On this episode, Andrew Graves and Tom Gigliotti from Shout It Out Loudcast, slap on the greasepaint and spandex and go for a spin on the roller coaster and investigate the cheapo bin fire that is KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978). Less Hard Day’s Night and more trick-or-treat kiddie show, will this Hanna-Barbera TV movie make them want to …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and VERY special guest Ari Lehman (the very first Jason Vorhees) speculative whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or sit and watch Lawrence Olivier’s classy horror flick Hamlet (1948). Together they muse on life death and the existential, and of course Friday the 1…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and star of A Field in England (2013), Richard Glover, discuss that very film. Stuffing their gobs with mushrooms and going places they probably shouldn’t, the pair of them get to grips with Ben Wheatley, method acting, psychedelics, oh and the secret of the universe. You have been warned.…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves, and guest John Harrison, get lost on the African veldt as they are pursued by tribesman who have few good intentions. The Naked Prey (1965), written, directed and starring Cornel Wilde, while not technically a horror film, does contain some of the most chilling death scenes ever put on camera, and it retains an …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest James Whittington, discuss the many fine attributes of NYX TV. The free to air channel, one the finest in terms of horror content, prides itself on offering a glorious and eclectic schedule of old favourites, foreign delicacies and more obscure delights. Together, the pair discuss past and upcoming NYX …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) spend a tense hour or so trying to pass the runes on to some other poor fool to free themselves from the claws of the oncoming nightmare. Night of the Demon (1957), directed by Jacques Tourneur and based on the short story by M.R. James, presents a dark tale of bl…

On the second of our Tea For Terror Specials, your host Andrew Graves and returning guest Dan Taylor, go back to bygone days to explore those childhood TV and movie traumas. Together they discuss creepy–arsed nostalgia pieces like Worzel Gummidge, Threads, Public Information films, The Nutty Professor (1963) and The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Jez Conolly, fins themselves ‘upgraded’ by the mysterious company to end up rubbing shoulders with a deeply troubled Rock Hudson’. Together they explore John Frankenhiemer’s existential horror, Seconds (1966), a weird, disturbing and utterly brilliant American chiller. Devastatingly bleak and completely…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Tim Dry (Xtro, Return of the Jedi) hover between life and death to explore the nightmarish world presented in Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, this odd psychological thriller is as strange as it is disturbing “…according to this, you’re already dead” You have been…

On this episode, the very first ‘Special’, host Andrew Graves and returning guest Darrell Buxton, take a long hard look at the life and films of Mr Murder himself Tod Slaughter. Before the rise of Hammer, Cushing and Lee etc. we had this quintessentially unrepentant rogue, arguably Britain’s first screen monster. His movies – usually cinematic adap…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Emma Dark move into a new neighbourhood and immediately find themselves at odds with the paranoid residents. Together, they take solace by re-watching The ‘Burbs (1989), Joe Dante’s superb satire on American suburbia.By TeaForTerror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves staying in an out of the way motel, where the manager seems to have an unhealthy fixation with dead birds and holes in bathroom walls. Join them as they avoid the shower and pick apart Hitchcock’s unquestionable classic Psycho (1960)…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves once again comes face to face with NYX Channel rep, James Whittington. Together they discuss comedy horror, 80s movies and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).By TeaForTerror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Erika Bean try not to get killed after they accidentally watch a dodgy video copy of this week’s film of choice, Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998). This spooky Japanese horror from the closing moments of the 20th century, still casts its shadow of hordes of American imitators and stands tall among the very bes…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Robert Shearman inadvisably go out playing in the muddy hell of a working farm of the mid 1970s, where children routinely fall foul of rat poison, falling iron gates and cow shit stinking slurry pits. Together they explore the nasty world of the British public information film Apaches (1977). Bleak, unp…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Aaron Carruthers take an inadvisable trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Beset by deadites, freezing cold temperatures and spattered with homemade blood, they try to make some sense of Sam Raimi’s spooky debut feature The Evil Dead (1981). What could possibly go wrong?…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and screen actor Simon Bamford (Butterball in Hellraiser/Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves trapped in an old farmhouse. Its boiling hot, they’re surrounded by rotting corpses and the only thing on the menu is them. Despite their imminent peril, they still find the time to examine Tobe Hooper’s masterful h…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and returning guest James Whittington (NYX, Legend, The Horror Channel) put on their Santa hats, load their sacks with various instruments of butchery and head off into Christmas Eve to examine Bob Clark’s seminal festive horror Black Christmas (1974). Often cited as being a major influence on the later slasher m…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Exploitation Retrospect head honcho Dan Taylor break into the lab to conduct some questionable experiments in order to resurrect the mid-80s American splatter movie Re-Animator (1985). This Stuart Gordon directed cult classic torn from the pages of H.P. Lovecraft, is a neon-lit, violent horror show which is b…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jez Conolly find themselves struggling with the world’s worst case of deja vu as they get caught in the time-looped nightmare of Dead of Night (1945). This post-war Ealing Studio’s horror, provided the template for the anthology movie and pre-dated the gothic stylings of Hammer by a good 10 years. Weird, cree…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and John Harrison get all freaked out by David E Durston’s acid trip-rabies-horror, I Drink Your Blood (1970). Undoubtedly influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968) but pre-dating Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972), the movie is an uneven yet entertaining mix of violence, rabies and bad acting lac…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and We Belong Dead editor Darrell Buxton go way back in time to unravel a tale of madness, manipulation and amputation in Tod Browning’s weird circus-set silent horror The Unknown (1927). They discuss flesh, fiends, Joan Crawford, and of course legendary screen shapeshifter, Lon Chaney.…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies don their best gas masks and tramp off to the Peak District to unpack kitchen sink horror Dead Man’s Shoes. Directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, A Room for Romeo Brass) and starring Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon, Hot Fuzz), it’s a dark and brooding serial ki…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and director of The Love Witch, Anna Biller delve into the black and white proto-Amicus movie, City of the Dead AKA Horror Hotel (1960). Starring Hammer legend Christopher Lee, this witchy oddity taps into modern fears and new world ideas, riffing on many of the same themes as Psycho, Black Sunday and Peeping Tom…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and James Whittington (NYX TV/The Horror Channel/Legend) slip on their Silver Shamrock masks and go poking about the creepy looking factory at the edge of town, to try and figure out what’s going down in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). A departure from the original franchise, this cult horror flick is …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and filmmaker Emma Dark go in search of a Marvel adaption that has some real teeth. Before the overtly formulaic limitations of the MCU came Blade (1998). Leaping from the pages of The Tomb of Dracula back in the 70s, Blade became one of the first black super-powered dudes to spring from the white dominated world…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and writer Erika Bean (and baby Riley) cast a critical eye on Alice Lowe’s superbly subversive 21st century horror film Prevenge (2016). Discussing pregnancy on film, comedy and horror and modern female directors, they wander the maternity ward in search of answers…and probably some baby wipes.…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and performance poet Matt Duffy AKA Thick Richard, stupidly decide to mess around with the puzzle box and come face to face with Pinhead and co. Narrowly avoiding being torn asunder by the Cenobites, they babble on about HellBound: Hellraiser II and try to make some sense of this world and the next. It’s time to …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Nicholas Vince (Chatterer from Hellraiser) discuss The Masque of the Red Death (1964), digging deep into Roger Corman’s Poe cycle, Nicolas Roeg and of course Vincent Price. Expect horror, plagues and lots of Chatterer chat.By TeaForTerror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Lee Gambin from Cinemaniacs go into the cellar to discuss vermin-infested chiller Willard (1971). Starring Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine and Elsa Lanchester, this cult favourite directed by Daniel Mann, elevates itself from mere creature feature to something smart, beautiful and unforgettable, a rat-race obs…

On this episode, Andrew Graves and tattooist and part-time drag-queen, Boff Konkerz AKA Gloria Sync, share a pot of tea, spread the tarot cards and discuss the aesthetically enchanting, yet disturbingly tragic chiller, The Love Witch (2016). Written, directed and produced by Anna Biller, it’s a cool, beautiful piece of highly original 21st century …

On this episode, Andrew Graves and Tom Gigliotti from Shout It Out Loudcast, slap on the greasepaint and spandex and go for a spin on the roller coaster and investigate the cheapo bin fire that is KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978). Less Hard Day’s Night and more trick-or-treat kiddie show, will this Hanna-Barbera TV movie make them want to …

On this episode, host Andrew Graves, and creator/original editor of horror mag We Belong Dead, Eric McNaughton, find their backyard overrun by ants. Though they try dowsing the little sods with boiling water and all forms of pesticide they eventually resort to an atomic bomb. What could possibly go wrong? So, begins their delve into science fiction…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves, and filmmaker and author Sean Hogan go on holiday to the seedy, terrifyingly bleak backwash locale of Point Dume, California, where they find themselves in a confusing mystery of murder, cannibalism and dark magic. With nothing to munch on but live rats, it’s going to be a distinctly long and strange trip.…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and pulp skinhead/werewolf novelist Tim Wells take a trip back to the 1930s to sink their lupine fangs into the strange beast that is Universal’s Werewolf of London (1935). So, grab yourself a steaming cuppa while you can, things are about to get hairy.By TeaForTerror

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and horror illustration legend, Graham Humphreys, take their flask of tea to a fake Cornish cemetery at Bray Studios to plunder the crypt of old school Hammer horror, where they examine the long dead corpse of John Gilling’s The Plague of the Zombies (1966). Get the biscuits out, it’ll be DEAD good.…

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and music journo, horror fiend Neil Kulkarni share their love of Demons (1985), the Dario Argento produced, Lamberto Bava directed mid-80s Italian splatter-fest. The kettle’s boiled, so let's see what's brewing...By andrewgravese