Cast Me To Hell: A Horror Movie Podcast

This week our festive season continues with a modern Christmas horror that references a classic Christmas movie - Its a Wonderful Knife.  We discuss the the festive thrills and kills of this time bending horror. We look at recent time bending or twisted concept horrors like Freaky, Happy Death Day and Time Cut to reflect on this new horror trend.  We discuss the comparisons to a Christmas Classic...

This week we return to our must see horror feature and with a Festive favourite that is Joe Dante's Gremlins or should that be Steven Spielberg Presents Joe Dante's Gremlins.  We discuss the highlights of the films, the original darker script and the changes that appear in the finished product and the story behind the infamous darkest Christmas story ever. We also debate on its status as a Must Se...

This week our festive season continues with a Bob Clark cult classic that inspired many of the greatest slasher horrors of all time including John Carpenters Halloween.  We discuss the ahead of its time plot and characters, the performances and those two remakes that followed but never truly remade the original.  We discuss the legacy of the film in cult classic status and how the final twist and...

This week we return to our Must See Horror feature with the Nazi Zombie Comedy Dead Snow.  We discuss the film as a Must See Top 100 horror film, alongside it's zombie set pieces, gory twists and nazi mythology. So join us for a journey with the Zombie Nazis of Norway as we decide is this modern zombie horror a Must See Horror. What are your thoughts on Dead Snow? Come and tell us your thoughts @c...

This week we return to our video nasties feature looking at the banned films of 70's and 80s Britain.  Our focus this time is the long banned and controversial divorce horror Possession from 1981.  We discuss this mind manipulating Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani starring psychological body horror including its interesting themes of divorce melded in with some of the most unusual characters we've me...

We are back with our Must See Horror top 100 list and our final part in our Stephen King on Film season. We end our season with a John Carpenter cult classic Christine (1983).  We discuss the film as a must see horror; the performances, car horror and John Carpenters direction. Is this prime John Carpenter or the begin of his decline following a hot streak of horror classics. Will be deem it Must...

This week we continue our Stephen King on Film season with a modern retelling of one of his most famous novels; Salems Lot. We will be discussing 2024's much delayed remake of this vampire horror. We go through the film and make comparisons to previous adaptations and discuss the original source material. We talk about Gary Dauberman's direction and the cuts he's revealed of the final film.  So gr...

Happy Halloween dear listeners and prepare yourselves for a fifth round of campy campfire fun with the Cast Me to Hell camp counsellors. As on this Halloween night we bring you a special short episode with 3 terrifying stories from around the campfire based on Legends, myths and folklore that may have inspired stories by Stephen King. So take a seat around the fire and prepare yourself for some se...

Halloween is upon us at Cast Me To Hell and in the build up to the big day we bring you our Halloween Recommendations list and this year its part of our Stephen King on Film spooky season.  The Cast Me to Hell boys have compiled 3 choices each of Stephen King films we think others should be watching, leaning more into the underrated or lesser known films of his enormous list of adaptations.  So as...

We are back and straight from the cinema with our spoiler review of Smile 2 (2024), on Friday we released our Spoiler Free Reactions and now its time to delve deep into those smiley spoilers. We give some spoiler filled thoughts on the film. We give our thoughts on the continuation from the original, the lead characters and deaths going into detail of the key scenes an twists of the film. Come and...

We are back and straight from the cinema with our spoiler free review of Smile 2 (2024).  We give some spoiler free thoughts on the film before people head out to cinema's this week. We give our thoughts on the continuation from the original, the lead characters and death without a single major reveal in sight. Our spoiler review will be released on Monday so make sure you come back to check it ou...

Spooky Season has begun as we reach Halloween month and Cast Me To Hell are beginning our season of Stephen King on Film - Beginning with a TV Film cult class in 1990's hit adaptation of IT starring Tim Curry.  This is also a contender in our long running Must See Horror feature as we discuss the film across it's two parts. This week we will be introducing the film's more divisive Part 2 coming ne...

Spooky Season has begun as we reach Halloween month and Cast Me To Hell are beginning our season of Stephen King on Film - Beginning with a TV Film cult class in 1990's hit adaptation of IT starring Tim Curry.  This is also a contender in our long running Must See Horror feature as we discuss the film across it's two parts. This week we will be introducing the film and discussing the more child fo...

This week we return on the eve of our spooky season beginning and bring you a round up of some of our favourite horror directors. We discuss a variety of directors filmographies and what we love about them and the stories they have given t the horror community.  We link in with some modern, underrated and all time masters of horror with links to our upcoming Stephen King Season.  Come and tell us...

This week we return to our Must See Horror feature with the Vincent Price classic House of Wax. We delve into the classic horror of this first in eye popping 3D cinema. We discuss the film as a Must See Top 100 horror film, alongside it's incredible set pieces, interesting twists and elements of the macabre in the words of Price himself.  So join us for a journey into the House of Wax seeing your...

This week we return to our Video Nasties feature with Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982). We delve into the video nasties of Italian horror dealing with themes of violence towards women, sexual humiliation, fetish, homosexuality and masculinity.  We discuss Tenebrae's book inspired murders and how the film was received around the world due to its controversial content and its place within Britain's V...

Its Friday The 13th and its a good time to return to our Must See Horror list. In Episode 7 of our podcast we reviewed the Original F13 (go check it our) so in in it's place we review the remake.  We discuss the film impact within the franchise, the divisive nature of the film approaches to Jason and whether or not the original does deserve its place on the top 100 Must See Horrors.  Come and tell...

This week we return to our Video Nasties feature and we have our first case of mistaken identity, a film that went through possible prosecution in Britain only for most within the film community to find it had been mistaken for a far more controversial film.  We discuss Tobe Hoppers The Funhouse (1981) in depth and talk about tis relation to other films by Tobe Hooper and films from the Video Nast...

This Week we reach the conclusion of our Summer Slasher Season as we hit the Twenty Twenties and bring ourselves up to date with a modern divisive slasher film - In A Violent Nature (2024).  We discuss the divisive and controversial aspects of the film including the POV of the killer style, the long shots of walking following the killers and that Yoga death that apparently had some viewers vomitin...

This week we are back and straight from the cinema with our chests ready to burst from Fede Alvarez's Alien Romulus.  For the first 20 minutes we are spoiler free, so come and listen before you see the film, then come back and listen as we delve deeper into spoilers. We talk about the homage Alvarez's pays to the franchise as a whole and whether some of these improve or damage the film.  So get in...

This week we close out a much beloved modern horror trilogy with Ti West's X Trilogy's conclusion MaXXXine (2024). We discuss the our own divisive expectations for this conclusion by linking back to the common themes within X and Pearl.  We look at the positives and negatives of this concluding chapter and how it relates to the previous films in the trilogy. We look at the homage of 80's films and...

This week we follow our slasher delve into the noughties now with a step into the twenty tens with Irish Horror Comedy Stiches (2012). We discuss this niche largely unknown clown horror Stiches starring northern comedian Ross Noble. A first time viewing for Seb and Robbie we look at its status as a slasher, as a dark comedy and how it's low budget makes it feel like soap Eastenders meets Killer cl...

Summer Slasher Season reaches the early noughties with 2003's Haute Tension (High Tension) or for those that prefer more on the nose titles Switchblade Romance.  We discuss this controversial French horror thriller that is often cited for it's divisive twist that many believe ruins a fantastic suspense filled modern slasher. The CMTH Boys come in to talk about the film and twist offering reasons f...

This week we come at you straight from the cinema with a transformed Nicholas Cage horror thriller Longlegs.  The first 15 minutes are spoiler free for those who still want to make up their minds on the film. Then we launch our longlegs into the big spoilers of the film. We discuss the film's cinematic equivalents, the key performances and the divisive nature of the film. Is this the scariest new...

We continue Summer Slasher Season with the most obvious choice for a Summer Slasher and a modern horror classic - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).  We discuss the impact of writer Kevin Williamson in 90's slashers, the sequels spawned and the more thriller aspect of this modern teen slasher. We also return to a point raised previously in Cast Me To Hell lore, Is Jennifer Love Hewitt a good...