The Evolution of Horror

This week, zombies get SCARY...and FAST. Mike is joined by Lou Thomas to discuss Danny Boyle's iconic 28 Days Later and then Anna Bogutskaya to discuss found-footage zombie movies REC. 

This week Mike and Louise Blain venture away from the movies and into the world of gaming. Louise recommends some of the best and scariest horror video games ever made, including Silent Hill, Until Dawn, Outlast, Alien Isolation, Fatal Frame and of course, Resident Evil.

This week Mike is joined by Benji Sperring, director of the brand new Night Of The Living Dead Live to talk all things zombies...

This week Mike is joined by Digital Wizard Alex Ayling to discuss one of the splatteriest, squelchiest and squishiest zombie movies ever made…Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD. If that doesn’t make you nauseous enough, Mike is then joined by extreme cinema expert Zobo With A Shotgun to discuss one of her personal favourite horror movies, NEKROMANTIK (1992).

CAT'S DEAD, DETAILS LATER.  This week Mike chats to Barbara Crampton (!!!) to discuss her career and new movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Mike is also joined by actor Stevie Webb to discuss one of Crampton's earliest movies, RE-ANIMATOR, as well as Robert Zimeckis' brilliantly weird and wonderful DEATH BECOMES HER. They also discuss the work of H.P. Lovecraft and what we mean by the term "Lovecraftian" horror. 

"Sometimes, Dead Is Better." This week Mike is joined by Becky Darke to discuss Bill Pullman's great hair and the return of the old-school voodoo zombie in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW. He is then joined by Anna Wilczek to discuss Mary Lambert's terrifying PET SEMATARY (1989). 

This week Mike is joined by filmmakers Cat Davies and James Moran to discuss Romero’s divisive conclusion to his ‘Dead’ trilogy, Day Of The Dead (1985). He is then joined by filmmaker, journalist and podcaster Sam Ashurst to discuss punk masterpiece Return Of The Living Dead (1985).

DEAD BY DAWN! DEAD BY DAWN! This week Mike is joined by Empire Podcast’s Chris Hewitt to discuss Sam Raimi’s deranged masterpieces Evil Dead 1 & 2.

Warning: This episode contains maggots, tarantulas, bats, sheep guts, exploding heads, bleeding eyes, crucifixions, head drillings and of course, the most annoying character in horror…BOB. This week Mike is joined by the BFI’s Michael Blyth to discuss the three most bonkers and grotesque zombie movies of all…City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981) and The House By The Cemetery (1981).

This week Mike is joined by film scholar Charlie Oughton to talk eye gouging, throat ripping, blood, guts, sharks and maggots, in their discussion of Lucio Fulci’s notorious video nasty, Zombie Flesh Eaters.

This week Mike is joined by film producer Jen Handorf to discuss the most iconic zombie movie of them all, George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD. 

This week, things get “creepy and icky and sexy and weird.” Mike is joined by Rosie Fletcher to discuss David Cronenberg’s first two features and the link between body horror and the zombie sub genre. Mike also chats to horror actress and star of Shivers Lynn Lowry.

This week Mike is joined by Total Film’s Jamie Graham to discuss one of the most important movies in the history of zombie movies / horror movies / movies in general…George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968).

This week Mike is joined by professor & academic Graham Saunders to do a whistle stop tour of Hammer Horror and discuss Plague of The Zombies (1966) in depth. 

This week Mike is joined by filmmaker and screenwriter Axelle Carolyn to discuss the two original zombie movies: White Zombie (1932) and I Walked With A Zombie (1943) in spoilerific detail.