Best Wont Stay Dead Podcasts (2024)

In this bonus episode Francesca talks with producer Pippa Frith and sound designer Iain Armstrong about turning the theatre show Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night into a podcast series.There are conversations about directing, editing, collaboration and whether Iain really did record the cutting his toe nails.…

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Hope 23:34

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Day is coming, the sun is rising towards the horizon, 12 degrees to go. Shining light on the frustrations and the urges and the loves and the lost as it leaves other places to darkness on the other side of the horizon. The night lingering.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Inevitable 19:05

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We’ve had the darkest time of night and now she, the sun is moving upwards; little bits of light rising in the atmosphere, the day is coming, there is no stopping the inevitability of it breaking.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Horrors 28:34

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Tonight it’s the Horrors (not the mid-noughties indie rock band, but the night chills, the night sweats, Witching Hour). Wherever you are, let's say it's way past our bedtime, the sun is more than 18 degrees below the horizon, the darkest time, the night proper. Street lights perhaps, make shadows through cracks in curtains, things come half formed…

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The Lovers 31:47

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The Night Belongs to Lovers, so we are wrapped up and in the comfort of familiar arms, safety in another's breath... stories of finding each other in a potent sense of smell, original ways to measure time together and a man with his eye on a match made.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Distractions 21:13

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The night time can be the right time for hookups and booty calls, last minute love-ins and for finally doing something x-rated with that one person you'd kept on the back burner. Even though you shouldn't have. But really you should.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Losses: Part Two 27:09

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This set of stories is the Losses part 2: The Lost and the Left Behinds. The ghosts that come crowding in, crawling up the covers and sticking their fingers in your ears. We'll hear about a last act of kindness intended for the left behind and someone trying to lose themselves just to prove a point.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Losses: Part One 26:18

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This week, the Found and Lost: the ghosts that come crawling in at night, the people, the things we have lost. We'll be hearing stories from people who have found a way to combat loss, found sleep, or something they never really wanted.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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The Frustrations 25:07

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In this set of stories, it’s the frustrations we're looking at; the things that churn around your brain to stop you sleeping, the indignations we invent about others who cut in and cut up.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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A Night Out 27:46

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From dancing under disco lights to blood on the pavement, with the watchers and the shakers in between, here's some stories as an ode to nights out, your first one, the regular ones, the ones that don't end as they should.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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Trailer 2:20

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An introduction to Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night, written and performed by Francesca Millican-Slater.By Francesca Millican-Slater

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Episode 26 - Tombs Of The Blind Dead 1:12:01

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Saddle up and get ready for a night of terror and ritual sacrifice; we’re off to the abandoned village of Berzano for an audience with the Blind Dead.This episode tackles one of the most influential films of the early Spanish horror boom. But can this snail’s pace zombie classic still entertain contemporary viewers with its Gothic aesthetic and eer…

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Episode 25 - Silent Night Deadly Night 1:05:01

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It's time for the scariest damn night of the year! That's right; the third annual WSD festive special is upon us...This year our stockings are full of yuletide violence and controversy, as we tackle the 1984 seasonal slasher Silent Night Deadly Night.An axe-wiedling Santa Clause; the wonderous Linnea Quigley; bumbling cops; bloody violence: it's li…

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Episode 24 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL IV - Halloween II 52:29

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Well, it’s that time of year again. Team WSD (well, most of us) are back to make the season of the macabre more frightening than ever, as we wander the empty corridors of the Podcast Memorial Hospital to dissect Rick Rosenthal’s infamous slasher sequel Halloween II.It’s the fourth annual WSD rinseout Halloween special!So is the second instalment in…

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Episode 23 - Suspiria 1:24:29

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Do you believe in witches?Here at WSD HQ, we certainly bloody well do. In fact we’ve recorded a podcast about it. That’s right, this time we’re looking at one of the greatest horror films ever made: Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s gore-tastic, expressionist, gothic nightmare Suspiria.From its proggy, creepy Goblin soundtrack to its startling use…

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Episode 22 - Christmas Evil 1:13:56

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This episode things are getting frightfully festive as we dust the dried blood off last year’s Santa suit, polish our kitchen knives and saddle up for an evening of yuletide retribution. Top of our wishlist this year is Lewis Jackson’s utterly insane addition to the holiday horror subgenre: Christmas Evil (AKA You Better Watch Out).Festive Robin Ho…

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Episode 21 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL III - Trick 'r Treat 56:00

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Pumpkin pie and candy abounds in our third Halloween special, as we discuss one of the most cartoonish, colourful tributes to Samhain the genre has to offer. Werewolves, slashers, demons, zombies, middle-aged swinger parties; Trick ‘r Treat has it all.Amongst the candy stuffed in our over-sized jack-o-lanterns this year is some Witch’s Brew, Spooks…

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Episode 20 - The Burning 1:16:48

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Kayaks at the ready, fellow podcasteteers; we’re paddling our way to Devil’s Creek this episode as we look at one of the most notorious summer camp slashers of all time. That’s right: it’s time to face the legend of Cropsy in Tony Maylam’s 1981 video nasty classic The Burning.Sheared fingers, Savini makeup, scrotum-faced killers; what’s not to like…

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Episode 19 - Anthropophagous: The Beast 1:35:04

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It’s time for a spot of gut-munching, foetus-eating Italian splattersploitation action this episode, courtesy of Joe d’Amato and George Eastman’s collaborative cannibalistic video nasty Anthropophagous. We’re island-hopping on the vacation of a lifetime, trying not to be hideously murdered by a seven foot tall psychopath with breadcrumbs glued to h…

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Episode 18 - The Holy Mountain 1:34:21

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We’re climbing the holy mountain of cinematic deliriousness this episode, as we tackle one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most challenging works. Corruption, police brutality, religious greed, consumerism, amphibious colonialism; this film has it all. But one question remains: is the Holy Mountain mere theatrical excrement, or does Jodorowsky manage to …

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Dead Bites - Episode 3 - Cannibal Metropolis 30:35

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Iain speaks to author Saurav Dutt about his book Cannibal Metropolis; a gory, violent and intelligent work of horror literature that pays homage to the Italian cannibal genre of the 1970s.By Won't Stay Dead

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Episode 17 - Society 1:44:20

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We’re sipping Pimms and donning our best monocles in this episode as we contemplate Society; Brian Yuzna’s nightmarish orgy of social satire and anti-capitalist thought.Beginning like an ‘80s soap opera and ending in a Cronenberg-esque body-horror splatter-fest, Yuzna’s directorial debut is certainly one of the strangest tackled by Won’t Stay Dead …

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Episode 16 - Black Christmas 2:05:53

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What you mother and I must know is...ARE you going to listen to the official WSD Christmas Special?This episode we crawl out from our hiding hole in a sorority house attic to heap praise and criticism alike on what is probably one of the best films ever made, and arguably the first true slasher flick.Obscenity, drunkenness, FElatio, conspicuous Can…

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Episode 15 - Deadly Blessing 1:47:43

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As the old adage goes: ‘there ain’t no party like a WSD party, ‘cos a WSD party don’t stop’. Well, that’s not necessarily true of this episode, in which we tackle the rather mediocre Deadly Blessing, a film that transitioned director Wes Craven’s early grindhouse video nasties to his more accessible mainstream work.As the panel finds out, this make…

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Episode 14 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL II - Night of the Demons 2:11:09

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We’re off to Hull House to party in an abandoned funeral home with a six-pack of Coors and some buns pilfered from a local Seven Eleven. It’s the official WSD Halloween Special!In this episode we pay tribute to one of the trashiest films of the ‘80s, pulling it apart and revealing its strengths and weaknesses in true WSD style. It’s sour balls aple…

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Episode 13 - Friday the 13th 2:40:33

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Machetes, denim hotpants and colourful macs abound as we head off to camp, celebrating our 13th episode in style with Sean S. Cunningham’s cult slasher classic. Coming along for the ride and whacking the bluegrass on the truck stereo this time are special guests Dom and Conor, who have more than a few good (and bad) things to say about the first in…

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Episode 12 - Planet Of The Vampires 2:10:02

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Team WSD are back with a big bang, making our first foray into the eclectic back catalogue of Italian macabre maestro Mario Bava as we dissect his 1965 effort Planet Of The Vampires. With Captain Mark Markary by our side, we attempt to fend off the bodiless consciousness of cinematic preconceptions and get to the heart of one of the godfather of It…

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Episode 11 - The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein 1:58:56

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We're off to sunny Spain (well, Portugal actually) for the podcast's first attempt at tackling the perversive, subversive batshit-craziness that is the cinema of Iberian horror meister Jess Franco.The Curse Of Frankenstein/Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein is one of the director's earlier and more accessible works, featuring the screen debut of Lina Rom…

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Episode 10 - The Curse of Frankenstein 1:44:32

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*WSD Official Disclaimer* The following episode was recorded in early December, amid good faith from all panellists concerned that it would be uploaded and ready to go in a week's time, in order to make room to cover Bob Clark's Black Christmas before the festive season began. Christmas being what it is, we switched off for a month or so and never …

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Episode 9 - The Devils 2:57:05

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Forgive us, listeners, for we have sinned. It has been over four weeks since our last podcast.But never fear, for we are back with the proverbial bang, crossing ourselves as we bear witness to Ken Russell’s gloriously blasphemous masterpiece The Devils.Dousing the flames as we burn at the stake are Adnam’s Mosaic Pale Ale, Kinnegar’s Devils Backbon…

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Episode 8 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL I - Halloween 2:42:28

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Halloween is coming and the WSD team are getting hammered. This episode we battle the ancient ghosts of Samhain via John Carpenter's seminal 1978 slasher rinse out Halloween.“If that's the trick, then what are the treats?” I hear you ask. Well, I'll tell you. This week the panel gets through Budweiser, Jupiler, Trouble Brewing's Dark Arts Porter an…

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Episode 7 - Don't Go In The House 2:37:13

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This episode sees the panel dig out the old asbestos dungarees and hide charred corpses conspicuously about the place, as we take on Joseph Ellison’s pyromanic video nasty Don’t Go In The House.Sick, twisted filth or underrated dissection of the human psyche for the Jeffrey Dahmer generation? It’s doubtful whether the panel reaches any conclusions,…

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Dead Bites - Episode 2 - All Cheerleaders Die 26:57

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Episode two of our minisode series Dead Bites sees Iain talk to directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson about their new film All Cheerleaders Die.By Won't Stay Dead

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