Baz To The Bone

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop.   Episode 05: Night of the Living Dead and the Hero Nobody Expected.   Fall 1982. University of South Carolina. Halloween night. A free film in the Russell House Student Union. A bag of popcorn. And a Black man boarding up a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, calmly and unapologetically taking charge — changing, quietly and permanently, something in a white ki...

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop.   Episode 04: He Made Me Gay — The Horror Icons Who Did Something To Us. The argument: classic horror was one of the few places in mid-twentieth century culture that was accidentally, systematically, and sometimes deliberately doing something queer. Not inclusive — queer. There’s a difference.   Vincent Price. Christopher Lee. Paul Naschy. The Hays Cod...

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 03: Bride of Frankenstein — James Whale's Perfect Film. Baz makes the argument: Dr. Pretorius is the real Bride of Frankenstein. The film's outsiders are its moral centre. The Bride is the only Universal monster who never harmed a soul. A close reading of the 1935 Universal horror film as a queer text. James Whale. Ernest Thesiger's grave in Br...

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 02: Attack of the Mole People. The origin story — starting from the other end. A decade inside one of America's premier haunted attractions, a chainsaw clown at Universal Studios, and a union card earned by chasing people in the dark. How a five-year-old who was afraid of the ground became, eventually, the thing under it. Timestamps: [00:00] Co...

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 01: Baz To The Bone — An Introduction. The argument Baz has been building for years: queer people and horror have always understood each other. The monster is always the outsider — and some of us recognised that earlier than others. Growing up in the American South as a Monster Kid. Becoming a scareactor. Playing a chainsaw clown at Universal S...

Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Coming May 5, 2026.