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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.

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,

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  We recorded this a wee while ago, so references to current events are a little out of date, but it's a 30 year old film about 200 year old people, so I reckon we're in the clear.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

Real life has ripped up our release schedule good and proper, so here's a stopgap about Amelia's profession in film.

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.

We brave the deep waters of our mindbrains to talk about films and similar that scarred us as children.

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

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.

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."

A short and lightly edited bonus chat about masks in films, following on from The Phantom of the Opera last week.

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.