A Very British Horror

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com   We also reference our friends at Retrospection and their excellent interview with Judy Jarvis.  https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cpupw-de86bf    

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: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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 recording. We abandoned it but its quite fun so I thought we'd share it.

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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 @Jedshepherd on Twitter Contact us in all the usual places.

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com  

"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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com    

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

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: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror

Nature or nurture? Would watching Jack the Ripper, your father, killing your mother make you a violent psycho? Why do I have Hot Chocolate's "It Started With A Kiss" in my head?  Join us as we fail to answer any of these questions when we discuss the 1971 Hammer film Hands of the Ripper.  Contact us at any of these places: Twitter:    @verybrithorror Facebook: averybritishhorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

It's still Christmas in the A Very British Horror household. We're going to a friend's new country pad to have a very over indulgent Christmas dinner. What could possibly go wrong? Really looking forward to a lovely glass of Burgundy wine. Hope it doesn't taste like blood!   Come eat with us as we enjoy the first episode of the 1972 BBC spooky anthology series Dead of Night, The Exorcism. Do let us know what you think of this episode.  You can contact us in the following ways: Facebook: search A Very British Horror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Please leave us a review on iTunes or anywhere else, its helps people find us.

SEASONS GREETINGS ONE AND ALL. Love him or hate him, you can't argue that Mark Gatiss has delivered 3 Ghost Stories for Christmas, two M R James adaptations and one original.  Tractate Middoth, The Dead Room & Martin's Close. We go through these one by one and give our views on them. Are they any good? We also name drop a lot of people in an effort to get them to like us! Also Paul has an amazing fact about himself that connects him to Sacha Dhawan in Tractate Middoth so stay tuned after the end music to find out.  As usual find us on facebook:  www.facebook/com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com 

Werewolves from outer space have decided to Attack the Block! We talk about the film that launched the careers of big name Doctor Who and Star Wars actors. And Star Trek too. Nearly. We also mention (friend of the podcast) Nick Frost, which causes Chris to lament his lack of stardom after our Truth Seekers interview episode.  As usual we can be contacted via: Facebook:  averybritihhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

We check out author / Dream weaver Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and as looking at it from a horror perspective alone would be very odd we drafted in one track lover, editor of comedy website Comedy To Watch and all round Rick Dagless super guy, Mr Alex Finch to help with our comedy (we need it!!!) As usual you can contact us via: Facebook: www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Alex Finch can be found at the Comedy To Watch website: www.comedytowatch.com and on twitter: @comedytowatch  Do check the site out. We can all do with finding stuff to make us laugh at the moment.  

Welcome to our very exciting, special episode. We interview Nick Frost and Samson Kayo about their new Amazon Prime Video show, Truth Seekers, which launches on October 30th, 2020. It is really rather excellent and fans of British horror and weirdness will enjoy it, we think.  If you want to know more about us and what we do you can follow us on  Facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Please follow us / like us/ leave us a review. It all helps. 

Our tribute to Dame Diana Rigg. Join us we go to the theatre with her and Vincent Price. Hope we don't die on stage or corpse! We discuss Theatre of Blood (1973) You can contact us at: facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

We're going smuggling in Kent this episode disguised as Vicars, skeletal horsemen and scarecrows. It's all fantastic cosplaying fun with Captain Clegg. Mind you don't get your ear cut off!   Contact us: facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

We visit a house on a hill thats haunted. No not that one. Or that one. Its the Legend of Hell House. Returning to the classic British horror era for the first time in our current run was eye-opening. It's just a shame Chris's decaf coffee wasn't. Hopefully he'll remember to load up on the strong stuff before the next episode... You can contact us in the following ways. Facebook: www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

In this special we travel to the crazy and disjointed world of Krull. Chris and Paul have for many years wanted to discuss fantasy films, a genre they both love. Lockdown has given them the opportunity and for one episode only (unless its really successful) they are becoming A Very British Fantasy. So get your Glaives ready, gather as many young actors before they get famous and someone with one eye and try to work out whats going on.  (By the way I realise that Bernard Bresslaw has also appeared in Doctor Who, before you all write in)  Let us know what you think of this experiement by contacting us at: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com And please leave us a nice review. Thanks

Bonus episode as we get to speak to Tony Sands, who played Tom in Moondial. We talk about Moondial itself, Jacqueline Pearce and what Tony is currently doing. Tony can be found on Twitter @TonyRDB Tony's film Echoes of the Passed can be found here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfD8LVXYDyo Unrestricted View can be found here: https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/ The Hen and Chickens Theatre is closed at the moment. Details about how to help it during the current poandemic can be found on the website. You can contact us in the following ways. Facebook: www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

We delve into the world of late eighties children's horror, Moondial.  Is it a ghost story or a time travel story? Or both? We're not sure. Join us, creepy masked kids, Jacqueline Pearce and children from 3 different time lines and we get very dizzy spinning on the Moondial. (Paul's still experimenting with positioning his new mic so is a bit echoey here). Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Tony Sands excellent short film Echoes of the Passed can be found on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfD8LVXYDyo  

Join us for our first proper episode during the lockdown as the we discuss the 1999 Tim Burton horror Sleepy Hollow.  Is it really British? Is Johnny Depp any good ? And is this the film that resurects Christopher Lee's career? All these questions and more will be answered in this very episode. Listen now before you lose your head! (It was obviously I couldn't resist that one!) Speak to us via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com And leave us a nice littel review on itunes or wherever you get your podcasts. We like those.   

We're back and in lockdown  for our Lockdown Special. I say special but its really mostly Chris talking, whilst Paul agrees every now and then, about what we've watched or read in the last few weeks. The special bit is that we've worked out how to record over the internet so expect more episodes very soon.  As ususal you can contact us via the following routes. Twitter: @verybrithorror Facebook: search for A Very British Horror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Please leave us a nice review on itunes or wherever you listen to us.

Like the film we talk about in this episode, WE'RE BACK after a gap of 8 years. Christopher Lee is also back in the role that made him famous, Dracula Prince of Darkness. Lets see what he has to say after all the time away.  Will Peter Cushing be back or will they give his role to kick ass monk? Come with us to Castle Dracula! Quick note about the audio: the room we normally record in has been redecorated and has lost some of the soft furnishings. Therefore the audio is slightly echoey. Find us on Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Twiiter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Instagram: A Very British Horror. Please leave us an itunes review if you like what we do. It all helps!

Episode 51 The Creeping Flesh Are you worried about turning evil? Don't worry, get yourself innoculated against evil, now! All you need is an ancient Papua New Guinean skeleton and some water. Join us as we watch The Creeping Flesh. Twitter: @verybrithorror Facebook: averybritishhorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

Its our 50th episode and to celebrate we're off to explore some local tombs. We're not sure why but maybe that robed thespian might be able to tell us. He seems to be be chatting away to that woman from Dynasty, Robin Hood, the bloke from the 1st series of the Avengers that wasn't Steed and two other blokes. I'msure approaching him will be a good idea.  So join us we hear some Tales from the Crypt. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror/ Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com  

We're back and this episode YOU are the hero! Turn to page 1. If you decide to listen on then turn to 238 but first roll one die. If you roll a 6 or less then join us as we go back to the 80s and discuss the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook House of Hell.

We both get miserable watching the BBC version of Day of the Triffids. No not the Eddie Hazard one, the proper one from the 80s. Time to get the weed killer out as we look at Day of the Triffids.  Do get in contact with us via: Twitter: @verybrithorror Facebook: www.facebook.com/AVeryBritishHorror Email:  averybritishhorror@gmail.com.  

Merry Christmas to you all.   Heres a little bonus episode for you that was recorded back in the spring of this year. We decided to save it until christmas and offer it to you as a little stocking filler. So heres our review of last years Christmas episode of Inside No 9 - The Devil of Christmas. Enjoy and don't forget to review us on iTunes!

Merry Christmas or Bah Humbug! We explore the greatest Christmas ghost story of all time, Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, with the help of some of our listeners. We look indepth at its popularity.... who are we kidding, its just us rambling on for an hour!    

We take a nice evening out to the circus and go for a quick bite. But its not us biting because we're heading to the Vampire Circus. Find us on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email Us;  averybritishhorror@gmail.com

In this episode we take a Mino-"tour" around Greece and bump into Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance who are involved in a bizarre episode of Father Ted.   As usual you can contact us on all the social channels. Twitter:  @verybrithorror Facebook: averybritishhorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com

We're back, finally! And this episode we're both Kung Fu fighting with Hammer's odd mix of gothic vampire horror and kung-fu, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. Chris also manages to explain how the continuity of all of Hammer's Dracula films works.  In the episode we mention a narrated soundtrack LP that was available at the time and here it is in in all its glory on youtube. Useful if you can't be bothered to watch the whole film as its only about 45 minutes long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Ugq2loHzA&t=814s

After spending ages trying to sort out technical issues, we return with an episode neither of us has prepared for in the slightest. So in desperation Paul finds an online Hammer film quiz and decides to see just how much Chris reallly knows.  You can play along at home too!    Find us on Facebook: AVeryBritishHorror Twiiter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Instagram: A Very British Horror. Please leave us an itunes review if you like what we do. It all helps!    

Its February! In 2017! Wheres all the time gone? In AVBH land its still christmas as we talk about the play that kickstarted the whole Ghost Story for Christmas thing off, Whistle and I'll Come to You. There were technical issues so the sound is not great, so aologies if it all freaks out a little bit. As usual you can contact us via: Facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror or via email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Please leave us a review on iTunes, it all helps. And you can now find us on TuneIn the radio app.

We're back and its December. That can mean only one thing. Its time for Ghost Stories for Christmas! We look at The Ash Tree, the last of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. We learn never to burn down old trees if you don't like spiders or babies. Contact us at: facebook.com/averybritishhorror Twitter: @verybrithorror Email: averybritishhorror@gmail.com Also leave a review on itunes. It helps people find find us