Saddle up and get ready for a night of terror and ritual sacrifice; we’re off to the abandoned village of Berzano for an audience with the Blind Dead. This episode tackles one of the most influential films of the early Spanish horror boom. But can this snail’s pace zombie classic still entertain contemporary viewers with its Gothic aesthetic and eerie location shots? Delve with us into a dark nightmare of horse-riding skeletal zombies and find out. This time, the panel gets in the mood with a bo...
Apr 15, 2018•1 hr 12 min
It's time for the scariest damn night of the year! That's right; the third annual WSD festive special is upon us... This year our stockings are full of yuletide violence and controversy, as we tackle the 1984 seasonal slasher Silent Night Deadly Night. An axe-wiedling Santa Clause; the wonderous Linnea Quigley; bumbling cops; bloody violence: it's little wonder this macabre Christmas classic caused so much controversy among the censorious on its initial release. So pour yourself a large glass of...
Dec 10, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Well, it’s that time of year again. Team WSD (well, most of us) are back to make the season of the macabre more frightening than ever, as we wander the empty corridors of the Podcast Memorial Hospital to dissect Rick Rosenthal’s infamous slasher sequel Halloween II. It’s the fourth annual WSD rinseout Halloween special! So is the second instalment in the Michael Myers story as good as the original? Did Carpenter ruin Rosenthal’s vision? What’s the deal with Ben Tramer? And where the eff is every...
Oct 27, 2017•52 min
Do you believe in witches? Here at WSD HQ, we certainly bloody well do. In fact we’ve recorded a podcast about it. That’s right, this time we’re looking at one of the greatest horror films ever made: Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s gore-tastic, expressionist, gothic nightmare Suspiria. From its proggy, creepy Goblin soundtrack to its startling use of vivid colours and unrelenting penchant for stylistic violence, this 1977 masterpiece is utterly mesmerising. This episode we find out what makes...
Sep 09, 2017•1 hr 24 min
This episode things are getting frightfully festive as we dust the dried blood off last year’s Santa suit, polish our kitchen knives and saddle up for an evening of yuletide retribution. Top of our wishlist this year is Lewis Jackson’s utterly insane addition to the holiday horror subgenre: Christmas Evil (AKA You Better Watch Out). Festive Robin Hood of Manhattan or crazed, Santa-obsessed psychopath? We put Brandon Maggart’s fantastic performance under close scrutiny and raise a glass (or two) ...
Dec 11, 2016•1 hr 14 min
Pumpkin pie and candy abounds in our third Halloween special, as we discuss one of the most cartoonish, colourful tributes to Samhain the genre has to offer. Werewolves, slashers, demons, zombies, middle-aged swinger parties; Trick ‘r Treat has it all. Amongst the candy stuffed in our over-sized jack-o-lanterns this year is some Witch’s Brew, Spooks Ale, Brooklyn Lager and Brew Dog’s Pumpkin King. Oh, and Dee had a cup of strawberry tea. Don’t forget to check your candy!
Oct 24, 2016•56 min
Kayaks at the ready, fellow podcasteteers; we’re paddling our way to Devil’s Creek this episode as we look at one of the most notorious summer camp slashers of all time. That’s right: it’s time to face the legend of Cropsy in Tony Maylam’s 1981 video nasty classic The Burning. Sheared fingers, Savini makeup, scrotum-faced killers; what’s not to like? To keep us afloat aboard our poorly-constructed makeshift podcast raft, we’ve packed a few beers in our knapsacks: Hell Fire Pale Ale, Shearer Engl...
Sep 11, 2016•1 hr 17 min
It’s time for a spot of gut-munching, foetus-eating Italian splattersploitation action this episode, courtesy of Joe d’Amato and George Eastman’s collaborative cannibalistic video nasty Anthropophagous. We’re island-hopping on the vacation of a lifetime, trying not to be hideously murdered by a seven foot tall psychopath with breadcrumbs glued to his face. Luckily, we’ve got some barrels of beer in our creepy cellar to hide in: namely Peroni, Brooklyn Lager and Beavertown’s Neck Oil. Let’s hope ...
Aug 21, 2016•1 hr 35 min
We’re climbing the holy mountain of cinematic deliriousness this episode, as we tackle one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most challenging works. Corruption, police brutality, religious greed, consumerism, amphibious colonialism; this film has it all. But one question remains: is the Holy Mountain mere theatrical excrement, or does Jodorowsky manage to turn chaos into gold? Joining us on our search for podcast enlightenment this time are Brew Dog’s Hop Fiction, Hobgoblin Gold and some crisp lager fro...
Jul 01, 2016•1 hr 34 min
Iain speaks to author Saurav Dutt about his book Cannibal Metropolis; a gory, violent and intelligent work of horror literature that pays homage to the Italian cannibal genre of the 1970s.
May 09, 2016•31 min
We’re sipping Pimms and donning our best monocles in this episode as we contemplate Society; Brian Yuzna’s nightmarish orgy of social satire and anti-capitalist thought. Beginning like an ‘80s soap opera and ending in a Cronenberg-esque body-horror splatter-fest, Yuzna’s directorial debut is certainly one of the strangest tackled by Won’t Stay Dead so far. Raise a glass with us as we drink to Society, courtesy of Mikkeller American Dream, Sierra Nevada, Beavertown Gamma Ray, Boundary American Pa...
Feb 28, 2016•1 hr 44 min
What you mother and I must know is...ARE you going to listen to the official WSD Christmas Special? This episode we crawl out from our hiding hole in a sorority house attic to heap praise and criticism alike on what is probably one of the best films ever made, and arguably the first true slasher flick. Obscenity, drunkenness, FElatio, conspicuous Canadianisms: our cinematic stockings are full to the brim with a plethora of talking points and highlights to discuss. While Dee sticks to drinking cu...
Dec 16, 2015•2 hr 6 min
As the old adage goes: ‘there ain’t no party like a WSD party, ‘cos a WSD party don’t stop’. Well, that’s not necessarily true of this episode, in which we tackle the rather mediocre Deadly Blessing, a film that transitioned director Wes Craven’s early grindhouse video nasties to his more accessible mainstream work. As the panel finds out, this makes for a rather confused and confuddled (is that a word?) movie, and an even more confused and confuddled episode, as we struggle to concentrate on th...
Nov 23, 2015•1 hr 48 min
We’re off to Hull House to party in an abandoned funeral home with a six-pack of Coors and some buns pilfered from a local Seven Eleven. It’s the official WSD Halloween Special! In this episode we pay tribute to one of the trashiest films of the ‘80s, pulling it apart and revealing its strengths and weaknesses in true WSD style. It’s sour balls aplenty as we discuss the ever –magnificent Linnea Quigley, links to Lamberto Bava, Sam Raimi and a host of other influences, nods and rip-offs that make...
Oct 31, 2015•2 hr 11 min
Machetes, denim hotpants and colourful macs abound as we head off to camp, celebrating our 13th episode in style with Sean S. Cunningham’s cult slasher classic. Coming along for the ride and whacking the bluegrass on the truck stereo this time are special guests Dom and Conor, who have more than a few good (and bad) things to say about the first instalment in arguably the biggest horror franchise of all time. Savini’s FX, Manfredini’s music, Steve Christie’s alarming similarities with the son of...
Oct 12, 2015•2 hr 41 min
Team WSD are back with a big bang, making our first foray into the eclectic back catalogue of Italian macabre maestro Mario Bava as we dissect his 1965 effort Planet Of The Vampires. With Captain Mark Markary by our side, we attempt to fend off the bodiless consciousness of cinematic preconceptions and get to the heart of one of the godfather of Italian horror’s least appreciated works. It may have inspired Alien, it may have inspired Event Horizon, heck, it may even have inspired John Carpenter...
Aug 18, 2015•2 hr 10 min
We're off to sunny Spain (well, Portugal actually) for the podcast's first attempt at tackling the perversive, subversive batshit-craziness that is the cinema of Iberian horror meister Jess Franco. The Curse Of Frankenstein/Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein is one of the director's earlier and more accessible works, featuring the screen debut of Lina Romay (ESMERALDA!) , as well as appearances by Franco stalwarts Howard Vernon and Britt Nichols. Our cervezas this episode include the classic Estrella ...
Feb 23, 2015•1 hr 59 min
*WSD Official Disclaimer* The following episode was recorded in early December, amid good faith from all panellists concerned that it would be uploaded and ready to go in a week's time, in order to make room to cover Bob Clark's Black Christmas before the festive season began. Christmas being what it is, we switched off for a month or so and never got round to uploading the bloody thing. Needless to say, 2015 is here and we intend to get our arses in gear from this point on. For better or worse,...
Dec 16, 2014•1 hr 45 min
Forgive us, listeners, for we have sinned. It has been over four weeks since our last podcast. But never fear, for we are back with the proverbial bang, crossing ourselves as we bear witness to Ken Russell’s gloriously blasphemous masterpiece The Devils. Dousing the flames as we burn at the stake are Adnam’s Mosaic Pale Ale, Kinnegar’s Devils Backbone, Bishops Finger, Lucifer, Steenbrugge and Profanity Stout. May God have mercy on our souls.
Nov 28, 2014•2 hr 57 min
Halloween is coming and the WSD team are getting hammered. This episode we battle the ancient ghosts of Samhain via John Carpenter's seminal 1978 slasher rinse out Halloween. “If that's the trick, then what are the treats?” I hear you ask. Well, I'll tell you. This week the panel gets through Budweiser, Jupiler, Trouble Brewing's Dark Arts Porter and Pumpkin Brew, Raging Bitch Belgian Style IPA, Brew Dog's Dead Pony Ale, Samuel Adams Octoberfest and Sierra Nevada's Kellerweis. Phew! And if you t...
Oct 29, 2014•2 hr 42 min
This episode sees the panel dig out the old asbestos dungarees and hide charred corpses conspicuously about the place, as we take on Joseph Ellison’s pyromanic video nasty Don’t Go In The House. Sick, twisted filth or underrated dissection of the human psyche for the Jeffrey Dahmer generation? It’s doubtful whether the panel reaches any conclusions, but Christ did we have fun trying… In a bid to extinguish our growing thirst for alcoholic beverages, this episode we quaff Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless...
Oct 07, 2014•2 hr 37 min
Episode two of our minisode series Dead Bites sees Iain talk to directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson about their new film All Cheerleaders Die.
Sep 08, 2014•27 min
The podcast shenanigans for episode six see the team return to Dresden at the height of the Second World War, then back to the present, then back to the war, and finally to the fourth dimensional planet of Tralfamador. Confused? You ought to be. This episode explores Kurt Vonnegut’s highly significant and epic anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five, along with its subsequent 1972 film adaptation. So it goes. Paul tests Iain and Dee’s literary knowledge with a quiz on famous cinematic adaptations of ...
Aug 31, 2014•2 hr 50 min
It's back to science fiction for episode five, as the team whips out its Drac phrase book in an attempt to understand the loopiness behind Wolfgang Petersen's oft-maligned and misunderstood tale of conflict resolution in outer space, Enemy Mine. Is it a galactic war story? Does it effectively challenge superficial, culturally-defined idiosyncrasies? Is Dennis Quaid's acting any good? And what in shitting Christ does 'Enemy Mine' mean, anyway? Join the panel as we look to resolve some of the film...
Aug 12, 2014•2 hr 24 min
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of the Video Recordings Act in the UK, this episode we look back on the 'video nasty' debacle, focussing our attentions on one of the most infamous titles caught up in the hysteria; Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. Elsewhere in the podcast, Dee and Paul battle it out in 'Iain's Video Nasty Quiz', with the hope of proving once and for all who knows the most about low-budget, banned exploitation horror films from the '70s and '80s. And if that ...
Jul 13, 2014•2 hr 22 min
In the first ever edition of our minisode series, Dead Bites, Iain talks to New Jersey director Jack Thomas Smith about his latest film, Infliction. www.inflictiontapes.com www.facebook.com/InflictionTapes
Jul 06, 2014•25 min
Episode three sees the team take to the backwoods along a forgotten stretch of road populated only by Mr Slausen and his band of telekinetic mannequins. That's right; in this instalment we are smothering plaster all over our faces in an attempt to understand the madness that lurks behind David Schmoeller's 1979 slasher epic Tourist Trap. Just watch out for those water moccasins! In our backpacks this week we find Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Brew Dog's Punk IPA, some Valencian seawater beer called Er...
Jul 02, 2014•1 hr 45 min
This episode sees the panel tackle satirical, Orwellian alien invasion, as we stick on our chunky '80s shades, clothesline a cop or two and prepare to join the resistance in a bid to face down John Carpenter's seminal and worryingly-relevant sci-fi classic They Live. Drink along with us! The booze list for this week's podcast is a bottle of California's finest Zinfandel and some 10-year-old Laphroaig single malt whiskey. To chase it down, a few beers are always in order; this episode sees us qua...
May 24, 2014•2 hr 30 min
In our first ever episode, we tackle Dan O’Bannon’s genre-redefining, 1984 zombie schlock fest. Prepare for a wild ride with naked graveyard dancing, Nazi war crimes, zombies on slabs, rabid weasels, screaming yellow men, typical military fuck-ups, Burt & Ernie, Tom & Jerry and some fine Kentucky bourbon.
May 05, 2014•1 hr 27 min
