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
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...
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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April 20, 2025 • 54 mins
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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April 10, 2025 • 17 mins
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...
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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April 8, 2025 • 78 mins
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...
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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March 21, 2025 • 45 mins
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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March 19, 2025 • 62 mins
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 ...
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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March 16, 2025 • 35 mins
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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March 6, 2025 • 45 mins
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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March 5, 2025 • 109 mins
This week we have a look at the 1974 horror film THE BEAST MUST DIE. This is Episode #455!
The Beast Must Die is a 1974 British horror film directed by Paul Annett. The screenplay was written by Michael Winder, based on the 1950 short story "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish, originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories. The film stars Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Ciaran...
The Beast Must Die is a 1974 British horror film directed by Paul Annett. The screenplay was written by Michael Winder, based on the 1950 short story "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish, originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories. The film stars Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Ciaran...
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On this episode of Castle Talk, Castle Bridge Media intern MacKenzie Cole interviews author Rebecca Anne Nguyen on her book The 23rd Hero.
News on The 23rd Hero
Rebecca Anne Nguyen’s Audiobook The 23rd Hero Nominated for Prestigious Audie Award
Castle Bridge Media is thrilled to announce that Milwaukee-based novelist and playwright Rebecca Anne Nguyen has received an Audie Award® nomination for her groundbreaking audiobook, The 23rd H...
News on The 23rd Hero
Rebecca Anne Nguyen’s Audiobook The 23rd Hero Nominated for Prestigious Audie Award
Castle Bridge Media is thrilled to announce that Milwaukee-based novelist and playwright Rebecca Anne Nguyen has received an Audie Award® nomination for her groundbreaking audiobook, The 23rd H...
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February 18, 2025 • 79 mins
This week we have a look at the 2000 horror film GingerSnaps. This is Episode #454!
Ginger Snaps is a 2000 Canadian supernatural horror film directed by John Fawcett and written by Karen Walton, from a story they jointly developed. The film stars Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle as Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald, two morbid teenage sisters whose relationship is tested when Ginger (who has started her period for the first time)...
Ginger Snaps is a 2000 Canadian supernatural horror film directed by John Fawcett and written by Karen Walton, from a story they jointly developed. The film stars Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle as Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald, two morbid teenage sisters whose relationship is tested when Ginger (who has started her period for the first time)...
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February 16, 2025 • 14 mins
Tonight, Castle Bridge Media intern Zeek Ortiz interviews Ty Drago, author of the novel ST. DAMNED from Castle Bridge Media.
ABOUT THE BOOK
“ST. DAMNED is a hell of a book. It’s a devious collision of raw horror and existential weirdness. Highly recommended!” -–Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of NecroTek and The Dragon in Winter
Five years ago, paranormal researcher Dr. Mia Lakatos was the sole survivor of an ill-concei...
ABOUT THE BOOK
“ST. DAMNED is a hell of a book. It’s a devious collision of raw horror and existential weirdness. Highly recommended!” -–Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of NecroTek and The Dragon in Winter
Five years ago, paranormal researcher Dr. Mia Lakatos was the sole survivor of an ill-concei...
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February 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Tonight we’re chatting about Antonio Margheriti’s 1964 gothic horror film Castle of Blood with pop culture scholar Nicholas Diak who focuses on topics such as sword and sandal films, horror studies, industrial music, and exploitation movies. He edited the book The New Peplum and co-edited Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Moderne. As an essayist his works have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Graphic Arts and Comics, E...
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February 4, 2025 • 73 mins
This week we have a look at the 2024 horror film WEREWOLVES. This is Episode #453! Werewolves is a 2024 American action horror film directed and produced by Steven C. Miller. It stars Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, James Michael Cummings, and Lou Diamond Phillips. The story takes place in the night of a supermoon event that causes humans to turn into werewolves, which first occurred the preceding year, and follows the...
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February 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Written and directed by Spencer, and produced by Ward 9 Productions and Carm One Productions, South of Hope Street is a dystopian sci fi Impact film that tells of a mysterious event in the sky. Only a young woman and her alienated friends try to call attention to it - but they are voiceless misfits. As the sky gets stranger above, it becomes more fascist below, until, suddenly, the powers-that-be build a “wall” to cover the myste...
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February 1, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode of Castle Talk, intern MacKenzie Cole chats with Caroline Kelly Franklin, author of the debut gothic thriller THE THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE LITTLE from Castle Bridge Media.
THE THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE LITTLE: Book 1 in the Scared Trilogy by Caroline Kelly Franklin
The Thing That Happened When We Were Little
16 years after surviving a childhood abduction, three women struggle with whether they should kee...
THE THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE LITTLE: Book 1 in the Scared Trilogy by Caroline Kelly Franklin
The Thing That Happened When We Were Little
16 years after surviving a childhood abduction, three women struggle with whether they should kee...
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January 30, 2025 • 21 mins
Tonight we’re chatting with Richard Harland, author of the new book Ferren and the Invaders of Heaven from IFWG Publishing. This is the third book in what’s called the Ferren Trilogy, which is a fantasy series that takes on the Biblical war in heaven but featuring characters who are human, angel, and technologically advanced replacement races. It’s epic and we’re gonna talk about it.
Richard has had nineteen books published in all ...
Richard has had nineteen books published in all ...
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January 28, 2025 • 84 mins
This week we have a look at the 2025 horror film WOLF MAN. This is Episode #452! Wolf Man is a 2025 American horror film directed by Leigh Whannell from a screenplay he co-wrote with Corbett Tuck. A reboot of The Wolf Man (1941), the film stars Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Sam Jaeger. The plot follows a family man seeking to protect his wife and daughter from a werewolf, only to become infected and slowly transform into t...
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