Welcome to episode 42 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

This week we are exploring the horrors of colonialism with two films that suggest that the price for cultural oppression and appropriation is a very heavy one.

I Walked with a Zombie (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur, with Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett and Christine Gordon.

The Reptile (1966) dir. John Gilling, with Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman, Ray Barrett and Jacqueline Pearce.

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References:

I Walked with a Zombie by Clive Dawson

The Book of the Dead by Jamie Russell

Horror Noir a History of Black American Horror by Robin R means Coleman

Jacques Tourneur The Cinema of Nightfall by Chris Fujiwara

Val Lewton The Reality of Terror by Joel E Siegel.

English Gothic by Jonathan Rigby

Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography by Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio

Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine iss 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Haiti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ripper

https://dandayjr35.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-what-character-blogathon-michael.html?m=1

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0728085/

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Welcome to episode 41 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up is The Empty Man (2020) starring James Badge Dale, Aaron Poole and Marin Ireland, and was written and directed by David Prior

Then we follow this with Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010). This stars Michael Rogers and Eva Allen and is the feature debut from director Panos Cosmatos.

Recommendations

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities – The Autopsy, The Viewing

AM1200 : https://youtu.be/WeBNxJmqVVA?si=oheIatFEXJ8kLYev

Phase IV (1974)

Thebiblemachine comparison video:

https://youtu.be/wsppyXIbFPI?si=HgqfHqRvIkst4RLl

References

https://theplaylist.net/the-empty-man-david-prior-interview-20211105/

https://scified.com/news/tomorrow-war-aliens-artist-ken-barthelmey-talks-his-cave-mummy-creation-from-the-empty-man-2020

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/everything-zen-david-prior-on-the-empty-man-9701

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-empty-man-david-prior-interview

https://vancouversun.com/news/for-vancouver-filmmaker-panos-cosmatos-beyond-the-black-rainbow-helped-alleviate-grief-of-losing-parents

https://filmmakermagazine.com/45658-panos-cosmatos-beyond-the-black-rainbow/

https://alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.com/2012/06/norm-li-interview-beyond-black-rainbow.html?m=1

https://thatshelf.com/interview-beyond-the-black-rainbow-director-panos-cosmatos/

https://chud.com/97657/interview-panos-cosmatos-beyond-the-black-rainbow/

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/matt-barone/interview-beyond-the-black-rainbow-director-panos-cosmatos

https://www.vice.com/en/article/black-mountains-jeremy-schmidt-scored-the-trippiest-canadian-movie-ever/

https://mediamikes.com/2011/05/interview-with-michael-rogers/

https://thepcprinciple.com/interview-eva-bourne/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Worldwide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva_Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Dynamics

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Welcome to episode 40 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

This week we are exploring pestilence and death with two films that revolve around plague, satanism, religious intolerance and necromancy

First up, we have The Masque of the Red Death from 1964 and director Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Patrick Magee and Jane Asher.

Then we follow this with Black Death from 2010, directed by Christopher Smith. This stars Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Andy Nyman and Carice van Houten.

Along the way we’ll be discussing the life and early career of director Roger Corman, the historical facts of the Black Death, the horror career of Andy Nyman and much much more

Recommendations

The Birthday Party:

https://youtu.be/2hCfFfIeq7A?si=No07MVQLA4kpMdVS

The House of Usher (1960)

The Pit & The Pendulum (1961)

The Premature Burial (1962)

Severance (2006)

The Glass Man (2011)

How I made 100 Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime by Roger Corman

Corman/Poe - Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films by Chris Alexander

The Masque of the Red Death by Steve Haberman

https://youtu.be/pyfdh8KScH0?si=jxXE_baIecjekiCX

https://youtu.be/uGgpoVYvDzs?si=wWmRHhNzA1v5i0zr

https://youtu.be/zOHUM3LJAHY?si=G8BW4UXmRPlKv8P_

Black Death - interviews and extras that can be found on the special edition Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment

The Black Death Press Book

https://www.medievalists.net/2010/05/black-death-interview-with-dario-poloni/

https://opium.org.pl/2010/03/08/embraced-by-black-death-interview-with-christopher-smith-the-director-of-upcoming-medieval-horror-black-death/

https://cinemawithoutborders.com/2532-christopher-smith-director-of-black-death/

https://filmmakermagazine.com/21080-christopher-smith-black-death/filmmakermagazine.com.

https://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2010/07/holding-court-with-hazel-court.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death_(1964_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman

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Welcome to episode 39 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

This week we have two films that are based on works by Daphne du Maurier, an English novelist, playwright, and biographer whose stories and novels have been adapted multiple times for stage, radio television and of course for film.

First up nature strikes back with The Birds from 1963 starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright.

Then we jump forward a decade for a story of grief, guilt and extra sensory perception in Venice with Don’t Look Now from 1973. This stars Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie and Hilary Mason, and was directed by Nicolas Roeg.

Along the way, will be discussing the life aren’t works of Daphne du Maurier, the troubling relationship between Hitchcock and his lead actress Tippi Hedren, the career of Nicolas Roeg, and much much more

Recommendations

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Performance (1970)

Walkabout (1971)

The Comfort of Strangers (1990)

Who Saw Her Die (1972)

The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)

The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

References

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-blagger-s-guide-to-daphne-du-maurier-7742072.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/05/fiction.daphnedumaurier

dumaurier.org

The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds by Tony Lee Moral (Kamera books)

The Birds by Camille Paglia (BFI Film Classics)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/what-tippi-hedren-learned-from-alfred-hitchcocks-harassment

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tippi-hedren-memoir-the-birds-extract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippi_Hedren

Don’t Look Now by Mark Sanderson (BFI Film Classics)

Don't Look Now blu-ray special edition from Studio Canal.

Don’t Look Now by Jessica Gildersleeve (Devil’s Advocates)

https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/big%20screen%20classics/2024/09/10/dont-look-now/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_and_Other_Stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/3924

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_du_Maurier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_du_Maurier

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Welcome to episode 38 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

This week we are returning to the world of the 1940s horror noir and the Italian giallo, with two highly influential movies that would shape some of the tropes that we now see as standard in many films

First up, we have The Spiral Staircase from 1946 directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy Maguire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent, and Kent Smith

Then we follow this with Six Women for the Killer, also known as Blood and Black Lace from 1964 and director Mario Bava. This stars Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Ariana Gorini and Thomas Reiner.

Recommendations

The Killers: https://youtu.be/qN8CKO-_th8?si=bSjwl02I927bTgmG

The Girl Who Knew Too Much: https://youtu.be/kHolwKaXHHw?si=uiiNHwREjIZaWhIn

The Whip & The Body (1963)

Black Sabbath (1963)

References

The File on Robert Siodmak by Joseph Greco

American Gothic Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby

https://metrograph.com/the-strange-affair-of-robert-siodmak

https://offscreen.com/view/siodmak-spiral-staircase

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/dec/21/christmas-holiday-my-favourite-christmas-film-gene-kelly-robert-siodmak

https://www.dasmagazin.de/magazin-historie/

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd11861472X.html#ndbcontent

https://abergavennylocalhistorysociety.org.uk/gallery/Ethel%20Lina%20White.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/obituaries/ethel-lina-white-overlooked.html

The Haunted World of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth

So Deadly So Perverse by Troy Howarth

Blood and black Lace by Roberto Cuti (Devils Advocates Series).

Special features and interviews on the blu ray release of the film from Arrow Video

The Aurum Film Encyclopedia of Horror

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-mario-bava

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bava

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiral_Staircase_(1946_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siodmak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Black_Lace

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Welcome to episode 37 of the Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up we have The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue from 1974 and director Jorge Grau, starring Ray Lovelock, Cristina Galbo and Arthur Kennedy

We follow this with When Evil Lurks from 2023 and director Demian Rugna, starring Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demian Salomon, Silvina Sabater, and Luis Ziembrowski.

Recommendations:

Tombs of the Blind Dead (Armondo de Ossario 1972)

Blood Ceremony (1973 Jorge Grau):

https://youtu.be/E7rgJcNuPaU?si=uUKywANJNYT-oNip

Queens of Evil (1970) - available on TUBI

Tienen Miedo (2002, Demian Rugna):

https://youtu.be/IVqG_zGL5sM?si=lRuOlGnWLriIGjLU

Terrified (2017 Demian Rugna)

References & Sources

“Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema” by Jamie Russell

"Nightmare Movies" by Kim Newman

"Spanish Horror Film" by Antonio Lazzaro Reboll

"Jorge Grau: Catalonia’s Cult Film King" from the Synapse blu ray special edition

https://cerebrin.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/entrevista-a-jorge-grau-%E2%80%9Cme-gustaria-hacer-un-retrato-de-edgar-allan-poe%E2%80%9D/

https://youtu.be/SRgHIPT0_Y4?si=VCvOf5X6KAf78BqQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lovelock_(actor)

demianrugna.com

When Evil Lurks Second Sight 4K special edition

https://letterboxd.com/horrorville/story/satanic-hispanics-director-demian-rugna-on/

https://thehollywoodnews.com/2025/07/28/demian-rugna-discusses-when-evil-lurks/

https://www.polygon.com/23935228/when-evil-lurks-director-interview-demian-rugna-meaning/

https://www.goreinthestore.uk/interviews/demian-rugna#:~:text=DEMI%C3%81N%20RUGNA%20%2D%20The%20pesticide%20scandal,the%20pesticide%20was%20the%20demon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/agrochemicals-and-industrial-waste-threaten-argentinas-gran-chaco/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/jul/13/uknews#:~:text=The%20issue%20of%20lead%20in,to%20abolish%20lead%20in%20petrol.

https://filmhounds.co.uk/2025/07/when-evil-lurks-demian-rugna-second-sight-interview/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannetto_De_Rossi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Evil_Lurks

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373134

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Welcome to episode 36 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up we have Eyes Without a Face (1960) directed by George Franju, starring Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob & Alida Valli.

Then we jump forward to Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) directed by Seth Holt, starring Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir and James Villers

Recommendations

Tales From the Darkside – The Movie (1990)

Gritos en la Noche (aka The Awful Dr Orloff) (1962)

Lot No 249 (BBC TV 2023)

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

A Trip to The Moon: https://youtu.be/ZNAHcMMOHE8?si=2JAs0RNZGDFN3sJK

The Impossible Voyage: https://youtu.be/4ZVgCTQFKXo?si=FTwbh7xCDBL4exRg

Valerie Leon Hai Karate advert:

https://youtu.be/B2qQlsFN9ck?si=ABhD1I0wIAMvVzMI

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb

The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker (the complete version published by Seven Treasures Publications)

Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine issue 24

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb Featurette from the Studio Canal bluray release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=13400#:~:text=Bram%20Stoker%2C%20born%20in%20Dublin,of%20%E2%80%9Can%20immense%20dog%E2%80%9D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewel_of_Seven_Stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_from_the_Mummy%27s_Tomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiction_about_mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_ancient_Egypt

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/74/article/445326

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/572065/index.html

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3673210/blood-mummys-tomb-one-hammers-last-great-monster-movies-hammer-factory/

Eyes Without a Face

https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1777.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Franju

https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abstract/35/2/31/39712/Mystery-and-Melodrama-A-Conversation-with-Georges?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/eyes-without-a-face/#:~:text=But%20producer%20Jules%20Borkon%20saw,many%20comparisons%20to%20Alfred%20Hitchcock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s

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Welcome to episode 35 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up this week is City Of The Dead from 1960 and director John Moxey, released in the US as Horror Hotel, and starring Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Valentine Dyall, and Venetia Stevenson.

Then we jump forward to 2015 for The Blackcoat’s Daughter, written and directed by Osgood Perkins, and stars Emma Roberts, Keenan Shipka, Lucy Boynton and James Remar.

Along the way will be discussing the meaning of Candlemas Eve, British actor Valentine Dyall, the career of director Osgood Perkins, and much more

Recommendations

Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine

https://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

Appointment with Fear (BBC radio)

https://youtu.be/Nq3x3ybA3EA?si=k0VwnHG-4gyRtToh

The Night Stalker 1972

The Night Strangler 1973

References

Little Shoppe of Horrors issue 20

City of the Dead - Blu ray restoration release from Arrow Video

English Gothic Classic Horror Cinema 1897 – 2015 by Jonathon Rigby

Dark Romance: Sex and Death in the Horror Film by David J Hogan

https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-interview-filmmaker-osgood-perkins-on-birthing-the-blackcoats-daughter/

https://www.screamhorrormag.com/interview-osgood-perkins-talks-blackcoats-daughter/

https://cinemastrikesback.com/qa-blackcoats-daughter/

https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/02/15/oz-perkins-talks-the-blackcoats-daughter-and-mining-horror-cinema-from-pers.html

https://horrornews.net/119951/interview-lucy-boynton-blackcoats-daughter/#:~:text=Lucy%2D%20I%20mean%20prefer%20to,in%20the%20dead%20of%20winter.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-kiernan-shipka-learned-to-act-for-an-audience-of-millions/

https://www.nylon.com/articles/kiernan-shipka-emma-roberts-blackcoats-daughter

https://americana-uk.com/interview-elvis-perkins-on-recording-old-songs-and-being-called-elvis

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a-movie-can-be-a-poem-oz-perkins-on-the-blackcoats-daughter

https://youtu.be/JHIhbClRfds?si=VmPTwDpvl_dKhAaq

https://youtu.be/zfoL6AeQDE8?si=RG0Vd0Pf2tJZ-h4r

https://youtu.be/epo1_fELKGY?si=aPDuRM4R43jafbMd

https://youtu.be/1M6oERl-eDs?si=1I2CSfaIV3d05qIV

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