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--And Now The Podcast Starts!

Hosted by andnowpodcast · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes

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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.

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#114 Howard and Dan on the later Subotsky anthologies (1972-85)

Jan 5, 20261h 19mEp. 139

Happy New Year! In a change to the proposed episode on The Woman in Black, Howard and Dan conclude their discussion of Milton Subotsky's horror anthologies, begun in the episodes listed below. The Woman in Black episode

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CHRISTMAS BONUS: A Very British Horror on The Signalman (1976)

Dec 24, 202540mEp. 138

Merry Christmas! In another gem from the archives of A Very British Horror, Chris and Paul discuss BBC-TV's classic 1976 Ghost Story for Christmas, The Signalman, based on the story by Charles Dickens. Plus there's a sho

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#113 Halloween Ends (2022) with Spider-Dan

Oct 31, 20251h 30mEp. 137

AKA Halloween Retrospective #13. In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise. Now, the journey concludes as the three discuss 2022's Hallow

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#112 Halloween Kills (2021) with Spider-Dan

Oct 28, 20251h 7mEp. 136

AKA Halloween Retrospective #12. In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise (then only 11 films strong). After several years away, Dan and

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on Hands of the Ripper (1971)

Oct 24, 20251h 1mEp. 135

Paul and Chris discuss the ingenious late-period Hammer film Hands of the Ripper, which deals with the daughter of Jack the Ripper. The next episodes of And Now The Podcast Starts.... will be released in time for Hallowe

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on Tales From The Crypt (1972)

Oct 16, 20251h 2mEp. 134

To complement the discussion of the Amicus anthology film The House That Dripped Blood in our episode #111, we're proud to present another gem from the archives of A Very British Horror, in which Chris and Paul discuss t

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#111 The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Just The Convo)

Oct 16, 20251h 11mEp. 133

AKA Lee/Cushing, Howard/Dan #7 (Preview Version) Howard and Dan reconvened in person for the first time since 2019 to record a new episode about a Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee film, and it's the 1971 horror anthology Th

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on Warlock (1989)

Oct 13, 20251h 3mEp. 132

In another release from the archives of the sadly-missed podcast A Very British Horror, Chris Denton and Paul Monk discuss 1989's occult horror, Warlock. Works Cited Warlock (New World Pictures, US 1989, director: Steve

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#110 Weapons (2025) and Barbarian (2022)

Oct 9, 202559mEp. 131

Ian and Dan discuss this summer's controversial hit from Zach Cregger, as well as the director's previous film, Barbarian. Warning: nothing but spoilers for both, as well as No Country for Old Men and Midsommar. Works Ci

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#109 Sinners (2025) with Spider-Dan - Spoiler-free and Spoiler-ee!

Oct 2, 20251h 42mEp. 129

We're back, folks - and welcome to Halloween season! We'll be releasing regular episodes throughout October and possibly beyond. One of the horror movie hits of year has been Ryan Coogler's music-led period piece, Sinner

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on Vampire Circus (1971)

Oct 2, 202558mEp. 130

Another release from the archive of the wonderful and sadly missed podcast, A Very British Horror, in which Paul and Chris discuss the 1971 Hammer horror film, Vampire Circus.

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#108 Damien: Omen II (1978) with Steve Timms

Feb 7, 20251h 29mEp. 128

AKA Omen Trilogy Retrospective #2 Back in 2023, Dan, Stella, Ian and Howard recorded a chat about 1978's Satanic sequel Damian: Omen II to follow up their chat on 1976's The Omen. Ghosts (or demons) got into the machine,

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BONUS: A Very British Horror on The Ash Tree (1975)

Dec 31, 202436mEp. 127

Happy New Year! But Christmas continues. Here's another gem from the archives of the podcast A Very British Horror, wherein Paul and Chris discuss a (sort of) ghost story for Christmas, the BBC's 1975 adaptation of MR Ja

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#107 Christmas Special: The Exorcism (1972)

Dec 24, 202450mEp. 126

AKA Missed Classics #13 Belatedly following up on our 2020 review of During Barty's Party, here we look at another 1970s TV play by director Don Taylor, 1972's socially-conscious Christmas ghost story, The Exorcism. Ian,

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#106 Nightmares on Film

Dec 12, 20241h 7mEp. 125

The visual media of cinema, TV and videogames are especially suited to depicting the strange visions and wonky logic of human dreaming, and the horror genre is especially able to take advantage of this. Kirsty and Dan di

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#105 Enys Men (2022)

Dec 5, 202451mEp. 124

Kirsty and Dan discuss Enys Men, director Mark Jenkin's unique sort-of-folk horror/art film hybrid set on a lonely Cornish island. Beware, there are some plot developments given, although this very much open-to-interpret

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#104 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) with Simon Clark and Spider-Dan

Nov 29, 20243h 7mEp. 123

AKA Clark on Quatermass #2: The 1979 Novel This is the second episode we've released in which award-winning author Simon Clark (@HotelMidnight) pops on to talk to Dan about their mutual hero, writer Nigel Kneale. In the

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#103 Grimmfest 2024 Reviews: Crumb Catcher & Delivery Run

Nov 21, 202445mEp. 122

This year, Stella and Dan got to go to Manchester's Grimmfest together for the first time since before the pandemic. Here they talk about the two films they saw, listed below. NB. 'The Lurking Gits' is a reference to a j

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#102 The Aesthetics of Abjection

Nov 14, 20241h 0mEp. 121

AKA Questions of Horror #6: What Makes Horror Beautiful? Kirsty and Dan discuss the beauty that can sometimes be found in works of horror - or, to use Kirsty's cooler phraseology, the aesthetic qualities of abjection. St

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#101 Favourite Horror Franchises

Nov 7, 20241h 15mEp. 120

AKA Questions of Horror #5: What Are Our Favourite (or the Best) Horror Franchises? Ian, Kirsty, Stella and Dan ruminate on the above question, while Howard calls Dan on the phone to add his two-penny's worth. Works cite

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