Citizen Frame

Ghosts, vampires, Boris Karloff and beautiful Italian ladies!  Only director Mario Bava could successfully combine EC Comics-type terror with Giallo and the Gothic, so join us on CITIZEN FRAME as we wrap up this year's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half" with some pizazz (not like us!) during a review of the classic 1963 anthology movie BLACK SABBATH -- one that would go on to inspire the name of the Ozzy Osbourne brummie rock band and the writing of PULP FICTION  Available on all the usual podcast outlets. Enjoy! #MarioBava #BorisKarloff

Hallowe'en may be over but CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half" rocks on! When a 12-year-old boy played by Stan from the Eminem video freezes to death, he turns into a friendly ghost who haunts an old mansion, hoping his insane inventor father's science machine thingy can one day return him to human form (or some shite like that). Then Rodney Dangerfield and the Crypt Keeper pop up while Eric Idle plays a bumbling sidekick and ghost-Stan dances with Christina Ricci. Yeah, it's f*cking CASPER (1995) up next!  (We should have reviewed RAWHEAD REX instead, which was the original plan!) Available on all the usual podcast outlets. Enjoy! #BillPullman #ChristinaRicci #CathyMoriarty #DevonSawa #StevenSpielberg 

"They're all gonna laugh at you!" We're donning our sexy 1970s tuxedos for the big prom on the latest episode of CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half"! In an ultimately tragic story, a supernaturally-talented girl gets tormented by her religious fanatic mother, RoboCop's partner and a young John Travolta before he started worshipping Xenu for some bizarre reason. Extremely groovy '70s fashions, hairstyles and music soon follow, along with lots of people slapping each other, "dirty pillows", and a complete ballroom blitz and massacre! Yes, we're taking a look at Brian De Palma's classic 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel CARRIE, of course -- and there will be (pig's) blood! Available on all major stremaing sites!   Enjoy!   #BrianDePalma #PiperLaurie #AmyIrving #NancyAllen #BettyBuckley #WilliamKatt #JohnTravolta #SissySpacek      

In Mike Flanagan's horror/slasher/thriller HUSH (2016), Kate Siegel plays a deaf-mute author working on her next novel in a remote cabin in the woods (never a good idea!). Things soon get stabby and bloody when Carrie White's mom and a creepy stalker man in a mask (no, it's not Ciaran or Trevor!) show up, as the director pays homage to Hitchcock, HALLOWEEN and others.  CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half" whizzes along in style -- join us! Enjoy! *Available on all major streaming podcast streaming sites now!

So, it appears we're now dissecting "elevated horror" on CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half"! In THE BABADOOK (2014), some deeply irritating kid reads from a storybook that features a monster-man that looks like Lon Chaney in LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, said monster-man soon coming to life to haunt the boy and his mother. Then the mother has bad dreams and pleasures herself because she's sexually frustrated or something, before trying to kill her son (who could blame her?!), but it's all okay because the kid turns into Rambo and then THE EXORCIST is referenced. Join us as we discuss . . . Available from the link below and all the rest Enjoy!.

Donald Pleasence as a priest gravely warning us about "pure evil", Old Nick's lazy bastard of a son awakening after millions of years of ancient slumber, Alice Cooper impaling someone with a bicycle frame, killer Devil-goo and time travel -- what more could you ask for?! CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half" continues with a look back at John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987), as the director goes Lovecraftian once more with a spot of the old cosmic horror, while also channelling his earlier ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 -- don't miss it! Available from the link below and all the usual places. Enjoy! #DonaldPleasence #JohnCarpenter #LisaBlount #VictorWong #AliceCooper #JamesonParker #DennisDun

Don't mess with the country folk and the old ways!  It's only CITIZEN FRAME's "Hallowe'en Month and a Half", you lucky, lucky people -- and what better way to kick off this year's annual frightfest than with a look back at the classic '80s Southern Gothic/folk horror PUMPKINHEAD (1988), SFX wizard Stan Winston's directorial debut, where vengeance is soon seeked out by Lance Henriksen after a bunch of dipshit teens who look to be in their forties accidentally run over the Jerry Maguire kid lookalike thereby resulting in the resurrection of the demon of the title via a hideous old crone in the woods . . . Available from the link below and all the rest. Enjoy! #StanWinston #AlecGillis #TomWoodruffJR  #LanceHenriksen #GerogeBuckFlower

All good things must come to an end, and sadly that's also the case with CITIZEN FRAME's "Statham September" 😔  Fear not, however, avid listener, as we go out in style with Jason's return to his East End gangster roots in THE BANK JOB (2008), based on a true story and featuring lots of dodgy well 'ard cockney geezers, sleazy pornographers, bent coppers -- and an absolute tonne of well-known British soap and TV actors! Available from the link below and all the rest.  (N.B. "Statham September" may be drawing to a close, but our annual "Hallowe'en Month and a Half" freak show is up straight after!) Enjoy!  

  Jason Statham's "silent tough guy" screen persona has often been compared to that of Clint Eastwood's (it's true!), so it feels only natural that one day he would take on the Man with No Name's son Scott, specifically in Guy Ritchie's 2021 heist movie WRATH OF MAN. Here, our man gets a new day job working for a security firm, but little do his new co-workers realise that he's very pissed off and very out for revenge, with the usual ninja moves and shoot-outs to be expected, too, of course! Join us on CITIZEN FRAME as "Statham September" continues . . . Available from the link below and all the rest.   ENJOY! #JasonStaham #AndyGarica #GuyRitchie #HoltMcCallany #ScottEastwood 

In one of Jason Statham's more recent releases -- SHELTER (2026) -- he plays an ex-Marine with a shady past, lying low on a remote Scottish island, trying to live the quiet life. However, after saving a young girl from drowning his cover is soon blown and Bill Nighy's rogue MI6 agents are out for payback. Bloodshed and ninja moves soon follow (obviously!) in what could possibly be described as "Action Statham" meets "Grounded Statham" via LEON. "Statham September" continues on CITIZEN FRAME!  Available from the link below and all the rest.   Enjoy! RicRomanWaugh #JasonStatham #BillNighy