Castle of Horror Podcast

Tonight we’re chatting with SK Dale, director of the new film SUBSERVIENCE. Dale teams up again with Megan Fox, who starred in Dale’s thriller TIL DEATH. Here, Fox plays an artificial person hired to help around the house while a man’s wife is sick in the hospital. And naturally that goes great. SUBSERVIENCE was directed by S.K. Dale (Till Death) and written by  Will Honley (Bloodline) and April M...

Tonight we’re chatting with Sarah Pinsker, author of the new book HAUNT SWEET HOME – a ghost story set in the world of reality TV and a young woman’s first real job. Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have...

This week we have a look at the 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum.  This is Episode #441! The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the story is abo...

Tonight we’re chatting with P. J. Tricia Hoover, whose new book is out under her other other name, Connor Hoover, and its title is Castle of Doom, a Pick Your Own Quest Book. P. J. (Tricia) Hoover wanted to be a Jedi, but when that didn't work out, she became an electrical engineer instead. After a fifteen year bout designing computer chips for a living, P. J. started creating worlds of her own. S...

This week we have a look at the 1959 horror film A Bucket of Blood.  This is Episode #440! A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in the West Coast beatnik culture of the late 1950s. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film, produced on a $50,000 budget, is about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian caf...

This week we have a look at the horror film The Little Shop of Horrors.  This is Episode #439! The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about a florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller, who had al...

This week we have a look at the horror film Frankenstein Unbound.  This is Episode #438! Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film based on Brian Aldiss' 1973 novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost fifteen y...

Tonight we’re chatting with internationally bestselling author S.B. Caves, whose new book HONEYCOMB comes out July 9 from Datura Books. Born and raised in North London, Caves is the internationally bestselling author of A Killer Came Knocking and I Know Where She Is, which The Sun described as 'sinister, unsettling and gripping'.Honeycomb has been described as Big Brother meets Black Mirror -- sus...

Tonight we’re chatting with Robert Kiviat, Director and Writer for the new documentary The Mandela Effect Phenomenon, which comes out on digital July 9. Something mind-blowing is happening, where half the people swear reality's been altered, like they're from another timeline. Millions claim movies are different, and TV show titles, celebrities' names, logos and brands, other cultural touchstones...

This week we have a look at the horror film The Undead.  This is Episode #437!The Undead is a 1957 horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Pamela Duncan , Allison Hayes , Richard Garland and Val Dufour. It also features Corman regulars Richard Devon, Dick Miller, Mel Welles and Bruno VeSota. The authors' original working title was The Trance of Diana Love. The film follows the story of a...

Tonight we’re chatting with Shane Dax Taylor, director of MURDER COMPANY which releases in select theaters, on digital and demand July 5, 2024. In the film, in the days leading up to the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spre...

This week we have a look at the horror film The Haunted Palace.  This is Episode #436!The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror film released by American International Pictures , starring Vincent Price , Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer . The film was directed by Roger Corman and is one of his series of eight films larg...

This week we have a look at the 1972 horror film Vampire Circus.  This is Episode #435 – and we have a very special guest joining us: John Logan! John has received the Tony award for his play Red and wrote the book for the Tony award-winning Moulin Rouge. As a screenwriter, he has been nominated for the Oscar three times and has received Golden Globe, BAFTA, WGA and Edgar awards. His film work inc...

Tonight we’re chatting with Directors Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda of the new  horror film MIND BODY SPIRIT which is out now on VOD.  In MIND BODY SPIRIT, Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, embarks on a ritualpractice left behind by her estranged grandmother. She documents the practice on her YouTubechannel for the world to watch, allowing her audience intimate access to her journey. But whatsta...

We're back! This week we have a look at the horror film Island of Terror.  This is Episode #434! Island of Terror directed by Terence Fisher, also known as Night of the Silicates, is a 1966 British horror film released by Planet Film Productions. The film was released in the United States by Universal Studios on a double bill with The Projected Man (1967). Island of Terror was filmed right after F...

Tonight we’re chatting with producer-director Princeton James and lead actress April Hale of the new film QUEEN RISING which comes out on VOD June 18. In the film, struggling school teacher Madison (Hale) strikes a lucrative book deal to help solve her financial troubles. As she dives into her dark past surrounding the "College Town Slayings," she realizes it may still be a part of her present aft...

Tonight we’re chatting with Carol LaHines, author of the new book The Vixen Amber Hollaway – a thrilling, feminist jailhouse confessional of women's rage and a revenge fantasy about a professor of Dante who descends into darkness after learning about her husband's affair. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support .

Tonight we’re chatting with Lori Brand, whose new book Bodies to Die For is out this month from Blackstone Publishing. she’s had articles published in STRONG Fitness Magazine, T-Nation, Inside Fitness Magazine, D’FYNE Fitness Magazine, and more. Bodies to Die For takes a hard look at social media, the $70 billion diet industry, and the war on women's bodies--the wars we wage with each other, and w...

Tonight we’re chatting with Victoria Helen Stone , author of the new book FOLLOW HER DOWN (June 4); Victoria Helen Stone is the nom de plume for USA Today bestselling author Victoria Dahl , author of over 25 novels. In the thriller FOLLOW HER DOWN, Elise is getting her life together finally, running a bungalow hotel she owns in California, when she’s pulled into a new mystery that might connect th...

Tonight we’re chatting with Nicholas Tomnay, Director/Writer for WHAT YOU WISH FOR, coming May 31 .  SYNOPSIS: Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incoming guests. After assuming his friend's identity to take over the lucrative gig, Ryan comes to realize he may have bitten off more than he ca...

Tonight we’re chatting with Elka Ray, author of A FRIEND INDEED, which is new out from Blackstone Publishing. Elka has spent two decades living as an expat in Vietnam, working as a journalist, researching, copy editor and communications consultant.  Early last year, she saw a meme going around social media of a drawing of two women yielding faux-antique dress wielding shovels and the caption read:...

Tonight we’re chatting with  James Cullen Bressack, director/Co-Writer of DARKNESS OF MAN, which releases On Digital May 21, 2024. The film starts Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kristanna Loken, Emerson Min, Spencer Breslin with Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones and Shannen Doherty. Directed By: James Cullen Bressack, Written By: Alethea Cho and James Cullen Bressack. DARKNESS OF MAN Russell Hatch (Jean Claude V...

Tonight we’re chatting with Chandler Morrison, author of American Narcissus, which launches this month from Dead Sky Publishing. The book’s slogan is The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. The book follows a slew of generally well-to-do folks in Los Angeles. Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid jun...

Tonight we’re chatting with New York Times bestselling author   J.D. Barker, author of the new thriller Behind a Closed Door . The book has been described as a cross of David Fincher’s The Game and Fifty Shades.  Book Summary: Sugar & Spice is the latest app craze taking the world by storm, but for Abby and Brendan Hollander, downloading it leads to a dangerous game of life and death. When the...

Tonight we’re chatting with Nick Roth, writer and co-director of the bloody horror comedy Hanky Panky, which just came out on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Google Play, and which Kristy Puchko of Mashable recently called a "gleefully absurd avalanche of silliness," and which a random person on Letterboxd described as "an extremely dumb movie that I enjoyed immensely." We also talk about the WGA stri...