Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre

Cultists, we've been inspired by the release of The Bride! this month to put Frank Roddam's film of the same name on the Exam Table. Taking 1935's Bride Of Frankenstein as a jumping off point and bringing back several actors from Roddam's Cult Classic, Quadrophenia. The film reimagines The Monster and The Bride as star-crossed lovers to mixed results. Please join us for the Dissection.  

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Cultists, it's only been a couple of months but your Horror Hosts are heading back to Castle Frankenstein. In the late 1950's, Horror had largely moved away from Gothic period pieces and toward Alien Invaders and Atomic Monsters. Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein brought the Gothic back, this time in glorious Eastman Color. 

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Cultists, there's a handful of remakes that eclipse the original in the public consciousness. Phillip Kaufman's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is certainly one of those.  Kaufman moved the setting into the urban heart of San Francisco and gave the Cult Classic the vibe of a 1970s paranoid thriller. Giving us some of the most iconic images of 1970s genre cinema. Please join us for the Dissection

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Cultists, it's the Seventieth anniversary of Don Siegel's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Something about the low budget B-Movie captured the zeitgeist of the McCarthy era, and it then later became a cult classic after its reassessment by the cinephile crowd. So it seems like a good time to put it on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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We've been on a bit of Western/Horror kick lately, and in that genre one film has been repeatedly recommended by the Cultists, S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk. The 2015 Cult Classic is part Revisionist Western and part Cannibal Horror, so we didn't take much convincing to put it in the Exam Table. 

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Happy New Year, Cultists! This Episode your Horror Hosts are putting Noah Hawley's Alien:Earth on the Exam Table. Hawley has a knack for taking classic films and expanding on their themes to make great television. Also, this Episode, in lieu of the regular Vault Of Darkness segment, N&D will be running down their annual Year End Favorites of 2025!

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Cultists, your Horror Hosts aren't done with The Overlook Hotel just yet, or maybe it's not done with us. With 2019's Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan attempted the impossible, reconciling Stephen King's vision of The Shining with Stanley Kubrick's and sequalizing both. Was he successful? Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, The Shining is 45 years old this year. So it's time for your Horror Hosts to head up to The Overlook Hotel and put Kubrick's psychological horror masterpiece on the Exam Table. Hopefully we don't get snowed in. 

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It's finally here, Cultists. Gothic Horror maestro Guillermo del Toro's long awaited adaptation of Frankenstein has dropped and your Horror Hosts promptly put it on the Exam Table. GDT has assembled a monster of a film, taking elements from all the most iconic versions of the story and filtering them through his own unique sensibility. Please join us for the Dissection 

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Well Cultists, this month sees the release of Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King). And you know your Horror Hosts won't pass up an excuse to throw an old Schwarzenegger film on the Exam Table, so this episode we'll be looking at the 1987 adaptation of the story. Please join us for the Dissection 

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Cultists, five years after the previous entry in the series, and three years since they'd made a horror movie at all, Universal convinced Karloff to sit in Jack Pierce's make-up chair for one last outing as the iconic monster. Minus director James Whale's subversive edge but with Dracula star Bela Lugosi and future Sherlock Holmes star Basil Rathbone, Son Of Frankenstein marked a turning point in the Universal Horror Series. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, whenever one of our favorite franchises comes out with a new instalment, your Horror Hosts like to look back at the original. So this episode John McTiernan's Predator will be going on the Exam Table in anticipation of Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, a successful film demands a sequel, and The Monster Demands a Mate! Coming four years after the original, and largely considered the pinnacle of the Classic Era of Universal Horror, Bride of Frankenstein arrived in a very different cinematic landscape than its predecessor. Karloff was now a Horror Movie Star, director James Whale had considerably more creative control, and there was a newly established Hays Code to contend with. Please join us for the Dissection

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Cultists, it's the 25th anniversary of Canadian Cult Classic Teen Werewolf movie Ginger Snaps! Seems like a perfect excuse for your Horror Hosts to finally put it on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, as promised, we're bringing you Bonus Episodes for Spooky Season! In anticipation of Guillermo del Toro's new adaptation, your Horror Hosts are putting the original Universal Studios Frankenstein films on the Exam Table. Starting of course with James Whale's seminal 1931 Gothic Horror masterpiece. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, your Horror Hosts are kicking off Spooky Season by putting Toyoo Ashida's Cult Classic anime Vampire Hunter D on the Exam Table.  Adapting the first volume of Hideyuki Kikuchi's popular novel series, the seminal OVA is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Not that we really need an excuse to watch an old favorite like this one. Please join us for the Dissection 

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Cultists, it's been 30 years since David Fincher's Se7en first shocked and disturbed audiences. Blurring the line between crime thriller and psychological horror, the film remains incredibly influential to this day. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, despite being somewhat underwhelmed on their first visit, your Horror Hosts are returning to the town of Salem's Lot. This episode, Gary Dauberman's 2024 adaptation of Stephen King's novel, will be going on the Exam Table. Released directly onto HBO Max and preceding Nosferatu by only a couple of months, this film may have slipped past you like it did us. It's time to rectify the oversight. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, continuing with the Sinners theme. Another one of the film's often cited influences was Stephen King's Salem's Lot. Adapted as a two part TV movie by Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper, this Gothic Horror throwback scarred the Gen X kids that grew up with it on television, and gave us one of the '70s most iconic vampires the Nosferatu-esque Kurt Barlow. Please join us for the dissection. 

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Cultists, Sinners was a film that wore its influences on its sleeve.  One obvious influence was the '90s Cult Classic From Dusk Till Dawn. The film kicked off a series of Grindhouse collaborations between directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, but does it really have more than superficial similarities to Sinners? Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, because you demanded it (and because it became available to stream) your Horror Hosts are finally putting Ryan Coogler's Sinners on the exam table.  This genre defying Vampire film has held online film discourse by the jugular since its release in April and continues to do so. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, hopefully we're not disappointing the hardcore 28 Weeks Later fans but your Horror Hosts have opted to skip that splatter fest, and jump directly to Boyle and Garland's return to the franchise: 28 Years Later. Taking place nearly three decades after the original film, it's an ambitious follow-up that makes some big tonal shifts and big thematic swings, so it should make for an interesting discussion. Please join us for the dissection. 

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Cultists, in 2002 director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland dropped 28 Days Later and inadvertently ignited a new Zombie craze that's arguably still ongoing. This month they're returning to that world they created so your Horror Hosts are going back to where the Rage Virus Infection first began. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, we hope you didn't think it'd be safe to go back in the water this summer. Because this year is the 50th anniversary of Jaws. This episode, we're putting the film that catapulted the career of Steven Spielberg and changed everything about how movies are marketed and released on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection of the original Blockbuster. 

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Cultists, what do you think of when someone mentions Friday the 13th? A hulking hockey masked machete wielding ghoul stalking teens around a summer camp? Well, in Sean S Cunningham's original 1980 Summer Camp Slasher, very little of that iconography was in place yet. So for it's 45th anniversary your Horror Hosts are putting the original Friday The 13th on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection.

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Cultists, your Horror Hosts are finally putting an Alfred Hitchcock film on the Exam Table: his Proto-Slasher Psycho. The boundary-pushing film is celebrating its 65th anniversary, and it continues to be influential to this day. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, this episode your Horror Hosts are again returning to Y2K for another Cult Classic celebrating its 25th anniversary, American Psycho. The Neo-Noir Quasi-Slasher that generated countless memes, and propelled Christian Bale into Superstardom. Please join us for the Dissection.  

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Cultists, there are a number of films celebrating significant anniversaries in 2025. So your Horror Hosts are using that as an excuse to put some real gems on the Exam Table. First up the film that introduced most of the world to Christopher Nolan, Memento. The mind-bending Neo-Noir was an instant Cult Classic and, over the intervening quarter century, has become a Classic Classic. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, Nick and David have escaped from the Black Lodge just in time to bring you the fourth and final installment of our series Dissecting Twin Peaks. In this episode, your Horror Hosts put the 2017 Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return, on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, less the week after Twin Peaks Day we're back with the third in our Twin Peaks series. In this episode, your Horror Hosts will put Lynch's controversial film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, on the exam table. A critical and commercial disappointment upon release, it has been reappraised in recent years but remains a challenging film. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, we are back with the second part of our Dissection of Twin Peaks. In this episode, your Horror Hosts will put Season 2 of the cult series on the Exam Table. Notoriously the second season struggled, with studio interference, friction between the creators, plus a ballooning cast and episode count. And yet still, Season 2 produced some of the series' most iconic moments, so please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, on January 20th, 2025, just five days short of his 79th birthday, the world lost David Lynch. A true auteur director, Lynch was someone we held very high esteem at Nightshade Cult. In response to his passing, we will be putting Twin Peaks, the show that was the gateway to Lynch for so many, on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection

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Cultists, there's a new interpretation of the Wolf Man releasing this weekend. That means it's time for your Horror Host's to put george waGGner's 1941 classic on the Exam Table. This was not Universal's first Werewolf film but it proved to be their most iconic. Please join us for the Dissection 

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Happy New Year, Cultists. We're doing things a little differently this year. Because you demanded it, your Horror Hosts are going to deliver their Hot Takes on Robert Eggers's Nosferatu before they get into the annual rundown of their Year End Faves. Please join us for the dissection…dissections?

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Cultists, we've arrived at the third instalment in our Nosferatu series. This episode your Horror Hosts are putting E. Elias Merhige's 2000 Metatextual Gothic Horror on the exam table. This fictionalized telling of the making of Murnau's expressionist masterpiece earned two Academy Award nominations and has long been a favorite with N & D. Please join us for the dissection.

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Cultists, for round two of our Nosferatu series your Horror Hosts will be putting Werner Herzog's 1979 homage to Murnau's seminal piece of German Expressionism on the exam table. The Bavarian auteur brought an art house sensibility to his reimagining of the Gothic classic. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, in anticipation of Robert Eggers upcoming adaptation of Nosferatu, your Horror Hosts are going back to the original. In this episode, we put F.W. Murnau's 1922 Symphony Of Horror on the exam table. Please join us for the Dissection 

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Cultists, with election day just around the corner, the time feels right to put John Carpenter's They Live on the exam table. The horror maestro hid a scathing rebuke of the '80s capitalist culture under the thinnest veneer of sci-fi action, and gave a Pro Wrestler the lead role. Please join us for the Dissection. 

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Cultists, just in time for the fall holidays, your Horror Hosts are putting two of Maestro John Carpenter's classics on the exam table. First up the blueprint for the Slasher genre 1978's Halloween! Please join us for the dissection.

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  Cultists, just as your Horror Hosts are concluding their series Dissecting his Imperial Phase, Tim Burton graduated to becoming one of the Top 10 Highest Grossing Directors of All Time! Certainly, 1992's Batman Returns was a significant contributor to that total. Please join us for the Dissection.
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