man vs Frankenstein. In Mexico, it was released as Operation Terror, and in Denmark it was known as Frankenstein Og Blodsugerne/ Frankenstein vs The Bloodsucker. In the 1980s, the film was released on home video in France as Reincarnator.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Jesse Atlas, Director and Co-writer of Assassin, new from Saban films in theaters, on demand and digital March 31, 2023. The film stars Andy Allo (“Upload”), Nomzamo Mbatha (Coming 2 America), with Dominic Purcell (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Bruce Willis (Die Hard franchise), Mustafa Shakir (“Luke Cage”). The film was written by Aaron Wolfe and Jesse Atlas and directed by Atlas in his feature film debut.

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SYNOPSIS: Bruce Willis (Glass) and Nomzamo Mbatha (Coming 2 America) star in this action-packed sci-fi thrill ride. A private military operation led by (Willis) invents futuristic microchip tech that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions. But when an agent (Mustafa Shakir) is killed during a secret mission, his wife (Mbatha) takes his place in an attempt to bring the man responsible to Justice.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Joe Bob Briggs, host of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder. Per Joe Bob’s Twitter account, Season 5 of the Last Drive-In returns on April 21. We talk about the horror community, the need for common decency, and finding common ground.

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This week we have a look at the 1972 film Dracula A.D. 1972. This is Episode #400! We start off with thoughts and reminiscences on 400 episodes and then move on to the film.Dracula A.D. 1972 is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It was written by Don Houghton and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beacham. Unlike earlier films in Hammer's Dracula series, Dracula A.D. 1972 had a contemporary setting in an attempt to update the Dracula story for modern audiences. Dracula is brought back to life in modern London and preys on a group of young partygoers that includes the descendant of his nemesis, Van Helsing.
It is the seventh Hammer film featuring Dracula, and the sixth to star Christopher Lee in the title role. It also marked the return of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing for the first time since The Brides of Dracula (1960), and was the first to feature both Lee and Cushing in their respective roles since Dracula (1958).
It was followed by the last film in Hammer's Dracula series to star Christopher Lee, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which similarly utilized a modern setting and featured most of the same central characters.

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This week we have a look at the 1959 film Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow. This is Episode #401! Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow is a 1959 AIP horror/comedy film. It was a sequel to their film Hot Rod Gang. American International Pictures released the film in July 1959 as a double feature with Diary of a High School Bride.The film has been regarded as a forerunner of the 1960s Beach Party films.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Franklin Ritch, director and writer and lead in The Artifice Girl, which releases in Theaters, On Digital and On Demand on April 27, 2023.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Jim Towns, author of the new book Braddock’s Falls, about a killer at a nudist resort.Jim Towns is an author, a filmmaker and a visual artist. His books include American Cryptic, Whiskey Stories and Bloodsucker City, and he's the director of feature films including House of Bad, State of Desolation, and the upcoming The Possession of Anne. His documentary projects range from biographies to martial arts series, and his work is included in the National Archives of France. He's currently in pre-production on the action film Killer Ex, and he just released his second novella, Braddock's Falls from Anxiety Press.

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This episode of Castle Talk, Jason chats with Melora Hardin, who in the new thriller CLOCK (coming from Hulu Friday April 28) plays a doctor who appears to have a solution not to childlessness but to Dianna Agron’s character Ella’s lack of interest in having children. Melora is an actor who debuted on Broadway in Chicago as Roxie, a familiar person on TV where she’s been a major part of shows like The Bold Type, The Office, Monk, nominated for an Emmy for the role of Tammy on Transparent, a dancer, and she’s a businesswoman running a really wild and vibrant wallpaper line called Storyboards.

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Join us for a LIVE chat with the authors of the brand-new Castle of Horror Anthology: Young Adult, which you can order here: https://amzn.to/3G9BsjW
The Castle of Horror Anthology returns with stories of the young-- horrible, thrilling, terrible flamin' youth at its most harrowing.
Featuring stories by David Bowles, Jennifer Brody, Julian Michael Carver, Debbie Daughetee, Carmen Gray, Ammar Habib, Jess Hagemann, Leanna Renee Hieber, Sam Knight, Alethea Kontis, Mike Owsley, Scott Pearson, S.N. Rodriguez, and Bryan Young.

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This week we have a look at the 1943 film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. This is Episode #386!
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American horror film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of later called "monster rallies" combining characters from several film series. This film's script written by Curt Siodmak follows The Ghost of Frankenstein and The Wolf Man. The film involves Larry Talbot who is brought back to life. Seeking a way to return to his death to escape his werewolf curse, he meets with gypsy Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) who advises him that the only way to stay dead is to confer with Dr. Frankenstein. The doctor is long dead but his equipment is in working condition, leading Talbot to seek the help of scientist Dr. Mannering (Patric Knowles) and Frankenstein descendant Baroness Elsa Frankenstein (Ilona Massey). Talbot then attempts to have his life sucked from his body and transferred into Frankenstein's monster (Bela Lugosi).
Developed under the title Wolf Man Meets Frankenstein, the film was originally developed with Lon Chaney Jr. to portray both Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man, an idea that was halted before production began because of the physical toll it would take on the actor. The script was filmed with the monster originally having lines of dialogue which were later removed after a studio pre-screening for the film which led to the production staff laughing at Bela Lugosi's delivery of the lines. This led to Lugosi's dialogue being removed from the final film. The film was released to what the authors of the book Universal Horrors described as "lukewarm reviews". The film led to a series of what were later described as "monster rallies" involving having name-brand monsters interact with each other in films. Universal would follow this with The House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula.

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