Hellbent for Horror

Nothing marks the end of an era more potently than when the icons of that era pass away.

The cold reality is that when horror icons pass away, they rarely get memorialized in mainstream arenas.

So, I wanted to give an "Irish Wake", a happy send-off for several of the people who passed away over the last few years. The people who gave horror fans their First Kiss.

Consider this episode the Last Kiss, a retrospective of the careers of writers, directors, actors, and illustrators and a final recommendation of their work.

I hope you enjoy the show!

ARTISTS COVERED:

Wes Craven

Nicolas Roeg

David F. Friedman

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jack Davis

Bernie Wrightson

William Peter Blatty

John Carl Beuchler

Jack H. Harris

James Karen

Don Calfa

Harlan Ellison

MOVIES COVERED:

Last House on the Left (1972)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Scream (1996)

Performance (1970)

Walkabout (1971)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Bad Timing (1980)

Track 29 (1988)

Eureka (1983)

Blood Feast (1963)

2000 Maniacs! (1964)

Creepshow (1982)

The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Troll (1986)

Equinox (1970)

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

BOOKS COVERED:

A Youth in Babylon (1990)

Tales From the Crypt (1950-1955) "FOUL PLAY"

House of Secrets (Swamp Thing) (1971)

Swamp Thing (1972) 10 issues

Creepy #62 (1974) -"The Black Cat"

House of Horror #2 (1974) "Jenifer"

Eerie #62 (1975) "The Cool Air"

Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein (1983)

Creepshow (1982)

The Exorcist (1971)

The Ninth Configuration (1978) ***Originally Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane (1966)

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967)

No Doors, No Windows (1975)

Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975)

Strange Wine (1978)

Music used: 

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The best thing about being a horror fan is sharing the love with other horror fans!

And I had the pleasure to do just that!

On April 11th, 2019 we did a live podcast of Hellbent for Horror and a live reading from my book, "Screaming for Pleasure" from the legendary horror bookstore, Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.

Special guest Heidi Honeycutt and I discuss horror, horrible/beautiful, and how we need a new "Santo and the Blue Demon" in our culture.

I hope you enjoy the show!

Follow Dark Delicacies: 

https://www.darkdel.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Delicacies-182525775099921/

Follow Heidi Honeycutt's projects:

Etheria Film Night:

http://www.etheriafilmnight.com/about-etheria-film-night/

Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies: https://youtu.be/ULOO8pPHUas

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

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(Photo credit: CHRISTOPHER WAHL/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES)

If director Guillermo del Toro didn't exist, we horror fans would have had to invent him. 

He's a true lifelong fan himself, who brought his unique style and passion to horror films, and his love for monsters paid off when The Shape of Water won Best Picture in 2017. 

So...why is there so little conversation about Guillermo del Toro in the horror community?

Has the man who makes horror films as love letters to the Outsider been branded an outsider because of mainstream success?

Join me and my guest, John Arminio, as we look at some of del Toro's films to remind ourselves of the genre-bending richness and the pure, joyous fun of them.

All hail hybrid vigor!

I hope you enjoy the show!

Follow John Arminio: 

https://twitter.com/QuasarSniffer

https://www.facebook.com/johnarminio

Check out Comix Connection, where John works: https://www.facebook.com/comix.connection/

We're taking Hellbent for Horror to Burbank! Join host and author S.A. Bradley for a live author event and book signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank.

Reserve Your Seat Today! http://bit.ly/2HnKX0s 

We're doing a LIVE edition of Hellbent for Horror complete with a reading from Bradley's debut horror retrospective Screaming for Pleasure. Very special VIP guest Heidi Honeycutt will be joining to chat about the book, horror, her work and lots more. Don't miss this live event to relish in all things horror and get your copy of Screaming for Pleasure signed! 

Details:

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Dark Delicacies

3512 W Magnolia Blvd

Burbank, CA 91505

7:00 pm Live Podcast Taping (45-60 minutes)

8:00 pm Signing

Movies Covered: 

Cronos (1993)

The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Hellboy (2004)

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Killer bees!

Disaster Movies have been a staple of cinema since the Silent Era, and they are far more diverse in scope than you might think.

Most Disaster Movies want to thrill you, but there are those proud few that really want to scare you.

Let's take a look at some of those movies that put the Fear of God into us!

I hope you enjoy the show!

We're taking Hellbent for Horror to Burbank! Join host and author S.A. Bradley for a live author event and book signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank.

Reserve Your Seat Today! http://bit.ly/2HnKX0s 

We're doing a LIVE edition of Hellbent for Horror complete with a reading from Bradley's debut horror retrospective Screaming for Pleasure. Very special VIP guest Heidi Honeycutt will be joining to chat about the book, horror, her work and lots more. Don't miss this live event to relish in all things horror and get your copy of Screaming for Pleasure signed! 

Details:

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Dark Delicacies

3512 W Magnolia Blvd

Burbank, CA 91505

7:00 pm Live Podcast Taping (45-60 minutes)

8:00 pm Signing

Movies Covered:

San Francisco (1936)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)

The Hurricane (1937)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1954), and Gojira (1954, Jp.)

The Birds (1963)

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

Earthquake (1974) - presented in Sensurround

The Towering Inferno (1974)

The China Syndrome (1979)

Threads (1984)

Train to Busan (2016)

The Wave (2015, Norway)

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

https://hellbentforhorror.com/book/

Want to read a chapter for free? Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2x8cdds

Join the Hellbent for Horror Horde! help support the show here! http://bit.ly/2G6CpIJ

If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes or Google Play.  It really helps.   

You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hellbent-for-horror/id1090978706

Google Play link:https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ibsk2i4bbprrplyvs37c6aqv2ny

Stitcher link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hellbent-for-horror?refid=stpr

The excellent new documentary, HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR, is a love letter to the rich, powerful history of Black American artists in horror cinema.

The story is told by the artists who made the movies, and they give their unflinching perspectives on the past, present, and future of black horror.

Join me as I speak with Executive Producers Dr. Robin Means Coleman and Tananarive Due about their documentary, Black horror, and their "First Kisses" with horror!

Dr. Coleman is currently the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity, and a Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She has also written many books about media and the cultural politics of Blackness, including the book that is the source material for this documentary.

Tananarive Due is a filmmaker, author of 12 novels and educator steeped in black horror and Afrofuturism.

Since 2017, she has been teaching a class at UCLA called "The Sunken Place." Inspired by the movie Get Out, the class delves into the century-spanning history of black horror.

I hope you enjoy the show!

Watch Horror Noire on Shudder (free 7-day trial): https://www.shudder.com/ 

Read the book that inspired the documentary, written by Dr. Robin Means Coleman, "Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present": https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Noire-Blacks-American-Present-ebook-dp-B006WDDL0U/dp/B006WDDL0U/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1551309483 

Join Tananarive Due's "Sunken Place" Workshop! http://hipshot9.clickfunnels.com/sales-page25582446

Read Tananarive Due's horror fiction. Get hooked with "My Soul To Keep" (African Immortals series Book 1): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DB7UKO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 

Movies Covered:

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The Fly (1958)

The Mole People (1956)

A Son of Satan (1924)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Blackula (1972)

Crazy as Hell (2002)

Ganja and Hess (1973)

Tales from the Hood (1995)

JD's Revenge (1976)

The Transfiguration (2016)

Get Out (2017)

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

https://hellbentforhorror.com/book/

Want to read a chapter for free? Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2x8cdds

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If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes or Google Play.  It really helps.   

You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

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On October 4th, 2018, hundreds of figures dressed in black walked into the Wisdom Woods of Georgia to perform an unholy ceremony.

Beasts were conjured and blood was spilled by the gallons in the pursuit of graven images.

And popcorn was eaten.

I was a witness to the Women in Horror Film Festival, and I lived to tell the tale!

I interview festival co-founder and film director Vanessa Ionta Wright as well as several of the talented filmmakers in attendance as we discuss film inspirations, real-life ghosts, nuns who perform street justice, and everyone's first kiss with horror!

There were over 70 horror films that competed for the prestigious Lizzie Awards! Who won, and what was left of them after the weekend?

I hope you enjoy the show!

Movies Covered:

Rainy Season (Dir. Vanessa Ionta Wright)

Little (Dir. Brittany Brock)

Revisit (Writer: Jennifer Trudrung)

Feast (Dir. Melissa Kunnap)

Keloid (Dir. Brendan Pollecut)

The Apocalypse will be Automated (Dir. Melanie Killingsworth)

What Metal Girls are Into (Dir. Laurel Vail)

Lunch Ladies (Writer: Clarrisa Jacobsen, Dir. J.M. Logan)

Bitten (Dir. Sarah K. Reimers)

Beyond Repair (Writer/Dir. Robbie Barnes)

Heartless (Dir. Kevin Sluder, Producer Jennifer Sluder)

Blood Runs Down (Dir. Zandashe Brown)

Amy's in the Freezer (Dir. Venita Olzos-Graham) 

Rites of Vengeance (Dir. Izzy Lee)

Lady Hunters (Dir. Angela Atwood)

Entropia (Dir. Marina Janello)

Quiver (Dir. Shayna Connelly)

Relict: A Mesopotamic Tale (Dir. Laura Sanchez-Acosta)

She Was So Pretty: Be Good for Goodness Sake (Writer/Dir. Brooklyn Ewing)

All the Creatures Were Stirring (Dir. Dr. Rebekah McKendry)

Bugs: A Trilogy (Dir. Simone Kisiel)

Echoes of Fear (Co-Dir. Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley)

Follow the action and keep up with news for the next festival: https://www.wihff.com/

Submit your film or screenplay here: https://filmfreeway.com/WIHFF

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

https://hellbentforhorror.com/book/

Want to read a chapter for free? Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2x8cdds

Join the Hellbent for Horror Horde! help support the show here! http://bit.ly/2G6CpIJ

If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes or Google Play.  It really helps.   

You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hellbent-for-horror/id1090978706

Google Play link:https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ibsk2i4bbprrplyvs37c6aqv2ny

Stitcher link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hellbent-for-horror?refid=stpr

February is Women in Horror Month, and we're celebrating with an interview with the writer/actress Rakefet Abergel! We discuss her short horror film, the multiple-award-winning Jax in Love (2017).

Join us as we discuss horror and comedy timing, Rakefet's First Kiss with horror, and her cinematic "guilty pleasures"!

Want to watch the video of the interview? Go to my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/0VU9FORzjzE

More on Jax in Love here: https://www.jaxinlove.com/

And follow the progress on Rakefet's follow-up film, Boo on the official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/booshortfilm/

I hope you enjoy the interview!

February is Women in Horror Month, and we're starting things off with an interview with Tara Hall, the writer of the feature-length film, Buzzard Hollow Beef (2017). 

Tara sat down with me to discuss her film, horror movies, how Sam Raimi made her want to be a filmmaker, her First Kiss with horror, and her favorite comedy!

Want to watch the video of the interview? Go to my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/alvfxgeuCsc

You can watch Buzzard Hollow Beef on Amazon Prime here: 

https://www.amazon.com/Buzzard-Hollow-Beef-Scott-Brown/dp/B07797CW12

Twitter: https://twitter.com/buzzardhollow1 

And Tara is co-director/writer/story co-creator on a new film, Single Family Home. The film is in pre-production, and you can follow the progress of the film here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/single-family-home#/

I hope you enjoy the interview!

So, what does "Punk Rock Attitude" mean, anyway?

There are as many answers to this question as there are punk rockers. 

Although the connection between heavy metal and horror is well documented, the connection between horror and punk rock isn't discussed as much.

Yet, movies like CLASS OF 1984, and LIQUID SKY, and RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, and even RE-ANIMATOR exude a punk rock attitude with a nihilistic brand of humor and irreverence.

And now, there's a new punk rock kid in town! THE RANGER (2018) is an homage to slasher films and punk rock movies from the 1980s, and director/co-writer Jenn Wexler joins me to talk about horror, music, fake blood recipes, and becoming a surprise hit at SXSW!

I hope you enjoy the show!

Movies Covered:

The Ranger (2018)

Beneath (2013)

Darling (2015)

Like Me (2017)

The Transfiguration (2017)

Habit (1995)

Follow The Ranger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRangerMovie

Follow Jenn Wexler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J_Wex

Follow Glass Eye Pix on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassEyePix

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

https://hellbentforhorror.com/book/

Want to read a chapter for free? Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2x8cdds

Join the Hellbent for Horror Horde! help support the show here! http://bit.ly/2G6CpIJ

If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes or Google Play.  It really helps.   

You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hellbent-for-horror/id1090978706

Google Play link:https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ibsk2i4bbprrplyvs37c6aqv2ny

Stitcher link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hellbent-for-horror?refid=stpr

One last surprise present "under the tree" for my listeners! I'm continuing the British tradition of the Christmas Ghost Story.

Get some eggnog, put another log on the fire, nurse your wounds from your most recent game of "snapdragon", and sit back to listen to my rendition of Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows".

I can't wait to meet with all of you again in 2019!

I hope you enjoy the show!

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

https://hellbentforhorror.com/book/

Want to read a chapter for free? Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2x8cdds

Join the Hellbent for Horror Horde! help support the show here! http://bit.ly/2G6CpIJ

If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes or Google Play.  It really helps.   

You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hellbent-for-horror/id1090978706

Google Play link:https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ibsk2i4bbprrplyvs37c6aqv2ny

Stitcher link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hellbent-for-horror?refid=stpr

Happy Holidays!

#ChristmasGhostStory

#TheWillows