Cultists, it's hard for your Horror Hosts to believe that it's been twenty years since Shaun Of The Dead was released. But that’s all the excuse we need to Dissect Edgar Wright’s breakout 2004 Rom Zom Com! Please join us for the dissection. Dissection Topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/?ref_=ext_shr Unholy Sacrament https://untp.beer/x9N1 h…

We saved the best for last, Cultists. The third and final installment in our Dissection of Ridley Scott's Alien films is the one that started it all, 1979’s Alien. Sir Ridley took the tropes of the nascent Slasher genre and sent them into deep space, making quite an indelible mark on the horror and science fiction genres in the process. Please join…

We have our winner! Step on into the castle for a glitzy awards night where we reveal the Grimmbledon champion, as well as the results of the Special Awards. Thank you so much to everyone who's listened and taken part. We're away now for the rest of the summer. Click here to pick up a copy of our special Aladdin episode to see you through the hot (…

Cultists, N&D have heard that Alien: Covenant is the most divisive film in the Alien franchise. Sir Ridley's second Alien prequel divided the fandom and allegedly any time it's discussed the internet explodes. Rest easy because your Horror Hosts are stalwart and not daunted by Toxic Fandom. So please join us for the second Dissection in our Ridley …

There's a new Alien instalment on the horizon, Cultists. Perfect opportunity for your Horror Hosts to put Sir Ridley Scott’s three contributions to the franchise on the exam table. We’ll be dissecting the films in event order rather than release order, so first up the Cosmic Horror Epic, Prometheus. Please join us for the dissection. Dissection Top…

Find out which four stories survived the Semi-Finals and made it to the finals! Voting for the final is live right now. Cast your vote here: https://forms.gle/xkvy8aVEd9EH4qkT9 Or visit www.grimmreading.wordpress.com/final In the episode, we also read out voters' comments with their reasoning for their choices. And we launch a final Special Awards …

Congratulations, Cultists. You're the first to survive the audition. This episode, we'll be putting Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome on the exam table. After the tragic death of his producing partner Byron Kennedy, Miller enlisted George Ogilvie to co-direct the ambitious conclusion of the original Mad Max trilogy. Please join us for the Dissection. #mad…

The time has arrived to finish off the Grimms’ Children’s Legends, and in this episode we hear the four remaining stories: The Twelve Apostles, Poverty And Humility Lead to Heaven, The Heavenly Wedding, and The Hazel Branch. We again do our best to parse the piety and manage the misery, and rate them out of 10. Still one day left to vote in Semi-Fi…

What a lovely day, Cultists! Next up in our Dissection of George Miller's original Mad Max Trilogy is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior! Things have gotten precipitously worse for old Max since the first film; society has completely fallen, and the world has become a Wasteland ravaged by Marauders. This is a genre defining film that people are still ripp…

It's the second (and last) of the Semi-Finals. Re-discover the sweeping and strange histories of the four competing stories and then cast your vote! Semi-Final 2 voting link: https://forms.gle/TjJnhyuZ3uVKEvrRA Battling it out are the tales: The Two Brothers The Valiant Little Tailor The Fisherman And His Wife The Elves And The Shoemaker The top tw…

Cultists, the Apocalypse is having a resurgence! Between the Fallout series, the revival of Planet Of The Apes, and the upcoming Furiosa, the Wasteland is hot! Making this the perfect moment for your Horror Hosts to go back to before The Fall. Back to where it began, George Miller's Mad Max trilogy. Starting with 1979’s Mad Max, please join us for …

It's the first of the two Grimmbledon Semi-Finals, where four of the stories that survived the Group Stage are battling it out for a place in the Grand Final... Semi-Final 1 voting poll link: https://forms.gle/DeeZ9bpmxsMUFDJ86 After recapping the stories in the Group Stage, this episode we delve a little deeper into some background information, AT…

Cultists, we know you love the ‘80s Horror Classics. So, in this episode, we're putting Joe Dante's 1981 supernatural crime thriller The Howling on the exam table. Possibly the most influential Werewolf film of the 1980s. Its impact is still felt on the genre today, but is it any good? Please join us for the Dissection. #thehowling, #howling, #joed…

Twenty Grimm stories have fought it out in the Group Stages, but only eight have made it through to the Semi-Finals... Find out which tales got the most public votes and secured their spot! Twitter Facebook Instagram Patreon grimmreadingpodcast@gmail.com Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko Other Music: Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C Minor P…

Cultists, last weekend your Horror Hosts crept out of the Vault Of Darkness and went to the cinema to see Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man. Action Thrillers might seem slightly outside of our scope, but this film with its Neo-Noir lighting and intense bloody violence is actually quite Macabré. Please join us for the dissection. Dissection T…

This time we take on the Grimms’ Children’s Legends, including the stories: The Three Green Twigs, God’s Food, The Aged Woman, and The Rose. We do our best to make sense of the misery and rate them out of 10. Still one day left to vote in Group D. Link here: https://forms.gle/BJSvF6SVVkYGdHcF8 Twitter Facebook Instagram Patreon grimmreadingpodcast@…

Cultists, long before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, she cut her teeth in the world of Cult Cinema. This episode your Horror Hosts will be putting her solo directorial debut 1987’s Near Dark on the Exam Table. This Revisionist Western Vampire Thriller is a little hard to find these days but is well worth trac…

The initial Group Stage of the tournament concludes with Group D. Group D voting poll link: https://forms.gle/BJSvF6SVVkYGdHcF8 We’re pitting our highest-scoring Brothers Grimm tales against each other to decide their ultimate story. We open the episode with a recap of the five Grimm stories in the group: The Valiant Little Tailor Rapunzel Gambling…

The tournament continues with Group C. Group C voting poll link: https://forms.gle/gv5os8j1gEdaNd7L7 We’re pitting our highest-scoring Brothers Grimm tales against each other to decide their ultimate story. We open the episode with a recap of the five Grimm stories in the group: Cinderella The Two Brothers The Juniper Tree The Wishing-Table, The Go…

Cultists, the Ides of March are upon us, and your Horror Hosts will be putting Denis Villeneuve's Space Opera Epic, Dune Part 2 on the exam table. N&D actually began their Podcast journey with a Deep Dive of David Lynch's Dune years ago, so this return to Arrakis feels like a homecoming. Please join us for the Dissection. Dissection Topic https://w…

The tournament continues! We’re pitting our highest-scoring Brothers Grimm tales against each other to decide their ultimate story. This episode: Group B. Group B voting poll link: https://forms.gle/cZwGF7YTY4UDi31eA We open the episode with a recap of the five Grimm stories in the group: Little Red Riding Hood The Three Little Men In The Wood Slee…

The tournament begins! We’re pitting our highest-scoring Brothers Grimm tales against each other to decide their ultimate story. First up, we have Group A. Group A voting poll link: https://forms.gle/JVeBVQaomVTNToXx7 We open the episode with a recap of the five Grimm stories in the group: Puss In Boots Hansel And Gretel The Fisherman And His Wife …

Cultists, your Horror Hosts have been talking about Dissecting Scion Sono’s Prisoners Of The Ghostland, since before its release in 2021. After a stretch of music episodes the time felt right to finally put the Post Apocalyptic Sushi Western on the examining table. Please join us for the Dissection. Dissection Topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt637…

Welcome to Grimmbledon! We've finished Volume 1 of the Grimms' fairy tales and it's time to decide once and for all which was the best story we read. 20 tales will be battling it out to earn the crown of the best story. In this episode, we announce the contenders and put them into 5 different groups by drawing lots. Twitter Facebook Instagram Patre…

We've made it Cultists. We've reached the creative peak of The Cure's Goth Trilogy, and bottom of the band's emotional downward spiral. Pornography is The Cure at their darkest, and the month after its release the band would break up on stage in Belgium. The Cure that would later re-form would be a very different band, so please join us for the Dis…

We're back Cultists, continuing our series Dissecting The Cure's Goth Trilogy. This episode your Horror Hosts have 1981’s Faith on the examining table. Perhaps the most underappreciated of the trilogy, the album finds the band exploring themes of grief and loss. Please join us for the Dissection Dissection Topic https://www.thecure.com/release/fait…

We're proud to present The Princess And The Pea by the Brothers Grimm for the first time ever in the English language! Hidden in the Grimms' 5th edition of fairy tales, their version was never translated into English - until now! A crack team of translators has helped us to bring this episode to life, we can't thank you enough. After the story, we …

Welcome back Cultists. Your Horror Hosts were inspired by Lol Tolhurst’s book Goth: A History, to put The Cure’s seminal three album run from the early ‘80s on the examining table. This episode kicks off a three part series Dissecting The Cure's “Goth Trilogy” first up, 1980’s Seventeen Seconds! Dissection Topic https://www.thecure.com/release/seve…

Happy New Year Cultists! At this time of year your Horror Hosts like to look back at their favorite media of the past year and discuss. Not every single piece of media dissected is necessarily “macabre” in nature because Nick and David actually enjoy a bit more of a balanced media diet, but have no fear exclusively spooky content will resume next e…

We present our Christmas Livestream in audio form! Expect a quiz, a cake, crackers, listener chats, and a very unusual story. You can watch the full event on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Np24YiGQG0U?si=bK-Kvdvzxa8Fhj4HBy Adam Field & Matt Hughes

We're back! And back in style. Welcome to our sixth annual Christmas party! Join us round the fire as we get festive in yet another bumper episode. We kick the party off by pulling some Christmas crackers, exchanging presents, and indulging in some festive snacks and beverages to get into the Christmas spirit. It's then story time, starting with a …

Cultists, Welcome to a new world of Gods and Monsters…but don't get attached to it, because it's not sticking around. Universal's third and final attempt to launch a Dark Universe was 2017’s The Mummy. A proven franchise, tremendous star power, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a bit as it turns out. Dissection Subject The Mummy Dark Tidings Crue…

Welcome back, Cultists. For Universal’s second attempt to Re-Launch their Classic Monsters line, they returned to Count Dracula. Going for a sort of Superhero Origin Story prequel to Bram Stoker’s novel. Please join us for the Dissection. Dissection Subject https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829150/?ref_=ext_shr Dark Tidings https://halloweendailynews.c…

Welcome back Cultists. In the 2010s Universal Studios made three attempts to Re-Launch their Classic Monsters, to mixed results. Your Horror Hosts are going to be finishing the year with a three part series Dissecting those films. First on the exam table is Joe Johnston's The Wolfman! Please join us for the Dissection. Episode Subject https://www.i…

With Godzilla Day soon approaching, and David freshly returned from Japan, the time felt right for your Horror Hosts to tackle Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla. The film was nominated for 11 Japanese Academy Awards and won 7 of them, and is not necessarily the sort of film that comes to mind when people in the West think of a "Godzilla Movie", so pleas…

Halloween is soon approaching, Cultists! No better time to Dissect the debut album from Horror Punk Legends, The Misfits! 1982's Walk Among Us clocks in at a scant 24.38 minutes so obviously your Horror Hosts took four times as long discussing it. Please join us for the dissection Dissection Topic Misfits - Walk Among Us https://www.discogs.com/mas…

Good evening Cultists, and welcome to the third and final installment of our '90s Horror Cycle series. Mike Nichols's 1994 Supernatural Thriller, Wolf is the black sheep of the three films. Eschewing the 18th Century Gothic setting of the previous films for the backdrop of the New York publishing world. Instead of stalking across the foggy moors, t…

Welcome back, Cultists. Wherever Stoker's Vampire Count goes Shelley's Modern Prometheus soon follows. Released two years after Dracula, Coppola returned as producer and tapped Shakespearean Wunderkind Kenneth Branagh to direct. Attempting to repeat the success of Dracula to mixed results. So please join your Horror Hosts for their dissection of 19…

Good Evening, Cultists. We bid you welcome to the inaugural episode of Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre. It seems that every generation gets their own version of the Classic Monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman. In the '90s these came courtesy of Sony Pictures and kicked off with Francis Ford Coppola's love letter to the Gothic Horror …

Welcome Cultists to Episode Zero of Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre. Before the official launch on October 1st, your Horror Hosts wanted to give all the Cult Initiates an opportunity to get to know them, and to let you know what to expect in future episodes. So enter freely and of your own will, and please enjoy this Rapid Fire Dissection of Nic…

This is it Divers, the final episode of the Sword and Sorcery series, and the final episode of NDDDtM! This episode N&D are Deep Diving Ron Howard's 1988 Swashbuckling Fairy Tale Adventure, Willow. As well as announcing the next podcasting endeavors.By Nick and Dave

From the dawn of time we came, Divers…moving silently down through the centuries. Living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time when we could finally Podcast about Russell Mulcahy's 1986 Sword & Sorcery/Urban Fantasy classic, Highlander! 🎶Here we are born to be kings! We're the princes of the universe!🎶…

We made it to five years! In April we hosted a livestream event to celebrate the milestone - and here it is in audio form. Thanks to everyone who joined and helped make it such a special occasion. For the full experience, you can watch the whole event on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Leycit-_jQ?feature=share…

Divers, What is best in life? 1) The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you. 2) To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! 3) To Deep Dive John Milius's Sword and Sorcery classic, Conan The Barbarian!By Nick and Dave Deep Dive the Metaverse

We're back, Divers with part two of our Swords and Sorcery series, Matthew Robbins's Dark Fantasy Monster Movie, Dragonslayer! This one was very formative for young Nickie so again should be a very fun discussion.By Nick and Dave Deep Dive the Metaverse

It's the end of the series and the end of volume one for us here at Grimm Castle! So join us as we reveal the winners and losers of series 5 of Grimm Reading and indulge in some classic story stats. We then share some clips from our latest special episodes (The Little Mermaid and Sinbad The Sailor), and finally resurrect story stats as we reveal th…

Divers, N&D are kicking off a five part Sword and Sorcery series! First up is John Boorman's epic tale of chivalry Excalibur! This is a very foundational film for Dave, that Nick had previously never seen, making for a very fun discussion.By Nick and Dave Deep Dive the Metaverse

Divers, N&D are back to conclude the Tarantino Imperial Phase Series by Deep Diving his 1997 Midlife Crisis Crime Caper Hang Out movie, Jackie Brown! Maybe put on a Delfonics record and make yourself a screwdriver to get in the mood?By Nick and Dave Deep Dive the Metaverse

Continuing their Quentin Tarantino Imperial Phase Series, N&D Dive into his sophomore film 1994's Neo-Noir Hyperlink Crime Comedy, Pulp Fiction! An Elvis man should love it!By Nick and Dave Deep Dive the Metaverse

In part two, discover the origins and history of cinderella as we embark on “The Story Of The Story”. First up, we follow the trail of Cinderella from ancient Greece through Basile, Perrault, and the Grimms, by way of medieval France, as we trace her literary origins. We then attempt to work out where Cinderella really came from, and seek help from…