Tea For Terror

Tea For Terror Episode 24: Ring (1998) Featuring Erika Bean

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Erika Bean try not to get killed after they accidentally watch a dodgy video copy of this week’s film of choice, Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998). This spooky Japanese horror from the closing moments of the 20th century, still casts its shadow of hordes of American imitators and stands tall among the very best of 1990s horror flicks. You have been warned. 

Tea For Terror Episode 23: Apaches (1977) Featuring Robert Shearman

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Robert Shearman inadvisably go out playing in the muddy hell of a working farm of the mid 1970s, where children routinely fall foul of rat poison, falling iron gates and cow shit stinking slurry pits. Together they explore the nasty world of the British public information film Apaches (1977). Bleak, unpleasant and irresistibly watchable, this John Mackenzie short is a thing to behold. You have been warned, kids.

Tea For Terror Episode 22: The Evil Dead (1981) Featuring Aaron Carruthers

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Aaron Carruthers take an inadvisable trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Beset by deadites, freezing cold temperatures and spattered with homemade blood, they try to make some sense of Sam Raimi’s spooky debut feature The Evil Dead (1981). What could possibly go wrong?

Tea For Terror 21: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Featuring Simon Bamford

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and screen actor Simon Bamford (Butterball in Hellraiser/Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves trapped in an old farmhouse. Its boiling hot, they’re surrounded by rotting corpses and the only thing on the menu is them. Despite their imminent peril, they still find the time to examine Tobe Hooper’s masterful horror movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

Tea For Terror Episode 20: Black Christmas (1974) Featuring James Whittington

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and returning guest James Whittington (NYX, Legend, The Horror Channel) put on their Santa hats, load their sacks with various instruments of butchery and head off into Christmas Eve to examine Bob Clark’s seminal festive horror Black Christmas (1974). Often cited as being a major influence on the later slasher movies, especially Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the Canadian movie remains genuinely shocking retaining all of its early 70s grim power.

Tea For Terror Episode 19: Re-Animator (1985) Featuring Dan Taylor

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Exploitation Retrospect head honcho Dan Taylor break into the lab to conduct some questionable experiments in order to resurrect the mid-80s American splatter movie Re-Animator (1985). This Stuart Gordon directed cult classic torn from the pages of H.P. Lovecraft, is a neon-lit, violent horror show which is both funny and playful, as well as being outrageous and gob-smackingly visceral.

Tea For Terror Episode 18: Dead of Night (1945) Featuring Jez Conolly

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jez Conolly find themselves struggling with the world’s worst case of deja vu as they get caught in the time-looped nightmare of Dead of Night (1945). This post-war Ealing Studio’s horror, provided the template for the anthology movie and pre-dated the gothic stylings of Hammer by a good 10 years. Weird, creepy, quirky and terrifying, it provides a brilliant and strange jigsaw of horrific design.

Tea For Terror Episode 17: I Drink Your Blood (1970) Featuring John Harrison

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and John Harrison get all freaked out by David E Durston’s acid trip-rabies-horror, I Drink Your Blood (1970). Undoubtedly influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968) but pre-dating Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972), the movie is an uneven yet entertaining mix of violence, rabies and bad acting laced through with hypnotic visuals and a killer soundtrack.