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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Join Tony and Hugh, alongside guest Mary Muñoz, as they discuss the state of the Zombie film and TV show across recent years before chomping down into Yeon Sang-ho's 2016 zombie action horror thriller, Train to Busan...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Guest
    Mary Muñoz
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    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Join Tony and Hugh as they dig into what the Slasher movie means in a modern context before analysing Chris Nash's low budget 2024 reinvention of that genre, In a Violent Nature...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
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    Twitter: @filmstories
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    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork
    (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    This time, Tony and Hugh sit down to discuss the Hugh Grant-starring chiller Heretic, exploring religious and theological horror, the power of belief and much more...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
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    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.Welcoming horror critic and podcaster Kat Hughes to the show, the guys discuss Parker Finn's Smile franchise in gruesome, gory detail; from it's short story origins to it's blockbuster success and beyond, the terrifying curse is put through the wringer as much as Skye Riley herself... Host / EditorHugh McStayCo-HostA.J BlackGuestKat Hughes - @GizmoShikari on TwitterFind the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcastSupport the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/simonbrewTwitter: @filmstoriesFacebook/Instagram/Threads: Film StoriesWebsite: www.filmstories.co.ukTitle music:'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    In this episode, a Halloween special, Hugh and Tony indulge themselves in Variety's recent Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, unpicking the list from 100-1, discussing some of the key choices, whether they should be higher or lower, and providing their own Top 10 horror films of all time. How many modern horror's will make the cut?
    Host
    Hugh McStay
    Co-Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
    Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories
    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Tony and Hugh tackle the most talked about horror series on the planet currently - the TERRIFIER franchise.
    Talking the 2016 original through to the brand new 2024 third film, they explore whether Damien Leone's modern schlockbusters are vile guff, or the beginning of a whole new icon of horror cinema...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
    Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories
    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Hugh and Tony embark on an analogue odyssey through the world of modern anthology horror as they tackle the entirety of the V/H/S franchise in one fell swoop. The gents look at the series as a whole, discuss their personal top ten entries and dig deep into the latest film in the series, V/H/S Beyond...
    Host / Editor
    Hugh McStay
    Co-Host
    A.J Black
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
    Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories
    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Join Hugh, Tony and their first podcast guest Dee Molumby as they peel back the meta-layers of Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s loving hate-letter to the horror genre, The Cabin in the Woods.
    Host
    Tony Black
    Co-Host / Editor
    Hugh McStay
    Guest
    Dee Molumby (@deirdremolumby on Twitter)
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
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    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork
    (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    Join Hugh and Tony as they tackle James Watkins’ psychological horror film, Speak No Evil, and discuss in detail the Danish original that gave the world a new definition of the word ‘bleak’.
    The guys discuss the film’s themes, ideas and performances and go almost a full hour without talking about just how sexy James McAvoy is…
    Host / Editor
    Hugh McStay
    Co-Host
    Tony Black
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
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    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork
    (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • "The Further is a world far beyond our own, yet it's all around us. A place without time as we know it. It's a dark realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead. A place not meant for the living."
    James Wan's INSIDIOUS was one of the biggest horror movie hits of the 2010s, spawning a five-film and counting franchise and a raft of imitators, looking to replicate its particular style of pantomime horror.
    In this episode of the Modern Horror Podcast, your hosts A. J. Black and Hugh McStay dig into the series, focusing heavily on the first film and the travails of the haunted Lambert family, exploring the place of Insidious in modern horror and its ongoing legacy...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
    Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories
    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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  • We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
    Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
    In this opening 'primer' for the podcast and subject area, A. J. (Tony) and Hugh discuss their backgrounds, the key pictures in the modern horror canon, and what they might be exploring to come...
    Host / Editor
    A. J. Black
    Co-Host
    Hugh McStay
    Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
    https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
    Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew
    Twitter: @filmstories
    Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories
    Website: www.filmstories.co.uk
    Title music:
    'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com
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