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Haunted Picture Palace

41 Episodes

64 minutes | Oct 19, 2022
The Lost Boys - ”Don’t kill me, Mike. I’m basically a good kid.”
Join us as we look at what it might be like to never grow up as we talk about what vampire metaphors can tell us about the nuclear family in suburban 1980s America, with a fair amount of chat about oiled-up musclebound saxophonists, and a bewildering amount about Batman Forever.
72 minutes | May 25, 2022
Daughters of Darkness - ”Ghosts Chased Away by Garlic.”
Recordeed when we had covid, a run-through of Harry Kumel's hallucinatory sapphic vampire film, teasing out feminist themes, horrible erotica and excellent threads,
90 minutes | May 11, 2022
Interview With The Vampire - ” Good night sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
It's been a while, but we are back with the first in a small series of Vampire Films - Neil Jordan's lush 90s take on Anne Rice's modern gothic classic.  We recorded this a wee while ago, so references to current events are a little out of date, but it's a 30 year old film about 200 year old people, so I reckon we're in the clear.
53 minutes | Dec 29, 2021
Whistle And I’ll Come To You (1968) ’A sort of... dog.’
Something of a Christmas special as we look at a bit of 60s telly that one of us watches every year, and every year he's unnerved by it.  A canter through that includes digressions on ghosts, plus-fours and talking while eating.  So much wet egg.
102 minutes | Dec 22, 2021
Gremlins - ‘It‘s been a rough night for Rockin‘ Ricky, but he‘s still on the air!‘
It's Christmas, so we have lined up a festive episode with digressions on censorship, radio djs and Phoebe Cates' dress. Listen in the dark, don't get it wet and don't feed it after midnight.
60 minutes | Dec 8, 2021
The Flesh and Blood Show - ‘EXCREEEEEMEEEEENNNNNTTTT‘
A dip into the cinematic sewers this week for Pete Walker's exploitation trash that doesn't live up to its poster.  It's called The Flesh And Blood Show, but there's a lot more of one than the other.
97 minutes | Nov 24, 2021
Scream (1996) - “I‘m Feelin‘ A Little Woozy Here!”
Join us as we take a look at Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's shot in the arm for the slasher genre as it turns 25.  We look at potential suspects, what 'the rules' mean, and discuss the very worst t-shirt known to man, as well as talking quite a lot about Scary Movie.  You do like scary movies, right?
89 minutes | Nov 10, 2021
Creature From The Black Lagoon - ”Even I, Lucas, Have Heard The Legend of The Man-Fish!”
Join us as we venture up a tributary of the Amazon which somehow leads to a lagoon... a Black Lagoon! We look at the Universal horror classic discussing suitable footwear for a trip upriver, the correct terminology for spans of prehistoric time and the logistics of shooting a 3-d movie underwater in 1954.
93 minutes | Oct 27, 2021
The Invisible Man (1933) - ”He‘s invisible, that‘s what‘s the matter with him. If he gets the rest of them clothes off, we‘ll never catch him in a thousand years.”
Join us as we look at the film that made a star of Claude Rains, even though you can't actually see him. We talk about the how and the what and the why of James Whale's 1933 masterpiece The Invisible Man, looking at wayward accents, special effects we still can't quite work out and the latent eroticism of having your protagonist nude (but invisible) for a good cghunk of the running time.
82 minutes | Oct 13, 2021
An American Werewolf in London -”Life Mocks Me Even in Death!”
We take a walk on the moors for John Landis's 1981 horror comedy as we take in symbolism of puffa jackets, the logistics of London hospitals and Saint Jenny Agutter. Join us, but don't cut across the park to that middle-class party...
88 minutes | Oct 6, 2021
Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein - ”There was something at work in my soul which I do not understand”
Join us as we examine the dismembered criminal bits that make up Kenneth Branagh's 1994 blockbuster.  We do findit somewhat overripe for our tastes but discuss wigs, ethics and why everything is so darn flammable along the way
71 minutes | Sep 22, 2021
A Tale of Two Sisters - That woman is strange. And so is this house.”
A spoiler-heavy runthrough of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 breakthrough horror hit, A Tale of Two sisters, where we talk about a lot of things I won't tell you about until you've seen the fim I'm afraid.  Watch it frst, then come back for this episode.
41 minutes | Sep 8, 2021
Micro-Episode 4 - Tarot
Real life has ripped up our release schedule good and proper, so here's a stopgap about Amelia's profession in film.
94 minutes | Aug 25, 2021
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - "A Walk Down Elm Street With The Man of Your Dreams"
A late-night recording for us in which we meet Fred Krueger, spew out some facts about the blood - so much blood - and get momentarily confused about what pancakes are in an episode about a film that really scared one of us, and is a comfort watch for the other.
46 minutes | Aug 18, 2021
Micro-Episode 3 - Things That Scared Us
We brave the deep waters of our mindbrains to talk about films and similar that scarred us as children.
112 minutes | Aug 11, 2021
The Mummy - "It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book."
Join us in service to Imhotep as we look at the blockbuster late 90s Mummy revival, taking in anachronisms, age ratings and (h)airdos, in a film that was part of my childhood and is thankfully still enjoyable
37 minutes | Aug 4, 2021
Micro Episode 2 - Baddies
An informal chat about films in which you want the baddies to win.  In the 70s my parents saw Star Wars at a midnight screening and the post-pub audience were all cheering Darth Vader and booing the Rebel Alliance.  That's a bonus anecdote for everyone that reads to show description, there.
124 minutes | Jul 28, 2021
Rebecca (1940) - "Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?"
Our first Hitchcock film is his only Best Picture winner and his second Daphne du Maurier adaptaion, the magisterial Rebecca. Join us as we make some unlikely comparisons, dig into the mess that is Maxim de Winter's psyche and disagree about the meaning of the phrase "making violent love behind the palm trees."
34 minutes | Jul 21, 2021
Micro Episode 1 -Masks
A short and lightly edited bonus chat about masks in films, following on from The Phantom of the Opera last week.
93 minutes | Jul 14, 2021
The Phantom of The Opera (1929) - "A Night of Vague Horrors - Tortured Dreams"
Join us for Rupert Julian's silent masterwork, filmed in 1925 then re-released in 1929 as a sound film, which was then lost, then restored as a silent again.  We crawl through the chambers of Lon Chaney's lair and look at The Phantom of The Opera.
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