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 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
HYPNOGORIA 280 - Nightmares of Nosferatu Part X
3/9/2025
We take a look at the little known other remake of Nosferatu that surfaced last year, directed by David Lee Fisher and starring Doug Jones as Graf Orlock!
Duration:00:33:14
HYPNOGORIA 279 - The Return of the Wolf Man
2/23/2025
We take a look at the latest incarnation of Universal werewolvery in Wolf Man (2025) written and directed by Leigh Whannell!
Previous chapters in this series can be found here - The Wolf at the Door: a Werewolf History
Duration:00:41:57
HYPNOGORIA 277 - The Ideas Are Fish
2/9/2025
The second part of my tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which we uncover Lynchian theories on life, art, film making and the importance of fishing...
Duration:00:52:02
HYPNOGORIA 277 - The Woodpeckers Are Not What They Seem
2/3/2025
The first part of a tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which Mr Jim attempts to unravel the mysteries of a man who was a film maker, a painter, a writer, a musician, a weatherman, and a friend to woodpeckers...
Duration:00:35:32
HYPNOGORIA 276 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part IV
1/19/2025
In a new chapter of this retrospective on the late great Roger Corman's cycle of Poe movie, we look at his third adaptation, The Premature Burial, which starred Ray Milland rather than Vincent Price and very nearly wasn't made by AIP at all.
Duration:00:38:46
MICROGORIA 126 - New Year by the Fireside
12/31/2024
A cosy chat from the fireside and a happy New Year to all you out there in Listenerland!
Duration:00:13:40
DOOR 24 - Everybody's Waitin' for the Man with the Bag
12/24/2024
Behind Door 24 we have A Christmas Horror Story and Krampus, Christmas horror films becoming a new annual tradition, and coming right up to date with Art the Clown getting festive in Terrifier 3
Duration:00:21:02
DOOR 23 - Silent Nights
12/23/2024
Behind Door 23 we trapped by a hooded maniac in ATM and look at the surprising resurrection of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, the loose remake Silent Night
Duration:00:09:40
HYPNOGORIA 275 - Stigma
12/22/2024
This year we have reached 1977, and the penultimate episode in the original run, and the last episode directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. In a departure from the usual format Stigma brings us a brand new tale written especially for the screen by Clive Exton, a dark tale of mysterious megaliths and ancient evils.
Duration:00:42:26
DOOR 22 - You’d Better Watch Out…
12/22/2024
Behind Door 22 we have a pair of movies from 2010 which both draw on the dark folklore of Father Christmas, with St Nicholas on the rampage in Sint from the Netherlands, while Finland resurrects an ancient Lapland Yuletide terrors in Rare Exports
Duration:00:11:31