We all have our guilty pleasures.

I have admired John Waters as a filmmaker since I first read about him in the pages of Fangoria magazine back in 1982.

Notorious scares delivered on TV!

Back in the early 1970's, Network TV executives started to make original movies to compete against Hollywood. They were fast, cheap and, occasionally, great!

I’ve noticed many films directed and/or written by women that have shown me horror stories from different perspectives. They’ve unsettled me, and scared me in ways different from before. I LIKE this.

Author J. Blake Fichera joins us to discuss his Rondo Nominated book, "Scored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers" and to share anecdotes from the men who gave music to the monsters.

In this episode, I talk about that human fear of death and dying.

Who can deny the power of Alien, The Terminator, or The Thing? But there are many, lesser-known films that mix sci-fi and horror. In this episode I’ll talk about some movies I like that mix the two sensibilities.

James Hancock (host of The Wrong Reel podcast) returns for Part 2 of our collaboration between our two podcasts, where we discuss two early giants of the horror genre, James Whale and Tod Browning.

The Us vs. Them mentality is a backdrop for some really good horror stories. Frankenstein being a great example. The Monster is the outsider, but yet you sympathize with him. In these conflicts, horror is uniquely suited to tell some great stories, and give different results.

Some people become obsessed with things. Most of the time, these obsessions are harmless fun for people. Sometimes our obsessions involve more than just us, and sometimes these obsessions are inconvenient to people around us. And then there are the obsessions that endanger people around us.

Join four members of "The Algonquin Round Table of Horror" as they discuss the high points and the low points of horror movies in 2016.

If you think about it, the imagery around Christmas is really kind of freaky.

There are lots of movies that are billed as “thrillers,” which are, in my opinion, horror movies, telling horror stories at their cores.

The 1990’s was a tough time for American horror movies.

But, while the Drive-Ins died and horror movies disappeared from the movie theaters, there was one safe haven left for the horror fan: The Independent Video Store.

The gates have been stormed at the H4H compound!

And the result is our first Wretched Round Table, a discussion between four listeners and myself! Listen in as Dan Strauss, Doug Lipski, Kris Zimmerman, and Timothy Gruscinski share their passions and their stories around the "First Kiss" and more.

I’m thinking about things that feast on us.

The fear of being eaten is primal, and dates back to our caveman days when we were on the menu for all the big predators.

Being bested by a one-celled organism can really put a person in his or her place. In this episode I talk about REAL body horror, specifically the horror of outbreaks of illness. Epidemics. Pandemics.