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Scream (2022) - Should they have called it SCREAMS?
Dan spent quite a while thinking up the title for this episode... Yes, having graduated from high school (or 'left secondary school' as we tend to say in this part of the UK) just as Wes Craven's seminal slasher comedy Scream (1996) first hit UK cine… -
Doctor Sleep (2019) and The Shining (1980)
Kirsty, Dan and Ian discuss 2019's Doctor Sleep and whether it was a good idea to make a direct sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Also, Merry Christmas! 00.00.00 Intro 00.09.25 Doctor Sleep and The Shining (non-spoilers) 00.40.49 Doct… -
Questions of Horror #3: Which Horror Films Will We Never Watch (Again)?
Kirsty and Dan ponder the horror films they've decided never to go near, and the reasons behind their choice. Elsewhere, Howard returns - for the first time over Zoom - to delve into the Bag of Death. 00.00.41 Intro with Dan 00.04.55 The Bag of De… -
Missed Classics #9: When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Ian, Kirsty and Dan discover as one the highly influential 1979 thriller, When A Stranger Calls. Elsewhere, Dan rhapsodises about Shudder (where this film can actually be found... it's on Amazon Prime, too). 00.00.00 Intro 00.06.33 When A Stranger… -
Revisitations #2: Dog Soldiers (2002) (or: Ian‘s Regret)
2002's Dog Soldiers is a fave for Stella, a 'like' for Kirsty and Dan, and frankly a source of personal angst for Ian. The foursome all get together to chew the fat on it (and somehow never mention that director Neil Marshall went on to be a key for… -
Insane For The Strain
After being introduced to the show via Stella's American TV horror two-parter last year, Dan is now a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan and Carlton Cuse's FX series The Strain (2014-17). In this episode, Stella joins Dan for a spoilery cha… -
Halloween Retrospective #11: Halloween (2018)
FINALLY it's here, only three years after being recorded! Join Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan (known on this recording as Dan B), in the pub with Ian Winterton (in chronologically his first appearance on this podcast) discuss their first impressions, in… -
(Virtual) Grimmfest Preview #3: Aaron Bartuska on For Roger
This weekend (14-17 October) it's the virtual version of Grimmfest, giving all of us lounge-lizards who missed the live festival the opportunity to catch many of its filmic highlights from the comfort of our homes. In this mini-episode, Dan talks to… -
Grimmfest 2021 Preview #2
The date this episode drops (7th October 2021) is the first day of Grimmfest, Manchester's festival of fantastic film, returning as a live event for the first time since 2019. And here is the second of our preview episodes, in which you can learn so… -
Grimmfest 2021 Preview #1
We're back! Or at least... some of us are. Dan and Ian will be your company for the first episode of the second series of --And Now The Podcast Starts! But fear not, Kirsty, Stella and Howard will all be returning in future episodes, accompanied b…
--And Now The Podcast Starts!
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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
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