--And Now The Podcast Starts!

Oct 30 2024 100 ep. 89 mins 6
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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on 1972's Asylum (feat. Dan)

Oct 30 2024 100 mins  
As a companion piece to our episode on --And Now The Screaming Starts!, here's an episode of the much-missed podcast A Very British Horror discussing 1972's Asylum, the previous movie made Amicus Productions and director Roy Ward Baker. The show's regular hosts, Chris Denton and Paul Monk, are joined by our very own Dan, in hyper-enthusiastic mode. If you've never seen Asylum, it's

Not Episode 100 --And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973)

Oct 30 2024 73 mins  
Happy Halloween! Welcome to our new regular series. In this episode, Dan, Kirsty, Stella, Ian and even Howard all give their thoughts on the little-discussed British horror movie from 1973 whose name their podcast borrowed (ripped off). Beware that Dan frequently refers to cutting back to "the studio" as if he thinks he's delivering a 1980s regional news report. Also please prepare

An announcement...

Oct 25 2024 3 mins  
...which Dan will explain...

Alien Romulus (2024)

Sep 06 2024 84 mins  
In the wake of creating his audio essay on Prometheus, Dan got round to watching the new Alien movie, Fede Alvarez's Romulus. He's joined by Ian to discuss its ups and downs. If you look back along the podcast feed you can find episodes in which Ian and Dan also discuss Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien3 (1992 - for this episode joined by Kirsty) and Alien Resurrection (1997). Fro

Prometheus Should've Been A Sequel - Part Three

Aug 30 2024 47 mins  
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan is creating a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. Here's an audio version of the third and final part (you can hear both of the first two parts earlier on this feed). The video versions in progress can be seen at on our Patreon page and we will be announcing the public release of the final videos at a

Prometheus Should've Been A Sequel - Part Two

Aug 23 2024 16 mins  
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan is creating a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. The video versions in progress can be seen at on our Patreon page and we will be announcing the public release of the final videos at a later date. For early access, become a paying Patreon supporter at Patreon.com/AndNowPodcast - we would really apprec

Our new video essay series! Prometheus Should've Been A Sequel - Part One

Aug 16 2024 22 mins  
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan has created a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. The video version can be seen at on our Patreon page. where a new episode will be publicly viewable each week for free, but if you want to watch an early version of Part Two right now, become a paying Patreon supporter at Patreon.com/AndNowPodcast - we

The Moor (2024) - Interview and Review

Jul 31 2024 104 mins  
We're back! And we're sorry we've been away for so long. This episode will be a brief reunion, but by no means a final one. The podcast will return for a full series this autumn, and before then there are further treats on the way. The new British horror movie on the block is Chris Cronin's The Moor, an acclaimed slice of particularly Northern English folk horror. As The Moor appea

Missed Classics? #12: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) with Neil Young

Nov 10 2023 94 mins  
Exorcist II: The Heretic has been called "the worst film ever made" (by Mark Kermode) and has attracted derision ever since its release in 1977, not least by the makers of the original The Exorcist (1973). Our Ian, who worships The Exorcist, has always avoided it. But esteemed critic Neil Young, our special guest on this episode, insists The Heretic is a more interesting film than

Clark on Quatermass #1: The 1950s Script Books

Sep 01 2023 216 mins  
We return to an unplanned irregular release schedule (Dan explains all on the pod) with the first in a series of long-envisioned specials in which horror maestro Simon Clark explains to Dan why the scripts of Nigel Kneale's 1950s trilogy of TV terror about Professor Bernard Quatermass are such an inspirational read. 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the transmission of the first seri