Hellbent For Horror
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This is S.A. Bradley, and I'm a lifelong horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode. Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions. The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome. Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots..
Hellbent For Horror
1M ago
The 96th Academy Awards Ceremony is upon us, but we fans know that the only award that matters is if you recommend a horror movie to your friends and they love it!
In reality, 2023 was such a good year for horror movies that I needed two episodes to cover my favorites!
Join me as we celebrate PART TWO of the "Killer Elite," a list of horror movies that surprised me and that I recommend to horror fans!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies Covered:
The Sacrifice Game(2023)
In My Mother’s Skin (2023)
Huesera: The Bone Woman (2023)
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
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Hellbent For Horror
4M ago
It's Time for our annual Christmas Ghost Story! We return to the Grandfather of the modern ghost story, M.R. James. Join me as I read his classic short story, A View From a Hill, and find out what a "Borgia Box" is! Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you enjoy the show! Story: A View From a Hill from the collection A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)
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Hellbent For Horror
4M ago
Horror movie collectors live to find those rare movies that eluded us. These are the movies that are so obscure and bizarre that it becomes a quest to see them and pass them on to other fans.
Join our guest, Roxanne Guarino (Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo), author of the new zine The Craziest Movies You Never Saw, as we discuss the growing lost media culture, legendary "Holy Grails" of horror and cult, and our own favorite cinematic lost causes.
Follow Roxanne on Instagram: @basement_mind_meds
Dare to go down the lost media rabbit hole of the Lost Media Wiki: https://lostm ..read more
Hellbent For Horror
5M ago
Welcome to "Tape Two" of S.O.V. (shot on video) movies that prove that Horror is the Punk Rock of Cinema!
For decades, fans made movies without Hollywood, money, or distribution deals. Following the DIY ethos, regional horror movies sprung up everywhere and told crazy, original, and personal stories and created a subculture.
Just like punk rock did!
Join me as I curate a list of movies that show the diversity of SOV movies, how filmmakers worked out personal traumas by creating, and how SOV gave a legendary director one last chance to be heard!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movi ..read more
Hellbent For Horror
5M ago
Horror is the Punk Rock of Cinema, and S.O.V. (shot on video) movies prove it!
For decades, fans made movies without Hollywood, money, or distribution deals. Following the DIY ethos, regional horror movies sprung up everywhere and told crazy, original, and personal stories and created a subculture.
Just like punk rock did!
Join me on "Tape One," where I discuss the long history of renegade moviemaking outside the system, some of my favorite SOV movies, and make a confession about my own SOV film from 1993!
("Tape Two," a discussion of ten more SOV movies, will drop on Black Friday ..read more
Hellbent For Horror
6M ago
Happy Halloween!
Join me as I talk about all of the little annual "rituals" I do around Halloween, including books, movies, decorations, old memories of Samhains gone by, and new "ritual bits" added this year!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Books Discussed:
Ghost Story -Peter Straub
Books of Blood- Clive Barker
The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror- Edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax
Chain Saw Confidential – Gunnar Hansen
Shock Value – Jason Zinoman
True Indie- Don Coscarelli
Movies and TV Shows Discussed:
John Carpenter's Suburban Screams (2023)
Talk to Me (2023)
Curse of the Demon (1957)
The ..read more
Hellbent For Horror
8M ago
Legendary Filmmaker William Friedkin died on August 7th, 2023, a few months before the 50th Anniversary of THE EXORCIST.
As his legend would dictate, Friedkin was a bit of a demon himself to those who worked with him and opposed him. "Hurricane Billy" would do anything for a shot, even at the risk of life and limb.
Join me as I take a personal look at my utter fascination with the director, whose work captivated me at an early age, and how his persona left me conflicted. Love him or hate him, Friedkin made you take notice.
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies Discussed:
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Hellbent For Horror
1y ago
Three years of the pandemic is enough. We stared into the abyss, and it changed us. And horror movies got us through.
Horror movies also told us the scary and ugly truth about how monstrous we were. As we spent our Seasons in the Abyss, here are some trends I noticed... and NO ZOMBIE MOVIES INCLUDED!
PART ONE OF TWO.
Movies Discussed:
SYNCHRONIC (2020)
ST. MAUD (2021)
DEMENTER (2021)
THE VIGIL (2021)
RELIC (2022)
HIS HOUSE (2020)
HOST (2020)
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Hellbent For Horror
1y ago
Here's my Postmortem on the 2022 Christmas Holiday Season, where I discuss Killer Santas, Trolls, Yule Logs, and the death of "The War on Christmas!"
Movies Discussed:
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)
TROLL (2022)
CHRISTMAS, BLOODY CHRISTMAS (2022)
THE MEAN ONE (2022)
VIOLENT NIGHT (2022)
ADULT SWIM'S YULE LOG (2022 ..read more
Hellbent For Horror
1y ago
Happiest of Holidays to you!
Just in time for Christmas Eve is the Hellbent for Horror Annual Christmas Ghost Story!
Keeping the old British tradition going, I've been reading ghost stories for Christmas over the last few years. Because Christmas and horror go together like cookies and milk and Santa!
This year's story is M.R. James' "Casting the Runes," which is the story that was adapted into the excellent 1957 film directed by Jacques Tournier, Night of the Demon, released as Curse of the Demon in the USA.
Enjoy the show, and stay safe and spooky into 2023!
CASTING THE RUNES (19 ..read more