Tea For Terror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Darrell Buxton take a wander around the backstreets of mid-1940s London and find themselves embroiled in a nasty serial murder case. Wanted for Murder (1946), is a choice piece of post-war British cinema which mashes up horror and the police procedural in an incredibly satisfying, subversive manner. Too often overlooked, it’s a beautifully shot, dark p...

On this episode, Andrew Graves and Tom Gigliotti from Shout It Out Loudcast, slap on the greasepaint and spandex and go for a spin on the roller coaster and investigate the cheapo bin fire that is KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978). Less Hard Day’s Night and more trick-or-treat kiddie show, will this Hanna-Barbera TV movie make them want to Rock and Roll all Nite or have them reaching for t...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and VERY special guest Ari Lehman (the very first Jason Vorhees) speculative whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or sit and watch Lawrence Olivier’s classy horror flick Hamlet (1948). Together they muse on life death and the existential, and of course Friday the 13th (1980). Alas poor Jason, we knew him well…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and star of A Field in England (2013), Richard Glover, discuss that very film. Stuffing their gobs with mushrooms and going places they probably shouldn’t, the pair of them get to grips with Ben Wheatley, method acting, psychedelics, oh and the secret of the universe. You have been warned.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves, and guest John Harrison, get lost on the African veldt as they are pursued by tribesman who have few good intentions. The Naked Prey (1965), written, directed and starring Cornel Wilde, while not technically a horror film, does contain some of the most chilling death scenes ever put on camera, and it retains an intense, horrid dose of suspense often missing fro...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest James Whittington, discuss the many fine attributes of NYX TV. The free to air channel, one the finest in terms of horror content, prides itself on offering a glorious and eclectic schedule of old favourites, foreign delicacies and more obscure delights. Together, the pair discuss past and upcoming NYX featured presentations such as Cannibal Holocaust,...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) spend a tense hour or so trying to pass the runes on to some other poor fool to free themselves from the claws of the oncoming nightmare. Night of the Demon (1957), directed by Jacques Tourneur and based on the short story by M.R. James, presents a dark tale of black magic, demonology and human failings. “It’s in...

On the second of our Tea For Terror Specials, your host Andrew Graves and returning guest Dan Taylor, go back to bygone days to explore those childhood TV and movie traumas. Together they discuss creepy–arsed nostalgia pieces like Worzel Gummidge, Threads, Public Information films, The Nutty Professor (1963) and The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Jez Conolly, fins themselves ‘upgraded’ by the mysterious company to end up rubbing shoulders with a deeply troubled Rock Hudson’. Together they explore John Frankenhiemer’s existential horror, Seconds (1966), a weird, disturbing and utterly brilliant American chiller. Devastatingly bleak and completely unmissable. “This may hurt a little”

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Tim Dry (Xtro, Return of the Jedi) hover between life and death to explore the nightmarish world presented in Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, this odd psychological thriller is as strange as it is disturbing “…according to this, you’re already dead” You have been warned.

On this episode, the very first ‘Special’, host Andrew Graves and returning guest Darrell Buxton, take a long hard look at the life and films of Mr Murder himself Tod Slaughter. Before the rise of Hammer, Cushing and Lee etc. we had this quintessentially unrepentant rogue, arguably Britain’s first screen monster. His movies – usually cinematic adaptations of popular theatrical productions of the d...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Emma Dark move into a new neighbourhood and immediately find themselves at odds with the paranoid residents. Together, they take solace by re-watching The ‘Burbs (1989), Joe Dante’s superb satire on American suburbia.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves staying in an out of the way motel, where the manager seems to have an unhealthy fixation with dead birds and holes in bathroom walls. Join them as they avoid the shower and pick apart Hitchcock’s unquestionable classic Psycho (1960)

On this episode, host Andrew Graves once again comes face to face with NYX Channel rep, James Whittington. Together they discuss comedy horror, 80s movies and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Erika Bean try not to get killed after they accidentally watch a dodgy video copy of this week’s film of choice, Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998). This spooky Japanese horror from the closing moments of the 20th century, still casts its shadow of hordes of American imitators and stands tall among the very best of 1990s horror flicks. You have been warned. 

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Robert Shearman inadvisably go out playing in the muddy hell of a working farm of the mid 1970s, where children routinely fall foul of rat poison, falling iron gates and cow shit stinking slurry pits. Together they explore the nasty world of the British public information film Apaches (1977). Bleak, unpleasant and irresistibly watchable, this John Mack...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Aaron Carruthers take an inadvisable trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Beset by deadites, freezing cold temperatures and spattered with homemade blood, they try to make some sense of Sam Raimi’s spooky debut feature The Evil Dead (1981). What could possibly go wrong?

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and screen actor Simon Bamford (Butterball in Hellraiser/Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves trapped in an old farmhouse. Its boiling hot, they’re surrounded by rotting corpses and the only thing on the menu is them. Despite their imminent peril, they still find the time to examine Tobe Hooper’s masterful horror movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and returning guest James Whittington (NYX, Legend, The Horror Channel) put on their Santa hats, load their sacks with various instruments of butchery and head off into Christmas Eve to examine Bob Clark’s seminal festive horror Black Christmas (1974). Often cited as being a major influence on the later slasher movies, especially Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), th...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Exploitation Retrospect head honcho Dan Taylor break into the lab to conduct some questionable experiments in order to resurrect the mid-80s American splatter movie Re-Animator (1985). This Stuart Gordon directed cult classic torn from the pages of H.P. Lovecraft, is a neon-lit, violent horror show which is both funny and playful, as well as being outrageous...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jez Conolly find themselves struggling with the world’s worst case of deja vu as they get caught in the time-looped nightmare of Dead of Night (1945). This post-war Ealing Studio’s horror, provided the template for the anthology movie and pre-dated the gothic stylings of Hammer by a good 10 years. Weird, creepy, quirky and terrifying, it provides a brilliant...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and John Harrison get all freaked out by David E Durston’s acid trip-rabies-horror, I Drink Your Blood (1970). Undoubtedly influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968) but pre-dating Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972), the movie is an uneven yet entertaining mix of violence, rabies and bad acting laced through with hypnotic visuals and a killer soun...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and We Belong Dead editor Darrell Buxton go way back in time to unravel a tale of madness, manipulation and amputation in Tod Browning’s weird circus-set silent horror The Unknown (1927). They discuss flesh, fiends, Joan Crawford, and of course legendary screen shapeshifter, Lon Chaney.

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies don their best gas masks and tramp off to the Peak District to unpack kitchen sink horror Dead Man’s Shoes. Directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, A Room for Romeo Brass) and starring Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon, Hot Fuzz), it’s a dark and brooding serial killer revenge flick grounded in reality and barbed...

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and director of The Love Witch, Anna Biller delve into the black and white proto-Amicus movie, City of the Dead AKA Horror Hotel (1960). Starring Hammer legend Christopher Lee, this witchy oddity taps into modern fears and new world ideas, riffing on many of the same themes as Psycho, Black Sunday and Peeping Tom.