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Discover the Horror Podcast
Our goal is to give you reasons to explore horror you've never seen and give you new ways to see horror you've loved for years.
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Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 74 - Silent German Expressionist Films
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Golem (1920), and Waxworks (1924). In the very beginning of cinema, it was the German filmmakers who took cinema to the…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 73- Pre-Code Horror Comics
In the mid 1950's an overzealous witch hunt took place in the United States focused on the corrupting effects of comic books on young people, which ended in…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 72: 50's Giant Creepy Crawlers
Them! (1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), and The Black Scorpion (1957) The decade of the 1950s gave horror fans a ton of different giant monster flicks, but…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 71 - Infectious Body Horror
Splinter (2008), Thanatomorphose (2012), and Contracted (2013) When discussing films that deal with body horror, David Cronenberg and his work usually come up…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 70 - Universal's Creature from the Black Lagoon Films
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). And now, we come to the end of our Universal Monster…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 69 - Horror at the Music Box with Programmer Will Morris
Obviously, many of us film fans see movies in theaters througout the year, whether it be at a national chain or at an independent, arthouse theater - or both…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 68 - Made for TV Horrors 3
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964), Crowhaven Farm (1970), and Cruise into Terror (1978) With this being our 3rd episode covering these little television…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 67: Film Preservation and Archiving with Special Guest Oscar Becher
During conversations with serious film collectors, you might hear terms like inter-positive, or first negative, or even OCN, and have no clue to what they…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 66 - Women Directors
Chained (2012), Honeymoon (2014), and Relic (2020) With over 60 episodes so far in our podcast history, we realized that in all that we covered, we had never…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 65 - Universal Monster Rallys
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), and House of Dracula (1945). Some say that the monster rally films marked the end of the…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 64 - Severin Films with David Gregory
This truly is a great time to be alive as a crazy cinephile. Just about every day, new amazing looking releases of some of our favorite films are announced, as…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 63 - Amicus Anthologies
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The House that Dripped Blood (1971) and Tales from the Crypt (1972) Amicus Productions was most known for their anthology…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 62 - Bigfoot!
Bigfoot (1970), Creature from Black Lake (1976), and Abominable (2006). Tales of a mysterious, giant beast that wanders the wooded areas of the U.S., has never…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 61 - Norman J. Warren
Satan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977), and Terror (1978) There are a lot of directors out there that might not have a huge filmography, or even be that well known…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 60 - 2023 Wrap Up
Another year ending means another Wrap Up episode where we go over our top picks for the year, as well as discussing some other titles we've seen in 2023…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 59 - Ghost Stories for Christmas
Tower of London (1962), Ghost Nursing (1982), and Stir of Echoes (1999). Believe it or not, but it's a tradition to tell spooky stories around Christmas time…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 58 - Universal's Werewolf Films
The Werewolf of London (1935), The Wolf Man (1941), and She-Wolf of London (1946) When the night falls and the full moon rises, it is time to talk about…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 57- Black Friday Sales
There are few events in horrordom quite as joyfully gluttonous as the Black Friday sales put on by our favorite boutique film labels. As the season approaches…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 56 - Turkey Day 2023
The Sting of Death (1966), APE (1976), and Brutal Sorcery (1983) It's November, so that must mean it's Turkey Time! Yes, that's right, for the last 20 years…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 55: Universal's The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man (1933), The Invisible Man Returns (1940), and The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944). In the pantheon of Universal Classic Monsters, some might…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 54- Boxed Sets
Let's face it: horror fans are, as a group, a little bit obsessive. When we sink our teeth into something we do not do it barely or easily, we take a big…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 53- Herschell Gordon Lewis
Blood Feast (1963), Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), The Gruesome Twosome (1967), The Wizard of Gore (1970) When Herschell Gordon Lewis made his first nudie cutie…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 52 - Álex de la Iglesia
Perdita Durango (1997), Common Wealth (2000), Witching and Bitching (2013) There are a few directors like Álex de la Iglesia. No matter what kind of film he's…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 51 - Universal Mummies
The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), and The Mummy's Curse (1944). In this episode, we go back the…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 50 - LIVE!
To celebrate our 50th episode of Discover the Horror, we decided to do a live event, giving our listeners a chance to ask questions or make comments in the…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 49 - Fanzines with Dave Kosanke
One of the things that was realized at some point after the creation of Famous Monsters magazine, was that there was this horror fandom, or fan base, of all…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 48 - Witches
Night of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn (1962), Eyes of Fire (1983), Pyewacket (2017) Welcome to Episode 48, where we discuss one of the oldest perceived…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 47 - William Castle
House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959), and Mr. Sardonicus (1961). In the world of ballyhoo, nobody comes close to being a master at it than…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 46 - Horror and Heavy Metal
Horror movies and heavy metal music have almost gone hand in hand, since the real first heavy metal band, Black Sabbath- which was even named after a horror…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 45 - Hong Kong Black Magic
Corpse Mania (1981), Red Spell Spells Red (1983), The Rape After (1984) Obviously, the title of our show, and its mission statement is about discovering new…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 44 - Gothic Mexican Horror
El Vampiro (1957), The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959), and The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963). Any horror fan worth their weight in blood knows their fare share…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 43 - Bootlegs & Tape Trading
Back in ancient times, before Netflix and Amazon Prime, before Hulu and YouTube, even before DVDs and Blu-rays, if films weren't available to you from either…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 42 - Universal Frankensteins
Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). Time to go back to the source! The…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 41: Made for TV Horrors 2
Devil Dog: Hound of Hell (1978), Vampire (1979), & Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981). Back in Episode 11, we covered 3 Made-for-TV films that we felt were…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 40 - Generations of Horror with Special Guest S.A. Bradley
Depending on when you not only grew up, but grew up with the horror genre could define what films you like, and what you don't like. But then there are other…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 39 - William Girdler
3 on a Meathook (1972), Grizzly (1976), & Day of the Animals (1977). Director William Girdler is a name that some horror fans might know some of his work, but…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 38 - Italian Horror & More w/Special Guest Troy Howarth
There are plenty of ways to help you on your way to discovering more about the films you love, as well as ones you might not know too much about. There's…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 37 - Universal Dracula Films
Dracula (1931), Dracula's Daughter (1936), & Son of Dracula (1943). This is the series of films that really created and started what is now known as the…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 36: Talking Movies with Diabolik DVD's Jesse Nelson
Obviously anybody listening to this podcast is a huge fan of horror movies. There is no better time to be a movie fan because of all the incredible releases…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 35 - The Devil
The Evil (1978), Angel Heart (1987), and Mr. Frost (1990). From the very first horror film, Georges Méliès' The House of the Devil from 1896, the Devil started…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 34 - Makeup Effects with Gino Crognale
Throughout movie history, makeup artists have helped create new faces for the silver screen, whether they were just changing their look to creating a new…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 33 - 2022 Wrap-Up
Just like we did last year, in Episode 7, we're going through the best films that we watched for the first time in 2022. Doesn't mean they came out in the last…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 32 - Conventions: The Promoters
In the final episode of our Convention Trilogy, where we've already covered the fans and the dealers, we now take a step back even further to the ones that put…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 31 - Unearthed Zombies
Sugar Hill (1974), Wild Zero (1999), Juan of the Dead (2011). Everyone loves zombie films. Ever since Romero brought them to the screen in 1968 with Night of…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 30 - Turkey Day Part 2
Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967), The Chooper (1971), and Lady Terminator (1989). Last November, in Episode 4, we discussed the Turkey. Not what some would…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 29 - Conventions: The Dealers
We've already discussed conventions from a fan's perspective, so now we're going to go to the other side of the table and discuss what goes into becoming a…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 28 - Ghost Stories
The Changeling (1980), The Woman in Black (1989), and Fragile (2005). Ghost stories have been around since the very beginning of the art of storytelling…
Discover the Horror PodcastEpisode 27 - Pete Walker
House of Whipcord (1974), Frightmare (1974), and House of Mortal Sin (1976). When you're talking about British horror films of the '70s, while Hammer was on…