We go back to 1989 via 1691 to chase down Julian Sands as the Warlock (1989). We find out how best to track a witch, why all New World settlers were Scottish and reveal the darkest secret of this film, what did Brian May do?   Contact us: Facebook: facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

We went to check out our podcast recently only to find a similar podcast had been built by the government for making synthetic food. We're not sure so we've watched Quatermass 2 to check it out. Paul has watched the original serial and nit picks the differences whilst Chris has a rather controversial opinion about this film. Tune in to find out what that is!   Facebook: averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

Merry Christmas. We celebrate by talking about a ghost story for christmas which is set on halloween. What could be more festive? We fire up our hurdy gurdys and  discuss the 1973 Ghost Story for Christmas, Lost Hearts!   Sam Haynes christmas music as well as other horror themed music can be found on his bandcamp page.    https://samhaynes1.bandcamp.com/album/the-gift-of-christmas-fear-horror-music-for-creepmas-special-krampus-edition Find us on social media   Facebook:...

We start the Christmas celebrations with the first of our festive episodes.We go to 1977 to watch the 1st and only Dracula Story for Christmas, BBC's Count Dracula.Is Louis Jourdan the natural successor to Christopher Lee? Lets find out.   Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

We're back with the sequel to Vampire Lovers and one of Chris's favourite Hammer films, Lust For A Vampire. We talk sex pests, sleazy teachers and Hammer doing a Frankenstein with the casting of one of the actors. What do you think of this film? Contact us at: Facebook: www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]   We also reference our friends at Retrospection and their excellent interview with Judy...

Chris and I went to the series launch of new BBC III horror comedy Wreck. (Yes we're showing off) Here's what happened and what we thought about the show.    Wreck starts on BBC III on Sunday October 9th

This episode we interview comedian and horror fan @elf_lyons about her new show Raven. We also talk horror, Stephen King, whether Italian Horror films help with grief, difficulties of sourcing watermelons out of season and a bit about chopping off dicks. It's lovelier than that sounds.   Her show sounds amazing so you can check out her tour dates and buy tickets from her website  https://www.theelflyons.com/   To contact us: Facebook: Search A Very British Horror Twitter:...

We're BACK! Back to 1970s Hammer with this episode as we discuss the artistic merits of their first foray into the lesbian vampire genre. Is this a good adaptation of Carmilla? Are we Vampire Lovers? (See what I did there?) Find out by listening!   Don't agree with us. Tell us via this channels: Facebook: Search for A Very British Horror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

Whilst we are in between regular episodes, we thought it would be fun to share this abandoned episode from March 2017, where we review every Hammer film listed in the book The Hammer Story. Chris had bought a new microphone and we were trying to work out how to record two microphones on one laptop. We thought we'd found a solution and used a bit of software we thought was free. Unbeknownst to us it was only free for about 15 minutes, after that it started to insert the word TRIAL into the...

Welcome to the first episode of 2022. We find that there is room for 1 inside as we go exploring the weird stories of Ealing Studio's horror film Dead of Night. We're no dummies! The documentary film on Dead of Night can be found on Studio Canal UK's youtube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZyhZ3eF_A If you want to discuss this film with us, or any of the issues addressed in the episode you can contact us at: Facebook: averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email:...

Merry Christmas! In our second christmas episode we take a nice trip to the East Anglian coast for a spot of treasure hunting. Surely nothing bad will happen if we discover anything. No diggin‘ Here!! Sounds like A Warning To the Curious. See you in the New Year!   Twitter: @verybrithorror Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Email: [email protected]

Happy M.R. James-mas! Unwrap the first of our Festive episodes as we go to the carol service at  Barchester Cathedral. Hopefully a joyous happy occasion. Wait is that a cat?   Follow us on Twitter: @verybrithorror Like us on Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Email Us: [email protected]

In the run up to christmas and the offical M R James season , we chat to actor and M R James aficionado, Robert Lloyd Parry about his work and the life of James.  For more information about up and coming shows please go to Robert's website https://www.nunkie.co.uk/ Find his two documentaries on Amazon Prime  

Happy Halloween! We go back to Granada Studios and the Inside No 9 live episode Dead Line. Will it all go according to plan or will there be problems with the production? Perhaps there are ghosts in the machine? Were you fooled by this? Let us know

We're back from our summer break and what better way to spend the darker autumn evenings than a night out at The Monster Club. And we've brought a guest, @retrospeccy very own Paul Wood. Grab your cheap mask and grab a drink with Vincent Price. Make sure its a nice red claret though.

Grab your strait jacket and enter Amicus' Asylum (1972). We're joined by T D Velasquez from the brilliant @AndNowPodcast to talk mannequins, funny little dolls, Peter Cushing and much more in what turned out to be our longest episode ever.  

This episode we talk to writer, producer and director Jed Shepherd about his career so far, including the 2020 phenomenon Host and his new real-time full motion video game, Ghosts. We also talk about Night of the Comet and because its us we sneak in a little chat about... Hammer's Horror of Frankenstein! You can watch Host on Shudder. If you haven't seen it yet you're in for a treat. And you can pre-order Ghosts at: https://ghosts.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Jed can be found as...

This episode we discuss The Last Vampyre which stars Jeremy Brett as ... uh... Professor Van Helsing, Edward Hardwicke as ... um... Baron Frankenstein and Roy Marsden as Dracula... sort of. So definitely horror. Definitely.   It's Granada TV's Sherlock Holmes!   Contact us on Facebook  facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

We talk about favourite horror short stories and find out about new horror anthology Castle Heights with Tony Sands @TonyRDM and PJ Blakey-Novis @pjbn_author Castle Heights can be purchased from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Castle-Heights-18-Storeys-Stories/dp/B095M4CB6B/

After a short break we're back to talk about this David Lynch masterpiece. Is it horror, we certainly think so. Join us and see what you think. Its going to be controversial. Tell us what you think via: Facebook: search A Very British Horror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

Dracula is back! What do we think of Dracula 4 (3 if you don't include the one without Dracula)? Do we like its dynamic priests, double dose of innkeeper and enough head injuries to go round? Listen to the episode to find out.  Let us know what you think via: Facebook: search A Very British Horror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]  

"MIND THE DOORS!" Death Line (1972), the most requested film for us to cover, finally comes to A Very British Horror. We venture underground to London's tube network to seek out some cannibals. Along the way we discuss whether this is really a lost episode of The Sweeney, the geography of the London Underground system, Marlon Brando and Paul educates Chris on a 1970s rock legend! Follow us on  Facebook: facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email:...

Come with us as we go out to play games with Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, Freddie Francis' forgotten 1970 horror film. It was his favourite film, I wonder if it will be yours.    Let us know on  Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: [email protected]

We talk to director/ writer Russell Owen about his career, Jaws 2 and his new film Shepherd.   As usual you can contact us via: Twitter: @verybrithorror Email us: [email protected] Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror