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Modern Horror Podcast

What is modern horror? Join author and podcaster A. J. Black and horror writer and podcaster Hugh McStay for a bloodthirsty exploration of cinematic horror from 2010 onwards, talking everything from INSIDIOUS to IT FOLLOWS to IN A VIOLENT NATURE and beyond. Prepare to have your collies wobbled and spines tingled. We"ll be right back... A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk

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73:17

It: Welcome to Derry 1x01 - 'The Pilot' with Dan Owen

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/11/02

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Over the next few weeks, they will be covering the brand new It prequel series, Welcome to Derry, which takes the terror of Pennywise back to 1962, and joining them for the journey is Vampire Videos host Dan Owen. The trio discuss 1x01

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81:03

Halloween Special: V/H/S Halloween

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/10/29

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Hugh and Tony return to the V/H/S franchise this week as they look at this year’s timeous offering of V/H/S Halloween. The gents discuss each segment in depth, revelling in some gory seasonal silliness, some truly dark and disturbing entries and one of the

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104:17

The Fall of the House of Usher - 1x07 'The Pit and...

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/10/22

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe

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72:20

The Fall of the House of Usher - 1x05 'The Tell-Tale...

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/10/15

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe

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62:13

The Fall of the House of Usher - 1x03 'Murder in the...

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/10/08

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe

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79:06

The Fall of the House of Usher – 1x01 'A Midnight...

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/10/01

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into The Month of the House of Usher, as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe

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56:25

The Innkeepers

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/09/24

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Hugh and Tony as they discuss one of Ti West’s earliest efforts with 2011’s The Innkeepers. The gents discuss a ghost story that seems to have been spliced with the DNA of an early Kevin Smith movie, debate whether or not the horror tale of Madeline

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81:01

Starve Acre with production manager Rob Yeomans

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/09/17

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Tony and Hugh as they tackle 2023's creeping folk horror Starve Acre from debut director Daniel Kokotaijo, with guest Rob Yeomans of the CineMortuary podcast - not to mention Production Manager on the film itself! Rob discusses his involvement in the

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77:59

Talk to Me

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/09/03

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Hugh and Tony as the tackle the Philippou brother’s debut feature film, Talk To Me, featuring the most unsettling hand in horror cinema since the butlers in Scary Movie 2… The gents discuss how the brothers drag possession horror kicking and

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88:06

Weapons with Mary Muñoz

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/08/20

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents welcome Mary Munoz back to the podcast to discuss Zach Cregger’s Weapons, one of the show’s most anticipated films of the year. The gang discuss a film as funny as it is scary, several staggering performances, a marketing masterstroke

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68:31

Barbarian with Mary Muñoz

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/08/06

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents are joined by returning guest Mary Munoz to discuss Zach Cregger’s deeply disturbing 2022 horror Barbarian. A dark and twisted tale that tackles misogyny, abuse, and giant, scary mothers… The team discuss the everyday dangers women face

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60:38

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997-2025) with Mark...

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/07/23

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This time, Tony goes solo as host, joined by Mark McManus in a crossover with their podcast At the Movies in the 90s, as they discuss both the brand new take on I Know What You Did Last Summer, plus the original 1997 film and 1998 sequel I Still Know What

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66:44

M3GAN & M3GAN 2.0

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/07/09

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This time they are entering into the sinister world of artificial intelligence by looking at the very different 2022 M3GAN and 2025's M3GAN 2.0, both directed by Gerald Johnstone. One a straight up horror, the other a spy action pivot, both pictures explore

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107:40

28 Years Later with Kat Hughes

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/06/25

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week, they are joined by recurring guest and horror writer/podcaster Kat Hughes, to explore Danny Boyle's much-anticipated sequel, 28 Years Later. They go deep on themes, casting, visuals, that last five minutes, where the next film might go, plus

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63:54

Doctor Sleep & Stephen King's America with Carl Sweeney

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/06/11

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week, in a format breaking episode, Tony flies solo with guest, academic and podcaster Dr. Carl Sweeney, re-airing a 2019 episode of their defunct film podcast, Motion Pictures, where they discussed that year's adaptation of Doctor Sleep by Mike

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66:20

Saint Maud

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/05/28

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents dive deep into the murky waters of psychological horror with Rose Glass’ sublimely dark exploration of mental illness and religious ideation with 2019’s Saint Maud. The gents discuss the personal hell of mental illness, exalt the virtues

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80:42

Folk Horror: Kill List

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/05/14

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents tackle one of the great folk horror movies of the last twenty years with Ben Wheatley’s sublime 2011 chiller, Kill List. And to examine such a dense and dark tale they have roped in the help of writer, podcaster and Kill List expert,

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91:52

TV Horror: Black Mirror (Season 7)

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/04/30

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh break format to, for the first time, discuss a TV show by looking at the seventh season of Charlie Brooker's dark anthology series, Black Mirror. They break each of the six episodes down one by one before figuring out their ranking

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85:11

The Damned with writer Jamie Hannigan

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/04/16

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh venture to 19th century Scandinavia for Thordur Palsson's The Damned, which sees the widowed owner of an Icelandic fishing village is faced with a terrifying moral choice that unleashes a darkness of myth and legend. To help them

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67:38

Demons: Late Night With the Devil with Dan Owen

Modern Horror Podcast ·

2025/04/02

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh travel back to the heyday of Late Night 70’s US talk shows as they get to grips with the Cairns Brother’s 2023 horror Late Night With the Devil. Joined by Hugh’s Vampire Videos co-host Dan Owen, the gents talk about mockumentary

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