Welcome horror fans! The Evolution of Horror is a weekly movie discussion podcast that covers the history of horror cinema, one sub-genre at a time. From Universal Monsters to 80s slashers, from Alfred Hitchcock to Jordan Peele, we've got it covered! Each week, host Mike Muncer is joined by a different guest from the world of horror to discuss a movie in depth and its place in horror history.
In this bonus episode, I chat to Christopher Landon about his new movie DROP (2025), which is in cinemas from today, his potential new HAPPY DEATH DAY sequel and his feelings on leaving Scream 7... Plus, a preview of my discussion with Becky Darke on HAPPINESS, as part of our Discomfort Season on Patreon. Listen to the full episode here
Mike Muncer concludes the 'Nature Bites Back' season by reflecting on key themes, thanking guests, and sharing listener feedback. Mary Wild joins to discuss the season's exploration of primal instincts and environmental awareness. The episode also features a countdown of the listeners' top 10 nature horror films, revealing the community's favorite creature features and disaster movies. Muncer unveils the next season's focus: man-made monsters.
This week, a bonus Nature Bites Back episode with a discussion of a movie voted for by Patreon subscribers! DeVaughn Taylor joins Mike to discuss Jordan Peele's NOPE (20220) in depth. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon...
For our final official double bill of the season, Adam Z. Robinson joins Mike to discuss two recent terrifying animal attack films...Alexandre Aja's CRAWL (2019) and Sébastien Vaniček's INFESTED (2024). Send us your feedback for this season and submit your Top 10 Nature Bites Back movies! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some bran...
Brad Hanson pops in to recommend to additional animal attack horror movies not covered in depth this season! Check out the full list on Brad's Letterboxd Submit your TOP 10 NATURE BITES BACK MOVIES ! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treat...
So bad it's good? Or just plain...bad? This week Mike is joined by Matt Draper to discuss the wave of pun-tastic B-movies that were churned out by movies like The Asylum through the 2010s...it's going to get ugly... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVE...
This week things get icky and squishy as Kevin Lyons joins Mike to discuss two eco-body-horrors, THE BAY and EVOLUTION. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolutionofhorror Email us! Follow us on TWITTER Follow us...
Re-posted from the Patreon feed, here's Mike's chat with Steph McKenna about the life and career of the late, great David Lynch. Want to hear similar epsiodes on William Friedkin, Tony Todd, Vincent Price, Wes Craven, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephen King and more? Check out other episodes in our ' Legends of Horror ' strand on Patreon Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING S...
It's not the end of the world...or is it? This week things get bleak as Leigh Singer joins Mike to discuss two apocalyptic psychological dramas...TAKE SHELTER and MELANCHOLIA. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERC...
In this special bonus episode, Mike chats to writer / director Leigh Whannell about his latest horror movie, WOLF MAN. Mike is then joined by Empire's Chris Hewitt to review the movie in depth (with full spoilers). Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content ...
SHARK! Mike is joined by new guest Juliet Sugg to discuss two terrifying survival horror movies about killer sharks from the 2010s... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bon...
Mike chats to director Robert Eggers about his new movie NOSFERATU (spoiler free), his relationship with the original 1922 classic and his thoughts on the evolution of vampire movies... Sign up to our Patreon to hear what we thought of the movie!
This week Mike is joined by Maha Albadrawi for a backpacking trip to the 2000s survival horrors, with THE RUINS (2008) and FROZEN (2010). Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for...
It's Shyamalan week! Ben Travis joins Mike to discuss two...divisive?...M Night Shyamalan eco-horror movies: The Happening and Old! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolutionofhorror Email us! Follow us on TWITT...
Happy Holidays! This week Mike is joined by Alex Ayling and Joshua Tonks to discuss two festive Nature Bites Back movies: Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ ev...
"TROLL!" This week Mike is joined by James Rendell to discuss two international monster movies from the 2000s...Bong Joon Ho's THE HOST and André Øvredal's TROLL HUNTER. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolutio...
It's time to turn out the lights and descend into the pitch black...this week Mike is joined by Louise Blain to discuss Neil Marshall's terrifying masterpiece THE DESCENT (2005). Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH M...
It's disaster movie week! DeVaughn Taylor from the Specter Cinema Club Podcast joins Mike to discuss Jan De Bont's TWISTER and Roland Emmerich's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolution...
This week Mike is joined by Joshua Tonks to discuss two banging creature features from 1999...DEEP BLUE SEA & LAKE PLACID! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolutionofhorror Email us! Follow us on TWITTER Follow...
This week Mike is joined by Horror Queers Trace Thurman and Joe Lipsett to discuss two cult favourite 90s creature features...ANACONDA and DEEP RISING! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/ evolutionofhorror Email us...
This week, the creature features of the 90s kick off with a spider attack movie and a giant worm attack movie! Jen Handorf joins Mike to discuss ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990) and Steph McKenna joins MIke to discuss TREMORS (1990) Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS ...
What's the greatest horror scare? Who is the greatest horror monster? What's the greatest slasher movie? On Halloween 2024, Mike was joined on stage at the Regent Street Cinema by Reece Shearsmith, Dan Martin and Rosie Fletcher to open the EOH Hall of Fame and put forward their cases, in front of a live audience...enjoy! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENING...
It's kid horror week! Rob Watts joins Mike to discuss two family friendly animal attack movies... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon ! Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats....
Longlegs is out on home entertainment this week (21st October) and to celebrate, I chatted to Alicia Witt about playing Ruth in the film, plus she reminisces about her time playing Gersten Hayward on Twin Peaks and her collaborations with David Lynch... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donat...
This week Ally Penelope joins Mike Muncer to discuss a double dose of primate horror! They discuss Richard Franklin's insane LINK (1986) and George Romero's underrated MONKEY SHINES (1988)! Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.p...
What happens when filmmakers mess with REAL wild animals? This week Mike and Rhianna Dhillon discuss Noel Marshall's insane and ill-judged eco-adventure movie ROAR (1981) and Werner Herzog's chilling documentary GRIZZLY MAN (2005). Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus...
Art the Clown is back! In this week's bonus episode, Mike sits down with creator and director of the TERRIFIER franchise Damien Leone about how his little indie 2016 grindhouse movie sparked one of the most unexpectedly successful popular horror franchises of the last few years...and his latest instalment in the series, TERRIFIER 3, which is out in UK cinema this week. Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofh...
This week Mike is joined by Matt and James from Journey Through Sci-Fi to talk about walking, talking carnivorous plants in the acclaimed 1981 BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Watch all six episodes on Archive.org Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS Buy yourself some brand new EOH MERCH! Subscribe and donate on PATREON fo...
This week Mike is joined by Michael Blyth to discuss two early 80s animal attack movies directed by Lewis Teague...ALLIGATOR and CUJO. Come and see Adam Z. Robinson's latest show, NIGHTMARES! Use promo code NIGHTMARES24 to get a discount on tickets for the perfomrnace in Greeniwch on Sat 02 Nov! Tickets here Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreo...
This month, Mike took a trip to the Universal Studios to be scared shitless at the Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando. For this bonus episode, he sits down with creators and hosts of RKG and hosts of the new How To Survive Friday the 13th podcast to discuss and recommend some of the best horror mazes and experiences out there... Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer Music by Jack Whitney . Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror. com Buy tickets for our UPCOMING S...