Baz To The Bone

Baz Bishop
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Horror has always had a queer heart. Daddy Baz just turned on the lights. Baz To The Bone is a podcast about the films that scared us, the culture that shaped us, and the dark corners where queer identity and horror have always overlapped. Cult film. Bear culture. The stories nobody else is telling. Pull up a chair — it gets darker from here.

  1. 1d ago

    Nether Gonna Give You Up: My Decade at Netherworld

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 12: Nether Gonna Give You Up — My Decade at Netherworld. For ten years, Baz was a monster at Netherworld Haunted House in Atlanta, one of America's most famous haunted attractions, now in its 30th season. Gut Putt, Gator's secret door, monster makeup with Roy Wooley and Sabrina Wagner, a busload from the Shepherd Center, Universal's "scare the chair" rule, a night called Scare A Bear, and the evening Baz scared Janet Jackson without knowing it. Scare the grown-ups. Make fans of the kids. And always scare the chair. Places and references in this episode: Netherworld Haunted House (Atlanta, 1997–present). Blood Feast (1963). An American Werewolf in London (1981). Face Off (Syfy). Zombieland (2009). Halloween II (2009). The Walking Dead (AMC). Halloween Horror Nights (Universal Studios Hollywood). Urban Death (Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre). Contains strong language. 00:00 — Cold Open 02:34 — The Setup 05:39 — Movement 1 — The Monsters 08:18 — Movement 2 — The Makeup 09:50 — Movement 3 — The Shows 13:39 — The Turn 18:45 — The Legacy 22:46 — The Close Find Baz on all platforms: @baztothebonecast · @baztothebonecast (Threads) · @baztothebonepod (X/Twitter) Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Shop: Daddy Baz Designs on Etsy Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com

  2. Sep 22

    Night of the Lepus: Some Bunny's Gonna Regret It

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 11: Night of the Lepus — Some Bunny's Gonna Regret It. Runtime: 23:48. A real Australian rabbit catastrophe, a POW-memoirist-turned-satirist, and the giant killer rabbit movie Hollywood built on top of both — starring Janet Leigh and Star Trek's DeForest Kelley, shot completely straight. Plus a personal detour into Baz's own failed rabbit-breeding career in rural South Carolina. Films and references in this episode: Night of the Lepus (1972), dir. William F. Claxton. The Year of the Angry Rabbit (1964 novel by Russell Braddon). The Naked Island (1952 memoir by Russell Braddon). TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Cold Open 01:33 — The Setup 06:51 — Movement 1: The Deal 09:39 — Movement 2: The Cast 14:34 — Movement 3: The Effects 17:21 — The Turn 19:19 — The Legacy 20:59 — The Close Find Baz on all platforms: @baztothebonecast · @baztothebonecast (Threads) · @baztothebonepod (X/Twitter) Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Shop: Daddy Baz Designs on Etsy Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com

  3. Sep 8

    James Whale's Old Dark House: Have A Potato

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 10: The Old Dark House — Have A Potato. Four hours in a makeup chair, a family named Femm, and a director who put his queerness on screen in 1932 without flinching. James Whale's pre-Code haunted-house classic gets the deep-dive treatment — plus the tragic parallel lives of Whale and makeup legend Jack Pierce, and Baz's own decades in the makeup chair at Halloween Horror Nights. Films and references in this episode: The Old Dark House (1932), dir. James Whale. Frankenstein (1931). Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The Invisible Man (1933). Benighted (1927 novel by J.B. Priestley). TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Cold Open 02:58 — The Setup 07:36 — Movement 1: The Cast 13:26 — Movement 2: The Queer Subtext 17:41 — Movement 3: Jack Pierce and the Cost of Being the Best 23:35 — The Turn 28:13 — The Legacy 31:50 — The Close Find Baz on all platforms: @baztothebonecast · @baztothebonecast (Threads) · @baztothebonepod (X/Twitter) Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Shop: Daddy Baz Designs on Etsy Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com

  4. Aug 25

    Phantom of the Paradise — Dealing With My Devils

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 09: Phantom of the Paradise — Dealing With My Devils. A stolen song, a blood contract, and the one Canadian city that refused to let a Halloween-night bomb die. Brian De Palma's 1974 rock-opera horror-comedy built the modern horror-musical family tree — and carried a coded queer charge decades before Baz had the words for what he was watching. Films and references in this episode: Phantom of the Paradise (1974), dir. Brian De Palma. The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Sisters (1973). The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Shock Treatment (1981). TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Cold Open 01:26 — The Setup: Devil Behind the Desk 03:13 — The Setup: What Was Already Buried 05:00 — Movement 1: The Faust Bargain 09:02 — Movement 2: The Deal De Palma Made 10:15 — Movement 3: The Bomb and the Resurrection 13:58 — Movement 4: The Influence 14:52 — The Soundtrack 17:08 — The Bloodline 19:04 — The High-Profile Phans 21:12 — The Turn: Dealing With My Devils 32:13 — The Close Find Baz on all platforms: @baztothebonecast · @baztothebonecast (Threads) · @baztothebonepod (X/Twitter) Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Shop: Daddy Baz Designs on Etsy Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com

  5. Aug 11

    Nightbreed - My Own Private Midian

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 08: Nightbreed — My Own Private Midian. Clive Barker built monsters a whole civilization, a studio got scared of it, and fans spent twenty years refusing to let a butchered cut be the final word. Concept artist Ralph McQuarrie closed out his career painting Nightbreed's history. And underneath the monster makeup, a personal story about finding your own Midian a long way from home. Films and references in this episode: Nightbreed (1990), dir. Clive Barker. Cabal (1988 novella). Hellraiser (1987). Find Baz on all platforms: @baztothebonecast · @baztothebonecast (Threads) · @baztothebonepod (X/Twitter) Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com TIMESTAMPS Est. Time Section Notes 00:00 Cold Open Delivers on the EP07 tease — “Midian looks surprisingly like Canada.” 01:42 The Setup The argument: understanding the monster means understanding yourself, or the thing you fear. 04:22 Movement 1 — The Novel Cabal (1988). Why Barker kept it short and fragmentary. 06:58 The Casting Coup Cronenberg against type. Peloquin, Kinski. Ralph McQuarrie's mural. 09:58 The Trilogy That Never Was What Morgan Creek's fear cost the wider mythology. 11:31 Movement 2 — The Film Building Midian. Shot in Alberta. 13:19 Movement 3 — The Butchering The studio note, the recut, the personal toll on Barker. 17:09 The Critics Come Around The decades-late critical reappraisal. 18:10 The Fandom Strikes Back Mark Miller, Russell Cherrington, Occupy Midian, the tape bake. 21:56 Movement 4 — The Resurrection The Cabal Cut. The Arrow 4K set. 24:00 The Other Cut Fan Cabal Cut vs. official Director's Cut — not the same thing. 25:10 The Influence Hellboy, Buffy, Angel, True Blood — Midian's children. 26:26 The Turn Midtown, My Midian — Baz's own story. 28:56 The Door Barker's own words on what Nightbreed was always about. 30:07 The Close Wrap, next-episode tease, sign off. FILMS AND REFERENCES Film / Reference Year Context in Episode Nightbreed 1990 The central film. Dir. Clive Barker. Both theatrical and Director's Cuts discussed. Cabal 1988 Barker's source novella, published as part of Books of Blood Vol. VI. Hellraiser 1987 Barker's directorial debut — referenced in Movement 2 as the film Barker chose not to simply repeat. KEY FIGURES Figure Context in Episode Clive Barker Writer/director. Adapted his own novella. Central voice throughout via 2012 Rue Morgue interview. David Cronenberg Plays Dr. Philip K. Decker — cast for his reserved, composed manner. Craig Sheffer Plays Aaron Boone. Anne Bobby Plays Lori. Oliver Parker Plays Peloquin, the Breed member who bites Boone. Nicholas Vince Plays Kinski. Charles Haid Plays Sheriff Eigerman, leader of the human posse. Mark Goldblatt Editor of the theatrical cut — caught between Barker's vision and studio orders. Danny Elfman Composer. Score later reused to score the fan-reconstructed Cabal Cut. Ralph McQuarrie Concept artist (Star Wars trilogy, E.T., Star Trek IV). Painted a 60-foot mural of the Nightbreed's history — his final screen credit. Mark Miller Seraphim Films co-head. Found the lost workprint footage in Barker's storage closet. Russell Cherrington Film lecturer who assembled the fan-made Cabal Cut from workprints and Barker's earliest scripts. OTHER REFERENCES Rue Morgue Issue 129, “Midian Calling” (December 2012) — primary source for the production history, Barker's personal account of the recut, and the “closet where the homos live” quote used in The Door. Interview conducted with Barker, Mark Miller, and Russell Cherrington. The DarkSide magazine, Arrow Video 4K UHD review (Allan Bryce) — source for the Arrow disc's extras breakdown and critical reappraisal material. Occupy Midian — the fan campaign (5,000+ Facebook members, 8,000+ petition signatures, 15+ screenings from March 2012) that pressured Morgan Creek into supporting a proper restoration. The Cabal Cut (2012, Russell Cherrington) vs. the official Director's Cut — two distinct fan/studio reconstructions, addressed directly in The Other Cut segment. EP04 callback — Baz's lifelong werewolf/monster affinity, referenced in The Influence as connective tissue between episodes. EP07 tease payoff — the Cold Open delivers on the “Midian looks surprisingly like Canada” line first teased at the end of Episode 07. LINKS FOR SHOW NOTES Podbean: baztothebonepod.podbean.com Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7nY4azkoWpBThOjg0Pb80F Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baz-to-the-bone/id1891305409 Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/06d80ad3-d7b5-49e9-821a-fbd654ea1de2 iHeartRadio: iheart.com/podcast/329448085 Patreon: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Beacons.ai: beacons.ai/baztothebonecast Instagram: @baztothebonecast TikTok: @baztothebonecast Bluesky: @baztothebonecast Threads: @baztothebonecast X/Twitter: @baztothebonepod Facebook: @baztothebonecast YouTube: @baztothebonecast Email: baztothebonepod@icloud.com Daddy Baz Designs (Etsy): etsy.com/shop/daddybazdesigns AUDIO CREDITS Theme music: The Last Reel (mid-tempo version) — original composition. Licensed for commercial use via Suno. “extremely-close-thunder” by Spennnyyy | freesound.org/s/350506/ | CC BY 4.0 Baz To The Bone is produced independently. Horror. Cult Film. Bad Taste Done Properly.

  6. Jul 28

    The Horror of Party Beach — A Love Letter to a Terrible Film

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 07: Horror of Party Beach — A Love Letter to a Terrible Film. Picture it: a public beach in Stamford, Connecticut, and something dragging itself out of the water with a face like it lost a fight with a barbecue. A drive-in double feature commissioned on a shoestring. Monster suits built in Gutzon Borglum's old sculpting studio. A real rock band's last summer together. A William Castle-style fright waiver. And Eulabelle Moore — a serious stage actress written in as a stereotype, who turns out to be the one person who actually saves everyone. Bad taste, done properly, is never the joke. It's the commitment. Timestamps: [00:00] Cold Open — The Episode One promise, paid off. [02:08] The Setup — Sincerity, alongside camp and irony, not instead of them. [04:19] Movement 1 — The Deal — Alan Iselin, Del Tenney, Roy Scheider's first credit. [06:40] Movement 2 — The Making — Gutzon Borglum's studio. The suit that fit a 16-year-old. [12:00] The Gimmick — The Fright Release waiver. [13:09] Movement 3 — The Music — The Del-Aires. "The Zombie Stomp." [16:23] Movement 4 — The Crash — Beach Party vs. Party Beach. [20:40] The Turn — Eulabelle Moore. The stereotype who saves everyone. [25:24] The Legacy — MST3K's best riff. Stephen King and Danse Macabre, set straight. [27:50] The Close — Severin's 2018 restoration. EP08 tease. Films and references in this episode: The Horror of Party Beach (1964), dir. Del Tenney. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964). Beach Party (1963). Listen on: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Amazon Music · iHeartRadio · Podbean baztothebonecast.podbean.com Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Find Baz: @baztothebonecast on Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube · @baztothebonepod on X/Twitter · Threads: @baztothebonecast Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com Audio credits: Theme: The Last Reel (mid-tempo). "extremely-close-thunder" by Spennnyyy | freesound.org/s/350506/ | CC BY 4.0. Thunder SFX "505113__fission9__thunder-close" — no attribution required. Baz To The Bone is produced independently in Wales, UK. Horror. Cult Film. Bad Taste Done Properly.

  7. Jul 14

    The Exorcist: The Summer I Hit Puberty and Puberty Hit Back

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Episode 06: The Exorcist — The Summer I Hit Puberty and Puberty Hit Back. I was ten years old the first time something possessed me. It wasn't a demon. It was my own body, and it had opinions. A paperback novel found Baz at ten, six years before he ever saw the film. A censored 1980 CBS broadcast turned fear into craft appreciation. Dick Smith's makeup effects, Mercedes McCambridge's uncredited demon voice, the Satanic Panic, and the real story behind this film's "cursed production" reputation — fire, injuries, real deaths, and a Jesuit priest connected to this story at both ends. Timestamps: [00:00] Cold Open — "I was ten years old the first time something possessed me." The reveal, then the evidence. The Exorcist namechecked early. [01:48] Act One — The Summer of 1974. The novel, not the film. Tubular Bells. Auntie Mame. Guilt, self-loathing, a body not yet understood. [08:25] Act Two — February 1980, CBS. The censored broadcast, age fifteen. Mercedes McCambridge's voice work. Dick Smith's craft. The start of a career. [14:25] Act Three — The Myth vs. The Record. Satanic Panic / Michelle Remembers. The Friedkin manipulation pattern. The fire, the injuries, the deaths. Father Bermingham's blessing — and his deeper connection to this story. [25:10] The Turn — All three threads land on one move: reaching for a monster instead of sitting with the mundane, internal truth. [27:20] The Close — Career payoff. EP07 tease: The Horror of Party Beach. Films and references in this episode: The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist (novel, 1971), Michelle Remembers (1980), Auntie Mame (1958). Other references: Famous Monsters of Filmland. Fangoria. Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield, 1973). The Roland Doe case, 1949. The Satanic Panic. Columbia House Record and Tape Club. Listen on: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Amazon Music · iHeartRadio · Pocket Casts · Podbean baztothebonepod.podbean.com Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Find Baz: @baztothebonecast on Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube · @baztothebonepod on X/Twitter · Threads: @baztothebonecast Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com Audio credits: "extremely-close-thunder" by Spennnyyy | freesound.org/s/350506/ | CC BY 4.0. Baz To The Bone is produced independently in Wales, UK. Horror. Cult Film. Bad Taste Done Properly.

  8. Jun 30

    Night of the Living Dead and the Hero Nobody Expected

    Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop.   Episode 05: Night of the Living Dead and the Hero Nobody Expected.   Fall 1982. University of South Carolina. Halloween night. A free film in the Russell House Student Union. A bag of popcorn. And a Black man boarding up a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, calmly and unapologetically taking charge — changing, quietly and permanently, something in a white kid from Allendale. George Romero. $114,000. Black and white. Evans City, Pennsylvania. The film that invented the modern zombie, did it for less than a decent used car costs, and ended up preserved in the Library of Congress. The monster that can't be reasoned with. The real danger inside the house. The ending you don't look away from. Duane Jones as Ben. Cast because he was the best actor available — full stop. An academic and theatre director whose students at SUNY Old Westbury had no idea he'd been the lead in one of the most important horror films ever made. He never told them. Made the film, knew what it was, went back to his life. Night of the Living Dead was his time. He was right. Allendale Academy. Confederate mascot. Confederate flag as the school flag. Dixie as the school song. Twelve years. A graduating class of twenty-five. Seventy percent Black county. Never sat next to a Black student in a classroom. The architecture of exclusion, built deliberately, maintained carefully, still paying its costs. Coming out. A letter. One afternoon. The emergency exit taken away. The Black sheep. The figure in the window. The cost of visibility when the world would prefer you weren't. And then — the reconciliation. Because they came back. And he let them.   Timestamps: 00:00    Cold Open — No music. Russell House, 1982. Halloween night. Ben arrives. Something shifts. 06:11    The Setup — What this episode is and isn't. The argument stated. The ethical position named upfront. No emergency exit. 09:52    Movement 1 — The Film — Night of the Living Dead: $114,000. Evans City, Pennsylvania. Romero at 27. Ben. Harry Cooper. The real monster inside the house. The ending. 1968 in America. 16:57    Movement 2 — Duane Jones — The man who played Ben. Academic, theatre director, head of department. The café on Long Island. His students had no idea. Night of the Living Dead was his time. Ganja and Hess. 25:23    Movement 3 — Where You Come From — Allendale, South Carolina. Allendale Academy. The flag, the mascot, the song. The architecture of segregation. What Baz benefitted from and at whose cost. 35:39    Movement 4 — The Black Sheep — Coming out. David's letter. One afternoon. The emergency exit taken away. The figure in the window. The cost of visibility. The empathy that comes from needing it. 44:24    The Turn — They came back. The reconciliation. The Angelou line and its oral tradition provenance. The harder choice, made and made again. 52:50    The Close — Romero's death. Jones's legacy. The proof of concept. Goose and Lily. Not bad for a kid from Allendale. EP06 tease. Sign off.   Films and references in this episode: Night of the Living Dead (1968), White Zombie (1932), I Walked With a Zombie (1943), Ganja and Hess (1973), Losing Ground (1982), The Quiet Man (1952).   Other references: George Romero. Duane Jones. Karl Hardman. Russell Streiner. Kathleen Collins. Allendale Academy. Allendale County, South Carolina. Desegregation and the private segregation academy system. SUNY Old Westbury. The Duane L. Jones Recital Hall. The Walking Dead tribute. The Maya Angelou / Oprah oral tradition line.   Night of the Living Dead (1968) is in the public domain and available to watch free and legally online. Watch it. If you've seen it, watch it again. Watch the ending. Don't look away.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Amazon Music · iHeartRadio · Pocket Casts · Podbean — baztothebonepod.podbean.com Support the show: patreon.com/baztothebonecast Find Baz: @baztothebonecast on Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube · @baztothebonepod on X/Twitter · Threads: @baztothebonecast Contact: baztothebonepod@icloud.com   Audio credits: "extremely-close-thunder" by Spennnyyy | freesound.org/s/350506/ | CC BY 4.0   Baz To The Bone is produced independently in Wales, UK.   Horror. Cult Film. Bad Taste Done Properly.   EP05 Podbean Description  ·  Draft 2  ·  June 2026  ·  Timestamps confirmed

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Horror has always had a queer heart. Daddy Baz just turned on the lights. Baz To The Bone is a podcast about the films that scared us, the culture that shaped us, and the dark corners where queer identity and horror have always overlapped. Cult film. Bear culture. The stories nobody else is telling. Pull up a chair — it gets darker from here.

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  • Creator
    Baz Bishop
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Barry Bishop. All rights reserved.
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    Baz To The Bone