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Host Andy Sell guides you through the history of horror movies! Part of the Unpops Podcast Network

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast Unpops Podcast Network

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 69 Ratings

Host Andy Sell guides you through the history of horror movies! Part of the Unpops Podcast Network

    Slashers: The Nativity Scream

    Slashers: The Nativity Scream

    It's the most wonderful time of the fear! What's in your stalking? Killer santas! Moral panics! Warhol superstars! Multiple cast members from Rapid Fire AND The Haunting! And a startling yuletide masterpiece that could only be made by an American Southerner in Canada!

    • 1 hr 28 min
    Slashers: A Gore-ientation (w/ Philip Johnson)

    Slashers: A Gore-ientation (w/ Philip Johnson)

    Andy invites his close friend and Look Good for the Boys co-host/producer, Philip Johnson, to get you all excited for the upcoming semester covering slasher films.

    • 1 hr 19 min
    Extra Dread-It 11: The Shining & The Haunted Palace (w/ Taylor Gonda)

    Extra Dread-It 11: The Shining & The Haunted Palace (w/ Taylor Gonda)

    Taylor Gonda (These Things Matter podcast, the light of Andy's life) brings The Shining to school and Andy assigns Roger Corman's Poe-in-name-only "adaptation" The Haunted Palace from 1963 for a double feature of men being terrible partners by succumbing to the madness of patriarchal masculinity.

    • 1 hr 19 min
    Substitute Creatures 1: Halloween Specials with Rob Walker

    Substitute Creatures 1: Halloween Specials with Rob Walker

    In this first-ever Ghoul School Halloween Special, Andy has an idea for a new episode format and asks writer and performer Rob Walker (The Hard Times, Victorian Cut-Out Theatre) to present a syllabus of key moments in television Halloween special history.

    • 1 hr 29 min
    Extra Dread-It 10: Man Bites Dog & Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (w/ Brian Oestreich)

    Extra Dread-It 10: Man Bites Dog & Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (w/ Brian Oestreich)

    It’s a double feature of self-aware psychopaths and documentary film crews with questionable ethics as film programmer and Art House Rewind host (and friend of the show) Brian Oestreich joins us to discuss 1992’s edgy and bleak Belgian pseudo-doc Man Bites Dog and Andy assigns him the 2006 meta-slasher pseudo-doc Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

    • 1 hr 14 min
    Extra Dread-It 9: Evil Dead 2 & House 2 (w/ Keith Carey)

    Extra Dread-It 9: Evil Dead 2 & House 2 (w/ Keith Carey)

    Well, cut my hand off and call me Gramps! We got books of the dead and crystal skulls as we follow Keith Carey (Mean Boys, This is Not a Show) deep into a duo of disturbing domiciles decked with doors to demonic dimensions. It’s a double feature of the two Class of ’87 films from the La Casa series when Keith chooses Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and Andy assigns House II: The Second Story.

    • 1 hr 43 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
69 Ratings

69 Ratings

dan.ast ,

An Encyclopedic Knowledge of Horror

Breaking down the history of horror, Andy contextualizes both the minutia and the birds eye view in a way that connects the dots that most horror “historians” hadn’t even considered.

Malone2814 ,

GREAT Horror expertise

No one breaks down a horror movie like Andy. He brings an elevated scholarly eye to the material, uncovering both the smallest low budget gore fest to the mainstream. Painting an audio portrait along the way. Solid podcast!

shtarker the elder ,

Noice

This podcast is the business.

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