Hypnogoria

In this chapter we learn how Roger Corman made the very first movie adaptation of a HP Lovecraft story - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, starring Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jnr. - but when it hit cinemas, it had become Edgar Allen Poe's The Haunted Palace! (And yes, they even spelled Poe's middle name wrong!)

In this chapter we have the next two Poe movies from Roger Corman, which each took a different direction. Tales of Terror (1962) was an anthology film featuring three different Poe stories, plus guest stars Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. While The Raven (1963) was a comedy horror tale of feuding sorcerers which saw Vincent Price plotting magical skulduggery with Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a y...

We take a look at the little known other remake of Nosferatu that surfaced last year, directed by David Lee Fisher and starring Doug Jones as Graf Orlock!

We take a look at the latest incarnation of Universal werewolvery in Wolf Man (2025) written and directed by Leigh Whannell!   Previous chapters in this series can be found here - The Wolf at the Door: a Werewolf History 

The second part of my tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which we uncover Lynchian theories on life, art, film making and the importance of fishing...

The first part of a tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which Mr Jim attempts to unravel the mysteries of a man who was a film maker, a painter, a writer, a musician, a weatherman, and a friend to woodpeckers... 

In a new chapter of this retrospective on the late great Roger Corman's cycle of Poe movie, we look at his third adaptation, The Premature Burial, which starred Ray Milland rather than Vincent Price and very nearly wasn't made by AIP at all.

A cosy chat from the fireside and a happy New Year to all you out there in Listenerland!

Behind Door 24 we have A Christmas Horror Story and Krampus , Christmas horror films becoming a new annual tradition, and coming right up to date with Art the Clown getting festive in Terrifier 3

Behind Door 23 we trapped by a hooded maniac in  ATM and look at the surprising resurrection of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, the loose remake Silent Night

This year we have reached 1977, and the penultimate episode in the original run, and the last episode directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. In a departure from the usual format Stigma brings us a brand new tale written especially for the screen by Clive Exton, a dark tale of mysterious megaliths and ancient evils. 

Behind Door 22 we have a pair of movies from 2010 which both draw on the dark folklore of Father Christmas, with St Nicholas on the rampage in Sint from the Netherlands, while Finland resurrects an ancient Lapland Yuletide terrors in Rare Exports

Behind Door 21 we have troubling getting home for Christmas in P2 (2007), trouble in the home in French shocker Inside (2007), and a less than happy New Year with The Children (2008)

Behind Door 20 we learn why you should never take the scenic route when driving home for Christmas with Dead End (2003) and Wind Chill (2007), and also take a splattery ride on Santa's Slay (2005)  

Behind Door 19 we venture into the dark underworld of straight to video, where many terrible festive flicks lurk… Welcome t o the Christmas Horror Naughty List! 

Behind Door 18 we find Mickey Rooney as an evil toymaker in Silent Night, Deadly Part 5, wish Jack Skellington a merry Christmas and discover a nativity in black in Spain's Day of the Beast

Behind Door 17 we find the stranger end of the Silent Night, Deadly Night series with Part 3: You Better Watch Out with Bill Moseley as a robo-zombie Ricky, and Brian Yuzna's bizarre witchcraft body horror Part 4: Initiation starring Maud Adams!

Behind Door 16 we have some seasonal shark nonsense from Jaws: The Revenge and the little seen but very entertaining Deadly Games (1989), a French Christmas horror that possibly inspired Home Alone

Behind Door 15 - it's Garbage Day! Yes, we experience the incredibly inept brilliance of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

Behind Door 14 we find the most infamous Christmas horror movie of them all, 1984's Santa slasher flick, Silent Night, Deadly Night !

Behind Door 13 we discover two little known Christmas fright flick - The Dorm that Dripped Blood AKA Pranks , and a rare British Santa slasher Don't Open Until Christmas . Warning - may also contain Gremlins too!

Behind Door 12 we find John Waters's favourite holiday movie Christmas Evil plus two New Year horrors - Terror Train and New Year's Evil

Behind Door 11 have an early Santa Slasher To All a Goodnight (1980) and the most unfestive Night Train Murders (1975)

Behind Door 10 is perhaps the most important Yuletide horror of them all, Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974)

Behind Door 09 we visit the little seen early slasher mystery Silent Night Bloody Night from 1971, and learn The Legend of Hell House (1973)