Horror Hangout

Ben Errington is joined by Amber Doig-Thorne, the star of Winnie the Pooh - Blood & Honey, which has its UK premiere at FrightFest Glasgow on Friday the 10th March (TONIGHT)! Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher film written, directed and produced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield. The film serves as a horror retelling of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh...

This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned four men beyond recognition... but no jury in America would ever convict her! *TRIGGER WARNING - R*pe, sexual assault.* I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman) is a 1978 American rape and revenge film edited, written, and directed by Meir Zarchi. An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four...

'You like people and you don't know why? Maybe you don't really like them. Because people are not so easy to like.' Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon is a 2021 American fantasy thriller film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It stars Kate Hudson, Jun Jong-seo, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, and Craig Robinson. A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in...

The rocking, shocking, new wave of horror! Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (also known as Howling II and Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch) is a 1985 American horror film directed by Philippe Mora and direct sequel to the 1981 film The Howling. The film stars horror film veteran Christopher Lee along with Reb Brown and Annie McEnroe as they try to defeat Sybil Danning's werewolf queen Stir...

They say there's nothing new under the sun. But under the ground... Tremors is a 1990 American monster comedy horror film directed by Ron Underwood, produced by Brent Maddock and S. S. Wilson, written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood and starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire. Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground cr...

Make the choice. Knock at the Cabin is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the screenplay from an initial draft by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. It is based on the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay, the first adaptation of one of his works. The film stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben A...

In this house... Skinamarink is a 2022 Canadian experimental horror film written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball in his feature directorial debut. The film follows two children who wake up during the night to discover that they cannot find their father, and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are disappearing. 00:00 Intro 05:18 Horror News 18:48 What We've Been Watching 43:3...

She can't live without you. Deadly Friend is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed by Wes Craven, and starring Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Richard Marcus, and Anne Ramsey. After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain. 00:00 Intro 06:24 Horror News 23:...

Friendship has evolved. M3GAN is a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper from a story by Cooper and James Wan (who also produced with Jason Blum), and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, with Amie Donald physically portraying M3GAN and Jenna Davis voicing the character. Its plot follows the eponymous artificially intelligent doll w...

THEY'RE COMING! 30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film was directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a 30-day-long polar night. 00:00 Intro 08:38 Horror News 19:05 What We've Been Watching 39:58 Film Review 2:12:20 Name Game 2:17:...

Here’s the Horror Hangout wrap of favourites and disappointments for the year that was... 2022. 00:00 Intro 04:50 Horror News 14:10 What We've Been Watching 18:15 Top 10 of 2022 1:32:14 Honourable Mentions 1:47:33 Disappointments 2:02:20 New Discoveries 2:05:10 TV & Games 2:07:46 Looking Forward to 2023 2:12:47 Outro Podcast - https://podlink.to/horrorhangout​​​ Patreon - https://www.patreon.c...

The last day of the year... or the last day of your life? Bloody New Year (also known as Time Warp Terror and Horror Hotel) is a 1987 British supernatural horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Colin Heywood, Mark Powley, Catherine Roman and Julian Ronnie. A group of friends take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is,...

You've made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas! Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, and Leo Geter. The story concerns a young man named Billy, who suffers from post-traumatic stress over witnessing his parents' murd...

The ultimate in terror! Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American miniseries television adaptation of the 1975 horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into...

Pray for daylight. Near Dark is a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein. A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter. 00:00 Intro 11:37 Horror News 19:59 What...

'Our love can destroy this whole f*cking world!' *TRIGGER WARNING - R*pe, sexual assault, gender/body dysmorphia.* Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo) (literally Iron Man in Japanese), is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk body horror film written, produced, edited, and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. The film established...

To avoid fainting, keep repeating... 'It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie.' The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, directed and edited by Wes Craven in his directorial debut. The film follows Mari Collingwood (Sandra Peabody), a hippie teenager who is abducted, raped, and tortured by a fugitive family on her seventeenth birthday. When they unwitti...

Andy Conduit-Turner is joined by Andy Edwards, the writer/director of Ibiza Undead, Graphic Designs, The Vampires of Soho, Punch and one section of Midnight Peepshow, which had its world premiere at FrightFest 2022. A Madame owns a Soho Peep Show with a difference - the sights on offer are tailor made to its customers’ deepest sinful fears. Tonight it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connec...

IT'S CRAAAZY! Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film written, directed and produced by the Chiodo Brothers, and starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It is the only movie written and directed by the Chiodo Brothers, who also created the practical effects and makeup. It concerns a clan of evil extraterrestrials who re...

Looks can kill. The Rage: Carrie 2 is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Katt Shea, and starring Emily Bergl, Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron and Amy Irving. The film is a sequel to the 1976 horror film Carrie based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and serves as the second film in the Carrie franchise. The younger half-sister of Carrie White, also s...

Here comes Elvira... there goes the neighbourhood! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by James Signorelli. It stars Cassandra Peterson as eccentric horror hostess Elvira, a character previously established in the television program Elvira's Movie Macabre. Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battle...

Banned for a decade. One of the most controversial TV programmes of a generation. Ghostwatch is a British reality–horror/pseudo-documentary television film, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Despite having been r...

SHAPE VS STRODE. Halloween Ends is a 2022 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. It is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that commenced with the 2018 film, which directly follows the 1978 film and disregards a...

Ben Errington is joined by Aliens - Vasquez author V. Castro to discuss the book which explores canonical background of the breakout Aliens hero Jenette Vasquez, as well as the story of the children she was forced to leave behind – which releases on October 25th. V. Castro is a Mexican American writer from San Antonio, Texas now residing in the UK. As a full-time mother she dedicates her time to h...

What is it you pray for? Hellraiser is a 2022 American supernatural horror film directed by David Bruckner, with a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, from a screen story they co-wrote with David S. Goyer. Despite sharing the title of Clive Barker's original 1987 film Hellraiser, the film features a new story and is not a direct remake or a new adaptation of his 1986 novella The Hellbou...