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THIS EPISODE INCLUDES FULL SPOILERS FOR THE RING In this episode, Val watches as many Ring films as he can possibly stand (all but one). We look at the entire plot of the original Ring movie, to see how it compares to the American remake. Is the original better, or are those who claim the remake is worse just farty cinema snobs? No hints as to Val's opinion, but yes, totally. They are. Val also runs through the sequels - and there are LOT of them. From the Japanese...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS Join Val for a short episode on the little-seen, little-known, criminally-underappreciated Australian splatter comedy, "The Roly Poly Man". A film SO obscure we could find out almost NOTHING about it. So Val does his best to explain the movie's INCREDIBLY strange plot and tells you why you NEED to track this film down! Featuring giant Amazonian leeches, the murder of a giant TV bear, huge testicles, horny nuns. several horrible children and a hors...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS Kia ora koutou, Willing Participants! Come to New Zealand with us, for this very Kiwi episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre! Val takes a look at the splatstick years of Peter Jackson, from building models and effects in his dad's shed and cooking up aliens in his mum's oven for "Bad Taste" through to bringing us debauched, filthy puppets in "Meet The Feebles" and then on to THEEEE GORIEST FILM IN THE WORLD EVAH - "Braindead" ak...

WARNING: This episode contains significant spoilers for the film Halloween III. In this episode, Val looks back on the troubled history of the film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. It was a sequel that John Carpenter and Debra Hill didn't want to make. But they found inspiration in one of Carpenter's horror heroes - British science-fiction writer, Nigel Kneale. In an audacious move, they decided to make a film unlike any other in the Halloween franchise. "Not a knife movie, but a pod mo...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In this festive episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, Val takes you back to Edinburgh. A medieval city, where past links to the present. We focus on two tales from famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Body Snatcher. Val's old friend Dougal stops by for a dram or two, and to share with us the real-life inspiration for both stories. The dastardly Deacon Brodie, who lived by night as "Sir Lluyd" - a criminal who insp...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERS In this episode, Val looks back at Stephen King's first collection of short stories, "Night Shift" published in 1978. This slim volume contained enough material to inspire movies, sequels, tv show episodes, segments in anthologies and even a Bollywood movie! Val will look at seven of the feature film adaptations in turn before talking about the great man's awesome Dollar Baby programme which encourages young film-makers to adapt his work. We'll fea...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERS In this dramatic episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, the podcast is taken over by Val's EVIL TWIN Hal, who is determined the turn the Willing Participants into an army of unthinking drones! But first, Hal reviews three horror films which feature twins. The first is 1981's "Madhouse", directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis, featuring a spooky old house and a terrifying twin sister, hell-bent on REVENGE! Then we look at Brian de Palma's brilliant thriller...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS ONLY Our first minisode! It turned out almost as long as a regular episode. Eff's sake. Join Val as he goes over the history of Tobe Hooper's horror masterpiece. The inspiration for the movie, the writing of the movie and the trauma of shooting the movie. Also find out how Tobe Hooper wanted to make the world's first ever PG-rated cannibal chain saw movie, and why the bemused British censors found it completely unrateable. We'll also talk about setting...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val's family stops by to reminisce about their days of staying up late to watch the Friday Night Horror at grandad's on his old black and white tv set. We'll take a look at some family favourites from back in the day, including... - Robert Wise's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic novel, "The Haunting" - Jacques Tourneur's terrifying and atmospheric "Night of the Demon" - Heaps of rollicking fun with Charles Laughton and...