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Won't Stay Dead
by Won't Stay Dead
Won't Stay Dead is a podcast dedicated to the freaky and gloriously trashy world of horror, cult and exploitation cinema. Join the three of us as we wax lyrical, dissect and celebrate some of our favourite examples of subversive filmmaking.To add a little inebriation to the proceedings, each episode we will be drinking booze that is in some way linked (albeit tenuously) to our main feature. So, we invite you to crack open a cold one, put your feet up and delve with us into the murky depths of movies that just won't stay dead...
Episodes
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Episode 26 - Tombs Of The Blind Dead
Saddle up and get ready for a night of terror and ritual sacrifice; we’re off to the abandoned village of Berzano for an audience with the Blind Dead. This episode tackles one of the most influential films of the early Spanish horror boom. But can this snail’s pace zombie classic still entertain...
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Episode 25 - Silent Night Deadly Night
It's time for the scariest damn night of the year! That's right; the third annual WSD festive special is upon us... This year our stockings are full of yuletide violence and controversy, as we tackle the 1984 seasonal slasher Silent Night Deadly Night. An axe-wiedling Santa Clause; the wonderous...
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Episode 24 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL IV - Halloween II
Well, it’s that time of year again. Team WSD (well, most of us) are back to make the season of the macabre more frightening than ever, as we wander the empty corridors of the Podcast Memorial Hospital to dissect Rick Rosenthal’s infamous slasher sequel Halloween II. It’s the fourth annual WSD...
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Episode 23 - Suspiria
Do you believe in witches? Here at WSD HQ, we certainly bloody well do. In fact we’ve recorded a podcast about it. That’s right, this time we’re looking at one of the greatest horror films ever made: Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s gore-tastic, expressionist, gothic nightmare Suspiria. From…
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Episode 22 - Christmas Evil
This episode things are getting frightfully festive as we dust the dried blood off last year’s Santa suit, polish our kitchen knives and saddle up for an evening of yuletide retribution. Top of our wishlist this year is Lewis Jackson’s utterly insane addition to the holiday horror subgenre:...
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Episode 21 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL III - Trick 'r Treat
Pumpkin pie and candy abounds in our third Halloween special, as we discuss one of the most cartoonish, colourful tributes to Samhain the genre has to offer. Werewolves, slashers, demons, zombies, middle-aged swinger parties; Trick ‘r Treat has it all. Amongst the candy stuffed in our over-sized...
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Episode 20 - The Burning
Kayaks at the ready, fellow podcasteteers; we’re paddling our way to Devil’s Creek this episode as we look at one of the most notorious summer camp slashers of all time. That’s right: it’s time to face the legend of Cropsy in Tony Maylam’s 1981 video nasty classic The Burning. Sheared fingers,...
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Episode 19 - Anthropophagous: The Beast
It’s time for a spot of gut-munching, foetus-eating Italian splattersploitation action this episode, courtesy of Joe d’Amato and George Eastman’s collaborative cannibalistic video nasty Anthropophagous. We’re island-hopping on the vacation of a lifetime, trying not to be hideously murdered by a...
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Episode 18 - The Holy Mountain
We’re climbing the holy mountain of cinematic deliriousness this episode, as we tackle one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most challenging works. Corruption, police brutality, religious greed, consumerism, amphibious colonialism; this film has it all. But one question remains: is the Holy Mountain…
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Dead Bites - Episode 3 - Cannibal Metropolis
Iain speaks to author Saurav Dutt about his book Cannibal Metropolis; a gory, violent and intelligent work of horror literature that pays homage to the Italian cannibal genre of the 1970s.
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Episode 17 - Society
We’re sipping Pimms and donning our best monocles in this episode as we contemplate Society; Brian Yuzna’s nightmarish orgy of social satire and anti-capitalist thought. Beginning like an ‘80s soap opera and ending in a Cronenberg-esque body-horror splatter-fest, Yuzna’s directorial debut is...
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Episode 16 - Black Christmas
What you mother and I must know is...ARE you going to listen to the official WSD Christmas Special? This episode we crawl out from our hiding hole in a sorority house attic to heap praise and criticism alike on what is probably one of the best films ever made, and arguably the first true slasher...
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Episode 15 - Deadly Blessing
As the old adage goes: ‘there ain’t no party like a WSD party, ‘cos a WSD party don’t stop’. Well, that’s not necessarily true of this episode, in which we tackle the rather mediocre Deadly Blessing, a film that transitioned director Wes Craven’s early grindhouse video nasties to his more...
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Episode 14 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL II - Night of the Demons
We’re off to Hull House to party in an abandoned funeral home with a six-pack of Coors and some buns pilfered from a local Seven Eleven. It’s the official WSD Halloween Special! In this episode we pay tribute to one of the trashiest films of the ‘80s, pulling it apart and revealing its strengths...
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Episode 13 - Friday the 13th
Machetes, denim hotpants and colourful macs abound as we head off to camp, celebrating our 13th episode in style with Sean S. Cunningham’s cult slasher classic. Coming along for the ride and whacking the bluegrass on the truck stereo this time are special guests Dom and Conor, who have more than…
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Episode 12 - Planet Of The Vampires
Team WSD are back with a big bang, making our first foray into the eclectic back catalogue of Italian macabre maestro Mario Bava as we dissect his 1965 effort Planet Of The Vampires. With Captain Mark Markary by our side, we attempt to fend off the bodiless consciousness of cinematic…
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Episode 11 - The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
We're off to sunny Spain (well, Portugal actually) for the podcast's first attempt at tackling the perversive, subversive batshit-craziness that is the cinema of Iberian horror meister Jess Franco. The Curse Of Frankenstein/Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein is one of the director's earlier and more...
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Episode 10 - The Curse of Frankenstein
*WSD Official Disclaimer* The following episode was recorded in early December, amid good faith from all panellists concerned that it would be uploaded and ready to go in a week's time, in order to make room to cover Bob Clark's Black Christmas before the festive season began. Christmas being…
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Episode 9 - The Devils
Forgive us, listeners, for we have sinned. It has been over four weeks since our last podcast. But never fear, for we are back with the proverbial bang, crossing ourselves as we bear witness to Ken Russell’s gloriously blasphemous masterpiece The Devils. Dousing the flames as we burn at the stake...
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Episode 8 - WSD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL I - Halloween
Halloween is coming and the WSD team are getting hammered. This episode we battle the ancient ghosts of Samhain via John Carpenter's seminal 1978 slasher rinse out Halloween. “If that's the trick, then what are the treats?” I hear you ask. Well, I'll tell you. This week the panel gets through...
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Episode 7 - Don't Go In The House
This episode sees the panel dig out the old asbestos dungarees and hide charred corpses conspicuously about the place, as we take on Joseph Ellison’s pyromanic video nasty Don’t Go In The House. Sick, twisted filth or underrated dissection of the human psyche for the Jeffrey Dahmer generation?…
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Dead Bites - Episode 2 - All Cheerleaders Die
Episode two of our minisode series Dead Bites sees Iain talk to directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson about their new film All Cheerleaders Die.
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Episode 6 - Slaughterhouse-Five
The podcast shenanigans for episode six see the team return to Dresden at the height of the Second World War, then back to the present, then back to the war, and finally to the fourth dimensional planet of Tralfamador. Confused? You ought to be. This episode explores Kurt Vonnegut’s highly...
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Episode 5 - Enemy Mine
It's back to science fiction for episode five, as the team whips out its Drac phrase book in an attempt to understand the loopiness behind Wolfgang Petersen's oft-maligned and misunderstood tale of conflict resolution in outer space, Enemy Mine. Is it a galactic war story? Does it effectively...
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Episode 4 - Cannibal Holocaust
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of the Video Recordings Act in the UK, this episode we look back on the 'video nasty' debacle, focussing our attentions on one of the most infamous titles caught up in the hysteria; Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. Elsewhere in the podcast…
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Dead Bites - Episode 1 - Infliction
In the first ever edition of our minisode series, Dead Bites, Iain talks to New Jersey director Jack Thomas Smith about his latest film, Infliction. www.inflictiontapes.com www.facebook.com/InflictionTapes
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Episode 3 - Tourist Trap
Episode three sees the team take to the backwoods along a forgotten stretch of road populated only by Mr Slausen and his band of telekinetic mannequins. That's right; in this instalment we are smothering plaster all over our faces in an attempt to understand the madness that lurks behind David...
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Episode 2 - They Live
This episode sees the panel tackle satirical, Orwellian alien invasion, as we stick on our chunky '80s shades, clothesline a cop or two and prepare to join the resistance in a bid to face down John Carpenter's seminal and worryingly-relevant sci-fi classic They Live. Drink along with us! The…
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Episode 1 - Return of the Living Dead
In our first ever episode, we tackle Dan O’Bannon’s genre-redefining, 1984 zombie schlock fest. Prepare for a wild ride with naked graveyard dancing, Nazi war crimes, zombies on slabs, rabid weasels, screaming yellow men, typical military fuck-ups, Burt & Ernie, Tom & Jerry and some fine Kentucky...
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Won't Stay Dead is a podcast dedicated to the freaky and gloriously trashy world of horror, cult and exploitation cinema. Join the three of us as we wax lyrical, dissect and celebrate some of our favourite examples of subversive filmmaking.To add a little inebriation to the proceedings, each episode we will be drinking booze that is in some way linked (albeit tenuously) to our main feature. So, we invite you to crack open a cold one, put your feet up and delve with us into the murky depths of movies that just won't stay dead...
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