Haunted Picture Palace

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TV & Film

A weekly podcast featuring two people with soothing voices, talking about a spooky film we've made each other watch.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - "Are You A Good Boy or Not?"

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.

Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 11

Twilight - "It's Very Common. You Can Google it."

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.

Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 10

Dracula (1931) - "There Are Far Worse Things Awaiting Man Than Death."

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.

Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 9

The Phantom Carriage - "It's A Spooky Place To Wait For Midnight"

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.

Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 8

Ginger Snaps - " Out by sixteen or dead on the scene, but together forever."

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!

Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 7

Quatermass And The Pit - "We are the Martians now."

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!

Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 6

The Witch - "We Will Conquer This Wilderness. It Will Not Consume Us."

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.

Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 5

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