Horror Hangout

THEY'RE COMING! 30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film was directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a 30-day-long polar night. 00:00 Intro 08:38 Horror News 19:05 What We've Been Watching 39:58 Film Review 2:12:20 Name Game 2:17:...

Here’s the Horror Hangout wrap of favourites and disappointments for the year that was... 2022. 00:00 Intro 04:50 Horror News 14:10 What We've Been Watching 18:15 Top 10 of 2022 1:32:14 Honourable Mentions 1:47:33 Disappointments 2:02:20 New Discoveries 2:05:10 TV & Games 2:07:46 Looking Forward to 2023 2:12:47 Outro Podcast - https://podlink.to/horrorhangout​​​ Patreon - https://www.patreon.c...

The last day of the year... or the last day of your life? Bloody New Year (also known as Time Warp Terror and Horror Hotel) is a 1987 British supernatural horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Colin Heywood, Mark Powley, Catherine Roman and Julian Ronnie. A group of friends take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is,...

You've made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas! Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, and Leo Geter. The story concerns a young man named Billy, who suffers from post-traumatic stress over witnessing his parents' murd...

The ultimate in terror! Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American miniseries television adaptation of the 1975 horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into...

Pray for daylight. Near Dark is a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein. A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter. 00:00 Intro 11:37 Horror News 19:59 What...

'Our love can destroy this whole f*cking world!' *TRIGGER WARNING - R*pe, sexual assault, gender/body dysmorphia.* Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo) (literally Iron Man in Japanese), is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk body horror film written, produced, edited, and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. The film established...

To avoid fainting, keep repeating... 'It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie.' The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, directed and edited by Wes Craven in his directorial debut. The film follows Mari Collingwood (Sandra Peabody), a hippie teenager who is abducted, raped, and tortured by a fugitive family on her seventeenth birthday. When they unwitti...

Andy Conduit-Turner is joined by Andy Edwards, the writer/director of Ibiza Undead, Graphic Designs, The Vampires of Soho, Punch and one section of Midnight Peepshow, which had its world premiere at FrightFest 2022. A Madame owns a Soho Peep Show with a difference - the sights on offer are tailor made to its customers’ deepest sinful fears. Tonight it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connec...

IT'S CRAAAZY! Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film written, directed and produced by the Chiodo Brothers, and starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It is the only movie written and directed by the Chiodo Brothers, who also created the practical effects and makeup. It concerns a clan of evil extraterrestrials who re...

Looks can kill. The Rage: Carrie 2 is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Katt Shea, and starring Emily Bergl, Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron and Amy Irving. The film is a sequel to the 1976 horror film Carrie based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and serves as the second film in the Carrie franchise. The younger half-sister of Carrie White, also s...

Here comes Elvira... there goes the neighbourhood! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by James Signorelli. It stars Cassandra Peterson as eccentric horror hostess Elvira, a character previously established in the television program Elvira's Movie Macabre. Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battle...

Banned for a decade. One of the most controversial TV programmes of a generation. Ghostwatch is a British reality–horror/pseudo-documentary television film, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Despite having been r...

SHAPE VS STRODE. Halloween Ends is a 2022 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. It is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that commenced with the 2018 film, which directly follows the 1978 film and disregards a...

Ben Errington is joined by Aliens - Vasquez author V. Castro to discuss the book which explores canonical background of the breakout Aliens hero Jenette Vasquez, as well as the story of the children she was forced to leave behind – which releases on October 25th. V. Castro is a Mexican American writer from San Antonio, Texas now residing in the UK. As a full-time mother she dedicates her time to h...

What is it you pray for? Hellraiser is a 2022 American supernatural horror film directed by David Bruckner, with a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, from a screen story they co-wrote with David S. Goyer. Despite sharing the title of Clive Barker's original 1987 film Hellraiser, the film features a new story and is not a direct remake or a new adaptation of his 1986 novella The Hellbou...

Ben Errington is joined by Tessa Williams and Anthony Nield, 2 members of the festival programming team of the Fordbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream, which is a three-day horror-themed film festival at the former Bristol IMAX with a selection of cult and classic horrors. The festival will be held from Friday 28 October to Sunday 30 October. The programme will feature a 35th anniversary s...

Once you see it, it's too late. Smile is a 2022 American psychological horror film written and directed by Parker Finn (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept. The film stars Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan. After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts expe...

THE BIG FAT HORROR MOVIE QUIZ returns for another special with question master Andy Conduit-Turner adjudicating proceedings. This time it's regular hosts Ben Errington and Luke Kondor taking on Liam Banks and Liam James of the They're Queer Podcast. Can the Horror Hangout boys continue their winning run? 00:00 Intro 05:41 Horror News 15:50 What We've Been Watching 36:59 QUIZ 2:35:04 Outro Podcast...

'The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is... they're dead.' Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker in his feature directorial debut, starring Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, and Tom Atkins. The film is an earnest attempt at a B movie and an homage to the genre. The story follows two college friends who unwittingly rele...

It started in May, in a small town. And every month after that, whenever the moon was full... It came back. Silver Bullet is a 1985 American horror thriller film based on the 1983 Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. It stars Corey Haim, Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Terry O'Quinn, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart, and James Gammon. The film is dir...

It's happening. Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer. Its story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson. It also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin. A widowed former reverend living with his children and brot...

FrightFest, the UK's largest and brightest international thriller, fantasy and horror film festival, took place in London this past weekend. Listen as Ben, Andy and Lucy cover a huge slice (25 films in fact) of the dark arts, embracing the latest genre discoveries from around the globe, which includes World, International and UK premieres. FrightFest - https://www.frightfest.co.uk/ 00:00 Intro 08:...

Ben Errington is joined by Carlota Pereda, the director of Piggy, a Spanish-language coming of age horror thriller, which has its UK premiere at FrightFest on Monday 29th August! Carlota Pereda is a film and TV director from Madrid. Pereda started her career in television and was nominated for the Television Academy’s Iris Award for “Águila Roja” (“Red Eagle”). Her short films “Las Rubias” (“The B...

Andy-Conduit Turner is joined by John Ainslie, the director of Do Not Disturb, an all-consuming narcotic nightmare, which has its international premiere at FrightFest on Sunday 28th August! John is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist for his feature screenplay SHE CAME KNOCKING. In 2021 he wrote and directed on two anthology series for Executive Producer Eli Roth as well as writing and dir...