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Horroretc Podcast: Episodes

Welcome to our 5th annual Festival of Fear convention show as we make the trek to Fan Expo 2012.

This year's lineup was light on the horror genre content but we still found plenty to see and do. Once again we bring the sights and sounds of this massive con to you with coverage of Tony Todd (at his panel ...
'Hellraiser fans... such fertile ground for planting the seeds of torment.'

One more trip to the Hellraiser well. The retrospective just wouldn't be complete without getting Anthony's comments on the latter half of the franchise. Doug also joins in to share his perspective
of the series as a whole. ...
You downloaded the podcast, we came. Now you must come with us, taste our pleasures.

We conclude our Hellraiser franchise retrospective with a look at the post-canon sequels starting with Inferno and moving through Hellseeker, Deader, Hellworld and finally Revelations. It's a long and troubling road ...
It's not hands that call us... it is desire.

A few weeks back, we presented our commentary for Clive Barker's Hellraiser, the seminal 80's cult hit that spawned perhaps the most uneven of horror franchises. As promised, this week continues our retrospective examining all 8 sequels in the popular series. ...
This week we get caught up on some random stuff we've been watching in the past few weeks in advance of some
upcoming franchise retrospectives and of course our annual convention excursion to Fan Expo.

It's an eclectic mix of topics and titles including The Raid: Redemption, The Black Hole, The Aawakening, ...
Welcome to chapter 2 of our focus on genre literature.

This week we bring in a special guest to join the discussion. Jonathan Oliver, editor in chief at Rebellion Press,
shares his insights from a publisher's perspective including what elements of genre storytelling have proven most
enduring, what ...
It's time once again to reconvene the Book Club to discuss a whole new roster of recommendations. The annual Book Club episode is a favorite of ours and thanks to all those who shared a bumper crop of contributions we have loads of suggestions to help fill up those summer reading lists. We will be
joined ...
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal... you become something else entirely. A legend!

The conclusion to Christopher Nolan's epic Batman trilogy has arrived and with it an urgent need to gather together the horroretc crew to discuss it. The arrival of Batman Begins ...
"We have such sights to show you..."

We kick off our Hellraiser franchise retrospective with a feature length audio commentary to the seminal
1987 Clive Barker classic film! Original, unsettling, and defying all categorization Hellraiser introduced many horror fans to the distorted imagination of Barker's ...
Bellissima!

It's the Maestro versus the Master, of sorts...
On this week's episode of the Horror Etc Podcast, Tony and guest-host Barry (in place of a vacationing Ted) take a look at the works of Lucio Fulci. From his start as a director of Italian comedies, to creator of some of the most astonishing ...
It's summertime, and in true Horroretc tradition we are slacking off this week. With some great spotlight shows planned in the near future we took the opportunity to get a little more catching up done with some random topics, recent watches and of course... listener feedback.

The subjects range from ...
In June of 2012 two horror geeks disappeared in the woods near Kingston, Ontario, while recording a podcast...
A year later their footage was found.

okay, so maybe that's not true but we did get lost. This week we put together a true From the Hip edition of the show that started out as an on location ...
Grab your tin foil hats and find your way to the panic shelter, we are about to take on some of the world's greatest
conspiracy theories and we don't want the men in black to show up and haul you away before we uncover the truth.

It's a deviation from the norm this week as Ted is joined by a special ...
What is dead may never die.

The second season of HBO's ground breaking adaptation of the Song of Ice and Fire series has come to a close and with it we have called together our panel from episode 202 (season 1) to discuss it.

Book 2, titled A Clash of Kings, brought an array of new characters and ...
"The oldest and strongest emotion in man is fear, and the oldest and strongest form of fear is of the unknown"

H.P. Lovecraft may be considered one of the most important and influential American authors the genre has ever seen. A bold statement but it happens to be one we stand behind and because of ...
In the grand tradition of the slasher film we present... a sequel.

Now that we have the history and characteristics of the slasher subgenre covered, it's time to pick some movies to discuss. Although these films have been steadily slicing their way to movie screens for decades we chose to pay tribute ...
Slasher films.
A subgenre of horror both maligned and beloved, it's high time we took a stab at it.

Along the way we have dedicated episodes to the Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises which is a tipoff that we are fans of the format but we have never focused specifically ...
Our unofficial three episode arc of editorials dedicated to the underspoken contributors to our favorite genre comes to a close this week as we celebrate the father of the splatter film Herschell Gordon Lewis.

A true one of a kind showman, he carved a film career out of delivering what audiences wanted ...
This week we pay tribute to the B-movie master himself Roger Corman with an informal discussion of the man, his work and his legacy. It's another entry in our informal arc of episodes celebrating the underspoken icons of the genre.

So what is Corman's legacy? He is responsible for the "Corman Film School" ...
Welcome to a very informal look at one of the genre's unsung heroes Dan Curtis.

With the Tim Burton adaptation of Dark Shadows about to arrive, we take a look back through the works of the director / producer who worked primarily in the television medium beginning with his auspicious daytime drama ...
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