Castle of Horror Podcast

Tonight we’re chatting with New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey, whose Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in production as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include The Grand Dark, The Everything Box, King Bullet, and Butcher Bird. In comics, he’s written for Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. On...

We check in with Tony Salvaggio of the Castle of Horror Podcast on films he's caught at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Discussed: Toxic Avenger (2023) Sleep Enter the Clones of Bruce The Found Footage Festival Falling Stars When Evil Lurks The Last Video Store Check back with us for more reports through this week! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-pod...

Tonight we’re talking to Phil Foglio, co-creator of Girl Genius ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Genius ) which is a comic series which has won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story three times, has been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist and twice for Eisner Awards, and won multiple WCCA awards. Girl Genius has the tagline of "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science!". It follows...

This week we have a look at the 2023 film COBWEB. This is Episode #412! Cobweb is a 2023 American horror thriller film directed by Samuel Bodin in his directorial debut. Its screenplay, written by Chris Thomas Devlin, was included in the 2018 The Black List. The film stars Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, and Antony Stark. Cobweb had a limited theatrical release in the United States...

This week we have a look at the 2006 film WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. This is Episode #411! When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Simon West and written by Jake Wade Wall. The film stars Camilla Belle, Brian Geraghty, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson and Clark Gregg. Belle plays a babysitter who starts to receive threatening phone calls from an unidentifie...

This week we have a look at the 1993 film WHEN A STRANGER CALLS BACK. This is Episode #410! When a Stranger Calls Back is a 1993 American made-for-television psychological horror film and a sequel to the 1979 classic When a Stranger Calls which reunites stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning (reprising their roles as Jill Johnson and John Clifford, respectively) with director Fred Walton from the or...

Tonight we’re chatting with Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan, authors of The Handyman Method, new from Saga Press. In the book, a stay-at-home father– whether he wants to be or not– becomes obsessed with repairing what he perceives are problems with his new house, but there are supernatural forces out to destroy his sanity and his family. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker....

Tonight we’re chatting with Deke Moulton, author of the new middle-grade horror adventure Don't Want to Be Your Monster. Moulton is a writer currently living in the US Pacific Northwest. They are a former US Army drill sergeant and trained as an Arabic linguist during their time in service. Don't Want to Be Your Monster is their debut book. About the Book: A Junior Library Guild Selection Two vamp...

Tonight we’re chatting with Maximilian Erlenwein, director and co-writer of the new film The Dive, in theaters August 25. SYNOPSIS: A deep-sea diving trip at one of the world's most remote spots becomes a fight for survival for sisters Drew and May when a catastrophic landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea. After being struck by the rockfall, May now lies 28 meters below the surface, trapped...

In this supplemental episode of Castle of Horror, reviewer Tony Salvaggio discusses the new Blu-Ray releases from Adult Swim, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar and The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support .

This week we have a look at the 1979 film WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. This is Episode #409! When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Fred Walton, co-written by Steve Feke, and starring Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst and Tony Beckley. Its plot follows Jill Johnson, a young woman terrorized by a psychopathic killer while babysitting, the...

Tonight we’re chatting with André Øvredal, the director of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which premieres In Theaters August 11th. Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. Stran...

Tonight we’re chatting with James Byrne, author of the new book DEADLOCK from Minotaur Books. The book is a sequel to the highly acclaimed The Gatekeeper, featuring the main character Dez Limerick, a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a w...

Tonight we’re chatting with Tom DeNucci, director of The Collective. In THE COLLECTIVE a young recruit to a mysterious agency of assassins finds himself going rogue on his first assignment, tracking down a dangerous group of human traffickers. The Collective will be available in Theaters, On Demand and Digital on August 4, 2023. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/...

Tonight we’re chatting with Nathan Faudree, whose new film is SITE 13, a new film with a curious history. The Lovecraftian horror film is a found footage film in the vein of The Blair Witch Project and shows footage taken over 17 years that fuses together a story that's set over the course of those years. The film comes out ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL JULY 28, 2023. Become a supporter of this podcast: h...

Tonight we’re chatting with David Ryan Keith, director of I AM RAGE, a brand new revenge thriller that expands on his love of classic 80s and 90s action movies. The film will release on Digital and DVD August 1, 2023. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support .

Tonight we’re chatting with Mary Gallagher, director of the new film Holistay, new from Breaking Glass Pictures on VOD/Digital. Holistay, which lensed in Vegas, follows two couples - Finn and Branna from Ireland and Tony and Gia from New York. They do not know each other until they double book a vacation house in San Diego. Unable to reach the owners, the couples decide to all stay at the house si...

Jason chats with director Jim Towns, whose new film END TIMES debuts this month from The Asylum. Towns also wrote the film, and some may know him as the host of the classic-horror-focused Borgo Pass Podcast. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support .

Recorded live, a chat with the authors of the brand-new Castle of Horror Anthology: Thinly Veiled: Saturday Mournings, which you can order here: https://amzn.to/3CMZspY The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of Saturday morning pop culture, from the Smurfs to Soul Train-- but every one of these brands is "thinly v...

This week we have a look at the 1960 film Peeping Tom. This is Episode #408! Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror - thriller film directed by Michael Powell , written by Leo Marks , and starring Carl Boehm , Anna Massey , and Moira Shearer . The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putti...

Tonight we’re chatting with Javier Castillo, whose thrillers The Snow Girl and The Soul Game have recently been released in English for the first time both from Penguin Random House. THE SNOW GIRL was the most read novel during the 2020 lockdown in Spain, and in 2023 it was released as a miniseries on Netflix , achieving great success. THE SOUL GAME (2021) marked his global consolidation as one of...

Tonight we’re chatting with Tilly Bridges , a trans woman and master of comics, screenplays, teleplays and audio dramas. On June 27th, she releases BEGIN TRANSMISSION - THE TRANS ALLEGORIES OF THE MATRIX , which is the ultimate handbook for the Matrix franchise with deep dives into The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections, tracking one per...

This week we have a look at the 2023 film Scream VI. This is Episode #407! Scream VI is a 2023 American slasher film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett , and written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick . It is the sequel to Scream (2022) and the sixth installment in the Scream film series . The plot follows a new Ghostface killer, who begins targeting the survivors of the "Woodsbor...

Hello and welcome to Castle Talk where we talk to writers and creators of today’s genre worlds, I’m your host Jason Henderson, publisher at Castle Bridge Media, home of the Castle of Horror Anthology series. Tonight we’re chatting with Danielle Trussoni, best-selling author of Angelology and often-horror columnist for the New York Times. Her new book is the supernatural thriller, THE PUZZLE MASTER...

Tonight we’re chatting with LR Jones, the author of the new book You Look Beautiful Tonight– she’s also known as New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones, whose dark, edgy fiction includes the highly acclaimed novels The Poet, A Perfect Lie, and the Lilah Love series. Prior to publishing, Lisa owned a multistate staffing agency recognized by the Austin Business Journal. Lis...