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--And Now The Podcast Starts!

–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.

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90:03

Halloween Ends (2022) with Spider-Dan

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2025/10/31

AKA Halloween Retrospective #13.In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise. Now, the journey concludes as the three discuss 2022's Halloween Ends. Beware, the discussion includes a full summary of the film's story, including spoilers. Introduction 00:00:00 Plot summary (spoilers) 00:04:27 Spoiler discussion with Howard 00:09:25 Spoiler discussion with Spider-Dan 00:34:50 Our next episode will be about the Amicus

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67:59

#112 Halloween Kills (2021) with Spider-Dan

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2025/10/28

AKA Halloween Retrospective #12. In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise (then only 11 films strong). After several years away, Dan and Spider-Dan reconvene (with Howard chiming in via phone call) to discuss two recently-added entries in the series, beginning with 2021's Halloween Kills. Beware, the discussion includes a full summary of the film's story, including spoilers. Introduction 00:00:00 Plot summary

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61:48

BONUS: A Very British Horror on Hands of the Ripper...

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2025/10/24

Paul and Chris discuss the ingenious late-period Hammer film Hands of the Ripper, which deals with the daughter of Jack the Ripper.The next episodes of And Now The Podcast Starts.... will be released in time for Halloween, in which Howard and Dan will be joined by Spider-Dan to discuss Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). If you'd like to have early access to these discussions, please become a Patreon supporter: the unedited videos are available at our Patreon page. Works

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62:48

BONUS: A Very British Horror on Tales From The Crypt...

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2025/10/17

To complement the discussion of the Amicus anthology film The House That Dripped Blood in our episode #111, we're proud to present another gem from the archives of A Very British Horror, in which Chris and Paul discuss the following film in that series, 1972's Tales from the Crypt.Works Cited Tales from the Crypt (Metromedia Producers Corporation/Amicus Productions, UK 1972, director: Freddie Francis)

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71:09

#111 The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Just The...

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2025/10/17

AKA Lee/Cushing, Howard/Dan #7 (Preview Version) Howard and Dan reconvened in person for the first time since 2019 to record a new episode about a Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee film, and it's the 1971 horror anthology The House That Dripped Blood. This episode features only their conversation, but a more expansive edit - with illustrative music and other clips, as well as a specially-written comedy sketch, in keeping with earlier episodes on Cushing/Lee films - is being worked on and will be

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63:03

BONUS: A Very British Horror on Warlock (1989)

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2025/10/13

In another release from the archives of the sadly-missed podcast A Very British Horror, Chris Denton and Paul Monk discuss 1989's occult horror, Warlock. Works Cited Warlock (New World Pictures, US 1989, director: Steve Miner)

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59:00

#110 Weapons (2025) and Barbarian (2022)

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2025/10/09

Ian and Dan discuss this summer's controversial hit from Zach Cregger, as well as the director's previous film, Barbarian. Warning: nothing but spoilers for both, as well as No Country for Old Men and Midsommar.Works Cited Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema, US 2025, director: Zach Cregger) Barbarian (Twentieth Century Studios, US 2022, director: Zach Cregger) Hereditary (A24, US 2018, director: Ari Aster) Midsommar (A24, US 2019, director: Ari Aster) No Country for Old Men (Paramount

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58:26

BONUS: A Very British Horror on Vampire Circus (1971)

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2025/10/02

Another release from the archive of the wonderful and sadly missed podcast, A Very British Horror, in which Paul and Chris discuss the 1971 Hammer horror film, Vampire Circus.

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102:17

#109 Sinners (2025) with Spider-Dan - Spoiler-free...

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2025/10/02

We're back, folks - and welcome to Halloween season! We'll be releasing regular episodes throughout October and possibly beyond.One of the horror movie hits of year has been Ryan Coogler's music-led period piece, Sinners. Stella, Ian and Dan recorded a chat about it back when it was in cinemas, and that chat is now bookended by more contemporary reflection from Dan and special guest Spider-Dan. The episode is divided into spoiler-free and spoilerific sections, so if you haven't seen Sinners yet and

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01:29:35

#108 Damien: Omen II (1978) with Steve Timms

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2025/02/07

AKA Omen Trilogy Retrospective #2Back in 2023, Dan, Stella, Ian and Howard recorded a chat about 1978's Satanic sequel Damian: Omen II to follow up their chat on 1976's The Omen. Ghosts (or demons) got into the machine, however, and caused most of the recording to be lost. In January 2025, though, Dan sat down with friend of the podcast Steve Timms to get a fresh perspective on the film, while including some of the surviving comments from the rest of the team. Will Dan and Steve agree with

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36:08

BONUS: A Very British Horror on The Ash Tree (1975)

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2024/12/31

Happy New Year! But Christmas continues. Here's another gem from the archives of the podcast A Very British Horror, wherein Paul and Chris discuss a (sort of) ghost story for Christmas, the BBC's 1975 adaptation of MR James' The Ash Tree, which is currently streaming on BBC iPlayer. Coincidentally, it stars Edward Petherbridge, who also appears in The Exorcism, which we covered in the last episode of And Now thePodcast Starts...Works Cited James, MR, "The Ash Tree", Ghost Stories of an

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50:02

#107 Christmas Special: The Exorcism (1972)

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2024/12/25

AKA Missed Classics #13 Belatedly following up on our 2020 review of During Barty's Party, here we look at another 1970s TV play by director Don Taylor, 1972's socially-conscious Christmas ghost story, The Exorcism. Ian, Kirsty, Stella and Dan talk the talk. Works Cited The Exorcism is part of the series Dead of Night (BBC Television, UK 1972, producer: Innes Lloyd) is available on BFI DVD The Stone Tape (same credits) has just been re-released on Blu-Ray and DVD by 101 Films Beasts (ATV

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#106 Nightmares on Film

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2024/12/12

The visual media of cinema, TV and videogames are especially suited to depicting the strange visions and wonky logic of human dreaming, and the horror genre is especially able to take advantage of this. Kirsty and Dan discuss some of the best examples, while Stella drops in to make some points, too.Works Cited Un Chien Andalou ("An Andalusian Dog") (Les Grande Films Classiques, France 1929, director: Luis Bunuel (co-writer: Salvador Dali) Meshes of the Afternoon (US 1943 silent/1949 with added

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51:27

#105 Enys Men (2022)

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2024/12/05

Kirsty and Dan discuss Enys Men, director Mark Jenkin's unique sort-of-folk horror/art film hybrid set on a lonely Cornish island. Beware, there are some plot developments given, although this very much open-to-interpretation film is fairly spoiler-proof.(Apologies, by the way, that the last episode was delayed by a day. We've made sure this one's come out on time!) Works Cited Enys Men (Film Four, UK 2022, director: Mark Jenkin) - The trailer is largely dialogue-free so we didn't include it

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03:07:38

#104 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) with Simon...

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2024/11/30

AKA Clark on Quatermass #2: The 1979 NovelThis is the second episode we've released in which award-winning author Simon Clark (@HotelMidnight) pops on to talk to Dan about their mutual hero, writer Nigel Kneale. In the earlier episode they discussed Kneale's script books of the 1950s Quatermass TV serials; here they discuss Kneale's 1979 follow-up novel, Quatermass. To preface this discussion, and with the kind blessing of our good friend Spider-Dan, we also present a re-edited 2022 episode

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45:28

#103 Grimmfest 2024 Reviews: Crumb Catcher & Delivery...

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2024/11/22

This year, Stella and Dan got to go to Manchester's Grimmfest together for the first time since before the pandemic. Here they talk about the two films they saw, listed below. NB. 'The Lurking Gits' is a reference to a joke on Stella's other podcast, the excellent Murder Media. Works Cited Crumb Catcher (Doppleganger Releasing/Music Box Films, US 2023, director: Chris Skotchdopole) Delivery Run (Arctic Renegades/Jackrabbit Media, US/Finland/UK 2024, director: Joey Palmroos) Duel (Universal

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#102 The Aesthetics of Abjection

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2024/11/14

AKA Questions of Horror #6: What Makes Horror Beautiful? Kirsty and Dan discuss the beauty that can sometimes be found in works of horror - or, to use Kirsty's cooler phraseology, the aesthetic qualities of abjection. Stella chimes in too. And yes, Kirsty does comment on how much she is "enjoying sunlight", which is a clue that the main discussion here was recorded several months ago. Works Cited The Cell (New Line Cinema, USA, 2000, director: Tarsem Singh) Hannibal (NBC Television, USA,

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01:15:28

#101 Favourite Horror Franchises

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2024/11/07

AKA Questions of Horror #5: What Are Our Favourite (or the Best) Horror Franchises? Ian, Kirsty, Stella and Dan ruminate on the above question, while Howard calls Dan on the phone to add his two-penny's worth. Works cited I, Claudius (1976) is sadly no longer on BBC iPlayer The Woman in Black (1989) - rentable on Amazon Prime The Scream films and TV series (1996-2023 - hear our previous episodes on Scream V and Scream VI) The Child's Play franchise (1987-2017) and TV series Chucky (2021-2024):

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01:40:37

BONUS: A Very British Horror on 1972's Asylum (feat....

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2024/10/30

As a companion piece to our episode on --And Now The Screaming Starts!, here's an episode of the much-missed podcast A Very British Horror discussing 1972's Asylum, the previous movie made Amicus Productions and director Roy Ward Baker. The show's regular hosts, Chris Denton and Paul Monk, are joined by our very own Dan, in hyper-enthusiastic mode.If you've never seen Asylum, it's great fun and someone has (probably dodgily) uploaded it to YouTube. We recommend you watch the film before listening

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01:13:28

Not Episode 100 --And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973)

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2024/10/30

Happy Halloween! Welcome to our new regular series. In this episode, Dan, Kirsty, Stella, Ian and even Howard all give their thoughts on the little-discussed British horror movie from 1973 whose name their podcast borrowed (ripped off). Beware that Dan frequently refers to cutting back to "the studio" as if he thinks he's delivering a 1980s regional news report. Also please prepare for regular references to boobs and bonnets. Trigger warning: --And Now The Screaming Starts and its source novel,

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