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Half Price Horror

by John Seavey

A deep dive into the half-price horror rack of the local used bookstore, coming away with classics, cult treasures, and the strangest stories the genre has to offer.

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Dracula (1931)

Before Jigsaw, before Art the Clown, before Freddy and Michael and Jason and Leatherface, there was a single icon of horror that the world recognized and it was Bela Lugo

Oct 4
46 min

The Invisible Man (2020)

Some movies just keep feeling more and more relevant as time goes by, and it's hard not to hope that this movie stops being one of them. Because it's a story about an obs

Sep 27
38 min

The Innocents (1961)

It's one of the most influential horror films of the 20th century, a masterpiece of cinematography with gorgeous, lush exterior vistas and claustrophobic interiors, and y

Sep 20
43 min

The Black Castle (1952)

Everyone talks about the Universal Monsters, but the studio did a lot of horror that didn't feature its iconic stable of creatures and plenty of movies that featured its

Sep 17
34 min

Bloody Birthday (1981)

Time to celebrate another trip around the sun, although this time with a solar eclipse and a trio of killer kids to liven things up in the cult classic 'Bloody Birthday'!

Sep 16
33 min

The Mummy (1999)

Time to tackle a beloved classic and the bisexual awakening of an entire generation of moviegoers, 1999's 'The Mummy'! Thrill to tales of angry camels, Brendan Fraser pas

Sep 13
47 min

The Black Castle (1952)

Back before the 50s sci-fi horror craze took off, Universal was trying to find something to do with all those classic horror actors they had lying around with no Universa

Sep 6
34 min

The Wolfman (2010)

One of the great truths of art is that sooner or later, every Universal Monsters property gets a remake. And in 2010, it was the Wolf Man's turn. But there were a lot of

Aug 30
46 min

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Everyone knows about the age of atomic horror in the 1950s, filled with science fiction movies about giant lizards and giant ants and giant grasshoppers and giant tarantu

Aug 23
32 min

Scream 7 (2026)

After a brutal preproduction that saw both leads departing the series, a change in director, and numerous ancillary controversies, 'Scream 7' finally came out with Neve C

Aug 16
52 min

Bloody Birthday (1981)

Another year has gone by, another trip around the calendar concluded for your humble host, and of course it wouldn't be a birthday without once again featuring a birthday

Aug 9
33 min

Wait Until Dark (1967)

It's been featured in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, it's been discussed by Stephen King in his book on the genre 'Danse Macabre', and yet somehow there are a lot of

Aug 2
41 min

Amityville 3-D (1983)

Time to close out the original Amityville trilogy with a movie that more or less fully abandons the "based on a true story" conceit in favor of a number of 3-D gimmicks,

Jul 26
36 min

The Illustrated Man (1969)

'The Illustrated Man' slipped past the studio gatekeepers during the very end of the Warner Brothers/Seven Arts era and the beginning of New Hollywood, and as you might e

Jul 19
36 min

Predator: Badlands (2025)

And so we conclude our Alien and Predator series... for now... with another absolute triumph from Dan Trachtenberg. The Yautja are ruthless, brutal, uncompromising lone w

Jul 12
40 min

Carry On Screaming (1966)

Time to dive back on in to the world of horror parodies, with a movie from a classic comedy franchise in the UK that's tackling a classic horror genre - the Hammer Horror

Jul 5
38 min

Alien: Romulus (2024)

The Disney era of the 'Alien' franchise has begun, and with it comes a whole new approach to the venerable series. Do these movies work better when you throw money at the

Jun 28
1 h 01 min

Pray (2005)

I'm guessing you haven't heard of this movie. In fact, I'm guessing nobody's heard of this movie. I hadn't heard of this movie until I found it waiting to be purchased, w

Jun 21
33 min

Prey (2022)

Sometimes the best things hit when you don't expect them. Everyone pretty much thought the Predator franchise was done and dusted after the failure of 2018's 'The Predato

Jun 14
42 min

My Sucky Teen Romance (2011)

I'm celebrating another big milestone here at HPH - my 250th episode! - and I figured, what better way to do it than with a movie shot at least in part in my hometown? So

Jun 7
36 min

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