Episodes

  • Infocast – A History Of Horror Podcast

    Infocast – A History Of Horror Podcast
    Jan 25 2015
    A quick introduction to A History Of Horror Podcast before we start. Christopher Brown sets the scene and explains what the plan is for the next year.  
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    4 mins
  • Pioneers of Cinema

    Pioneers of Cinema
    Mar 1 2015
    We begin our History of Horror journey right at the birth of cinema. From the beginning exploitation was present with horror films and we can see this with Edison's productions among others.  There was also the rise of the cinema special effect and the work of master film-maker George Melies
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    39 mins
  • Germany And A Silent Revolution

    Germany And A Silent Revolution
    Mar 15 2015
    We continue our journey by going to Germany and examining the impact of expressionism on the country at the time, and art right up to the modern day. We look at films such as The Student Of Prague, Nosferatu and Vampyr
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    38 mins
  • Monsters

    Monsters
    Mar 29 2015
    We're back in America for the moment Hollywood realises that there is money to be made from horror movies. Universal introduce their iconic monsters to the world and the classic film versions of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and more are born.
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    57 mins
  • Hammer and British Thrills Part One

    Hammer and British Thrills Part One
    Apr 12 2015
    We go from the start of horror through to the boom of Hammer in this first half look at British horror films Part two will look at Folk Horror through to modern fights and will be released on April 19th  
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    57 mins
  • Hammer and British Thrills part two

    Hammer and British Thrills part two
    Apr 19 2015
    From the grand gothic of Hammer we know slip over to a very English fear. There is old magic in the countryside, religious extremism and bloody murder as we take a look at the unique genre of folk horror
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Aliens and Reds under beds

    Aliens and Reds under beds
    Apr 26 2015
    The 50s was a time of Cold War, nuclear bombs and paranoia. Gothic horror just wouldn't cut it, so sci-fi horror began to grow
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    58 mins
  • Russian Horror

    Russian Horror
    May 9 2015
    There isn't much of it, but Russian horror is an interesting little subgenre, dancing between the surreal and brutal honesty  
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    39 mins