--And Now The Podcast Starts!
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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
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#106 Nightmares on Film
The visual media of cinema, TV and videogames are especially suited to depicting the strange visions and wonky logic of human dreaming, and the horror genre is especially able to take advantage of this. Kirsty and Dan discuss some of the best exampl… -
#105 Enys Men (2022)
Kirsty and Dan discuss Enys Men, director Mark Jenkin's unique sort-of-folk horror/art film hybrid set on a lonely Cornish island. Beware, there are some plot developments given, although this very much open-to-interpretation film is fairly spoiler-… -
#104 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) with Simon Clark and Spider-Dan
AKA Clark on Quatermass #2: The 1979 Novel This is the second episode we've released in which award-winning author Simon Clark (@HotelMidnight) pops on to talk to Dan about their mutual hero, writer Nigel Kneale. In the earlier episode they discus… -
#103 Grimmfest 2024 Reviews: Crumb Catcher & Delivery Run
This year, Stella and Dan got to go to Manchester's Grimmfest together for the first time since before the pandemic. Here they talk about the two films they saw, listed below. NB. 'The Lurking Gits' is a reference to a joke on Stella's other podcast… -
#102 The Aesthetics of Abjection
AKA Questions of Horror #6: What Makes Horror Beautiful? Kirsty and Dan discuss the beauty that can sometimes be found in works of horror - or, to use Kirsty's cooler phraseology, the aesthetic qualities of abjection. Stella chimes in too. And yes,… -
#101 Favourite Horror Franchises
AKA Questions of Horror #5: What Are Our Favourite (or the Best) Horror Franchises? Ian, Kirsty, Stella and Dan ruminate on the above question, while Howard calls Dan on the phone to add his two-penny's worth. Works cited I, Claudius (1976) is sadl… -
BONUS: A Very British Horror on 1972's Asylum (feat. Dan)
As a companion piece to our episode on --And Now The Screaming Starts!, here's an episode of the much-missed podcast A Very British Horror discussing 1972's Asylum, the previous movie made Amicus Productions and director Roy Ward Baker. The show's r… -
Not Episode 100 --And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973)
Happy Halloween! Welcome to our new regular series. In this episode, Dan, Kirsty, Stella, Ian and even Howard all give their thoughts on the little-discussed British horror movie from 1973 whose name their podcast borrowed (ripped off). Beware that … -
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Alien Romulus (2024)
In the wake of creating his audio essay on Prometheus, Dan got round to watching the new Alien movie, Fede Alvarez's Romulus. He's joined by Ian to discuss its ups and downs. If you look back along the podcast feed you can find episodes in which Ia…
