Summer isn't over yet! And neither is my discussion of the passion of fandom and how it makes us do crazy things for what we love! In this episode, I talk with Joe Gaudin and Matt Masters, the owners of the Skyline Drive-in in Shelbyville, Indiana about how they took a dying drive-in and turned it into a movie-lovers paradise! They specialize in a two-day Dusk-To-Dawn Show of horror movies, and gourmet food to die for! I hope you enjoy the show!...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is the "official" 100th episode of Hellbent for Horror! In this episode, I want to discuss PASSION, the driving force behind creativity, and the mad devotion to movies, art, and pop culture we call fandom. Fandom can make us seem crazy, but that mad passion can change lives, and I discuss the amazing story of the resurrection of The Mahoning Drive-In and the way their passion for movies enchanted a worldwide community. I hope you enjoy the show!...
Aug 27, 2021•56 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Bela Lugosi got it right all those years ago when he said that it was women who truly love horror. My guests, The Spinsters of Horror , prove it with every episode of I Spit on Your Podcast , one of the sharpest, passionate, and fun shows around. Join us in a deep-dive geek conversation as we discuss dozens of topics including horror in pop culture, heavy metal, folk horror, taboo terrors, paganism, feminism, fetishes, "comfort horror movies", and why horror does not deserve your shame! I hope y...
Jul 07, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Deserts are the natural world at its most supernatural. They are dangerous and merciless reminders that everything, including civilization, is temporary. Deserts remind us that we are one worldwide crisis away from entropy. A perfect location for horror movies! Join me as I discuss desert horror movies, the way they speak to our social anxieties, and I recount my own drive through the Mojave Desert to visit Death Valley! I hope you enjoy the show! Movies: The Hills Have Eyes (1977) The Hills Hav...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Just when you thought all the celebration is over, H4H finds one last present hidden under the sofa! The Annual (although late) Christmas Ghost Story! Actually, it's more like it got kicked under the sofa by the amazing amount of chaos that this past year brought. This year we are offering you William Hope Hodgson's THE DERELICT to chill your bones! It's a creepy story about the unknown dangers of the open sea and I think you'll realize how this story might have influenced the works of H.P. Love...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast Halloween is NEVER over! H4H decided to keep the bone dance going for a few more days to raise our spirits! We survived the weirdness of H a l l o w e e n 2 0 2 0 and now we're in the final stretches of the Year the Wouldn't Die. H4H is doing a Horror Double Feature with two podcasts of extended conversations with horror enthusiasts and creators! Part Two is a stream-of-consciousness conversation with the filmmaking team of Amy Lynn Best and Mike Watt ( The Resurrection Game , Splatter Movie: Th...
Nov 06, 2020•2 hr 52 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Halloween is a state of mind. We survived the weirdness of Halloween 2020 and now we're in the final stretches of the Year the Wouldn't Die. I think we all deserve a little more Halloween this year, so H4H is doing a Horror Double Feature with two podcasts of extended conversations with horror enthusiasts and creators! Part One is a fly-on-the-wall conversation between Jon Kitley (Kitley's Krypt, Discover the Horror: One Man's 50-Year Quest for Monsters, Maniacs, and the Meaning of it All ), Bry...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 21 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast In the world of genre and fandom, the universal currency is passion . Fans of different genres normally would not mix, but there are areas of overlap, LIKE a GENRE VENN DIAGRAM . Join me and H4H producer, Lisa Gorski , as we discuss the overlap between two of the most passionate fandoms, HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION . (shock: Lisa is NOT a horror fan!) #horror #scifi #lovecraftcountry #sayhorror #alien #thething #TheExpanse #TheRitual Movies, Books, and Artists Discussed: A Nightmare on Elm Street...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast 2020 is the 100-year anniversary of 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' , the German Expressionism film that created the visual and thematic template for the modern horror movie. And I think it is very fitting that three films up for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year were horror films in disguise. Join me as I show how three very different films carry the Caligari DNA and continue to expand the language of the modern horror film. I hope you enjoy the show! Movies Discussed: The Cabinet of D...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Part Two of my post-mortem on 2010-2019, the Decade of Dread! Was 2010 to 2019 an embarrassment of riches, or just an embarrassment? The honest answer is…BOTH. This is my deep dive into "the State of Horror" as we move towards a new decade and brace ourselves as we walk into the maelstrom that is 2020. In Part Two, I investigate the dark side of the geek and horror culture throughout the decade. This episode is a critical look at some of the trends that weren’t so hot, some trends and...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast It's a month into 2020 and the "terrible teens" are due for a post-mortem! There were huge changes in the world of entertainment in the years 2010 to 2019 and the horror genre was right in the middle of it all. The advent of streaming services and the popularizing of "binge-watching" changed the way we watched horror and the amount of new and old films and television shows were available to us. This was also a period where there was a huge variety of subgenres to choose from and it was a time wh...
Feb 04, 2020•57 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Hello, my friends! Happy Holidays! I hope you got what you wanted for Christmas and Hanukkah! And...here's one last present that I was hiding behind the sofa! Last year I did a traditional Christmas ghost story reading . This is a tradition that harkens back to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and has been kept alive by the BBC throughout the decades. I ’ve decided I want to make this an annual event. So, what I want to do this Christmas season is to tell a few short tales to chill you while y...
Dec 26, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast 'Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor', screamed the August 1995 headline in The Los Angeles Times. From the 60s to the 80s, producer/director Al Adamson made cheap, crazy and effective exploitation films, like SATAN'S SADISTS and DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN for the drive-in market. But the whole truth behind Al Adamson's strange life and gruesome death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. The new documentary BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF...
Oct 27, 2019•59 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast Great horror stories, like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , have universal appeal and artists can reinterpret them to reflect the anxieties of every generation. And on Friday, September 13th, legendary Independent Horror Auteur Larry Fessenden releases Depraved , his newest vision of the Frankenstein story. Since 1985, Larry Fessenden has been creating his own fiercely independent, critically-acclaimed horror films ( No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, and Beneath )through the film studio ...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to PART ONE of a podcast double-feature with the I Know Dino Podcast ! Dragons! The xenomorph from Alien ! The shark from Jaws ! These monsters are descendants of real creatures that walked the earth- the dinosaur. Horror movies have used the dinosaur as a source for monsters since the silent era because they are a source of endless fascination and terror. But, do the dinosaurs deserve their role as horror movie villain? Are there dinosaurs that are even weirder and scarier than what the...
Aug 22, 2019•50 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers! Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women. This interview is with director Sarah K. Reimers to discuss her short film (and festival favorite), Bitten , her life-long love of horror films, and the h...
Jun 29, 2019•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Horror is an emotion first and a setting later. It's the only genre that is directly named after an emotion, and that gives horror a universal appeal. It also makes each person's experience and interpretation personal. We close out June, Pride Month , with a celebration of the contributions the LGBTQ community has brought to the horror genre since the creation of the Gothic novel. My guest is Waylon Jordan, the Associate Editor for iHorror.com , one of the largest online horror resources in the ...
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers! Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women. This interview is with writer/director Chelsea Lupkin ( Flutter, Uncovering Eden ) to discuss her newest short film, Lucy's Tale and her love of genre fil...
Jun 07, 2019•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers! Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women. This interview is with writer/director/special effects supervisor Ivy Liao ( The Chase, Synesthesia ) to discuss her newest short film, Cupid's Paradise a...
May 29, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nothing marks the end of an era more potently than when the icons of that era pass away. The cold reality is that when horror icons pass away, they rarely get memorialized in mainstream arenas. So, I wanted to give an "Irish Wake", a happy send-off for several of the people who passed away over the last few years. The people who gave horror fans their First Kiss. Consider this episode the Last Kiss, a retrospective of the careers of writers, directors, actors, and illustrators and a final recomm...
May 23, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast The best thing about being a horror fan is sharing the love with other horror fans! And I had the pleasure to do just that! On April 11th, 2019 we did a live podcast of Hellbent for Horror and a live reading from my book, "Screaming for Pleasure" from the legendary horror bookstore, Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA . Special guest Heidi Honeycutt and I discuss horror, horrible/beautiful, and how we need a new "Santo and the Blue Demon" in our culture. I hope you enjoy the show! Follow Dark Delicac...
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast (Photo credit: CHRISTOPHER WAHL/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES) If director Guillermo del Toro didn't exist, we horror fans would have had to invent him. He's a true lifelong fan himself, who brought his unique style and passion to horror films, and his love for monsters paid off when The Shape of Water won Best Picture in 2017. So...why is there so little conversation about Guillermo del Toro in the horror community? Has the man who makes horror films as love letters to the Outsider been branded an ou...
Mar 25, 2019•2 hr 45 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Killer bees! Disaster Movies have been a staple of cinema since the Silent Era, and they are far more diverse in scope than you might think. Most Disaster Movies want to thrill you, but there are those proud few that really want to scare you . Let's take a look at some of those movies that put the Fear of God into us! I hope you enjoy the show! We’re taking Hellbent for Horror to Burbank! Join host and author S.A. Bradley for a live author event and book signing at Dark ...
Mar 18, 2019•50 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast The excellent new documentary, HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR, is a love letter to the rich, powerful history of Black American artists in horror cinema. The story is told by the artists who made the movies, and they give their unflinching perspectives on the past, present, and future of black horror. Join me as I speak with Executive Producers Dr. Robin Means Coleman and Tananarive Due about their documentary, Black horror, and their "First Kisses" with horror! Dr. Coleman is currently...
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast On October 4th, 2018, hundreds of figures dressed in black walked into the Wisdom Woods of Georgia to perform an unholy ceremony. Beasts were conjured and blood was spilled by the gallons in the pursuit of graven images. And popcorn was eaten. I was a witness to the Women in Horror Film Festival, and I lived to tell the tale! I interview festival co-founder and film director Vanessa Ionta Wright as well as several of the talented filmmakers in attendance as we discuss film inspirations, real-lif...
Feb 22, 2019•2 hr 42 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast February is Women in Horror Month , and we're celebrating with an interview with the writer/actress Rakefet Abergel! We discuss her short horror film, the multiple-award-winning Jax in Love (2017). Join us as we discuss horror and comedy timing, Rakefet's First Kiss with horror, and her cinematic "guilty pleasures"! Want to watch the video of the interview? Go to my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/0VU9FORzjzE More on Jax in Love here: https://www.jaxinlove.com/ And follow the progress on Rakef...
Feb 05, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast February is Women in Horror Month , and we're starting things off with an interview with Tara Hall , the writer of the feature-length film, Buzzard Hollow Beef (2017). Tara sat down with me to discuss her film, horror movies, how Sam Raimi made her want to be a filmmaker, her First Kiss with horror, and her favorite comedy! Want to watch the video of the interview? Go to my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/alvfxgeuCsc You can watch Buzzard Hollow Beef on Amazon Prime here: https://www.amazon.co...
Feb 02, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast So, what does “Punk Rock Attitude” mean, anyway? There are as many answers to this question as there are punk rockers. Although the connection between heavy metal and horror is well documented, the connection between horror and punk rock isn’t discussed as much. Yet, movies like CLASS OF 1984 , and LIQUID SKY , and RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD , and even RE-ANIMATOR exude a punk rock attitude with a nihilistic brand of humor and irreverence. And now, there's a new punk rock kid in town! THE RANGER ...
Jan 18, 2019•59 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast One last surprise present "under the tree" for my listeners! I'm continuing the British tradition of the Christmas Ghost Story. Get some eggnog, put another log on the fire, nurse your wounds from your most recent game of "snapdragon", and sit back to listen to my rendition of Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows". I can't wait to meet with all of you again in 2019! I hope you enjoy the show! My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW ! https://hellbentforho...
Dec 26, 2018•2 hr 2 min•Ep 785•Transcript available on Metacast “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from MAGIC ”. -Arthur C. Clarke “The only way of discovering the limits of the POSSIBLE is to venture a little way past them into the IMPOSSIBLE ”. -Arthur C. Clarke When we watch a movie, or we listen to someone tell a story, we actively allow ourselves to believe in that level of magic. We want to believe there is still magic in the world. And, guess what? There still is . Join me as I speak with my special guest, Victoria Mavis. Victo...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast 
