My Haunted Head

The 20th anniversary Texas Frightmare Weekend event was held May 22-24th, 2026.  Join Toddzilla for a recap of the weekend's festivities - WHO we met, WHAT we saw and MORE!  #texasfrightmare weekend #horrorconvention

May 2026 brings the 20th anniversary of Texas Frightmare Weekend, and My Haunted Head will be there!  The guest lineup is stacked, there are special anniversary screenings of SCREAM and HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, a Full Moon world premiere, HALLOWEEN III themed party, special live performance by composer Alan Howarth and much more.  Like and SUBSCRIBE to ensure you don't miss the followup...

Welcome to an event we call HAUNTED WEEKEND!  A horror convention held in downtown Los Angeles in the late autumn of 1975!   This episode of My Haunted Head is a horror convention version of fantasy football.  It's an imagined genre convention experience taking place in 1975 - an event unlike anything horror fans back in the Seventies ever experienced.  It consists of a weekend filled with activit...

Edward D. Wood Jr. — a man mocked as "the worst filmmaker of all time," yet remembered far more than many of his more polished peers.  Ed Wood's story is about passion, perseverance, and the strange, fragile line between failure and immortality.  Listen on your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #EdWood #BelaLugosi #horrormovies  

Episode 116 of My Haunted Head is a look into a swirling, cosmic void of ambition and obsession, and lunacy masquerading as genius. Let's discuss a film that marked Disney's plunge into the darkness of space…THE BLACK HOLE, released in 1979. Listen on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Rate and SUBSCRIBE!  #theblackhole #anthonyperkins #disney

A look an an important period in horror history—the decade spanning the late 1950s through the late 1960s - when the old horror traditions began to give way to something darker, grittier, and more cutting edge. My Haunted Head explores five transitional B&W films that changed horror!  Available to listen on your favorite podcast app.  Rate, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #classichorror #modernhorror #horro...

It's a story that's haunted every Christmas since 1843 — A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.   It's one of the most famous books ever published, and one of the most often adapted for film and television.   Among the countless versions of Dickens' classic, one stands apart as the darkest and most chilling: the 1984 adaptation starring George C. Scott.  It's a version that is sobering, heartbreaki...

Christmas horror is the collision of warmth and menace…it turns tradition upside down, and nothing is safe or sacred.  The promise of peace and joy might be interrupted by something dark and malevolent creeping down the chimney.   Long before killer Santas became a full-blown subgenre, and long before SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT raised the ire of mothers everywhere, there was one short story that qu...

Episode #112 is a discussion of the life and film legacy of Sir Christopher Lee.  A screen legend, war hero and pop culture icon, who appeared in more than 250 films over the course of a 70-year career.  Available on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #christopherlee #hammerhorror #dracula #frankenstein #sirchristopherlee #petercushing #amicus #timburt...

My Haunted Head takes a look at the MANIAC COP trilogy - a unique, violent series born of New York grit, tabloid paranoia, and two of exploitation cinema's sharpest minds: Larry Cohen and William Lustig.  Available on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #maniaccop #brucecampbell #tomatkins #williamlustig #larrycohen #samraimi #maniac #slasher #horrormov...

Step into the rusted, blood-spattered world of SAW , where morality meets machinery and survival has a price. In this episode of My Haunted Head , we explore the twisted philosophy of John Kramer — the engineer turned executioner known as Jigsaw — and the cruel genius behind his deadly traps. Listen on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #saw #jigsaw #j...

For episode #109, Escape "TO" L.A. as My Haunted Head takes a field trip down to Los Angeles for a very special event - to see John Carpenter perform live at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, on Saturday, October 25, 2025.   Join Toddzilla for impressions from the trip, details from the show and to celebrate one of the OG's…one of the biggest influential badasses of the horror genre, John Carpen...

Tonight, we open the coffin lid on Hammer Films — the British studio that drenched horror in lurid color and never looked back.  For nearly two decades, Hammer was  the name in horror.  Episode #108 of My Haunted Head is a concise look at the sexy, bloody and shocking Gothic horror of Hammer Studios.  Listen on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #hamme...

A writer whose books occupy entire shelves in libraries and bookstores, whose readership spans generations, and whose sales numbers rival the biggest names in publishing history.  Including Stephen King.  Enjoy this look at the career and legacy of author Dean Koontz.  Available on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app.  Please Like, Share and SUBSCRIBE!  #deankoontz #horrorbooks #horrorauth...

With Halloween fast approaching, you might be working your way through a stack of favorite movies.   But maybe you're looking for something more to add to the mix.   Maybe something with an international flavor.   I've got you covered.   For this episode we're going to explore the deep red waters of Italian horror cinema. Films by Argento, Bava, D'Amato, Fulci, Martino, Soavi and Stivaletti.  Demo...

With October upon us, and Halloween rapidly approaching, it seemed prudent to peer into the dark and take a look at the history of Halloween traditions.  To remind yourself where some of your favorite traditions came from, I invite you to enjoy this BONUS mini-episode of My Haunted Head.  Have a listen on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app. Please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE.  #halloween #t...

Perhaps THE LONG WAIT would be more appropriate.  After a 10-month sabbatical, My Haunted Head Podcast returns with episode #104.  A recap of the year's events with a look forward to October and the countdown to Halloween.  Featuring Regal Cinema's "31 Screams on Screen" events, reviews of THE LONG WALK, THE DEADLY SPAWN 4K BLU, Tom Savini's Uncensored NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD '90 4K BLU, Rob Zomb...

Welcome to Episode #103 of My Haunted Head!  It's a collection of some of the coolest and craziest horror lists you'll find including scariest horror films...goriest horror films...pets gone wild...killer camping tools...haunted houses...dead things...the ABC's of horror...horror in music videos...body horror...cemeteries...mutants...international horror...evil churches...3-D films...fire stunts.....

Following up with the My Haunted Head October watch list on YouTube, My Haunted Head is back in podcast mode with a handful of creative and ghoulish watch lists from listeners and collaborators alike.  Listen and see how they compare with your own October watch list.  Got something to contribute?  Drop a message and spill what's inside your haunted head.  Like and SUBSCRIBE. 

WHAT IS CLASSIC ROCK?   If you had asked back in 1990, bands like Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf and The Doors would have come to mind.   But as the years have gone by, and so many groups have been around that much longer, it's a phrase that has come to encompass countless other artists.  Metallica may be regarded as a thrash band, and Guns N Roses a hair metal band, but they've been around for 38 and...

Holy smokes - it's the 100th episode of My Haunted Head Podcast!  To commemorate this special occasion Toddzilla has invited back lifelong friend and frequent podcast collaborator Matthew to share a conversation during which the pair pick the greatest horror film ever made...mix and match horror villains and franchises (Ghost Face in Haddonfield?  Pinhead in the sewers of Derry?)...pit horror's gr...

Kent Collins grew up as a Monster Kid, feeding his haunted head a steady diet of Universal Monsters and DC comics through the late 1970's and early 1980's. And then horror slashed its way into his life in a big way when he saw FRIDAY THE 13th and SLEEPAWAY CAMP.  Kent and I kept showing up at the same events this past year or two, so I decided it was time to make a proper introduction from one mon...

It seems like every few years movie fans are treated to a heaping helping of deja vu, when Hollywood releases a series of similarly-themed films.  In 1996, there was TWISTER and its doppelganger TORNADO starring Bruce Campbell.  In 1997 we got DANTE'S PEAK and VOLCANO.  1998 brought us the extinction-level comet crisis films DEEP IMPACT and the macho cheese of Michael Bay's ARMAGEDDON.  So for epi...

Welcome to episode #97 of My Haunted Head, and the Golden Age of Video.  Specifically, horror on video.  Today's episode is a look back at some of the most memorable titles from the 80's heyday of horror on video.  The garish artwork, the titillating titles, and the promise that the movies lining the shelves had such sights to show you.  EVIL DEAD, DRILLER KILLER, MONSTER DOG, ROCKTOBER BLOOD, ALI...

Episode #96 of MY HAUNTED HEAD (originally recorded as Episode #63) has apparently been collecting dust down in the vault for the past year or so.  So we've dusted it off, and now bring you this extensive, (mostly) unedited walk down memory lane as Toddzilla and Matthew discuss all of the incredible film heroes whom we've met at conventions, and who are unfortunately no longer with us.  Included a...