Hypnogoria
Film
Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast! Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all things weird and wonderful. Here we discuss strange cinema and spooky television, explore weird fiction and delve into the mysteries of folklore. Plus we also regularly gather by the fireside to hear readings of some classic tales of the strange and the macabre.
Location:
United Kingdom
Description:
Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast! Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all things weird and wonderful. Here we discuss strange cinema and spooky television, explore weird fiction and delve into the mysteries of folklore. Plus we also regularly gather by the fireside to hear readings of some classic tales of the strange and the macabre.
Twitter:
@Hypnogoria
Language:
English
Contact:
#441324240130
Website:
http://hypnogoria.libsyn.com/
Email:
hypnogoria@gmail.com
Episodes
HYPNOGORIA 292 - The History of Halloween Part XVI
10/26/2025
In this chapter we discover what was happening in the mid 1990s on Halloween night, and look at the only big scream outing for Caspar the Friendly Ghost, low budget horror Jack-O, the return of Angela in Night of the Demons 3, and even a movie based on the Monster Mash!
Duration:00:48:57
HYPNOGORIA 291 - Scarred for Life Volume Three
10/12/2025
In this show we look at the final book of the Scarred For Life series - Volume Three is a massive 740 page tour through the dark side of 1980s pop culture. It covers comics, movies, books, videos, and games, plus features a stealthy book-within-a-book on nuclear anxiety and cold war terrors!
Duration:00:33:22
MICROGORIA 130 - Leaving DC
10/5/2025
In this little show, we review a little microbudget horror from 2012 - Leaving DC. This creepy found footage movie is the video diary of a man who has left the big city to live in a lovely house in the country... But there's something in the woods round his new home...
Duration:00:17:18
HYPNOGORIA 290 - Nightmares of Nosferatu Part XIII
9/28/2025
We conclude our deep dive into the layers of history and folklore in the Robert Eggers version of Nosferatu, discovering the secrets of Count Orlok and the various pacts and deals that bind the characters together.
Duration:00:50:10
HYPNOGORIA 289 - Nightmares of Nosferatu Part XII
9/21/2025
In this chapter we uncover how historical accounts of vampires and ancient folklore gave us a reimagined and reanimated Orlok in the new Nosferatu (2024).
Duration:00:42:22
HYPNOGORIA 288 - Nightmares of Nosferatu Part XI
9/7/2025
The Nightmares of Nosferatu returns to examine the new Robert Eggers incarnation. In this chapter we chart the development of the movie and the long road it took to the screen, and the magic that went into its making!
Duration:00:36:03
MICROGORIA 129 - Autumn Update
9/2/2025
A little update on my on-going battles with lung cancer, but this time I have some good news to share!
Duration:00:16:15
HYPNOGORIA 287 - Spawn of The Gill-Man Part IV
8/24/2025
In a surprise new chapter, we take a look at a new addition to the Black Lagoon extended family tree - the 2024 movie Monster Island AKA Orang Ikan, a tale of men versus aquatic humanoid monsters set in World War II!
Duration:00:39:39
MICROGORIA 128 - A Fireside Update
8/3/2025
A little chat from the fireside in which Mr Jim updates you all on his battle with the dreaded cancer! Spoilers - it's going well ;)
Duration:00:24:11
HYPNOGORIA SUMMER SPECIAL 15 - It Came From Beyond the Chiller Cabinet Part III
7/27/2025
In the final part of our history of the Great Ice Lolly Wars, we look at the 1980s, with icy snack tie-ins to the likes of Star Trek The Motion Picture, Superman The Movie, and of course the original Star Wars trilogy, but also discover how yogurts turned into monsters!
Duration:00:34:35
HYPNOGORIA SUMMER SPECIAL 14 - It Came From Beyond the Chiller Cabinet Part II
7/13/2025
Continuing our history of assorted geeky, freaky, and galactic ice lollies of the 1970s, we discover sci-fi ties-ins to the likes of Space 1999 and the Bionic lolly plus famous monsters Dracula, King Kong and the Daleks getting their own frozen snacks!
Duration:00:36:51
HYPNOGORIA SUMMER SPECIAL 13 - It Came From Beyond the Chiller Cabinet Part I
6/29/2025
For our summer special season this year, we take at look back at the days with ice lollies and frozen snacks went all freaky, geeky, and intergalactic! In this first chapter we discover how ice lollies could get you into Moon Fleet, fighting Daleks with Doctor Who, encountering Red Devils and Jelly Terrors, plus adventuring with a host of Gerry Anderson characters!
Duration:00:39:29
HYPNOGORIA 287 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part VIII - Tomb of Ligeia
6/15/2025
In this show we look at the final Poe adaptation done by Roger Corman, The Tomb of Ligeia, starring Vincent Prince and Elizabeth Shepherd and scripted by Robert Towne who would go on to pen classics such as Chinatown!
Duration:00:36:55
HYPNOGORIA 286 - The Chime of the Bluebells
6/4/2025
In the UK at this time of the year the woodlands are awash with a carpet of bluebells. However as beloved as these wild flowers are, they have a lot of folklore surrounding them, and links to faeries, the dead, witches and the Devil himself!
Duration:00:46:04
MICROGORIA 127 - Very Important News
6/2/2025
I have some serious news and it ain't great...
Duration:00:18:06
HYPNOGORIA 285 - Remembering the Ghostly Books of Aidan Chambers
5/18/2025
This week, the great children's author Aidan Chambers sadly passed away. And this show we take a fond look back on the ghostly books he penned and the various anthologies of spooky stories he edited.
Duration:00:48:57
HYPNOGORIA 284 - Stone Age Horrors
5/4/2025
Did you know Oliver Stone had made a horror film? No? Did you know he'd made TWO horror movies before he directed Salvador (1986)? Well, step this way and discover his first two movies - Seizure (1974) starring Jonathan Frid, Hervé Villechaize and Martine Beswick, and The Hand (1981) starring Sir Michael Caine!
Duration:00:41:29
HYPNOGORIA 283 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part VII
4/20/2025
In this chapter we examine the movie often hailed as the greatest Roger Corman ever made - Masque of the Red Death (1964) - starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court, and Jane Asher, plus cinematography from future legendary director Nicolas Roeg.
Duration:00:45:54
HYPNOGORIA 282 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part VI
4/6/2025
In this chapter we learn how Roger Corman made the very first movie adaptation of a HP Lovecraft story - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, starring Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jnr. - but when it hit cinemas, it had become Edgar Allen Poe's The Haunted Palace! (And yes, they even spelled Poe's middle name wrong!)
Duration:00:46:02
HYPNOGORIA 281 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part V
3/23/2025
In this chapter we have the next two Poe movies from Roger Corman, which each took a different direction. Tales of Terror (1962) was an anthology film featuring three different Poe stories, plus guest stars Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. While The Raven (1963) was a comedy horror tale of feuding sorcerers which saw Vincent Price plotting magical skulduggery with Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson!
Duration:00:46:54