Half Price Horror

Apr 13 2025 195 ep. 47 mins 137
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A deep dive into the half-price horror rack of the local used bookstore, coming away with classics, cult treasures, and the strangest stories the genre has to offer.

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Godzilla 2000 (1999)

Apr 13 2025 41 mins  
Two thousand, zero zero, party over, oops, out of time, so Godzilla started the Y2K fun early in December of 1999! The big guy dukes it out with aliens attempting to drain the entire Internet of data so they can learn how to build the perfect body for themselves, and unsurprisingly it ends in a big fight in the middle of downtown Tokyo! Join HPH for a fun discussion of the most Hol

Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Episodes 4-6 (1974)

Apr 06 2025 80 mins  
Do you love vampires? Werewolves? Sinister spectral doppelgangers and spontaneous human combustion? Then join Half Price Horror for an exploration of a classic 70s TV series that embraces the paranormal, the New Age, and all those classic monsters we adore so much!

Hollow Man (2000)

Mar 23 2025 55 mins  
Paul Verhoeven's 'Hollow Man' hit at the exact transition between the post-Cold War euphoria of Bill Clinton and the nasty hangover that was the Bush years, when we were just beginning to realize how difficult it was going to be to pry misogyny loose from the hands of entitled white dudes. But is this film a critique of sexist men, or a depiction of them? Let's dive

Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Episodes 1-3 (1974)

Mar 16 2025 70 mins  
The 70s were a gestational era for cult fiction, the incubator that gave birth to every kind of fascination from UFOs to Jack the Ripper to voodoo. So it's not surprising that a series like "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" would come around, and it's not surprising that it would become a foundational text for Chris Carter, JJ Abrams, and everyone in between. But what

The Reef (2010)

Mar 09 2025 26 mins  
"Shark attack". Is there any phrase more thrilling to the horror fan's spirit? There's a never-ending bonanza of shark movies out there, but this one is notorious for its use of real sharks and the real-life Australian incident that inspired it. So join HPH for a deep dive--no pun intended--into crafty no-budget thriller 'The Reef'!(Not to be confused with

Nope (2022)

Mar 02 2025 67 mins  
When audiences found out they were going to get a movie about aliens from Jordan Peele, a lot of people jumped to a lot of conclusions about what they were going to get--but nobody imagined a heady, action-horror-Western that serves as a meditation on the exploitative nature of Hollywood and a joyous celebration of the power of cinema. Join HPH as we do our level best to dig into a

The Nun II (2023)

Feb 23 2025 53 mins  
It's time to finish our tour of the Conjuring Universe, as we return to Valak the demonic nun and her sworn enemies Frenchie and Irene! Get ready for Wan and Safran's version of 'The DaVinci Code', with a lost relic and an ancient mystery and a third act surprise demon goat, as we put this franchise to bed once and for all.

Diabolique (1955)

Feb 16 2025 43 mins  
It may not get as much discussion as it did seventy years ago when it first premiered, but 'Les Diaboliques' (or as it was known in America, 'Diabolique') is one of the most profoundly influential thrillers in cinematic history. So let's dig in for a discussion of the plot twist you've probably seen a dozen times the way it was done originally, by Hitchcock&

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Feb 09 2025 51 mins  
It's the final installment of the main Conjuring franchise (for now) and a case that tests the very limits... of Peter Safran and James Wan's ability to spin the Warrens' nonsense into a supernatural horror story. Can they take the tale of a guy who got drunk and committed manslaughter into a courtroom drama about demonic possession? Or will they have to cut away before

The Hunger (1983)

Feb 02 2025 39 mins  
What do you get when you take the gothic, queer romance sensibilities of Anne Rice and filter them through hit-making director Tony Scott and arthouse actors like Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie? You get a unique vampire movie that blends beauty and horror in equal measures, with bold and experimental stylistic choices, and you get a whole episode of HPH discussin