David Read

The Podcast on Nightmare Park

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Horror and weird film fans Peter Fuller and David Read, nominate a film for each other to watch, then discuss them, invariably moving off in wild tangents. Peter Fuller is a Rondo award-winning print, radio and television journalist and author, specialising in world cinema and popular culture and the leading expert on the life and career of Vincent Price. Peter recently published Supper with the Stars. David Read has worked an editor and animator for 30 years, and also VJ/Djs as Profondo Mondo. He published a book of Horror Crosswords, and is writing a book on BBC Radio Horror.

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Jun 4, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 35 - La Cabina (1972) and The Box (1981) 04.06.2026

David and Peter are on the shorts, in fact, short with people trapped in boxes! The extraordinary La Cabina from 1972, and Micael Palin and Terry Jones film The Box from 1981

Episode 34 - Barnacle Bill (1957) and Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967) 15.05.2026

Peter and David review the unlikeliest double bill ever, with an Ealing Comedy, Barnacle Bill from 1957 and 'the most violent western ever' Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! from 1967.. there was a reason honestly!

Episode 33 - Night of the Eagle (1962) and Spider Baby (1967) 09.04.2026

David is joined by super sub Graham Humphreys as they discuss a pet peeve of David's 'Night of the Eagle' from 1962, as David is a lifelong obsessive about the late, great Fritz Leiber (who wrote the source novel Conjure Wife) so has a good ramble, and Graham's pick of Spider Baby is a strange 1960s film that is a favourite of Rob Zombie!

Episode 32 - Autopsy (1975) and The Visitor (1979) 04.02.2026

David and Peter have a crazy time watching a couple of strange 1970s films, the giallo Autopsy (1975) and the.. well, rather strange The Visitor (1979).

Episode 31 - Sitting Target(1972) and Sweeney! (1972) 16.01.2026

Peter and David get all gritty and British with a couple of seventies thrillers, Oliver Reed and Ian McShane in Sitting Target, and Thaw and Waterman in the the first big screen Sweeney outing...

Episode 30 - Asylum (1972) and Tale of Tales (2015) 10.11.2025

With special guest, author John Llewellyn Probert, Peter and David review some portmanteau horror fun, with the classic 1972 Amicus film Asylum, and the 2015 wonderfully European Tale of Tales!

Episode 29 - Holocaust 2000 (1977) and Saturn 3 (1980) 09.10.2025

Peter and David go Kirktastic, with a Kirk Douglas double bill.. be prepared to be scared, confused, and of course, virlie!

Episode 28 - The Swimmer (1968) and What have they done to your Daughters (1974) 03.09.2025

Peter and David are back with a strasnge sixties film starring Burt Lancaster, and a bit of poliziottesco fun with 'What have they done to your daughters'

Episode 27 - Tourist Trap (1979) and Timecrimes (2007) 09.07.2025

Peter and David are back again with a couple of reviews, including the strange late eventies supernatural slasher, Tourist Trap and the equally strange 2007 film from Spain, Timecrimes!

Episode 26- Bone (1972) and The House of the Devil (2009) 05.05.2025

In this episode we look at Larry Cohen's debut feature, the biting social satire, Bone and Ti West's answer to the satanic panic, The House of the Devil.

Episode 25 - Vanishing Point (1971) and The Vanishing (1988) 08.04.2025

In a podcast first, Peter and David record it together in the same room, and have a great time as we review these very different films that share a word!

Episode 24 - Amityville II: The Possession (1982) and The Beast Within (1982) 27.03.2025

Peter & David, enjoy a couple of old school 80s horrors with plenty of old fashioned horror SFX!

Episode 23 - Bug (1975) and Inland Empire (2006) 15.02.2025

Peter and David are back to celebrate a couple of directors we lost recently, we review David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006) and Jeannot Szwarc's Bug (1975).

Episode 22 - Trick 'r Treat (2007) and The Ward (2010) 07.11.2024

Peter and David go wildy off topic as the discuss the cult hallowen horror Trick 'r Treat and John Carpenter's (to date) last film, The Ward (2010)

Episode 21 - The Hitcher (1986) and The Ambulance (1990) 15.10.2024

Peter and David chat about the Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher (1986) which has a new Blu release, and the Larry Cohen film, The Ambulance from 1990!

Episode 20 - The Night Visitor (1971) and Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End (1980) 23.09.2024

With Peter on holiday David is joined by Peter's understudy Graham Humphreys review the Max von Sydow thriller 'The Night Visitor' (1971) and the Vivian Stanshall's 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End' (1980)

Episode 19 - Who Saw Her Die (1972) and The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) (1986) 02.09.2024

Peter and David review the new Shameless Blu ray giallo release , Aldo Lado's 'Who Saw Her Die' (1972) and Larry Cohen's biopic The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

Episode 18 - The Deathmaster (1972) and The Gourmet (1986) 12.08.2024

Peter and David are joined by artisit Graham Humphreys to review the Robert Quarry vampire flick The Deathmaster (1972) and the strange Channel 4 film starring Charles Gray, The Gourmet (1986?)

Episode 17 - 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) 22.07.2024

Peter and David look at two related, but different films about dark carnivals... 1964's 7 faces of Dr. Lao, an adaptation of the novel, The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935). This novel influenced Ray Bradbury to write his wonderful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962, which was adapted by Disney in 1983.

Episode 16 - Burnt Offerings (1976) and Dead of Winter (1987) 19.06.2024

Peter and David look at the classic haunted house film starring Olver Reed, Karen Black and Bette Davis, Burnt Offerings... and then have chilly thrills with Mary Steenbergen and Roddy McDowall in Dead of Winter!

Episode 15 - Nightwatch - Demons Are Forever (2023) 01.06.2024

Peter and David watch the sequel to the classic 1994 Danish thriller Nightwatch, which has just landed on Shudder!

Episode 14 - The Day the Fish Came Out (1967) and No Blade of Grass (1970) 25.05.2024

David and Peter are joined by Graham Humphreys to review the strange 1960s film that is 'The Day the Fish Came Out' and they see if 'No Blade of Grass' beats out Panic in the 'Year Zero' for apocalyptic fun...

Episode 13 - Panic in Year Zero (1962) and Looker (1981) 21.04.2024

David and Pete go back to some nuclear panic thanks to Ray Milland for 'Panic in Year Zero' from 1961, before looking at trhe 1981 film Looker, which seems remarkably prescient about deepfakes and shady corporations....

Episode 12 - Fade to Black (1980) and Wolfen (1981) 20.03.2024

David and Peter go back to the eighties with the Fade to Black and enjoy Albert Finney's hairdo in Wolfen.

Episode 11 - Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) and Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981) 29.02.2024

David and Peter take a look at Lucio Fulci's 1972 Italian sort of giallo Don't Torture a Duckling and Severin's new UHD release of the infamous video nasty Nightmares In A Damaged Brain...

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