Tea For Terror

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.

Tea For Terror Episode 16: The Unknown (1927) Featuring Darrell Buxton

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and We Belong Dead editor Darrell Buxton go way back in time to unravel a tale of madness, manipulation and amputation in Tod Browning’s weird circus-set silent horror The Unknown (1927). They discuss flesh, fiends, Joan Crawford, and of course legendary screen shapeshifter, Lon Chaney.

Tea For Terror Episode 15: Dead Man’s Shoes (2003) Featuring Jon Towlson

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies don their best gas masks and tramp off to the Peak District to unpack kitchen sink horror Dead Man’s Shoes. Directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, A Room for Romeo Brass) and starring Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon, Hot Fuzz), it’s a dark and brooding serial killer revenge flick grounded in reality and barbed with a very British sensibility.

Tea For Terror Episode 14: City of the Dead (1960) Featuring Anna Biller

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and director of The Love Witch, Anna Biller delve into the black and white proto-Amicus movie, City of the Dead AKA Horror Hotel (1960). Starring Hammer legend Christopher Lee, this witchy oddity taps into modern fears and new world ideas, riffing on many of the same themes as Psycho, Black Sunday and Peeping Tom.

Tea For Terror Episode 13: Halloween III Season of the Witch (1982) Featuring James Whittington

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and James Whittington (NYX TV/The Horror Channel/Legend) slip on their Silver Shamrock masks and go poking about the creepy looking factory at the edge of town, to try and figure out what’s going down in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). A departure from the original franchise, this cult horror flick is an entertaining and divisive offering – featuring cinema’s most addictive jingle.

Tea For Terror Episode 12: Blade (1998) Featuring Emma Dark

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and filmmaker Emma Dark go in search of a Marvel adaption that has some real teeth. Before the overtly formulaic limitations of the MCU came Blade (1998). Leaping from the pages of The Tomb of Dracula back in the 70s, Blade became one of the first black super-powered dudes to spring from the white dominated world of the American comic book. Here, Stephen Norrington directs leading man Wesley Snipes in a smart, action packed and bloody thrill ride.

Tea For Terror Episode 11: Prevenge (2016) Featuring Erika Bean

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and writer Erika Bean (and baby Riley) cast a critical eye on Alice Lowe’s superbly subversive 21st century horror film Prevenge (2016). Discussing pregnancy on film, comedy and horror and modern female directors, they wander the maternity ward in search of answers…and probably some baby wipes.