We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Over the next few weeks, they will be covering the brand new It prequel series, Welcome to Derry, which takes the terror of Pennywise back to 1962, and joining them for the journey is Vampire Videos host Dan Owen. The trio discuss 1x01 'The Pilot', the introduction of the characters, the striking beginning and end in terms of horror theatrics, and where all of this might be going in the broader context of Stephen King and It... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Guest Dan Owen Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Hugh and Tony return to the V/H/S franchise this week as they look at this year’s timeous offering of V/H/S Halloween. The gents discuss each segment in depth, revelling in some gory seasonal silliness, some truly dark and disturbing entries and one of the most fun segments that the series has ever produced... Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe is the co-host of the excellent Beyond the Scream podcast, Emma Arneil. The trio discuss the climax of the story as Frederick meets his dark fate while reaching his worst excesses, and the truth about Roderick and Madeline's past becomes clear as they prepare to face Verna one last time... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Guest Emma Arneil (@ems06 on Instagram) ⁠⁠Beyond the Scream⁠⁠ Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe is the co-host of the excellent Beyond the Scream podcast, Emma Arneil. The trio talk all things Usher as Victorine and Tamerlane enter the crosshairs, and the narrative begins to rapidly approach Roderick's fateful date with destiny... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Guest Emma Arneil (@ems06 on Instagram) ⁠Beyond the Scream⁠ Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into 'The Month of the House of Usher', as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe is the co-host of the excellent Beyond the Scream podcast, Emma Arneil. The trio talk all things Usher as Camille and Leo come under the bloody spotlight, and the animal kingdom gets very involved in Flanagan’s menagerie of horror… Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Emma Arneil (@ems06 on Instagram) Beyond the Scream Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. For Halloween we are turning October into The Month of the House of Usher, as we dive deep into Mike Flanagan’s 2023 Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. Joining us for this dark, gothic and absurd ride into the works of Edgar Allan Poe is the co-host of the excellent Beyond the Scream podcast, Emma Arneil. The trio talk about Poe’s work, their shared love for Mike Flanagan, ruthless bastards and bastards who are ruthless, as well as chemical orgies (not the good kind) and a frankly phenomenal cast of actors chewing the scenery up at every opportunity… Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Emma Arneil (@ems06 on Instagram) Beyond the Scream Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Hugh and Tony as they discuss one of Ti West’s earliest efforts with 2011’s The Innkeepers. The gents discuss a ghost story that seems to have been spliced with the DNA of an early Kevin Smith movie, debate whether or not the horror tale of Madeline O’Malley works, look at its place in the pantheon of modern horror ghost stories and try to understand what was going through Pat Healy’s mind when he decided on THAT hairstyle… Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Tony and Hugh as they tackle 2023's creeping folk horror Starve Acre from debut director Daniel Kokotaijo, with guest Rob Yeomans of the CineMortuary podcast - not to mention Production Manager on the film itself! Rob discusses his involvement in the film, giving insights into the production, and the gents tackle the deeper themes of this slice of 'weird Albion'; grief, trauma, psychosis and the long tail of myth and legend... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Guest Rob Yeomans Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. Join Hugh and Tony as the tackle the Philippou brother’s debut feature film, Talk To Me, featuring the most unsettling hand in horror cinema since the butlers in Scary Movie 2… The gents discuss how the brothers drag possession horror kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, the emergence of more fresh new voices in modern horror cinema and how Gen Z’s attitude to trauma and grief have crafted a unique and unsettling spin on an old classic... Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents welcome Mary Munoz back to the podcast to discuss Zach Cregger’s Weapons, one of the show’s most anticipated films of the year. The gang discuss a film as funny as it is scary, several staggering performances, a marketing masterstroke and the emergence of an exciting new name in horror cinema...     Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Mary Munoz (@MissMaimePeas) Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents are joined by returning guest Mary Munoz to discuss Zach Cregger’s deeply disturbing 2022 horror Barbarian. A dark and twisted tale that tackles misogyny, abuse, and giant, scary mothers… The team discuss the everyday dangers women face just by existing, the rodent-energy of Justin Long, Vampire Videos host Dan Owen’s dank and dark basement and which Skarsgard they would most like to open their door on a dark and rainy night (NOT A EUPHEMISM).   Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Mary Munoz (@MissMaimePeas) Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This time, Tony goes solo as host, joined by Mark McManus in a crossover with their podcast At the Movies in the 90s, as they discuss both the brand new take on I Know What You Did Last Summer, plus the original 1997 film and 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer... Host / Editor A. J. Black Guest Mark McManus Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This time they are entering into the sinister world of artificial intelligence by looking at the very different 2022 M3GAN and 2025's M3GAN 2.0, both directed by Gerald Johnstone. One a straight up horror, the other a spy action pivot, both pictures explore the dangers of unchecked AI on children and the world beyond. Tony and Hugh look at what could happen if we continue on such a trajectory as well as how M3GAN as a franchise plays with our expectations... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week, they are joined by recurring guest and horror writer/podcaster Kat Hughes, to explore Danny Boyle's much-anticipated sequel, 28 Years Later. They go deep on themes, casting, visuals, that last five minutes, where the next film might go, plus touch on 28 Days & 28 Weeks Later along the way... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Guest Kat Hughes Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week, in a format breaking episode, Tony flies solo with guest, academic and podcaster Dr. Carl Sweeney, re-airing a 2019 episode of their defunct film podcast, Motion Pictures, where they discussed that year's adaptation of Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan and more broadly examine Stephen King's depiction of America in his books and on screen... Host / Editor A. J. Black Guest Dr. Carl Sweeney Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents dive deep into the murky waters of psychological horror with Rose Glass’ sublimely dark exploration of mental illness and religious ideation with 2019’s Saint Maud. The gents discuss the personal hell of mental illness, exalt the virtues of talented first time writer / director Glass and discuss one of the darkest endings in modern horror cinema... Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN⁠ Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week the gents tackle one of the great folk horror movies of the last twenty years with Ben Wheatley’s sublime 2011 chiller, Kill List. And to examine such a dense and dark tale they have roped in the help of writer, podcaster and Kill List expert, Caitlyn Downs... Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Caitlyn Downs (@scaredesheepless.bsky.social & @scaredsheepless on Twitter) https://linktr.ee/scaredsheepless Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord: https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh break format to, for the first time, discuss a TV show by looking at the seventh season of Charlie Brooker's dark anthology series, Black Mirror. They break each of the six episodes down one by one before figuring out their ranking order and deciding whether this ranks as one of the best series of this long running show... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Become a Modern Horror Fiend on Discord (it's free!): ⁠https://discord.gg/fr6AMwSPfN Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew⁠ Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh venture to 19th century Scandinavia for Thordur Palsson's The Damned, which sees the widowed owner of an Icelandic fishing village is faced with a terrifying moral choice that unleashes a darkness of myth and legend. To help them explore it, Jamie Hannigan - the film's writer - joins them to give a key insight into the writing and production of the film... Host / Editor A. J. Black Co-Host Hugh McStay Special Guest Jamie Hannigan Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST. Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world. This week Tony and Hugh travel back to the heyday of Late Night 70’s US talk shows as they get to grips with the Cairns Brother’s 2023 horror Late Night With the Devil. Joined by Hugh’s Vampire Videos co-host Dan Owen, the gents talk about mockumentary horror, Lovecraftian nightmares, Faustian pacts and…erm…Terry Wogan... Host / Editor Hugh McStay Co-Host A. J. Black Guest Dan Owen (@danowen.bsky.social) / Linktr.ee/vampirevideos Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast Support the Film Stories podcast network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Title music: 'The Cost of Fear' & 'Murder in the Dark' by Jon Bjork (c) epidemicsound.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices