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Horror craft, cult memory, and monster talk.
Class Horror Cast moves between long-form horror interviews and conversational film breakdowns. Aaron Doyle speaks with guests and genre obsessives about early influences, craft, cult afterlives, monsters, body horror, and the stubborn work of making original movies.
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Class Horror Cast is a horror film show with a deep interest in the people behind the scares. Its center of gravity is conversation: relaxed, sometimes scrappy, often unusually specific. Aaron Doyle frequently asks guests to go back to the first moment that caught their imagination, which turns interviews into origin stories for horror obsession. Craig Singer’s discussion moves from Dark Ride and Perkins 14 toward cult rediscovery, social media, VHS, and the long life some films earn after their opening week. Luigi Cozzi’s episode reaches back to school-age comic strips, eight-millimeter filmmaking, pen names, editing by hand, and the sacrifice behind following a creative path. Corin Hardy connects childhood awe at King Kong, Ray Harryhausen monsters, Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, and Simbad to a lifelong pull toward magical and terrifying images. Adam MacDonald’s conversation circles the pressure of holding a vision, knowing when to resist, and making scenes that still hit hard. Chef Joe Gatto brings the discussion toward food, filmmaking identity, and the frustration of being pushed into somebody else’s template. Katie Evans gives the show a psychological lane, talking about mental health, trauma, sexuality, relationships, and horror as a way to examine the subconscious. The movie-review episodes are more unruly. Aaron and Tom can move from folklore and bell symbolism to body horror, intimacy, dependency, cult imagery, and relationship jokes in the same stretch. That looseness is part of the appeal. Class Horror Cast does not treat horror as a narrow lane of jump scares and release dates. It treats the genre as a whole ecosystem: childhood memory, practical production, commercial compromise, fan rediscovery, physical revulsion, emotional symbolism, and personal taste. News and releases appear too, including discussion of VHS Halloween and physical-media presentation. The show suits listeners who like horror talk with texture. It is fan-driven, but it is not shallow. It wants to know what scared people first, what they made from it, and what still refuses to leave the frame.
Made for: For horror fans who like filmmaker interviews, cult cinema context, physical-media chatter, and conversational reviews that get into symbols, scares, and craft. It especially suits listeners who enjoy genre history without losing the casual energy of fans talking after a screening.
What sets it apart: Class Horror Cast stands out by connecting fan enthusiasm to the practical and psychological machinery of horror: editing, low-budget problem-solving, studio pressure, cult rediscovery, trauma, intimacy, and monster imagery. The show’s relaxed interview style gives familiar genre subjects a more personal shape.
ClassHorrorCast is a podcast created by Aran from FirstClassHorror for fans of the Horror genre. First Class Horror is Ireland's biggest and best horror related content producer. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/class-horror-cast-horror-movie-podcast--4295531/support.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Class Horror Cast connects horror criticism to the practical decisions, compromises and personal histories that shape films.
Aaron Doyle keeps returning to the practical question behind horror: how does an idea survive the work of turning it into a film? Class Horror Cast moves between movie discussions and interviews with figures including Adam MacDonald, Craig Singer and Luigi Cozzi, giving horror…
Aaron Doyle gets filmmakers talking shop until you start seeing every scare as a production decision.
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A filmmaking conversation that starts with Dark Ride and opens into memory, reception, and rediscovery.
Craig Singer's visit returns to Dark Ride and broadens into a filmmaking conversation that stays personal while keeping its frame clear. He revisits the movies that shaped him, including The Godfather and The French Connection, and folds in a childhood drive-in memory in the…
A direct, handmade career conversation that treats filmmaking as craft, pressure, and persistence.
Class Horrorcast frames Luigi Cozzi as a filmmaker shaped by curiosity, patience, and hands-on practice. He remembers starting around eight or nine with comic-strip versions of films for school friends, then learning on an 8mm camera that had to be cranked by hand.
A horror chat about conviction, craft, and a bear attack that still lands.
Aaron Doyle opens with a theater-of-the-mad frame that quickly gives way to practical horror craft. The guest is sharp on the film-versus-television divide, on knowing when to stand his ground, and on choosing to walk away rather than back a movie he does not believe in.
A cave-bound body horror chat that links intimacy to erased boundaries.
Class Horrorcast frames the film as a study in isolation, using the cave, the strange pool, and the body horror premise to push intimacy toward something claustrophobic.
A loose, side-path discussion that keeps finding small, specific hooks.
This episode keeps a loose, conversational shape, moving from a Crash Bandicoot remaster trilogy memory to a small Easter egg at the end. That wandering suits the hosts' stated preference for skipping a beat-by-beat crawl, so the discussion feels lived-in and specific even when…
Indie film advice with real-world pressure.
Filmmaking talk from inside the workflow.
Screenwriting craft with honest room tone.
Hollywood talk with the machinery exposed.
Interview with writer/director Mike P.
Filmmaker Andrea M.
["Craig Singer says Night of the Living Dead at age six, a gun-control PSA that won first place in the country, and letters to Ilya Kazan all shaped how he became a filmmaker.", "He argues that modern creators now have a film studio in their pocket, but the harder task is breaking through white noise and getting a story noticed.", "The conversation revisits Animal Room, Dark Ride, Perkins 14, and the years Singer spent at Disney as the social-media guy who could not bring scripts into the room.", "Singer also details Moguls, his book about Nick and Joe Schenck, and The Block, which he shot in Jersey with Chris Noth, Elias Koteas, Jackie Earle Haley, and Safira Moran."]
["Aaron Doyle interviews Luigi Cozzi on Class Horror Cast about a career that runs from childhood movie comic strips to Star Crash, Contamination, and Paganini Horror.", "Cozzi says he started at age 8 or 9, used the name \"Lewis Coates\" when distributors wanted an American credit, and watched Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula in cheap Milan theaters that skipped age checks.", "He argues that modern cinema is a different industry because digital tools let filmmakers repair almost everything after the shoot, while older films had to be built physically in front of the camera.", "He also predicts that theaters will keep shrinking under platform releases and overproduction, even as his work keeps resurfacing on Blu-ray, festivals, and international screenings."]
Horror movie podcast Class Horror Cast interviews chef and filmmaker Joe Gatto about tracing his horror fandom back to watching Sam Raimi's Evil Dead around age 12 and discovering Fangoria magazine.
Psychotherapist Katie Evans discusses her work integrating horror movies with psychology to explore human stories and the subconscious.
A horror podcast host discusses the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder and promotes the new VHS Halloween anthology release.
Director Corin Hardy discusses his early inspirations for pursuing filmmaking, including King Kong and Ray Harryhausen's work.
Adam MacDonald traces his path from seeing The Evil Dead on VHS at age six or seven to falling for cinema with The Secret of NIMH in a theater.
Aaron Doyle and Tom cover Michael Shanks's 2025 body-horror debut 'Together,' starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie as Tim and Millie.
["Class HorrorCast revisits Silent Hill: Revelation, the 2012 sequel to Silent Hill (2006), and notes its 94-minute runtime, $20 million budget, and roughly $52 million worldwide box office.", "Aaron Doyle and Tom Thompson frame the movie around Heather Mason and Sharon de Silva, then name Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Sean Bean, and Radha Mitchell while unpacking the cult plot.", "They spend a lot of time on the production history, including Roger Avary's cancelled return, MJ Bassett taking over, and Bassett's later admission on The Movie Crypt that she should have fought harder for her vision.", "Their verdict is mixed: they like some practical creature work, the Travis Grady easter egg, and the Cambridge, Ontario shoot, but think the heavy CGI and action tone pulled the sequel away from the first film and the games."]
Aaron Doyle interviews filmmaker Armand Mastroianni about his early horror movie influences and career.
Aaron Doyle interviews Graham Grace Walker about his work on horror and action films, including The Walking Dead, Beyond Thunderdome, and House of Wax.