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Tonight we’re chatting with Warren Skeels, director of the new thriller THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN. Based on actual events of the serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr., the film captures a bone-chilling story of a young girl's unimaginable horrors, and every parent's worst nightmare.
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Tonight we’re chatting with producer Matt Manjourides, producer of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs which has just returned on AMC+ and Shudder with Joe Bob's Christmas Carnage and of the 2024 film Street Trash, among many other things.
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This week we have a look at the 1976 short ghost film The Signalman directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. This is Episode #449! The Signalman is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas. Written by Andrew Davies, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story "The Signal-Man" (1866) by Charles Dickens, and first aired on BBC1 on 22 December 1976, the earliest airdate in the series relative to Christmas.It stars Denholm Elliott as a lone signalman who is visited by a traveller (Bernard Lloyd). The signalman reveals that he is being haunted by a spectre which has appeared at the entrance of the tunnel next to his signal box, and these visions begin to likewise trouble the traveller in his sleep.
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Jason Henderson hosts a live panel of writers on the resilience of the thriller
Hosted by Castle Bridge Media in celebration of the release of A FORGERY IN MARSEILLE: A FRENCH DECEPTION THRILLER (which you can find here: https://amzn.to/48T3YTd) by Janice Nagourney.
Panelists:
Jonathan Maberry - NY Times bestselling author of the Joe Ledger thrillers, NecroTek, and many others, as well as editor of Weird Tales Magazine
Herta Feely - award-winning author of two domestic thrillers, ghostwriter of three memoirs, and editor at Chrysalis Editorial
Teel James Glenn- former stuntman and author of the Bob Howard adventure series and Paradise Investigations Series
Janice Nagourney - creator of the 'French Deception’ a series of international thrillers
Bobby Nash - Slinger of words, BEN Books publisher, and author of the Snow and Tom Myers series.
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This week we have a look at the 1981 horror film Ghost Story directed by John Irvin. This is Episode #448!
Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub, it follows a group of elderly businessmen in New England who gather to recount their involvement in a woman's death decades prior when one of them suspects her ghost has been haunting him.Ghost Story was the final film for Astaire and Fairbanks, the final completed film for Douglas and the first film to feature Michael O'Neill. The film was shot in Woodstock, Vermont; Saratoga Springs, New York; and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Ghost Story was released in the United States on December 18, 1981.
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Tonight we’re chatting with Actor / Co-Writer Mike Capes, Co-Writer Johnny Wickham, and Director Mike Hermosa of The Invisible Raptor, which comes out In Theaters and On Digital December 6th. The film had its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival and currently sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
SYNOPSIS: After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. When the creature’s identity is uncovered, it soon becomes clear that a disgraced paleontologist—alongside his ex-girlfriend, an unhinged amusement park security guard, and a local celebrity chicken farmer—is the town’s only hope for surviving the raptor’s ravenous rampage.
Order the film on AppleTV here: https://tv.apple.com/ca/movie/the-invisible-raptor/umc.cmc.4pcepzn000w3wiymxh14ohvfe
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Tonight we’re chatting with Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio, directors and writers of HEAVIER TRIP, called by Screen Zealots "A raucous, offbeat buddy comedy from Finland that revels in metal culture, absurd European humor, and a healthy dose of dorky slapstick” The world’s most ferocious death metal band, Impaled Rektum, is back and ready to unleash hell! In the film, our heroes stage a prison break to get to the Wacken m usic festival where they hope to win the money to save their lead guitarist’s farm. Complicating things are a vengeful prison guard and a record executive whose name seems to almost be Mephistopheles.
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Jason and Tony chat with with Kier-La Janisse. Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of several books including House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022); and a prolific editor. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023), and now her newest release is ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: VOLUME 2. The new box set includes 24 International Folk Horror Classics on 13 Discs, 55+ Combined Hours of Special Features, a 252 Page Hardcover Book…and More!
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This week we have a look at the 1972 horror film Baron Blood directed by Mario Bava. This is Episode #447! Baron Blood (Italian: Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga, lit. 'The horrors of Nuremberg Castle') is a 1972 horror film directed by Mario Bava. An international co-production of Italy and West Germany, the film stars Joseph Cotten as Baron Otto Von Kleist, a murderous noble who is resurrected from the dead by his descendant, Peter (Antonio Cantafora), and a college student named Eva (Elke Sommer).
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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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