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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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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

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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

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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

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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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15 - The Earth Dies Screaming

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2021/08/01

The Earth Dies Screaming is a black and white, 1964 British horror science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher ( who also directed The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - covered in episode 2 of the General Witchfinders, and went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)‘Dies Screaming’ stars Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price.Human bodies are scattered around an English village, apparently

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14 - The Omen

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2021/07/19

Released on the 6th day of the 6th month in the year 1976, the week The Wurzels ‘Combine Harvester’, became number one in the UK (coincidence?)...The Omen, which was originally considered by Warner Bros, who thought it might be ideal for Oliver Reed, is an American-British supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, written by David Seltzer, and eventually starred Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and David Warner.One of Richard Donner's first requests to screenwriter Seltzer was to remove all

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13 - Dead of Night

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2021/07/06

Dead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios, was their sole attempt at making a horror movie.It Featured the following storiesThe Hearse Driver, based on "The Bus-Conductor" by E. F. BensonThe Christmas PartyThe Haunted MirrorThe Golfer's Story, based on "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost" by H. G. WellsandThe Ventriloquist's DummyThe individual segments were directed by by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer.The

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12 - Clive Barker's Hellraiser

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2021/06/21

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker based on his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart.The film marked Barker's directorial debut.Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box which summons the Cenobites, a religious sect in Hell known as the ‘Order of the Gash’, describing themselves as "explorers in the further regions of experience", and granting sadomasochistic pleasures to those who call upon them. The leader of the Cenobites is portrayed by Doug

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11 - Doctor Who - The Horror of Fang Rock

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/06/07

Horror of Fang Rock is the first serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 September 1977.The TARDIS lands on the island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England in the early 20th century. Noticing that the lighthouse isn't functioning properly, the Doctor, in his fourth incarnation (or infinity+4 by today's reckoning) played by Tom Baker, decides to investigate.Upon arrival at the lighthouse,

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10 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes

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2021/05/08

Selected for our 10th episode anniversary by our listeners, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British comedy horror film, produced by Ronald S. Dunas and Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest.It stars, in his first appearance on the podcast, mister Vincent Price.Its art deco sets, dark humour, and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again cult classics. The film also features Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith, with an uncredited Caroline Munro appearing in

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9 - Death Line aka Raw Meat

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2021/04/24

Late one night at the Russell Square station in the London Underground, university students Patricia and her American exchange student boyfriend Alex find an unconscious man on the stairwell. Fearing that he may be diabetic, Patricia checks his wallet and finds a card that reads James Manfred, OBE. They inform a police officer, but find that Manfred has vanished. Inspector Calhoun is assigned to look into the disappearance. Calhoun questions Alex and suggests that he and Patricia robbed the

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8 - Jeremy Dyson's Never Trust a Rabbit

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/04/10

Jeremy Dyson is the co-creator of the West End play Ghost Stories, and a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen.The League initially began as a stage act in 1995, which was then transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, and then became a television series on BBC Two in 1999.Dyson has written several books including a novel ‘What Happens Now’ published in 2006, nominated for the Goss first novel award and enthusiastically reviewed by Ross after

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7 - Horror Express

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/03/27

Horror Express - or Pánico en el Transiberiano translated as Panic on the Trans-Siberian, is an English language Spanish science fiction horror film loosely based on the novella Who Goes There? (also a basis for the Thing From Another World, which was in turn was remade as the classic The Thing by John Carpenter.)The film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña, George Rigaud and Ángel del Pozo in supporting roles, and Telly Savalas in a guest

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SAMPLE: Patreon Bonus 2 - Ghost Adventures

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/03/26

SAMPLE Patreon Bonus 2 - Ghost Adventures Stardust RanchHello, you may have heard Ghost Adventures come up in a few of our podcasts, although it’s not British Horror we thought it would be a great thing for us to cover as an extra for our lovely supporters.We try to release a few extra titbits each month and also plan to allow patrons to vote on what we are going to cover in some of our episodes in the future.Here are a few highlights from a commentary we recorded for episode 12, series 12 (we

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6 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/03/14

Two years after the events of Dracula AD 1972, a Secret Service agent barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are being celebrated. Before he dies, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society – a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist – are involved in a cult led by the satanic priestess Chin Yang.Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray is called in, for who Michael Coles reprises his role, to work on the case independently

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5 - Nigel Kneale’s - The Stone Tape

General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast ·

2021/02/28

The Stone Tape was broadcast on BBC Two as a Christmas ghost story in 1972. It was written by Nigel Kneale, best known as the writer of Quatermass, for whosejuxtaposition of science and superstition is a frequent theme.Peter Brock played by Michael Bryant is the petulant head of a research team for Ryan Electrics. His team is developing a new recording medium that will give the company an edge over its Japanese competitors. They move into an old Victorian mansion that has been renovated for their

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