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It’s another cheeky Welcome To Horror bonus episode, you lucky people! Here’s Chris and Adam’s spoiler free review of 2 more works from writer/director/producer/actor (and all round top man) Kemal Yildirim; his 2021 feature “Wastelands” and its companion piece, the 2017 short “Saudade”. A haunting drama of an isolated woman, estranged from her family and conducting an on/off dysfunctional relation...

We return, once more to the work of the one and only Mr John Carpenter (the only J.C. we worship round here). It’s time for 1980’s “The Fog”, a film which proves that 2 generations of scream queens are better than one; that a regular series of pissed-up night-fishing boat-trips will eventually end badly; and Tom Atkins, even without his trademark moustache, is still an absolute shagger. John Carpe...

In a break to our usual format, and to continue our “Haunted April” episodes we present “Least Haunted”. A discussion on our general thoughts and feelings towards the uncanny, the supernatural and the unexplained. The boys recount their own brushes against reality’s veil: Thrill as you hear of the Brentwood Manta Ray UFO, shiver at the tale of the Norfolk Farmhouse Apparition, and prepare to be sh...

Surprise! It’s a cheeky Welcome To Horror bonus episode. Here’s a spoiler free review of “The Haunting Of The Lady-Jane” from writer/director/producer Kemal Yildirim. Currently building a reputation at film festivals; we first saw this film at Horror-on-sea, but wanted to say a bit more about it than we had chance to in our own HOS episode. A slow burn, folk horror journey across the haunted water...

More Troma goodness for you with 2015’s “My Bloody Banjo”. A film in which we learn that a vape just doesn’t cut it next to a real cigarette in basic torture; judiciously applied piano wire can liven up even the most tedious of corporate events; and that if you believe in paper; say it with your balls! The debut feature from Liam Regan, whose latest film “Eating Miss Campbell” is currently wowing...

It’s Troma time! Yes folks, we’re finally introducing Chris to the unique world of Lloyd Kaufman as we kick off with “Class of Nuke ‘Em High”. A film which highlights the usual struggles of American youth: being peer pressured into smoking (radioactive) weed; teenage pregnancy (that results in a giant mutated beast prowling the hallways); the inability to pronounce “cretin” properly; and nuclear p...

Welcome To Horror Presents: “The Curse of We Have Been Watching”. It’s time once more, gentle listener, for a quick run through of the audio/visual stimuli that we have posted into our cerebral cortexes via our ocular globes and sound flaps. This episode we discuss “Bedazzled” (1967), “Scream” (2022), “Superstition” (1982), “Cannibal Holocaust”, Tim Burton’s “Wednesday”, “Brotherhood of the Wolf”,...

“What’s in the box?” It’s Adam’s Birthday choice, and he’s opted for wacky screwball rom-com “Se7en” from Hollywood fun-meister David Fincher. “Se7en”, a bleak glimpse into a world spiralling into hell (a bit like the news, but featuring good-looking people you care about). We learn that a man sitting in his own excrement will usually move out of it if he can; we confirm that serial murderers neve...

We kick off the new year with “The Perfect Host”; a film in which… no, that would be telling… We here at WTH are very much of the opinion that this particular film, like revenge, is best served cold. Avoid spoilers, articles and even the trailer in case you miss the opportunity to watch “The Perfect Host” completely fresh, with no idea what’s to come. This episode is packed with spoilers, and we d...

It’s another cheeky bonus episode from Welcome To Horror! Horror-On-Sea Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and we were lucky enough to attend 2 of it’s 6 day run. Here the team talk about what they watched in a (hopefully) spoiler free way that should give you a flavour of these films coming your way soon. FEATURES DISCUSSED: “The Haunting of the Lady Jane”, “End of Term”, “E...

Merry belated Christmas! Here at WTH we know its always nice to get a belated gift when life has gone back to the dreary drudge of dull January so here you are! Scotchworthy president Tony Wash has very kindly made some time in his busy schedule to sit down and have a chat with Lee about the upcoming release of the 15th anniversary edition of “Its my party and I’ll die if I want to” and working wi...

Welcome To Horror Presents: “House of We Have Been Watching”. Yes folks, back for 2023 and we’re discussing what film/TV we’ve been enjoying over the festive period. Well, I say “enjoy…” In this episode we talk about “Inside No.9: The Bones of St Nicholas”, “Count Magnus”, Disney’s “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S” trilogy, “She Will”, “The Menu”, “Possum”, “Torture Garden”, “Flux Gourmet”, and Somerset House’s “Th...

And we open the “Inside No.9 Christmas Selection Box” one last time, but unlike a normal selection box, we’re not left with a few toffee pennies and that horrible coconut one. No, we’ve got a hazelnut whirl and a caramel barrel! (SNAP! There goes that metaphor.) First off we have season 1’s horror foray “The Harrowing”, where we learn what rhymes with “Moloch”. And then we finish with “The Devil o...

Having gorged ourselves on the first layer, it’s time to move to the next plastic tray in our “Inside No.9 Christmas Selection Box”. (Will this increasingly stretched metaphor hold up to the strain for next week? Only time will tell.). First we’re looking at time “Séance Time”, where carefully curated terror can be erased by dog shit on the shoe; and “Mr King”, which gives us a lovely serving sugg...

Christmas is a time for dark stories, over indulgence and variety packs of treats. Thus, we present this December, our “Inside No.9 Christmas Selection Box”. This episode we focus on “The Riddle of the Sphinx”, where we discover what’s long and hard and full of seamen. Then we turn our attentions to “The Stakeout” where we learn just how much piss you can get into an empty Pringles Tube. SPOILERS...

Welcome To Horror Presents: “We Have Been Watching Meets The Wolf Man”. It’s time once more, faithful listener, for the team to discuss the varied audio/visual treats that have been assailing our frontal cortexes. In this episode we discuss “Wendell & Wild”, “The Witcher”, “Werewolf by Night”, “Hellraiser 2022”, “Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities” and “Night of Demons 2”, while Adam tell...

Our Punk Horror double bill concludes with a recommendation from Leadbelt Art - a film that had slipped under the whole team’s radar for 23 years - the magnificently mental “Wild Zero”. A documentary detailing 2 days in the life of your average gun-toting, fire-belching, shuriken-plectrum-wielding, spirit-guiding jet rock ‘n’ roll band. In this film we learn the very worst way to rob a petrol stat...

Back by absolutely no demand it’s a Welcome To Everyone bonus episode for Halloween! In a world filled with divisions, it’s time to find common ground, and for a few generations, that’s quoting The Simpsons. The Not For Everyone Podcast’s Snobby Bobby and Crude Rude Dude team up with Welcome To Horror’s Chris, Lee and Adam to put together their ultimate list of The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror se...

It’s Punk Horror month, and punk’s not just a costume, it’s a way of life, maaaan! We kick off with Dan O’Bannon’s classic “The Return of the Living Dead”. A movie in which Linnea Quigley ruins the tracking on a million VHS tapes; Poltergeist’s Mr Teague still hasn’t learnt about effective corpse disposal; and the most sensible and practical character is almost certainly a Nazi war criminal in hid...

Here’s a cheeky little episode we’re sneaking into the schedule to discuss Jordan Peele’s “Nope”, which is very much a full recommendation from everyone at WTH! A strange tale that unfolds into a beautiful, terrifying whole (much like it’s main antagonist); where Keke Palmer gets to recreate an iconic anime moment; Brandon Perea gets sucked off to the tune of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” a...

Welcome To Horror Presents: “The Ghost of We Have Been Watching”. It’s that movie recap moment as we discuss what has been entering our brains via our eyes and ears from the glowing screens we can never, ever be free of. In this episode we discuss “Inside No.9” (again), Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters”, “Men”, “Scream Queens”, “Love, Death + Robots”, “Hocus Pocus 2” and “The Man Who Haunted Himself” (w...

It’s the second feature of our ‘Camp Horror’ double bill - “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark”. A family friendly, innuendo laced film which contains an OAP orgy; the voice of Boobarella (and hundreds more) and that guy from “Ghostbusters II”/“Wayne’s World” (delete as applicable). We learn that, in a different continuum, this could have been part of a famous director’s already macabre CV, with a very...

September features a double bill of “Camp Horror”, and we kick off with “All About Evil” directed by Joshua Grannell aka Peaches Christ. A film for movies lovers everywhere as talking on your phone in the cinema becomes a capital crime; Elvira embraces her maternal side; and Mink Stole learns the end of that rhyme about snitches. “All About Evil” always felt set to be a cult classic and deserves f...

Something a bit different for this, our 150th episode, as Lee, Chris and Adam pit their wits against each other in a game of “Goth - The Game of Horror Trivia”. A board game originally published by McNutty Games in 2002; this was a mainstay of Saturday nights for all the cool kids before podcasting came along (well, Lee, Adam and Lady Jennifer anyway). So, will Chris romp to victory with all the t...

Welcome To Horror Presents: “Son of We Have Been Watching”. It’s time for our regular round up of what extracurricular viewing we’ve been sticking into our face globes. In this episode we discuss “Prey”, Series 4 Part 2 of “Stranger Things”, “Wild Zero”, “Mad God”, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”, “The UFO Incident”, occult radio comedy “Damned Andrew”, “Ash Vs Evil Dead” and “The Umbrella Aca...