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Films that wind you tight and refuse to let go. Little relief, lots of held breath, and the kind of ending you watch through your fingers.

142 episodes

Ep 245

Ep 245 The Menu

00:38:40

Take your place at table, as we partake of Mark Mylod’s “The Menu”. A fine film dining experience in which it’s impossible to fill up on bread; a nasty word in the right ear ensures the meat is cor…

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Ep 224

Ep 224 Broken Veil

00:38:26

This episode we’re discussing the bang-up-to-date podcast “Broken Veil” from Joel Morris and Will Maclean. Two intrepid podcasters gathering weird stories from friends, find the tales begin to coal…

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Ep 216

Ep 216 Horror on Sea 2025

00:39:35

With the magnificent Horror-on-Sea film festival just gone, we look back on the day we attended (Saturday 18th) and the delights we saw there. As well as the usual amazing atmosphere, we experience…

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Ep 215

Ep 215 We have been watching

00:39:06

Welcome To Horror Presents: “The Casebook of We Have Been Watching”. To kick off the new year, it’s time for another round up of the team’s recent eye-musings. This episode we pay close attention t…

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Ep 185

Ep 185 Nosferatu

00:38:17

It’s nearly Christmas; so we’re bringing you some ‘Silent Nights’ - first up is 1922’s beautifully sinister “Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror”. A film in which we learn the very worst way to cut a …

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Ep 172

Ep 172 Split

00:39:45

It’s time to make like a banana (who enjoys the work of M. Night Shyamalan) and watch “Split”. A film in which learn that a Varvatos shirt will excuse 90s cargo pants; that security guards are utte…

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Ep 168

Ep 168 The Fog

00:38:40John Carpenter1980

We return, once more to the work of the one and only Mr John Carpenter (the only J.C. we worship round here). It’s time for 1980’s “The Fog”, a film which proves that 2 generations of scream queens…

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Ep 167

Ep 167 Least Haunted

00:39:24

In a break to our usual format, and to continue our “Haunted April” episodes we present “Least Haunted”. A discussion on our general thoughts and feelings towards the uncanny, the supernatural and …

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Ep 103

Ep 103 The Omen

01:19:39Richard Donner1976

It’s time to plaster the walls with pages from The Bible and check each other for numerical birthmarks as we watch 1976’s Antichrist caper “The Omen”. A film in which someone drops a church spire o…

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Host

01:30:01Rob Savage2020

Oh how the tables have turned! This week; Chris introduces Jennifer, Lee and Adam to a brand new horror- Rob Savage’s Pandemic inspired/necessitated “Host” (2020), streaming exclusively on Shudder.…

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Night of the Eagle

01:12:56

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…

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Ring

00:53:17Hideo Nakata1998

It’s time for the team to experience some J-Horror and we sit down to probably the most (in)famous: Hideo Nakata’s adaption of Kôji Suzuki’s “Ring”. A film in which moody videos in hotel rooms get …

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Near Dark

01:06:00Kathryn Bigelow1987

It’s vampire time again on Welcome to Horror, and this time it’s Kathryn Bigelow’s vision of dusty drifter/murderers “Near Dark”. A film in which the guy who goes on to stub his cigar out on Arnie’…

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Pontypool

01:12:492008

We’re joined once more by the legendary Pinball Bobby of the Not For Everyone Podcast to watch 2008 masterpiece “Pontypool”, a film in which Kill is Kiss, your friendly helicopter-riding weatherman…

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Bonus Dracula

00:58:58

Chris has escaped down the castle wall, leaving Lee and Adam no choice but to record you lucky people a Welcome To Horror Bonus Episode! We take a big spoiler-filled look at the BBC/Netflix “Dracul…

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Ep 38

038 12km

00:44:042016

A rather special Welcome to Horror this week. Lee reached out to director Mike Pecci, and he’s given us the chance to watch and review his atmospheric short film “12KM”. Totally brand new to all th…

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The Black Cat

00:23:29

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…

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