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General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast

Ross, Jon & James | Exploring Cult British Horror Films, TV & Books

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast 🕷️ Welcome to General Witchfinders, a podcast dedicated to the dark heart of British horror. If you’re passionate about Hammer Horror films, classic folk horror, Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass, and the chilling legacy of British supernatural cinema and television, this is the podcast for you. 🩸 Hosted by lifelong friends Ross, Jon, and James, General Witchfinders dives deep into the world of British gothic and folk horror. We explore everything from

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29 - Tales of the Unexpected - The Memory Man

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/10/07

Tales of the Unexpected was a British television series that aired between 1979 and 1988. Each episode told a story, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, with an unexpected twist ending.Every episode of series one, and a number of episodes in subsequent series were based on short stories by Roald Dahl, collected in the books Tales of the Unexpected, Kiss Kiss, and Someone Like You.Made by Anglia Television for ITV with interior scenes recorded at their Norwich studios, whilst location

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FIH004 - Possum (2018 - United Kingdom)

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/09/22

Possum is a 2018 British psychological horror film written and directed by Matthew (Garth Marenghi)Holness in his feature film debut, starring Sean Harris and Alun (Krull) Armstrong. It centres on a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront the abuse and trauma he suffered there.Possum is an adaption of Holness' short story of the same name, published in the horror anthology The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease, and partially inspired by the theories on

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FIH003 - The Wailing / Gokseong (2016 - South Korea)

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/08/27

In this episode, we are joined by BOOMER fromPodcast in the Woodshttps://linktr.ee/woodspodcastThis is the episode Ross was in btw: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6G5TocltVLFUgVdPdPUC2V?si=fQ7JuHMLTP2mbSqlrpH20QThe Wailing is a 2016 South Korean horror film written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee. And was cited in the documentary “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” as an excellent example of international, specifically Asian, Folk horror. The film

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FIH002 - The Ritual (2017 - UK / Canada)

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/07/31

The Ritual is a 2017 British/ Canadianhorror film starringRafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton (grandson of two time General Witchfinder featured actor, Patrick - 2nd Doctor -Troughton, or as we like to call him Kinky Klove)The film is based on the 2011 novel The Ritual by Adam Nevill, which we've been told by listener ‘Mr London’, is pretty creepy.The original tagline that was used when advertising the film was 'They should have gone to Vegas'. But due to the massacre

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28- Scars of Dracula

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/07/15

Scars of Dracula is a 1970 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Films.It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis (i should be so good for you) Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Patrick Troughton, and Michael Gwynn.Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: the Count is introduced as an "icily charming host;" he has command over nature; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle. It also gives Lee

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FIH001 - The Innocents (2021 - Norway)

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/06/30

The General Witchfinders present: Folk in Hell! (a spinoff podcast)The InnocentsNOT the 1961 film with Deborah Kerr, which we WILL be covering in the mothership show at some point, which has a far more comprehensive Wikipedia article than the sparsely covered film that we did watch, hence Ross adding in this short paragraph to bulk out the intro a little -Rather, we are talking about - The Innocents or De Uskyldige - a 2021 Norwegian supernatural thriller film directed by Eskil Vogt.Four children

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27 - Nigel Kneale Double Bill - The Road & Beasts: BABY

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/06/16

Thomas Nigel Kneale was a British screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. This year is the 100 anniversary of his birth.Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass.. Kneale wrote well-received television dramas such as The Year of the Sex

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26 - An American Werewolf in London

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2022/05/08

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, the film stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine. The film's plot follows two American backpackers, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while travelling in England, causing David to question whether he will become a werewolf under the next full moon. The film made $62 million worldwide

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25 - Twins of Evil aka Twins of Dracula

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/04/15

Twins of Evil (also known as Twins of Dracula) is a 1971 British horror film directed by John Hough and starring Peter Cushing's in his first film after the death of his poor wife, Helen, along with Damien Thomas and the real-life identical twins and former Playboy Playmates, Mary and Madeleine Collinson. It also sees the return of one of General Witchfinders favourite cinematographers, Mr Dick Bush.*Twins of Evil was the third film in Hammer's "Karnstein trilogy," following The Vampire Lovers and

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24 - The Wicker Man

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/03/18

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Big Chris Lee. In his 7th appearance on The General Witchfinders. The screenplay by Anthony (frenzy) Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island

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Clip show - episodes 1-3

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/02/23

Here are some clips from the first three episodes of the podcast, go and listen to the whole thing here...Dracula AD 1972https://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/1-dracula-ad-1972The Curse of Frankensteinhttps://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/2-the-curse-of-frankenstienSapphire and Steel - Assignment 4https://shows.acast.com/general-witchfinders/episodes/3-sapphire-and-steel-assignment-4 Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show

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23 - The Oblong Box

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/02/11

The Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring, The King of the Grand GuignolThe Merchant of Menace, The Master of Horror: Vincent Price, as well as Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee.Loosely based on the 1844 short story "The Oblong Box", it explores and combines several themes typical to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, such as premature burial and masked figures, with the non-Poe theme of voodoo ritual

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22 - The Legend of Hell House

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/01/28

The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 supernatural horror film directed by John Hough, and starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt.It follows a group of researchers who spend a week in Belasco House, the "Mount Everest of haunted houses." , originally owned by Emeric Belasco, an imposing, perverted millionaire and supposed murderer whose acts of debauchery were loosely based on the occultist Aleister Crowley. Belasco disappeared soon after a massacre occurred at the

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21 - BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas - A Warning to...

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2022/01/14

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived sporadically by the BBC since 2005. With one exception, the original instalments were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and (Like the first3rd doctor Adventure, The Spearhead from Space) the films were all shot on 16 mm colour film.The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story, in line with the oral tradition

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20 - Alfred Hitchcock's - Frenzy

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/12/24

Frenzy is a 1972 British horror / thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (aged, at time of production, 71).It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career.The screenplay, centred on a serial killer in contemporary London and the ex-RAF serviceman he implicates, was written by Anthony Shaffer, based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, who, in a letter to the Editor of The Times, said he found Hitchcock's production and Shaffer's adaptation

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19 - The Reptile

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/12/03

Staring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel and Jacqueline ‘Servalan’ Pearce, The Reptile is based in the fictional village of Clagmoor Heath in Cornwall where several locals are dying from what is deemed to be the "Black Death".Harry Spalding inherits his late brother Charles' cottage and arrives with his new bride, Valerie. The inhabitants of the village keep clear of the couple and only the publican, Tom Bailey, befriends them. Tom explains that the hostility exhibited by the townspeople

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18 - Stephen Volk's - Ghostwatch

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/11/23

Ghostwatch, a drama produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One, is a British reality–horror/pseudo-documentary television film, broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning. Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television.During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the show attracted a considerable furore, resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquiries to the BBC

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17 - Nigel Kneale's - Quatermass 2 / AKA The Enemy...

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/10/25

Quatermass 2(a.k.a. Enemy From Space in the United States and Canada) is a 1957 black-and-white British science fiction horror filmfrom Hammer Film Productions, directed by Val Guest, that stars Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, and William Franklyn.Quatermass 2 is a sequel to Hammer's earlier film The Quatermass Xperiment, Like its predecessor, it is based on the BBC Television serial Quatermass II written by Nigel Kneale.Brian Donlevy reprises his role as the

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16 - Xtro

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/10/05

Xtro is a 1983 British science fiction horror film directed by Harry Bromley-Davenport.Starring Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer, and Simon Nash, the film focuses on a father who was abducted by, what could be seen as aliens, and returns to his family three years later, where he goes in search of his son.Even though the plot involves extraterrestrials, the creatures in this film are at no point referred to as aliens. Some fans like thinking of them as Lovecraftian-type beings coming from another

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Blast from the Past - Creeping With Armstrong

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/08/16

Because Jon is rushed off his feet with work, we haven’t been able to record a usual General Witchfinders, so to give you something to listen to, here is part of a podcast that Ross and James ran for about 10 years or so called Creeping With Armstrong.This is from April 2010 (we think) just after the first episode of Matt Smith’s Doctor Who, The Eleventh Hour, when we drove to Wales to talk to Jon about it..There is a bit of horror in here but its not indicative of our usual show, please check out

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