Castle of Horror Podcast

Tony checks in from Fantastic Fest with another round of discoveries, including:
Cinema Recomposed: Silent Monsters — A live string quartet performs original scores created by young composers for seven classic silent-horror shorts.
Red Snow — A disaffected Finnish teenager visiting her grandmother encounters a middle-aged vampire who disguises himself as Santa Claus to enter homes and devour families.
Girl in the Night — A lonely gas-station attendant becomes fascinated with a mysterious vigilante and devises an increasingly absurd plan to get closer to her in this deadpan Slovenian superhero comedy.
Jim Queen — When a mysterious virus begins turning gay men straight, a muscle-bound icon of the Parisian gay scene searches for a cure in this outrageous French animated comedy.
Game Master — A disconnected father infiltrates an enormous medieval-fantasy live-action role-playing event to find his missing daughter—and perhaps rebuild their relationship.
The Face of Horror — Anna Biller relocates the Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan to medieval England, where a betrayed woman returns from the grave to seek bloody revenge against her unfaithful husband.
Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino the Prequel — Two impoverished siblings move into their wealthy uncle’s ancestral home, where dark rituals, possession, and a deadly family curse await them.
Flapjax — An excessively enthusiastic fast-food manager relaunches an addictive breakfast item, only to discover that he has become an unwitting pawn in an alien conspiracy.
Alpha Gang — Aliens disguised as a 1950s biker gang arrive on Earth with hostile intentions, but exposure to human emotions begins complicating their mission.
Ghost in the Cell — Rival inmates and corrupt guards inside a brutal Indonesian prison must work together when an invisible supernatural force begins murdering prisoners and arranging their bodies in grotesque displays.
Pathetic Fallacy — A grieving widower searching for a way to reunite with his late wife descends into a psychedelic nightmare of cosmic forces, talking creatures, and brutal murder.
Magick MTN. — A ghoulish host guides viewers through three interconnected, occult-infused stories in a low-budget rock-and-roll horror anthology set around Laurel Canyon.
Kick On — Four friends prolong a night of partying at a mobster’s drug-fueled hideout, where paranoia, betrayal, and explosive violence leave them fighting for survival.
Half — Half-human, half-vampire twins hunt down the highway marauders who attacked them in a blood-soaked Indian fusion of vampire horror, martial arts, and revenge Western.
The Heretiks — On Halloween night, two sisters and their friends barricade themselves inside a house as a powerful coven of witches closes in on a teenage girl needed for a sinister ritual.

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Tony Salvaggio checks in from Fantastic Fest in Austin with his first impressions of:
Resident Evil (2026) — Zach Cregger’s reinvention follows an ordinary medical courier trapped in Raccoon City during a horrifying outbreak of mutated creatures.
Beware Boiúna — A medical mission deep in the Amazon becomes a desperate fight for survival when it awakens Boiúna, a colossal ancient serpent determined to reclaim its domain.
The Blood Countess — Isabelle Huppert stars in this campy vampire comedy about Elizabeth Báthory’s return in modern-day Vienna and her search for a mysterious book capable of destroying vampires.
The Glorious Dead — The Adams filmmaking family delivers a practical-effects-driven apocalypse tale about a small-town sheriff and her deputy confronting bloody fissures, grotesque creatures, and the rising dead.
Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss — In this gloriously gory puppet fantasy, a band of barbarians beheads an evil king, only to plunge into an underground labyrinth filled with monsters, hallucinations, and dark magic.
Into the Sky — Sam Richardson plays a man whose attempts to repair his broken marriage are continually derailed by mysterious alien abductions in this blend of science fiction, comedy, and romance.
Kung Fu Deadly — Two bumbling Dublin pest exterminators join forces with a Taoist guardian to battle an ancient Chinese jiangshi in a supernatural martial-arts comedy inspired by classic Hong Kong cinema.
Upiro — In 1755, a young woman sent to a remote convent discovers novices suffering from a mysterious blood-related illness connected to a supernatural upyr.

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Today we're talking with John Barker, author of the new book ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES. 
All The Right Movies is your exclusive look at the stories, people, and on-set surprises of 25 popular films dating back to the 1960s. Thoroughly researched and written by the team behind one of the biggest movie podcasts and film accounts on X, All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies), this beautifully illustrated guide takes you beyond the cameras with key cast and crew member interviews and fun facts about the making of iconic movies across a variety of genres.

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This week we have a look at the 1956 monster movie THE SHE-CREATURE. This is Episode 495! 
The She-Creature (or The She Creature) is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, released by American International Pictures (AIP) from a script by Lou Rusoff (brother-in-law of AIP executive Samuel Z. Arkoff). It’s premise was tied directly to the 1950s Bridey Murphy phenomenon. Morey Bernstein’s The Search for Bridey Murphy, published in January 1956, recounted hypnotic sessions in which Colorado housewife Virginia Tighe supposedly remembered life as a nineteenth-century Irishwoman; the book became a national sensation before investigators cast substantial doubt on the story. Producer Alex Gordon said exhibitor Jerry Zigmond suggested turning the craze into a movie subject, after which Lou Rusoff wrote the story and screenplay.

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Drew Edwards, creator of Halloween Man, chats with Phil Howell, pop artist whose memorable graphic designs and illustrations have included Buffy, Star Wars, MCU and other pop art. Josh Brolin of the MCU said his art "makes me happy it exists in this world."

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