Live From Manchester Morgue: A Horror Movie Podcast

Welcome back to the Morgue! This week, retrospectively review 2 (count em!) classic, 80s horror anthology movies that are absolutely brimming with talent. 1985's Cat's Eye and 1986's Creepshow 2! There are too many connections to count this week so you're just going to have to listen to the show to find out just how linked up these films are but you can also rejoice at the return o...

Welcome back to the Morgue!  This week, the deadkidometer goes off the scale with Don't Look Now (1973) and Lake Mungo (2008). Ken also tells us about The Backrooms, Gaz worries everyone about Brendan Fraser and the boys pay tribute to late, great Watcher extraordinaire, Anthony Stewart Head. Play along with Taglines, check out what our listeners have to say and ponder why we've bothered with yet...

Welcome back to the Morgue for the first episode of our new release day! We'll be coming back every two weeks as usual but you can expect new episodes on Tuesdays from now on! In this episode, we talk spooky Tim Burton, worry about Peter Jackson and regular features Listener Comments, What Have You Watched, How Many Cats Are In It and the Great Horror Movie Tagline Quiz all return for YOUR lis...

Welcome back to the Morgue! The boys talk folk horror, grim British doings and PTSD with Ben Wheatley's Kill List and David Bruckner's The Ritual, for your listening pleasure. Irregular feature, How Many Cats Are In It returns alongside a brand new feature, possibly called Toe Tags, we haven't decided yet (nor whether it shall ever return - let us know if you liked it).

A trailer for the show featuring a few of our lovely guests so far!

This week, we turn our attention to two timeless tales of surviving war and oppression and how escape isn't always what it seems - Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow and Remi Weekes' His House. We forgot to do 'How Many Cats Are In it' but there finally is one in His House so look out for that! Listener comments and What Have You Watched return...

Welcome back to the morgue for a very special, one year anniversary show about one of our favourite subjects - ZOMBIES and the films they feature in. We take a look at George Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead alongside the show's namesake, the Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. We're also running a competition to win a poster and discuss what we've watched in our imaginative...

Welcome back, friends! Join us this week as we talk to Toby Poser and John Adams of multitalented and prolific filmmaking family unit, the Adams Family about their work in including Hellbender, Mother of Flies and Rumblestrips. Ken and Gaz discuss what they've watched and talk about an unusual upcoming Guinness world record attempt...

Welcome back, horror homies! This week, the boys chat with Andy Mitton about his heartfelt yet terrifying film, The Witch in the Window and another tale of fatherhood in Bill Paxton's Frailty. There's also some news, the boys recap their week's viewing on What Have you Watched (including a mini retrospective on Burial Ground (1981) alongside the regular listener comments and general fu...

Hello Morguers and welcome back to our little corner of the web. This week is shark week (not Shark Week, the official one) as we talk about Jaws and recent scary sharksploitation zinger, Beast of War so come get your thalassophobia on! We also honour two of our favourites - Catherine O'Hara and Tom Noonan and interview Ryan Prows, director of new Justin Long and CM Punk-starring vampire cop h...

Welcome back to the Morgue where this week, the boys are joined by special guest Katie Evans, AKA Mental Health Monsters who has been delivering talks up and down the country on the psychology of horror. Katie chose the films for this episode of which Gary and Ken are big fans and the end result is a very insightful show with a little look at brand new folk horror Rabbit Trap and simian-maniac cre...

Welcome back to the morgue and to our first special episode in an ongoing series where we'll talk about SEQUELS THAT GO BIG! Kicking us off in style we're joined by the Chatterer cenobite himself Nicholas Vince who shares stories from the set of Hellraiser 2, the origins of the Chatterer, Nightbreed and a a story about Clive Barker's magazine collection... Share with your friends, give...

Happy new year to you, thanks for stopping by! This week, we take a look at the end of the world as interpreted by the chosen one himself, JC (John Carpenter) as we talk about alien body-horror masterpiece The Thing, science vs religion with Prince of Darkness and Sam Neill's fantastic turn as an insurance investigator on the cusp of cosmic horror with In the Mouth of Madness. We also talk a bit a...

We nearly called this episode 'The Xmasist' but thought better of it. For our last show of 2025, we welcome special guest, author Matt Rogerson to help us navigate the vagaries of The Vactican's response to the deluge of Pazuzu-infused films from the 70s and beyond and we round out our coverage of the unofficial 'Unholy Child' trilogy we started with Rosemary's Baby a littl...

This week, the boys revisit murky, Lynchian, purgatorial nightmares Jacob's Ladder and Silent Hill. Expect laughs, trivia, dubious pronunciations and regular feature, How Many Cats are In It? Enjoy!

Welcome back to the Morgue where this time, we get Extremely French and talk about Pascal Laugier's seminal horror Martyrs and wince-inducing pregnancy home invasion nightmare, Inside. As usual we recommend you watch the films before you listen to the show but honestly, these films are going to take you to places you might not want to go... we think they're great, though!

Welcome back to the Morgue This week, Gaz and Ken take a look at another smashing double bill - What We Do in the Shadows (the film, not the show) and Werewolves Within! Learn the history of the long-standing vampire/werewolf feud alongside Hellboy talk, John Carpenter-related news and our regular segment, How Many Cats Are In It? Listen, like, share, enjoy!

Welcome back to the Morgue! In this episode, we talk about four films we think would be great for a Halloween marathon (perhaps an all-nighter) and talk to writer/producer of TERRIFYING, found-footage, zoom call seance gone wrong masterpiece, Host. Other films include You Might Be The Killer, Scare Me and Deadstream. As well as our regular insights into the films we've chosen, regular feature...

Happy Spooktober and welcome back to the Morgue for this very special bonus episode, as we talk about our hot picks for this year's Grimmfest horror film festival and look back at some of our favourites from previous years, including a retrospective on The Soska Sisters' seminal body-mod revenge horror, American Mary! This episode is also packed to the gills with interviews - check out our...

Welcome back to the Morgue and thanks for joining us as we kick off spooky season 2025 in style! It's officially autumn in our part of the world and what better way to get into the SPIRIT (haha) of things than to get cosy and watch a couple of classic haunted house movies... then listen to a podcast about them. We talk about both franchises and the shady doings of the Warrens along with news a...

Welcome back to the morgue! This week, we talk about two seminal 1980s body-horror meltfests with The Fly and the Blob. We do our usual retrospective analysis of these two classics alongside a bit of news, What Have You Watched and our new (probably not) regular feature, How Many Cats Are in it! So go on, make yourself a nice cup of tea and sit down with us for about an hour of horror fun! Don&#39...

Greetings from the Morgue! This week we talk two barmy British isles-based folk horror monster movies with Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm (Vyrm) and George Pavlou's Rawhead Rex, based on stories by literary horror heavyweights Bram Stoker and our Lord and Saviour, Sir Clive Barker himself. Please watch the movies before you listen lest ye hear spoilers and we wouldn't want to rui...

Welcome back to Manchester Morgue! Gary and Ken talk werewolves as Joe Dante's Howling and John Landis' American Werewolf go head to shaggy head in our 1981 horror special. We've got the usual listener comments on the movies, a lovely review, horror news and a bit of muppet controversy. As usual, please check out the films BEFORE you listen if you want to avoid spoilers and please cons...

Welcome back to the Morgue! For this episode's double-bill we take a look at Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and David Moreau's MadS and some of the themes - obvious and otherwise - that link them as great horror companion pieces. We've also got some listener comments and a roundup of horror news to keep you up to date with all the recent grisly goings-on. Also, check out or new movie...

Welcome back, friends! In this episode, we mix things up a little to bring your top five horror movies of 2025 so far and are beyond thrilled to present an interview with the writer and director of one of them - Julia Max! Please check out the movies before you listen because as hard as we try, there may be a spoiler here or there... the Rule of Jenny Pen Sinners The Surrender the Ugly Stepsister...