Half Price Horror

ALL ABOARD! Time to take a little trip with those icons of Hammer horror, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, in a Spanish production that mimics Hammer's Victorian aesthetic and adds a lot of production value with repurposed sets, reused models, and the great Telly Savalas to turn John Campbell's classic short story "Who Goes There?" into a thriller set on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Has it been twenty years already? Oh wow. Luckily, Laurie Strode's been busy during that time, establishing a new life and a new identity on the West Coast. But Michael's been busy too... and as we'll discuss, he's ready to finish up old business with his little sister once and for all!

What happens when the Atomic Age optimism of the 50s becomes the worn-out, polluted wasteland of the puritanical Reagan era? You get the debut feature of cult director Jackie Kong, that's what! Join us for a discussion of 80s politics, 'Alien' homages, and of all people Ruth Buzzi appearing in a horror movie as we discuss 1983's THE BEING!

Sometimes when you're in a hole, the only thing you can do is dig deeper. And 'Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers' certainly decided to dig in deeper, on the Man in Black and the mysterious runic tattoo and the whole weird mess of a mythos that 'Halloween 5' saddled us with. So join us as we dig as well, into this troubled production and everything that made it the wonderful mess it became!

It's my 75th episode, and what better way to celebrate than with John Carpenter's masterpiece of taut, paranoid body horror! Join us for a discussion of what is widely considered to be one of the very best horror movies ever made, and everything that made it the brilliant piece of cinema it is.

It's been a year since Michael's last blood-soaked rampage through the streets of Haddonfield, and you won't believe what he's been up to in that time! No, literally, you will have a very hard time believing it, and that's not the only problem with the troubled fifth installment in the Halloween series. Join us for a discussion of the very big swerves this movie takes as we cover Dominique Othenin...

Sometimes "horror" can be a loose term, and perhaps this particular feature would be better suited to a podcast called 'Half Price Quirky Indie Sci-Fi Horror Comedy Relationship Drama Party Movies With Just a Tiny Amount of Found-Family Trauma Bonding Thrown In'. But until that podcast comes along, it's our job to discuss the quirky indie sci-fi horror comedy... well, you get the idea. Join us!

It's only been a couple weeks for us, but Michael Myers has spent a decade away from Haddonfield. And when he returns, it's a whole new series as we move into the Thorn trilogy! So let's put on a dodgy-looking mask, hunt some children, and enjoy HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS!

Remember how awesome the 90s were? Remember hacky sack, and flip phones, and lava lamps making a weird comeback? Remember how great it was to be there when survival horror was born as a video game genre? Well, if you like taking a trip down memory lane, let's talk about 2021's 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City', and its attempt to evoke the spirit of the 90s in a very modern way!

It's time to go full-out weird with the red-headed stepchild of the Halloween franchise, HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH! Will there be commentary on Dan Challis sleeping with a woman half his age? Will we discuss the obvious lampshading of the Stonehenge Heist? All that and more, folks, on the night where NO ONE comes home!

Some movies can be seen, some movies can be described, but some movies simply have to be experienced. Join Half Price Horror in an effort to understand that strangest of movies, that cultiest of cult classics, that bizarro masterpiece of outsider art... 1989's direct-to-video effort, 'Things'!

Spooky Season may be over, but Michael Myers is a lot harder to stop! He's still hunting Laurie Strode as we pick up on the night he came home, and discuss what goes wrong and what goes very, very right with the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's immortal classic.

It's Halloween weekend, and you know what that means--time to spend a little while breaking down a classic episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from 1983! This time out she's showing 1973's "The Devil's Wedding Night", and man. If you love Italian grindhouse cinema, you are in for a blood bathing, twin confusing, vampire fighting, lesbian sex-filled treat! We get into every detail, including the film...

It wouldn't be Spooky Season if we didn't cover something legendary, and it doesn't get more legendary than John Carpenter's immortal classic from 1978, 'Halloween'! Listen and learn the location of the three real pumpkins, the identity of the announcer on Tommy Doyle's TV set, and just what makes the ending of the iconic slasher flick so scary!

It's been a while since we've been to Woodsboro, and even longer since Sidney Prescott has visited her old hometown. But there's a new Ghostface and a new round of murders, and that means it's time for her--and us--to answer that old question one more time. "What's your favorite scary movie?" And what do we think of legacy sequels, mental health depictions in horror, and the first sequel without W...

HPH goes full Hammer horror for Spooky Season, with the role that made Christopher Lee a horror icon--Dracula, lord of the undead! We discuss the changes made to this chopped and channeled adaptation, the fantastic performance of Peter Cushing, and everything else that made this 1958 film a classic of the genre.

Half Price Horror jumps into the Halloween season with a 1951 classic of science-fiction horror that John Carpenter loved so much he almost refused to remake it, 'The Thing From Another World'! Join us for a discussion of Cold War politics and atomic horror as we take on one of the greats of the genre that inspired another one of the greats of the genre.

It's time to bid farewell to the Phantasm franchise, and we end as we begin with a microbudgeted surrealist horror film created by a group of close friends that defies logic and refuses easy answers as it meditates on death, grief, and what lies beyond the world we know. So let's get into the 'Cuda one final time and go out guns blazing as we take on the Tall Man once more in 'Phantasm: Ravager'!

HPH dives into Taika Waititi's mournful, elegiac meditation on aging and loss as seen through the eyes of a group of immortal vampires unable to die even as they see their loved ones and the world they knew pass away. It's full of bleak dread and endless sorrow... oh yeah, and also werewolves not swearwolves, a look they call 'Dead But Delicious', and plenty of arguments over who should do the dis...

The budgets keep getting smaller, but Don Coscarelli keeps throwing bigger and wilder and weirder ideas at the screen with every installment of the PHANTASM franchise! This time, we look at the fourth installment, PHANTASM: OBLIVION, and talk about Roger Avary's involvement, the brilliant use of archival footage, and lots lots more!

What better way to celebrate a birthday than with an obscure birthday-themed slasher flick from the 80s? That's right, your host is another year older, but giallo-inspired movies about a killer at a prep school will never go out of style. Come for the red herrings and quirky characters, stay for the absoludicrous twist ending that was a clear inspiration to Kevin Williamson's 'Scream'!

Half Price Horror enters the later, weirder era of the Phantasm franchise with its first direct-to-video entry, Phantasm III! Do we get more silver spheres? Do we get a return from A. Michael Baldwin as Mike? Do we get a completely unmotivated Home Alone reference? Yes to all that and more! Come see what's going on with the Tall Man as we dig into every bit of it!

Half Price Horror takes a bold stance in this episode, suggesting that the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic might be... good? Really good? Unfairly maligned, full of sympathetic characters and tight, tense action set pieces good? Mary Elizabeth Winstead with a goddamn flamethrower good? Give the CGI a break, it lets the monster do things it could never have done in the original good?...

For Mike and Reggie, it's been almost ten years since they last confronted the Tall Man and his silver spheres. And for us, it's time to look at the bigger, bolder, studio sequel to the original Phantasm and see how the series shifts from dreamlike horror to full-bore 80s weirdness in Phantasm II!

After hearing about it as a legendary horror-comedy for over a decade, HPH finally decides to watch TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL and see whether this weird anti-slasher really lives up to its reputation. Is the gory farce actually the classic people hold it up to be? Or does the comedy clash with the horror instead of enhancing it? Listen and find out!