Episodes
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - "Are You A Good Boy or Not?"
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
This week we walk the streets of Bad City, somewhere in Iran, for Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the 'first Iranian vampire western.' Wear your shades.
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Twilight - "It's Very Common. You Can Google it."
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Vampire Season continues with Catherine Hardwicke's much-maligned 2008 adaptation of teen vamp blockbuster publishing sensation Twilight. He's 'the world's most dangerous predator'.... Honest.
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Dracula (1931) - "There Are Far Worse Things Awaiting Man Than Death."
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
We don capes and do rather more accents that we expected to exhume Tod Browning's truly iconic Dracula, the film that launched Universal's genre-defying run of 1930s horror and casts a menacing shadow even over today's cinema.
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
The Phantom Carriage - "It's A Spooky Place To Wait For Midnight"
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
This week on Haunted Picture Palace we look at a film that required special dispensation from the Swedish censors to be made, Victor Sjöström's pioneering 1921 proto-horror The Phantom Carriage.
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Ginger Snaps - " Out by sixteen or dead on the scene, but together forever."
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
This week we take a look at John Fawcett's year 2000 tale of the fightening changes that take place in your body when you hit puberty, and are bitten by The Beast of Bailey Downs. Quelle Shocker!
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Quatermass And The Pit - "We are the Martians now."
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
We take our first trip into the world of Hammer Horror as we excavate Roy Ward Baker's 1967 film Quatermass and The Pit, taking in haunted buildings, space-arthropods and machines to read your brains!
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
The Witch - "We Will Conquer This Wilderness. It Will Not Consume Us."
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Robert Eggers' 2015 feature-film debut The VVitch is now playing at Haunted Picture Palace! We look at faith, loss, temptation and goats as we join a puritan family, pitched against the harsh unforgiving landscape of 1630s New England. You cannot escape the wood.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Crimson Peak - "The ghosts are just a metaphor."
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Episode 4 of Haunted Picture Palace is an excursion into high Gothic as we take in the sumptuous sights and sounds of Allerdale Hall in Guillermo Del Toro's 2015 film Crimson Peak. Don't drink the tea.
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
The Craft - "Relax, it's only magic!"
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Episode 3 of Haunted Picture Palace and this time we're talking Snake-o-grams, the best in '90s fashions and made-up deities in The Craft (1996)!
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Penda's Fen - "A Demon For Counterpoint"
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Our second episode takes in Manichean dreams, occulted secrets hidden beneath sleeping fields, and the last pagan king in England, as we explore the haunted world of Penda's Fen, from 1974.