Black & White Fright

JR from Slashenings Podcast joins us to discuss his pick of Plan 9 From Outer Space, featuring Bela Lugosi’s last on-screen appearance. Director Ed Wood’s favorite gets a run-through highlighting such things as the terrible acting, the terrible sets, and the terrible story. But we all enjoyed this terribleness because we knew it was made with love and gusto! This episode is sponsored by  Frig...

The GoreFriends (Story & Mars) join us this week for another dose of the potent Vincent Price/William Castle combo in the Tingler! What is the Tingler? Could it be some type of rubber worm creature made of pent up fear that grows inside your back? Could there be very illegal things carried out very casually? Could there be a portion of this film that contains color, going against the whole poi...

1934’s the Black Cat gets a run through this week. It is the first film to feature both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, as well as the first film to tackle PTSD, and the first to feature a Satanic cult! Not at all based on the Edgar Allan Poe story as the movie suggests beyond black cats being involved, a newlywed couple gets mixed up in a man’s revenge plot against an old war foe who has a very fa...

This week’s episode centers on the kinda/sorta horror/noir the Seventh Victim with a story involving a woman trying to find her missing sister in the big city. Featuring what Kevin describes as a Moe-with-a-mullet hairstyle, passive Satanists that encourage suicide, and a pre-Leave It To Beaver Ward Cleaver! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Find them on Etsy and Instagram under F...

The 1966 Roger Corman-produced Blood Bath gets discussed this week with equal parts confusion and disdain. Culled together from a previously produced Yugoslavian spy movie and additional scenes from a different director, Blood Bath attempts to tell the story of a painter possessed by the spirit of an ancestral vampire artist that never shows ANY vampiric traits. Even the fangs are not on the corre...

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic, Pyscho, gets a run through this time. $40,000 in stolen cash, shower murder, private eyes with great balance while falling backward down some stairs after being slashed in the face, and more await. Cue Bernard Herrmann’s stabbing strings! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Find them on Etsy and Instagram under FrightLights138. They have multiple Psy...

It is our first anniversary! We decided to discuss one of our collective favorite black and white horror movies with James Whale’s 1931 classic, Frankenstein. The amazing Boris Karloff stars as the misunderstood, dangerous monster created at the hands of Henry Frankenstein and his hunchback assistant, Fritz. Reanimating a collection of corpse parts with the brain of a criminal? What could go wrong...

Special guest Edwin from Gravely Unusual Magazine joins us to talk about 1943’s I Walked with a Zombie, our third Jacques Tourneur helmed film covered on this podcast. Voodoo rituals, creepy guitarists, shirtless men with bulging eyeballs, questionable mustaches, and more are discussed! This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Find them on Etsy and Instagram under FrightLights138. Suppor...

The only movie directed by Charles Laughton, the Night of the Hunter sees Robert Mitchum at his most devious. Spousal abuse, child abuse, drunken fishing, and murder abound in this classic thriller/noir/horror, or…..noirorriller? This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Find them on Etsy and Instagram under FrightLights138. Support small businesses!

Considered by some to be the first true horror film, the silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari gets a discussion this week. Listen as we delve into the events of a murderous somnambulist in a German Expressionist wonderland. This episode is sponsored by  Fright Lights . Find them on Etsy and Instagram under FrightLights138.

22 episodes in and we finally get to Vincent Price. The 1959 campy horror “The House On Haunted Hill” gets a viewing this week, with special guest Story from the podcast Gorefriends . William Castle, king of gimmicky films, directed this one which was filmed in “Emergo”. Basically, a skeleton was attached to a wire that flew over the audience. Genius! This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . F...

An early anthology film, the Ealing Studios movie Dead of Night (1945) gets a watching this week. While most of the entries in this movie are strong, “The Ventriloquists Dummy” is quite the unsettling chapter. The H.G. Wells story “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” is adapted here and is pretty much the comic relief which isn’t something you’d usually think about anything he wrote. This episod...

This week we watch and talk about the 1957 British film “Night of the Demon” (known in the US as “Curse of the Demon”). Our second look at a Jacques Tourneur movie (the first being “Cat People”), will this be a two for two positive review? This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Get your own lithophane nightlife of a favorite horror movie. Find them on Etsy and Instagram under frightlights138...

Join us this week as we discuss the 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel “The Haunting of Hill House”. This is considered a horror classic by many, does it hold up? Is it better than the updated Netflix series? Tune in! This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Get a lithophane night light of your favorite horror movie. Find them on Etsy or Instagram under FrightLights138.

We tackle the genre classic “Night of the Living Dead”. First in a long string of “Dead” movies, does this one still hold up? Hint: it does. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Treat yourself to a lithophane nightlight from your favorite horror movie!

Joined by Ben from Fright Rags , The 1961 psychological horror classic “The Innocents” gets a look this week. Recorded just in time for another remake of the 1898 novel “ The Turn of the Screw ” hitting the big screen, this time called “The Turning”. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights (treat yourself to a lithophane nightlight of your favorite horror movie!) and Fright Rags (what should be...

Beware the creepiest kids around, the blonde-haired weirdos that live in the Village of the Damned. This 1960 sci-fi classic still holds up, as you’ll hear if you tune in this week. Also, Bill sounds sort of like Max Headroom due to technical glitches, so that’s fun. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Lithophane night lights of your favorite Monsters!

The 1942 genre classic Cat People gets a dissection this week. Is Irena Dubrovna cursed to become a cat lady? Listen and find out. Maybe. The usage of shadows in the film are a standout. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Buy your own horror-themed nightlight from a swell fella.

Recorded live (well, at the time) from Super Megafest and joined by contest winner Jesse, we discuss the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. Is this unauthorized take on Dracula better than the actual Dracula film? Probably! This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Buy the horror fiend in your life a nightlight for the holidays. Or, buy one (or two!) for yourself, they’re pret...

The 1932 pre-code horror Murders in the Rue Morgue gets a walkthrough this week. There’s not a lot in common with the Poe story, and even though it’s pre-code, 19 minutes were cut for violence so we’ll never know what could have been. I am a fan of gorilla suits so at least that was kept. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Get a nightlight of your favorite monster!

This week we delve into the 1935 adaptation of The Hands of Orlac, starring Peter Lorre and Frances Drake. Reportedly a visual influence on Citizen Kane, this film features a great performance by Lorre as an obsessed doctor. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights .

The 1954 Universal horror film Creature From the Black Lagoon gets a viewing this week. Gaze in wonder as the Gill-Man kidnaps the woman of his dreams! Sponsored by Fright Lights . Looking for a cool nightlight? Look no further!

This 1958 Sci-Fi/Horror has a great poster and quite a catchy title. Past that… Not a movie we overly enjoyed. Listen as we suffer through the whole shebang. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights . Go buy yourself a cool, horror-themed nightlight!

This week we cover the 1936 Boris Karloff film “The Walking Dead”. While classified as horror, this is a crime film and not about the zombies you may have been thinking of.

The “giant bug” movie genre gets a look this week with 1954’s ant invasion film “Them!”. Starring Santa Claus himself, Edmund Gwenn!