Haunted Picture Palace

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.