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Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror

Raymond Castile

Host Raymond Castile takes you on a journey through the bizarre world of horror collecting. This is the audio-only version of a long-running YouTube show.

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42:22

Latex Halloween Dolls - Paper Magic Group - Lanka...

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/10/31

Happy Halloween! In this video, we looks at some fun Halloween novelty "decorations," or at least that's how they were marketed. Between you and me, these are toys. Dolls. Foam-filled dolls with latex skin. They were produced by different companies, but we will focus on seven dolls made by Paper Magic Group during the early 2000s, plus a couple made by Lanka Novelties around the same time, and some Universal Studios theme park dolls shown as examples of the toy genre. If you have not subscribed to

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68:38

Review: Trick or Treat Studios Beast of Blood and...

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/10/25

Review of the new Shock Monster and Beast of Blood Mego-style action figures from Trick or Treat Studios. These are the first 8-inch costumed figures from TOTS, a company best known for producing Halloween masks. Continue the monster talk by joining the Basement of Horror Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/644618149275833 Just be sure to answer the two security questions or you will be denied membership! We run a tight ship in the Basement of Horror.

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94:29

Don Post Studios Calendar Mask Reissues

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/10/18

At the end of the millennium, Don Post revisited their classic 60s/70s Universal Monsters masks, known as the "Calendar" masks because of their use in a famous 1960s monster-themed wall calendar. The masks had been out of production for decades and original examples were rare or extinct. Through a painstaking process, Don Post sculptors recreated the classic masks and made them available as deluxe collector editions.

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154:29

The Imagineering Story

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/10/11

Join Emmy Award winning makeup artist Barry Koper, Wētā FX Creative Art Director Gino Acevedo, and the legendary founder of Imagineering, Larry Liff, as they tell the story of how they created the greatest Halloween makeup and novelty company of all time. Hear them go into detail about the development of Vampire Blood, Evil Teeth, Scar Stuff, Creepy Skin, Incredible Melting Man makeup kit, The Face, Talking Through Boris, the Cine Art Universal Monsters busts, and much more. The Imagineering company

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98:02

Ben Cooper blue Monster box Halloween costumes

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/10/10

Welcome to the eighth season of Basement of Horror! Thank you for sharing your Halloween season with us. In this episode, we examine the classic blue Monster box Halloween costumes issued by Ben Cooper in the mid-1970s. The series included Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Mummy, Creature, Bigfoot, Cousin Eerie, Uncle Creepy, The Thing (Ben Grimm), Female Vampire, King Kong, Godzilla. If you have seen other characters in the blue Monster boxes, please let us know! A very special guest joins us in the second

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124:18

Monster Kid Summit

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/09/02

Welcome to our third "Monster Kid" panel discussion! Our guests in this episode are author, podcaster and musician Lyle Blackburn; author, influencer and Randomland host Justin Scarred; and super collector, MeTV personality and proprietor of the Crimson Ghost Mask Room, Rudy Munis. All three are lifelong monster fans with extensive monster memorabilia collections. We talk about everything from AHIs to Hemi Cudas, Disneyland to Boggy Creek, tiki masks to Don Post. It's a great conversation, so settle

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171:44

Monster Kid Happy Horrordays

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/09/01

Another fantastic Monster Kid panel discussion! In this installment, we issue a Halloween season post-mortem and look ahead to the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season. We show off some recent monster toy scores, talk about childhood Christmas monster memories, and go off on whatever creepy tangents enter our minds. We are pleased to welcome a new guest - the Rondo Award-winning Danielle Gelehrter, also known as Penny Dreadful! Danielle hosts the Terror at Collinwood podcast, which explores the

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155:51

Monster Kid Halloween Panel Discussion

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/09/01

The first in an irregular series of panel discussions with fellow monster enthusiasts. We discuss our Monster Kid origins, Halloween memories, and how monster collecting and fandom have evolved over the last 35 years. Panelists: Raymond Castile (your humble YouTube host) https://www.youtube.com/@RaymondCastile Brian Heiler - Brick Mantooth https://www.youtube.com/@BrickMantooth Rich Hurley - Dr. Durant's Sanctum https://www.youtube.com/@doctordurantssanctum1977 Andy Halloween and Amy Vampi - Dark

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96:40

Unalive Stream

Raymond Castile"s Basement of Horror ·

2025/09/01

Originally uploaded to YouTube Oct. 28, 2023

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