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This week we have a look at the 1963 anthology horror film Black Sabbath directed by Mario Bava. This is Episode #446! Black Sabbath (Italian: I tre volti della paura, lit. 'The Three Faces of Fear') is a 1963 horror anthology film directed by Mario Bava. The film consists of three separate tales that are introduced by Boris Karloff.
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This week we have a look at the 1992 British film Ghostwatch. This is Episode #445! Ghostwatch is a British mockumentary supernatural horror television film, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. The narrative presents itself as a live television broadcast. Many elements of the story would be present in later works like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project.
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This week we have a look at the 2024 film Salem’s Lot. This is Episode #444! 'Salem's Lot is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, based on the 1975 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, Bill Camp, Jordan Preston Carter, Nicholas Crovetti, Spencer Treat Clark, William Sadler, and Pilou Asbæk. It is the first feature film adaptation of the book, preceded by miniseries versions from 1979 and 2004. The plot centers on a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration, only to discover the presence of a vampire. The film was announced in 2019 and shot in 2021, with additional photography in 2022. The film's release was delayed multiple times.'Salem's Lot had its world premiere as the opening film at the Beyond Fest on September 25, 2024, and was released on Max on October 3, 2024. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
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Tonight we’re chatting with director Jim Towns. Towns is a Pittsburgh-born / LA-based writer, filmmaker and artist. His feature films include Prometheus Triumphant, STIFF, House of Bad, End Times, Killer Ex and the upcoming The Possession of Anne (on streaming Nov. 2nd). His books include Bloodsucker City, Whiskey Stories and Braddock’s Falls; he’s currently in post on his black and white arthouse feature drama Mandromeda, and is about to shoot his next film, The Stickfighter.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Jack Dignan, director of the new film PUZZLE BOX, which will be released across digital platforms on Friday, October 11th. Jack is an award-winning writer, director, and producer, is best known for his critically acclaimed film After She Died, about which The Australian deemed him "the new [James] Wan.”In Puzzle Box, Recovering drug addict Kait flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who documents the process, strange things begin to happen as the house's layout begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box.
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This week we have a look at the 1960 Mario Bava-directed horror film BLACK SUNDAY, AKA THE MASK OF SATAN and other related titles. This is Episode #443!
Black Sunday (Italian: La maschera del demonio, lit. 'The mask of the demon') is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava in his official directorial debut, and starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici and Enrico Oliveri. Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "Viy", the film takes place in Moldavia and tells the story of a witch who is put to death by her brother, only to return two centuries later to seek revenge upon his descendants.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Leslie Lutz, author of the new book SWEETEST DARKNESS from Holiday House. SWEETEST DARKNESS is a supernatural horror novel in which a teenage psychic is drawn deep into the honeycomb of an abandoned hotel—and into a cat-and-mouse game with a predatory entity. This is Dark Americana, from the crumbling Hollywood glamor of the Alvarado Hotel, to the neon-lit diner where the final showdown happens, to the shining horizon of the Chihuahuan Desert just outside town. It’s a horror set in a moody Southwestern landscape. Leslie Lutz is a young adult author whose poetry and prose have been widely published and whose debut YA thriller, FRACTURED TIDE, was voted best of 2020 by Suspense Magazine and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard pick. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughter, along with three cats and two spoiled chickens.
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Jason chats with co-host Tony Salvaggio to recap the 2024 Fantastic Fest genre film festival. Tony saw about 30 films in seven days and he's here to tell us what we have to look forward to over the next year.
The Fantastic Fest organizers describe the fest thus:
Our merry band of misfits, muckrakers, and miscreants is making it's way to Austin, TX, for an 8-day carnival of cinematic delights – Fantastic Fest is back on Sept. 19th - 26th, taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar cinema.
Find the film listings here: https://fantasticfest24.eventive.org/films
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Hello and welcome to Castle Talk where we talk to writers and creators of today’s genre worlds, I’m your host Jason Henderson, PUBLISHER AT CASTLE BRIDGE MEDIA, HOME OF THE CASTLE OF HORROR ANTHOLOGY SERIES. Tonight we’re chatting with Director Patricio Valladares and Screenwriter Barry Keating of the new film INVOKING YELL. Patricio Valladares’ films have been showcased at festivals like Sitges, Fantasía, and Frightfest. In 2022, he directed three feature films, including the sequel to "Hidden in the Woods" for Germany and "Invoking Yell", acquired by Welcome Villain for release. Barry Keating has written 9 produced feature films, and has worked with genre icons such as Robert Englund (A Night On Elm Street), Ken Foree (Dawn of The Dead), Franco Nero (Die Hard 2) and the late Julian Sands (Naked Lunch) in one of his final roles.Set in 1997 in the south of Chile, INVOKING YELL is a love letter to black metal that follows a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.INVOKING YELL will be released on 9/20 and available via Fandango at home and AppleTV. It marks the fifth collaboration between Barry Keating and Patricio Valladares.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Shelly Bond, editor and author of Filth & Grammar: The Comic Book Editor’s Secret Handbook. Bond is Editor-at-Large and the creator, editor and curator of the BLACK CROWN and OFF REGISTER imprints, Shelly has been driven to edit + curate comic books, crush deadlines and innovate for over a quarter-century. She lives in Los Angeles.Shelly Bond and her team go through the entire process of managing the creation of a comic book: organizing oneself, pitching the concept to potential backers, writing the script, planning the layout of the book, creating the text and artwork, assembling everything, and checking that things are correct before going to print.
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Jason chats with co-host Tony Salvaggio as he continues exploring the 2024 Fantastic Fest and what he has to look forward to.
Fantastic Fest
Our merry band of misfits, muckrakers, and miscreants is making it's way to Austin, TX, for an 8-day carnival of cinematic delights – Fantastic Fest is back on Sept. 19th - 26th, taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar cinema.
Find the film listings here: https://fantasticfest24.eventive.org/films
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Hello and welcome to Castle Talk where we talk to writers and creators of today’s genre worlds, I’m your host Jason Henderson, PUBLISHER AT CASTLE BRIDGE MEDIA, HOME OF THE CASTLE OF HORROR ANTHOLOGY SERIES. Tonight we’re chatting with director Michael Day whose debut feature CLAWFOOT will be available on Digital Download from September 23. In the film, Francesca Eastwood (Old, A Violent Separation) stars as an upper-class housewife, Janet, tormented by a manipulative contractor, Leo (Milo Gibson), hired to remodel her bathroom. Joining forces with her best friend, Tasha (Olivia Culpo), they turn the tables on him and ignite a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected outcomes.
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Tonight we’re chatting with with Stuart Ortiz, Peter Zizzo and Terri Apple of STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE. The film is directed & written by Ortiz (Grave Encounters 1 & 2, Extraterrestrial) and follows the trail of some disturbing killings, in a hyper-realistic way, and yet even am angst this very convincing sort of faux Dateline setup, there’s the hint of a Lovecraftian tale of cosmic horror. STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE will make its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024 on September 22, 2024 at 11:50 p.m. CT.
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Jason chats with co-host Tony Salvaggio about the kickoff of the 2024 Fantastic Fest and what he has to look forward to.
Fantastic Fest
Our merry band of misfits, muckrakers, and miscreants is making it's way to Austin, TX, for an 8-day carnival of cinematic delights – Fantastic Fest is back on Sept. 19th - 26th, taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar cinema.
Find the film listings here: https://fantasticfest24.eventive.org/films
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Tonight we’re chatting with Johnny Compton, author of the new book Devils Kill Devils. In the book, a woman who has always counted on the protection of a Guardian Angel has to work out why that angel would suddenly murder her husband on her wedding night. It’s a little bit horror and a little bit urban fantasy.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Libby Cudmore, whose neo-noir thriller NEGATIVE GIRL comes out this month, September 10 from Datura Books. S.A. Cosby called it "fantastic" and “…a sharp subversive exploration of the PI novel that elevates the genre while never sacrificing the thrills." Libby is a Shamus and Black Orchid award winner and author of the acclaimed novel The Big Rewind. Her Wade and Jacks stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Tough and the Anthony-nominated anthology Lawyers, Guns & Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by The Music of Warren Zevon (co-edited with Art Taylor). She is also the current co-host of the OST Party and Misbehavin' podcasts and the creator and host of the #RecordSaturday live-tween series, spinning an array of old and new vinyl in a weekly interactive conversation.
About the book: Upstate New York. Former rock star, recovering addict and now private investigator, Martin Wade, and his assistant, Valerie Jacks, are hired by a young woman who wants them to deliver a warning to her overbearing father. But neither realize their new client’s father is an old bandmate of Martin’s. A man still burdened with regret at being thrown out of Martin’s group, The French Letters, almost two decades before. When their young client is found dead on a riverbank, duty, nostalgia and a lifetime of guilt find Martin and Valerie on the case, searching for the young woman’s killer. As the mystery begins to unravel, Martin struggles to hold onto his sobriety while Valerie becomes increasingly obsessed with their murdered client – finding correlation in the secrets, and the scars they’ve all tried to hide.
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This week we have a look at the 2024 Tim Burton-directed film BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE. This is Episode #442!
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a 2024 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. A sequel to Beetlejuice (1988) and the second film of the Beetlejuice franchise, the film stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara reprising their roles alongside new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2024, and was theatrically released overseas on September 4, 2024, and in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures two days later. The film has received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $147 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.
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Tonight we’re chatting with SK Dale, director of the new film SUBSERVIENCE. Dale teams up again with Megan Fox, who starred in Dale’s thriller TIL DEATH. Here, Fox plays an artificial person hired to help around the house while a man’s wife is sick in the hospital. And naturally that goes great. SUBSERVIENCE was directed by S.K. Dale (Till Death) and written by Will Honley (Bloodline) and April Maguire (#Zombie). It stars Megan Fox (Transformers), Michele Morrone (365 Days), and Madeline Zima ("Californication").
In SUBSERVIENCE, Megan Fox stars as Alice, a lifelike artificially intelligent android, who has the ability to take care of any family and home. Looking for help with the housework, a struggling father (Michele Morrone) purchases Alice after his wife becomes sick. Alice suddenly becomes self-aware and wants everything her new family has to offer, starting with the affection of her owner – and she’ll kill to get it.
XYZ Films will release SUBSERVIENCE on Digital and on Demand on September 13th, 2024.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Sarah Pinsker, author of the new book HAUNT SWEET HOME – a ghost story set in the world of reality TV and a young woman’s first real job. Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny, and in numerous anthologies and year’s bests. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and two weird dogs.
ABOUT HAUNT SWEET HOME:
Fixer Upper meets Ghost Adventures in the reality TV show at the center of HAUNT SWEET HOME by award-winning queer author Sarah Pinsker (on-sale Sep. 3; Tordotcom), where the crafty night-shift crew manufactures “hauntings'' to spook homeowners and capture their ratings-boosting screams. However, these staged scares unfold into an unnerving reality for the show’s aimless production assistant Mara when the lines blur between practical effects and paranormal activity—and her stumbling journey through adulthood is given an unanticipated push by an unlikely ally.
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This week we have a look at the 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum. This is Episode #441! The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the story is about a young Englishman who visits a foreboding castle to investigate his sister's mysterious death. After a series of horrific revelations, apparently ghostly appearances and violent deaths, the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film's climactic sequence.The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe adaptations released by American International Pictures, the first having been Corman's House of Usher released the previous year. Like House, the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby, sets designed by art director Daniel Haller, and a film score composed by Les Baxter. A critical and box-office hit, Pit's success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories for another six films, five of them starring Price. The series ended in 1964 with the release of The Tomb of Ligeia.
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