The HorrorCultFilms Podcast

If you down to the woods today you’ll be sure of a big surprise. The HorrorCultFilms Podcast is back to discuss the Blair Witch trilogy. Join David, Jim and Alasdair as they talk about the found footage classic and its two sequels.Introduction: What we’ve been watching,The Blair Witch Project (37:27)Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (01:10:51)Blair Witch (01:50:08)Outro: most disappointing sequels (02:13:35)

The HorrorCultFilms Podcast - Episode 23: Sinister and Sinister 2The HorrorCultFilms Podcast returns to talk about the Sinister movies. Join David, Jim and Alasdair as they go through both of them, discussing what works and what doesn’t. To finish off, they discuss some other non- Bughuul flicks by Blumhouse.Introduction: What we’ve been watching,Sinister (21:53)Sinister 2 (59:35)Outro: the best of Blumhouse (01:31:28)

As a first for this show, The HorrorCultFilms gang cover some comedy. Namely, David, Alasdair and Jim do the Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. How’s that for a slice of fried gold?Introduction: What we’ve been watching,Shaun of the Dead (33:34)Hot Fuzz (01:21:48)The World’s End (02:05:18)Outro: the best Simon Pegg films (02:42:03)

In this minisode, David is joined by writer/director Jane Schoenbrun to talk about her feature debut We're All Going to the World's Fair. Throughout they discuss creating art, mystery, online culture, identity and Hollywood “wokeness”.

Happy New Year! The HorrorCultFilms team kick off 2022 with a return to Woodsboro. In today’s episode, our feature presentation is the new Scream – what did we make of the series comeback? This one’s a deep dive and at least one of the gang changes their mind. Elsewhere we talk about the recent Matrix, spiderman and a few others from last year.Introduction: What we’ve been watching, 2021, The Matrix ResurrectionsScream, 2022 (50:02)Best movie reboots (01:50:40)

The first year of our podcast, plus this retrospective miniseries, conclude with a look at the two most recent movies: Hellraiser Revelations and Judgement. Two movies of differing style and quality. Afterwards, David, Alasdair and Jim reflect on their journey through ten trips to Hell and rank the lot of them in order of preference.Introduction: What we’ve been watchingHellraiser: Revelations (23:00)Hellraiser: Judgement (56:58)Ranking the Hellraiser movies (01:44:53)

Rounding off our Hellraiser retrospective, David and Alasdair speak with special-effects wizard Gary J. Tunnicliffe. Gary has worked on every Hellraiser film since the third, in some capacity, and directed the most recent one. In this episode he chats with us about making monsters, what went wrong with Revelations and what went right with Judgement. This was a really good fun interview, and you’ll learn a lot about the industry from it.

The Hellraiser retrospective continues with the Rick Bota trilogy. Join David, Alasdair and Jim as they once again descend to Hell for parts 6-8. It’s a questionable, but often fun, trilogy of intimidating suicides, senseless twists and so many wake-ups. At over two and a half hours, this may be among the most in-depth discussions of these films anywhere on the internet.Introduction: What we’ve been watchingHellraiser: Hellseeker (25:56)Hellraiser: Deader (01:06:38)Hellseeker: Hellworld (01:45:14)Actors who did horror early on (02:23:52)

The HorrorCultFilms team open the box once again and check out the fourth and fifth Hellraiser films: Bloodline and Inferno. Two movies that are almost nothing alike and establish this franchise as one which isn’t afraid to reinvent itself. But are either of them any good?Introduction: What we’ve been watchingHellraiser: Bloodline (19:30)Hellraiser: Inferno (01:06:18)Best and worst Clive Barker films (01:56:50)

The Hellraiser retrospective continues with David and Alasdair meeting Nicholas Vince aka The Chatterer. Nicholas Vince appeared in the first two Hellraiser films and has continued to expand the universe with his short stories and a comic series. In this feature length interview, he reflects on the making of Hellraiser, his friendship with Clive Barker, what makes for intelligent horror and the celebration of monstrosity. Hellraiser fans are going to want to hear this one!