Ep 247
Ep 247 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
It’s time for some Hollywood glamour on Welcome To Horror, as we ask “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?” A film which gives some top tips for the family catering on a budget; introduces us to King T…
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Classic Horror
The old masters. Black and white shadows, practical tricks and the films that set the rules.
27 episodes
Ep 238
Ep 238 Muppets Dracula
Welcome To Horror Presents: “The Muppet’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. It’s Christmas, and the Welcome To Horror team have decided to celebrate by honouring one of the finest Chri…
Ep 227
Ep 227 The Comedy of Terrors
Settle in your best (and only) coffin, grab a drink or twelve and join us for “The Comedy of Terrors”. In film in which we hear possibly the only use of the phrase “Toss Pot” outside of the UK; Ora…
Ep 226
Ep 226 The Mummy
Grab your bandages and have a good sarcophagus - we’re watching Universal’s original 1932 version of “The Mummy”. A film in which Zita Johann attempts to break the record for the number of 6’s you …
Ep 225
Ep 225 The Tomb of Ligeia
It’s Poe Time! Join us as we venture out into the daylight and visit “The Tomb of Ligeia”. A film in which Captain Peacock serves the tea, whilst Slartibartfast and Doctor Who’s Nero have dinner; m…
Ep 178
Ep 178 Peeping Tom
Last episode we watched “The Red Shoes”, considered by many to be the masterpiece of directors Powell and Pressburger, by contrast we now turn to the film that practically ended Michael Powell’s ca…
Ep 177
Ep 177 The Red Shoes
It’s Lady Jennifer’s birthday request; and we’re joined by previous guest Dani for “The Red Shoes” (1948). A dazzlingly beautiful film in which we learn that if a prominent figure in the arts ISN’T…
Ep 174
Ep 174 The Haunting
With housing a seeming perennial nightmare, we’re going to look at some nightmare houses, kicking off with an absolute, stone cold classic - Robert Wise’s “The Haunting” (that’s the 1963 one, not t…
Ep 148
Ep 148 The Pit and the Pendulum
Audience request month continues with Roger Corman’s “The Pit and The Pendulum”. A film in which a grief-stricken Vincent Price keeps his dead wife’s bedroom exactly as she left it, and similarly e…
Ep 140
Ep 140 Rosemary's Baby
It’s time for a stone cold classic as we deliver “Rosemary’s Baby”. A film in which Dr Zaius suddenly goes all Countdown on his deathbed rather than just telling it straight; Maude Chardin reveals …
Ep 126
Ep 126 The Raven
Once upon a Sunday dreary, 3 podcasters tired and beery, Considered which film would hopefully bore none - They gibbered ‘neath the heaving shelves, of DVDs and asked themselves, “What’s got a grea…
Ep 116
Ep 116 Village of the Damned
The team are joined by Westley Sith of the Mos Eisley Happy Hour for a thoroughly British nightmare; the 1960 adaptation of John Wyndham’s “The Midwich Cuckoos”, filmed as “Village of the Damned”. …
Ep 114
Ep 114 Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
It’s comedy horror time with the swan song of the original Universal Monsters as “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”. A film in which the mysterious Dr Lejos looks an awful lot like Dracula in …
Ep 111
Ep 111 The Fly
It’s atomic-age horror, with the original 1958 version of “The Fly”! A film in which a cat is dispersed into the ether; a common fly is dipped in Tipp-Ex to secure a starring role; and we see the w…
Psycho
From the Yankee Pedlar, the gang move on to the Bates Motel, for absolute bloody classic “Psycho”. An establishment noted for it’s bathroom facilities, with En Suite peepholes at no extra cost. Pre…
Night of the Eagle
This episode we turn to a lesser known classic with 1962’s “Night Of The Eagle” (aka “Burn, Witch, Burn”). A film which in which Mr Peter Wyngarde discovers his wife’s keeping dead spiders in her k…
Ep 57
057 Dead of Night
The team sit down in front of a stone-cold classic- Ealing Studios only horror film;1945’s “Dead of Night” A film in which cigarettes are handed out like sweets, a teenage Truly Scrumptious is far …
Bonus Night of the living Dead
Bonus Episode! That’s right you lucky people. Lee and Lady Jennifer discuss the fantastic new stage adaptation of George A Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”, following its run at the Pleasance Th…
Ep 33
033 House On Haunted Hill
And we return to our regular scheduled broadcast. It’s a long overdue trip to the 1950s for William Castle’s “House On Haunted Hill”, where Vincent Price hands out handguns as party favours, a visi…
Ep 28
028 Munster Go Home
Staying in Horror/Comedy territory, the gang head down to Shroudshire, where a four-time Dracula is slumming it as a butler at Munster Hall, the local barmaid knows a surprising amount about motor …
Ep 22
022 Bride Of Frankenstien
Love is in the air for monsters, and the team are joined for this episode by special guest Lady Jennifer (The Bride of Lee’n’stein). We dial back the clock to another true classic of Universal Hor…
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The third and final Poe-Cast Bonus Episode we bring you is “The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar”. The last segment from Episode 19’s “Tales of Terror” - adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories starr…
The Cask of Amontillado
As promised on Episode 19 “Tales of Terror”; we’re bringing you 3 Bonus Episodes of the original Edgar Allan Poe stories that were adapted for the Roger Corman classic. These are the tales that ins…
The Black Cat
We hope you enjoyed Episode 19 “Tales of Terror” - as promised; we’re bringing you 3 Bonus Episodes of the original Edgar Allan Poe Stories that were adapted for the film. Performed by SLUD (aka ou…
Ep 19
019 Tales Of Terror
It’s a full hit of classic Horror on this bumper episode of Welcome To Horror. With his eyes clamped open à la A Clockwork Orange, Chris is exposed to a series of firsts: His first Poe adaptation, …
Xmas Bonus 2 Whistle And Ill Come To You
Welcome To Horror Christmas Bonus Episode 2 “Whistle And I’ll Come To You” is available now on the Podcast App/iTunes Store, Soundcloud and at welcometohorror.com It’s the second of our Bonus Chri…
Ep 2
002 Wolfman Redux
Episode 2 - This week the guys get in the way-way back machine to check out 1941's universal picture “The wolfman” and see how it holds up to first time viewing from their horror noob Chris while L…
