Castle of Horror Podcast

Castle of Horror Podcast

On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/castleofhorrorpodcast, a panel show on horror movies, vampire movies, and all around awesomeness. With "Alex Van Helsing" and "Ben 10" comic creator Jason Henderson, "Halloween Man" comic creator Drew Edwards, "Psy-comm" and "Clockwerx" manga creator and "Deserts of Mars" frontman Tony Salvaggio, and attorney Julia Guzman. (Formerly "Castle Dracula Horror Movie Podcast.") Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

Episodes

July 8, 2025 80 mins
This week we have a look at the 1970 Hammer Dracula film TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA.  This is Episode #463!
Taste the Blood of Dracula is a 1970 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Peter Sasdy from a script by Anthony Hinds, it is the fifth installment in Hammer's Dracula series, and the fourth to star Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the titular vampire. The film also features Geoffre...
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ANTHOLOGY SERIES. Tonight we’re chatting with T. D. Severin, whose novel DEADLY VISION has just been released by Penmore Press. The book is a medical thriller that peole are comparing to Michael Crichton and Dean Koontz
Deadly Vision is a high-concept medical thriller that follows Dr. Taylor Abrahms, a pioneering surgeon and researcher in the field of Medical Virtual Reality. Abrahms leads the Virtual Heart Project (VHP), a revoluti...
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This week we have a look at the 1968 Hammer Dracula film DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE.  This is Episode #462! 
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is a 1968 British supernatural horror film directed by Freddie Francis and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is the fourth entry in Hammer's Dracula series, and the third to feature Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the titular vampire. The film stars Rupert Davies as a clergyman w...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Christopher Micklos, author TICK TOWN, which comes out this month from Castle Bridge Media.In the book, “When a northern Wisconsin tourist town becomes the feeding ground for a band of giant, mutant ticks, a young reporter, her cop ex-boyfriend, and a veteran newspaperman must track down and destroy the queen tick and her nest before the monsters overrun and slaughter the entire town.”

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Tonight we’re chatting with Illustrator Clint Langley and writer Chris McAuley about SHADOWS OF THE STOKERVERSE, a new illustrated story book launched on Kickstarter and soon to come out from Scratch Comics.  After the hugely successful launch of the comic book series "Dracula The Return: Cult Of The White Worm" Scratch Comics and the equally successful launch of the Stokerverse Role Playing Game released by Nightfall Games, which ...
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This week we have a look at the 1963 Hammer film KISS OF THE VAMPIRE.  This is Episode #461! KISS OF THE VAMPIRE (also known as KISS OF EVIL on American television) is a 1963 British vampire film directed by Don Sharp and starring Edward de Souza and Jennifer Daniel. It was written by producer Anthony Hinds (as John Elder) and made by Hammer Film Productions.It was Sharp's first movie for Hammer. He went on to make two more non-vam...
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Join our panel on writing, reading, and getting out there with Urban Fantasy, or what we call "Fantasy Without Elves." In honor of the release of TUNNELS OF BUDA (https://amzn.to/4mNSWFs) by Don Sawyer. Panelists:
Tricia Copeland -Critically acclaimed and Award-Winning author, Tricia Copeland has been acknowledged as an Award Winners in two separate book categories for the prestigious 2024 Global Book Awards– acclaimed novel, To Be ...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Mark Stevens, author of the new thriller novel NO LIE LASTS FOREVER out in June from Thomas & Mercer, who call NO LIE LASTS FOREVER “Zodiac with a terrifying twist, in a taut thriller from author Mark Stevens about a reformed serial killer and the disgraced journalist he coaxes into finding the imposter trading on his name.” Stevens’s book The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023) was named Best Baseball Nov...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Producer Craig Perry (Final Destination franchise, American Pie franchise) about the smash hit FINAL FESTINATION: BLOODLINES.Craig Perry is the longtime producer behind the Final Destination franchise, having shepherded the series since its inception in 2000 and playing a pivotal role in shaping its enduring legacy. His vision and stewardship have been instrumental in creating and sustaining the FD franc...
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This week we have a look at the 1966 Hammer film DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS.  This is Episode #460! Dracula: Prince of Darkness is a 1966 British gothic supernatural horror film directed by Terence Fisher. The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions, and is the third entry in Hammer's Dracula series, as well as the second to feature Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the titular vampire. It also stars Andrew Keir, Francis Matt...
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April 29, 2025 85 mins
This week we have a look at the 2025 film COMPANION.  This is Episode #459!
Castle of Horror is a Feedspot Top 100 Horror Show: see https://podcast.feedspot.com/horror_podcasts/.
 Companion is a 2025 American science fiction thriller film starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid as a couple on a weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin, which unravels into chaos after a revelation that one of the guests is a companion robot. The...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Nick Roth, writer and co-director of the bloody horror comedy Hanky Panky, which just came out on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Google Play, and which Kristy Puchko of Mashable recently called a "gleefully absurd avalanche of silliness," and which a random person on Letterboxd described as "an extremely dumb movie that I enjoyed immensely." We also talk about the WGA strike and getting Hollywood back to wo...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Nimrod May  - Creator, Bruno Zarka - CRO, and Rob Kutner - Head writer, the creative minds behind God’s Gang, the groundbreaking animated YouTube series that’s captivating audiences worldwide with its unique blend of humor, action, and interfaith harmony. This series follows a team of martial arts superheroes from Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu backgrounds as they embark on thrilling adventures whi...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Nick Kolakowski, author of Where the Bones Lie which is out now from Datura Books. Nick is a multi-award nominated author and is well connected across the crime fiction work appearing in Mystery Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Rock and a Hard Place Press, and more. 
Where the Bones Lie is a detective mystery noir novel Centred around the small California town of San Douglas. Relentless climate change-driven drough...
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This week we have a look at the 2024 Taiwanese horror comedy Dead Talents Society.  This is Episode #458! 
Dead Talents Society is a 2024 Taiwanese horror comedy film directed and co-written by John Hsu. Set in a fictional underworld where ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, the film follows a rookie ghost (Wang) as she embarks on a journey to find her own uniqueness under the tutelage of a passionate...
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March 26, 2025 95 mins
This week we have a look at the 1994 horror film WOLF.  This is Episode #457!  Wolf is a 1994 American romantic horror film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, and Om Puri. It was written by Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone an...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Daniel Solove, author of the new book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY. He is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School. He founded TeachPrivacy, a company providing privacy and data security training. One of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Solove is the author of more than 10 books and more than 100 arti...
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This week we have a look at the 1989 horror film Howling V: The Rebirth.  This is Episode #456!
Howling V: The Rebirth is a 1989 direct-to-video horror film directed by Neal Sundstrom from the screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner, and filmed in Budapest, Hungary. Starring Philip Davis, Victoria Catlin, Elizabeth She, Ben Cole, and William Shockley, The Rebirth is the fifth entry in the series of eight stand-alone films with ...
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Tonight we’re chatting with Cynthia Pelayo about her new book VANISHING DAUGHTERS. She is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago, and The Shoemaker’s Magician. In addition to writing genre-blending novels that incorporate fairy-tale, mystery, detective, crime, and horror elements, she is the recipient of the 2021 International Latino Book Award. She lives in Chicago with her family. You can f...
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Tonight we’re chatting with the co-creators of a new graphic novel project called THE MATRON, co-authors David Bowles and Drew Edwards and artist Monica Gallagher. They all have amazing resumes and I have spoken many times with David, who besides being an Eisner-nominated comic creator and author of some forty books, presently serves as the president of the Texas Institute of Letters and co-editor-in-chief of Chispa Comics. And I s...
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