In our final Castle of Horror movie panel discussion of the year, we focused on a Christmas movie: Saint (2010) also known as Sint in its native Netherlands. We could have chosen any of a number of films in which the “hat on head/suit that’s red” brought cinematic mayhem, but what made Saint special was […]
In Beyond the Gate, scientists are returning from an edition only to be turned into a pile of gray, mushroom-like mush, and that’s not nearly as scary as what they left behind. This episode we’re chatting with Mary SanGiovanni about her new book Beyond the Gate from Kensington Books. Ms. SanGiovanni is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of the Kathy […]
This episode we’re chatting with Adam Egypt Mortimer, director and co-writer of Daniel Isn’t Real, which the studio describes thus: Daniel Isn’t Real is about a troubled college freshman Luke (Miles Robbins) who suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of […]
This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 1987 film A Return to Salem’s Lot directed by Larry Cohen. This is a film made by one fascinating, iconoclastic director—Larry Cohen, who would give us movies like the 1985 commercial-culture horror satire The Stuff and the bizarre 1982 giant-monster film […]
Antrum is a new horror film from directors David Amito and Michael Laicini with a decent gimmick and a better movie in the middle. The gimmick is the tagline: Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made. We open with a faux documentary of talking heads telling us the movie Antrum was made in the 1979, shown […]
This episode we chat with David Moody, whose new book Chokehold comes from St. Martin’s Griffin books. The book ends a couple of book cycles for Moody, it’s the final book in the Hater series that began in 2006, and the Final War series which began in 2017 with the acclaimed One of Us […]
This week we’re chatting with Cory Doctorow about a topic that just fascinated the science fiction writer and futurist—enough that he wrote the amazing novella The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow—and fascinated host Jason Henderson: the Walt Disney World attraction Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress. Doctorow (at craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist […]
This week we continue our Stephen King Retrospective with a look at the 2004 miniseries Salem’s Lot, starring Rob Lowe and Andre Braugher and Rutger Hauer. Directed by Mikael Salomon for TNT, Salem’s Lot had to fight an uphill battle, to begin with. Tobe Hoober of Poltergeist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre had delivered a scary, […]
The Castle Talk Podcast chatted with Leanna Renee Hieber while the prolific author was pulled over “in Amish Country” on the way to the Steampunk and Fantasy Showcase in Manheim, PA. Hieber is a creator of what has been termed “Gaslamp Fantasy,” a cousin of steampunk that tends to take place in the Victorian/Edwardian eras […]
This week we talk with Roger Corman, who with wife and filmmaker Julie Corman are the focus of the new Shout Factory series Cult-tastic: Tales From The Trenches with Roger and Julie Corman. An extraordinarily prolific director and producer, Corman occupies a unique place in Hollywood history, because as much as he was responsible for […]
[SPOILERS FOR THE SHINING] This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Ewan MacGregor as Danny Torrance, the boy who escaped the Overlook Hotel at the end of The Shining. Which The Shining, you might ask? There are so many: from the Stephen King book came […]
In the lobby of the lovely Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado sits a gift shop, right next to the wide, wooden central stair. The gift shop long ago embraced the one thing that the Stanley is most famous for above all else: its place as the inspiration, so the legend goes, for Stephen King’s […]
This week, Castle Talk podcast chatted with Frank Sabatella, writer and director of the new film The Shed. The Shed tells the story of a bullied young man Stan (Ja Hay Warren) and his best friend Dommer (Cody Kostro) discover a murderous vampire living in Stan’s shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has […]
Paradise Hills is Spanish fashion creative and photographer Alice Waddington’s science-fiction thriller feature debut, in which Emma Roberts plays a girl who wakes up on an isolated island in a facility run by the sinister Duchess played by Milla Jovovich, to whom high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. Paradise Hills takes place in a […]
Drew Edwards is writer of the long-running underground comic series Halloween Man and winner of the 2018 Best of Austin Award (and 2019 nominee) from the Austin Chronicle. He’s launching a new arc of the ongoing Halloween Man series from Sugar Skull Media starting this month with Issue #18, a set of stand-alones called “Halloween […]
Bridget Jones Nelson is a writer and comedian known for her work on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and for the past several years as half of the RiffTrax audio commentary team Bridget & Mary Jo, where she and comedian Mary Jo Pehl riff on features, industrial shorts, often with an eye on the social lives […]
3 From Hell is Rob Zombie’s long-awaited followup to the crime film The Devil’s Rejects, itself a sequel to the nightmarishly bloody and phosphorescent House of 1000 Corpses. 3 From Hell follows the remaining members of the Firefly family as they run from the law and try to make sense of their future. The film debuts […]
Grady Hendrix is a popular horror author of such books as My Best Friend’s Exorcism and the amazing nonfiction look at vintage horror, Paperbacks from Hell. He’s the writer of the new movie Satanic Panic starring Hayley Griffith (The Mysteries of Laura), Ruby Modine (Happy Death Day franchise) and Rebecca Romijn (X-Men franchise, Star Trek: Discovery), director […]
Robert Patrick talks about his role in Tone-Deaf and advice for young actors. Tone-Deaf is written and directed by Richard Bates, Jr. (Trash Fire, Suburban Gothic), and stars Robert Patrick (“Scorpion,” Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and Amanda Crew (“Silicon Valley,” The Age of Adaline), about a young woman who rents an ornate country house to […]
Big Finish Productions has released Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 03, the third in a series of new audio dramas featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble. This time, the cast also includes Bernard Cribbins as Donna’s grandfather Wilf Mott and Jacqueline King as Donna’s mother. […]
