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Happy Easter! Jesus may have died for our sins, but did he do it wearing a Juicy Couture tracksuit? I don’t THINK SO. For Episode 24 I’m joined by CASS CLARKE, editor at /Film, film critic, co-host of the Horror Hangover podcast and author of the upcoming novella THE CARETAKER which is due from our friends over at Hear Us Scream Press. Join Cass and I as we discuss succubal angst, righteous redemption, the horror of bad marketing and ask ourselves: fellas, is it gay to be totally and utterly obsessed with your BFF? That’s right, we’re off the Devil’s Kettle to explore and embrace the feminine rage of Karyn Kusama’s JENNIFER’S BODY. Follow Cass on Twitter: @cass__clarkeHorror Hangover: @HorrorHangover_ Check out their website: www.cassandraashclarke.com Rowan Ellis - Why Jennifer's Body Flopped, Explained (hint: it's sexism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAqu2mqZps Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

Get in loser, we’re getting depressed as hell! For Episode 23 I’m joined by writer CHRISTINA BRENNAN, who is currently in the editing process for her Devil’s Advocate book on the film we’re discussing today. Kubrick called this film the most terrifying he had ever seen, yet there’s some debate as to whether it’s a horror - or just horrifying. Join Dr Christina and I as we discuss determinism, disappearing and the Gothic nature of a fate worse than death, in George Sluizer’s 1988 thriller THE VANISHING. Follow Christina on Twitter: @bigloudscreams Check out her website: www.drchristinabrennan.com Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

💘 HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! 💘 We all know this day is a scam made up by card companies and capitalist overlords, but it’s also a day to celebrate love, lust and our most lavicious of horror crushes. I asked members of the horror and film community to call in to my Valentine’s Day hotline and confess their crushes: with the caveat that I wanted them creepy, weird and very problematic. And what kind of host would I be if I didn't include a few of my own very questionable fancies? IMMEASURABLE THANKS TO THE CALLERS BOTH ANONYMOUS AND NAMED, YOU BEAUTIFUL HORNY FREAKS MAKE MY LIFE WORTH LIVING: Kinell @Colak Zoe Rose Smith @ZoboWithAShotgun Mike Leitch @autistichorror Rebecca McCallum @PendlePumpkin Kat Hughes @gizmoshikari Mal Jutley @maljutley Cass Clarke @cass__clark Liz Bishop @athomewithhorror Austin Torres @wouldyoudieshow Rebecca Sayce @blsaycewrites Andy Connor @WhereIsKnowhere Grace Britten @film_overload_ Iona Smith @Fall_Out_Iona Andrew Jara @jarafilms Clare Wright @sundayyscaries LT @queerdem0n Vannah Taylor @thehorrorhellion Vincent Gaine @DrGaine MX Bel Morrigan @MxBelMorrigan Jenna Jarvis @JJnaedrums Jessie Martinez @softxdeath Ryan Scott @RyanScottWrites Bry @peppermint_te3 John Patterson @AstroSlop Dame Sash @cinematic_villainy J.M. Brandt @mrjmbrandt Tori Potenza @theneonbanshee Andy CT @AndyCTWrites Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana @what_scream Alice Boyd-Leslie @aboydleslie Alice Taylor-Matthews @AliceTaylorM Caitlyn Downs @ScaredSheepless Chandler Bullock @_Shockaholic Blayne Waterloo @somehaginblack Niels Hárpøth @NielsHarpoth Joe Higgins @Head_Haunter_ Christina Brennan @cmbrennan_ Brett Petersel @Brett

Episode 22 takes us to small-town surburbia where I'm joined by DEVAUGHN TAYLOR, co-host of the Specter Cinema Club, filmmaker and disco daddy. DeVaughn’s FFO of provocative, luscious and sticky is maybe my favourite to date (I know, I know, I say it all the time), and led us to the perfect culmination of teenage angst and bloodlust in a 2010’s cult classic. So say your prayers, sharpen your scalpels and get ready to dissect the monstrous feminine, the philosophy of psychopathy and the life-changing power of embracing your bodily functions, in Richard Bates Jr.'s EXCISION. Follow DeVaughn on: Twitter: @_daddydisco IG: @_DaddyDisco Follow Specter Cinema: @spectercinema Subscribe to Specter Cinema Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/specter-cinema-club/id1516917857 Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

When discussing the 'the scariest found-footage movie of all time', I knew I needed an expert in the genre. So there was nobody better to ask than the KING of found footage horror art and illustration, Trevor Henderson. Trevor has long been inducing nightmares in the best of us, with his iconic works such as Siren Head and Mr Bag taking on lives and lore of their own in the viral world of creepypasta. Trevor has a hugely exciting year coming up; already he's had one of his ghastly creations (compliment) feature in SCARE PACKAGE 2, an upcoming middle grade book with Scholastic, a new series of his podcast Mayfair Watchers Society and a very secret announcement upcoming regarding concept art for a feature film... Get comfy, pop in that cursed video tape, and listen as Trevor and I discuss cosmic horror, demonic metaphors and ectoplasmic worms in Koji Shiraishi's J-horror masterpiece NOROI: THE CURSE Follow Trevor on Twitter: @slimyswampghost IG: @TrevorHenderson Website: https://trevorhenderson.format.com Subscribe to Mayfair Watchers Society podcast here HyperRealFilm club essay: https://hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/noroi-occult-koji-shiraishi-movie-review Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

2022 aka twelve months of HITS AND BANGERS. What a year, eh? This was a hard episode to record I'll tell you that, but I finally did it. A huge bunch of honorable mentions, and the ten films I classed as my ultimate favourites of the year. Let me know what how our choices align; Would you have drank from Mother's hairy milk bottle? Or scrumped an apple from Geoffrey's orchard? Do you think Casey really got pizza with JLB? And what exactly did Howard do when he came home from the war and faced Pearl's mess? TIMESTAMPS for the spoiler averse; Honorable Mentions WATCHER - Chloe Okuno 6:00 BODIES BODIES BODIES - Halina Reijn 7:00 THE HARBINGER - Andy Mitton 7:55 MEGALOMANIAC - Karim Ouelhaj 8:50 TERRIFER 2 - Damien Leone 9:45 CRIMES OF THE FUTURE - David Cronenberg 11:10 A WOUNDED FAWN - Travis Stevens 12:25 THE LEECH - Eric Pennycoff 13:00 HUESERA - Michelle Garza Cervera 14:00 HELLBENDER - The Adams Family 15:25 OZZY'S DUNGEON - Flying Lotus 16:15 THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA - Park Sye-yong 17:20 Top Ten WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Jane Schoenbrun 18:30 MEN - Alex Garland 23:55 INCANTATION - Kevin Ko 27:00 THE SADNESS - Rob Jabbaz 31:00 BARBARIAN - Zach Cregger 34:50 NOPE - Jordan Peele 39:00 SPEAK NO EVIL - Christian Tafdrup 43:05 X/PEARL - Ti West 46:30 YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER - Kate Dolan 50:40 RESURRECTION - Andrew Semans 53:50 HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine 

Apologies for the hiatus gang - but I’m back and today I’m joined by Blayne Waterloo, editor at FANGORIA and Hear Us Scream Vol. 2 and host of the Ladies and Ligaments podcast. Blayne is a superstar, sweetheart and goddamn sex symbol - so there was only one choice for her FFO of bawdy, feminist and gore. That’s right, it’s time to get down and dirty with the crew of the Farmer’s Daughter in 2022’s sexiest slasher - Ti West’s X. Follow Blayne on: Twitter: @SomeHagInBlack IG: @HagInBlack Buy Hear Us Scream Vol. 2 here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLG4YTJM/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_F6SHV1K3F6XYTKNAHED1_0 Follow Ladies and Ligaments on Twitter: @LadiesLigaments Subscribe to Ladies and Ligaments here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-and-ligaments/id1598939586 Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

Today I’m joined by Vannah Taylor, MA student at San Diego State University with a lifelong love of horror working towards writing a thesis on gender in horror films. Vannah is also a horror writer for various outlets, she’s a dancer, and she’s an all-round icon. This is the very first episode of HBF that was actually recorded IN PERSON back during my trip to LA in summer. Meeting Vannah irl was an absolute delight, and as our taste in horror films is so similar, I knew she wouldn’t disappoint when it came to bringing amazing chat and analysis. Her FFO of gender, filth and melancholy matched perfectly with one of my all-time favourite movies, one that’s rife with tentacles, trauma and female trouble: Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 POSSESSION. Follow Vannah on: Twitter: @horrorhellion IG: @thehorrorhellion Letterboxd: horrorhellion https://linktr.ee/horrorhellion Read Vannah’s writing for: Hear Us Scream https://bit.ly/3T2TW9j Beauty Of Horror https://bit.ly/3s42p07 Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

🩸 WELCOME TO SEASON 2🩸 Today I’m joined by Zoë Rose Smith; creator and EIC of Ghouls Magazine, ZoboWithAShotgun, co-host of OurBloodyObsession podcast and creative producer over at Hellmouth Pictures. Since I planned Season 2, there was only one name on my list for the first episode. Zoë did not disappoint by throwing me a delicious FFO of disturbing, dystopia, cerebal and as Zoë is the Queen of Extreme I knew I had to choose something controversial for our chat. So please, grab yourself a tall glass of moloko vellocet, dust off your bowler hat and settle in as we discuss Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 story of a descent into satirical sociopathy, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Follow Zoë on: Twitter: @ZoBoWithShotgun IG: @ZoBoWithAShotgun https://linktr.ee/zobowithashotgun Ghouls Magazine www.ghoulsmagazine.com @GhoulsMagazine OurBloodyObsession Podcast @OurBloodyPod Hellmouth Pictures @HellmouthPics Subscribe to the HBF newsletter at www.hornbloodfire.com/newsletter Follow me on IG and Twitter @hornbloodfire HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

On today’s episode I’m joined by horror model and host of Horror and More with Anya Gorre - the one and only, gorgeous Anya Gorre! Anya’s modelling is intensely scary and sexy all at once - she’s dedicated to capturing the perfect spooky shot, even if it means heading into abandoned buildings and (unknowingly) possibly active crime scenes. Her style preferences were also reflected in her FFO of blood, occult and nighttime. As it’s the season finale, I knew we had to go out with a bang. And that’s why Anya and me are analysing, in INTENSE DETAIL, Ari Aster’s 2018 demonic debut, HEREDITARY. Apologies for a little audio scratchiness on this one - just blame Paimon. Follow Anya on Instagram: @anya_gorre Anya’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Anya.Gorre Follow Horror and More on Instagram: @horrorandmorewithanyagorre Listen here: https://omny.fm/shows/horror-and-more-with-anya-gorre/playlists/podcast Visit Anya’s Patreon for sexy spooks: https://www.patreon.com/gorreXmorbid HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine