COMMENTARY CLUB - Halloween Special 2026 - Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter

For our Halloween special this year we delving into Hammer horror with Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)! Written and directed by Brian Clemens, creator of The Avengers, The Professionals, and The New Avengers, plus wrote The Golden Voyage of Sinbad for Harryhausen, delivered a highly imaginative gothic adventure starring Horst Janson, Caroline Munroe, John Cater, Shane Briant, John Carson, and Wanda Ventham.

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HYPNOGORIA 318 - The History of Halloween Part XVII

In this chapter we discover what a late 1990s Hallowe'en night was like, how television got spooky again with Millennium and Buffy the Vampire Slayer while on the big screen, Michael Myers made a second cinematic comeback with the 1998 reboot Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later!

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COMMENTARY CLUB 133 - Local Hero

"I'd make a good Gordon, Gordon"

In this show we revisit a 1980s classic Local Hero (1983), a charming Scottish comedy-drama from director Bill Forsyth starring Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Jenny Seagrove and a very young Peter Capaldi!

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HYPNOGORIA 317 - The Mystery of Robin Redcap

In this show released from the Patreon archives we have a follow-up investigation into the legend of the Red Caps - find Part1 here -  looking into a rather sinister Northumbrian legend... 

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 182 - Celui-Là by Eleanor Scott

October in a wonderful  time for a little break in the countryside somewhere, however the unfortunate Mr Maddox discovers something very old and highly unsettling in a village in Brittany in this autumnal tale from Eleanor Scott...

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COMMENTARY CLUB Minisode 86 - How the Elephant Got Its Trunk

“Bring me the book of wives...”

In the final episode of the League of Gentlemen every comes to head as Papa Lazarou returns to the town...  Quando siliabo catnip, catnip! 

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COMMENTARY CLUB 132 - Bambi The Reckoning

In this show we visited the Twisted Childhood Cinematic Universe in order to watch Bambi: The Reckoning a dark reimagining of the famous tale by the folks who brought us Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. Be afraid... Be very afraid! 

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 181 - Mrs Ormerod by WF Harvey

In this autumnal tale from WF Harvey, a visit to stay with at a remote country house with friends takes a sinister turn thanks to the formidable housekeeper Mrs Ormerod...

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MICROGORIA 137 - Alone With Loner

In this show we take an spoiler-free look at a new British footage horror movie Loner (2025) in which a hapless vlogger accepts the offer of staying in a remote glamping cabin in the wilds of Northumbria. However he's not quite alone... 

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 180 - Gavon's Eve by EF Benson

In this show we have an autumnal ghost story from Mr EF Benson. This tale of old witchcraft and folk horrors centres around a mysterious disappearance, a Pictish ruin, and a local legend concerning 15th September - Gavon's Eve...

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COMMENTARY CLUB Minisode 85 - Beauty and the Beast

"In the beauty trade, we call this "relaxative" music"

In this episode of The League of Gentlemen a new beauty parlour has in Royston Vasey and is going down a storm... However the services offered aren't all what they seem...

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HYPNOGORIA 315 - Itch and First Date

In this episode we look at the latest two novels from rising star Gemma Amor  - Itch (2025) and First Date (2026) - which serve up two very different slices of cutting edge horror fiction! 

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MICROGORIA 136 - End of Summer Update

A little fireside chat to update you on everything going on behind the curtain and how I am doing with my on-going cancer treatment.

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 178 - Punch and Judy by Frederick Cowles

In the last of our summer themed tales, we take a trip to the coast and sample a traditional British seaside entertainment, a Punch and Judy show. However the Professor performing this puppet show has a dark tale of his own...

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COMMENTARY CLUB 131 - Black Dynamite

In a somewhat unscheduled episode born of tech troubles and the whims of the streaming gods, we end up revisiting modern day cult classic Black Dynamite (2009), the action comedy that pays homage to blaxploitation film and martial arts films from the 1970s. Can you dig it? 

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HYPNOGORIA 314 - One Season Wonders Part VI - Are We Not Men?

In the final chapter of our investigation into the mysteriously short-lived sci-fi shows that turned up on British TV in the 1970s and 1980s, we finish with one of the most obscure - Beyond Westworld, one of the most derided - Manimal, and the most '80s one of them all - Automan!

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 177 - The First Sheaf by HR Wakefield

August is the traditional month in which the harvests are gathered in, and there are many quaint customs celebrating this important event to the agricultural year. But some are older and darker than others, as we will discover in this classic folk horror tale - The First Sheaf by HR Wakefield...

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