Black & White Fright

Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 William Castle film Strait-Jacket as Lucy, who has been released from a 20-year stint in the loony bin for chopping up her husband and his mistress with an ax. Back out in the real world, her sanity is tested constantly. What could possibly go wrong? Featuring an unkempt George Kennedy painting a car by hand! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &a...

The 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is this week’s topic. Respected Jekyll takes an experimental potion that transforms him into the brutish, violent Hyde. Mayhem ensues with some very uncomfortable scenes and pre-code shenanigans. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

1932’s Island of Lost Souls is this week’s topic as chosen by Kevin. On an uncharted island, Dr. Moreau cracks his whip at his inhuman creations made in his house of pain while attempting to have the Panther Woman seduce an unwelcome guest. A very hairy Bela Lugosi recites the law. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

We discuss the 1946 flick Devil Bat’s Daughter this time. What this movie lacked in scares, it made up for in terrible acting and a lack of cohesive plot. Take this blurb as a warning regarding our feelings about this movie. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

1940’s the Devil Bat is discussed this week. Bela Lugosi stars as a vengeful doctor who creates a shave lotion that causes his giant bat to kill those who apply it to the soft area of their necks. Featuring the least terrifying animal scream ever committed to film. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

1958’s I Bury the Living is this week’s topic. Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots’ owners. WHOOPS! Sponsored by the illuminated terror that is FrightLights .

The Creeper is on the loose committing all kinds of murders! Rondo Hatton’s character wants revenge on those he blames for his handsomeness going away in 1946’s the Brute Man. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

Ben Scrivens from Fright-Rags joins us on our 50th episode to talk about the Universal Horror classic the Wolf Man! When his brother dies, Larry Talbot returns to Wales and reconciles with his father. While there, he visits an antique shop and, hoping to impress Gwen, the attractive shopkeeper, buys a silver walking cane. That same night he kills a wolf with it, only to later learn that he actuall...

1935’s the Raven is discussed this time. A spurned surgeon seeks revenge using Edgar Allan Poe’s devices of torture and a hideous man. Our second Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi film get covered as we talk about secret torture dungeons, droopy eyes, weird horse-related party games, and the very fancy elevator bedroom! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Mag...

1939’s the Return of Dr. X (unrelated to the previously released, color Dr. X) is our movie this week. We chat about Humphrey Bogart’s only sci-fi/horror film where he creeps about as the titular character, white-streaked hair and all. The plot? Someone is murdering people and stealing their blood and the duo of a doctor and a goofball reporter try to solve the crimes. This episode is sponsored by...

The Great Vorelli plots to gain an heiress’ millions by way of hypnotism and ventriloquism, and Hugo the Dummy is sure to give you the creeps whenever he appears on screen! Gratuitous nudity (by 1960’s standards), bullshit facial hair, and the best eyebrows we’ve witnessed over the course of making this podcast all appear in this 1964 English horror film. This episode is sponsored by  Fright...

The original Godzilla gets covered this week with guest Marz. The giant rubber monster destroys Tokyo with atomic breath while eating trains and shaking off military offensives like swatting flies away. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

1941’s Horror Island get discussed this week. Not at all a horror movie, and barely a comedy/mystery as advertised, we make the best of it and ponder such topics as the ineffective phantom, the lack of concern over murders occurring on an isolated island with no escape, and why there is an actor in this movie named Fuzzy Knight playing a character named Stuff. This episode is sponsored by  Fr...

A Satanic cult in Whitewood, Massachusetts celebrates Candlemas Eve and the Witch’s Sabbath with some sacrifices on the Hour of Thirteen in 1960’s the City of the Dead aka the foggiest movie of 1960 featuring inappropriate jazz background music and a young Christopher Lee. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

1964’s the Last Man on Earth is our topic this week. The survivor of a global epidemic, played by Vincent Price, battles a race of zombie vampires. MORGAN! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights  &  Gravely Unusual Magazine .

Mark Enright aka Mortar Heads joins us this week to discuss Revenge of the Creature. In the sequel to the Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Creature is caught and brought from its home to a Florida aquarium for research and display. It eventually escapes and wreaks havoc in the surrounding area, tipping over cars and murdering dogs before kidnapping a lady, again. This episode is sponsored by&nb...

Angel from That Strange Show joins us this week to discuss Abbott & Costello experiencing comedic hi-jinx with Frankenstein, Dracula. and the Wolf Man! CHIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!!!!! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights & Gravely Unusual Magazine .

We return to the big bug genre with Tarantula! We got scared horses, big puddles of white stuff, British Moe Howard, thrown monkeys, highly questionable scientific techniques, and much more to talk about. Join us on this journey of a gigantic 8-legged beast terrorizing a small desert town! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Spooky night lights!

1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? gets a run through this week. Two aging former show business star sisters live together, one crippled from an accident which ended her massively successful career, the other a delusional alcoholic former child star that takes care of her. Jealousy, deceit, and dead birds and rats served as meals await in this darkly comedic thriller! This episode is sponsore...

Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory. The title says it all, but that doesn’t help explain anything that happens in this movie. Bad overdubbing, bad acting, bad editing, and a fake-ass Peter Lorre are just some of the things we will discuss in this week’s episode. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Get some spooky lights today!

We talk about Repulsion this week. Manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness. This episode is sponsored...

Ben from Fright Rags joins us this week to talk about James Whales’ 1932 horror/comedy type movie the Old Dark House. Five strangers end up at the titular house one night during a bad storm and experience an eccentric family and their servant Morgan, who gets violent when drunk. Look out for scuffles, a pyromaniac, and a motherfather scene! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Get so...

We chat about the early Hammer horror film, Nightmare, this week! Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue. Get ready for Una O’Connor levels of screaming! This episode...

We talk about 1944’s the Uninvited this week. This is one of the first films to portray ghosts as legitimate entities as Rick Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela buy an abandoned 18th-century house from the stuffy, rude Commander Beech. Despite Beech’s granddaughter’s objections, they move in move in and soon find themselves experiencing a supernatural presence and employ the help of Batman’s Alfred...

She’s alive! Alive! The monster gets a mate in James Whale’s visually stunning follow-up to Frankenstein. Listen as we gush over certain aspects of this film (special effects, atmosphere, Karloff’s development of the Monster character) and whine about others (lack of Bride screen time, recastings, Una O’Connor screaming all the time). Despite Scott’s insistence, Gene Hackman is NOT the blind hermi...