Horror talk from the theater lobby.
Without Your Head talks with horror actors, directors, cinematographers, and filmmakers about the work behind dark, strange, and cult-leaning films. The tone is loose and fan-forward, moving from festival reactions to practical craft, personal career turns, and oddball genre history.
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Without Your Head is a horror and genre-film interview show with a long memory and a scrappy, live-wire feel. Its center is conversation with people who make dark, weird, funny, bloody, and cult-minded work. Nasty Neil appears across the excerpts, steering chats with a fan's curiosity and a working knowledge of low-budget and festival horror. The show likes the practical question first. How did the cinematographer get hired for The Yeti? What makes a zombie movie feel different now? How does an encyclopedia-style book about women in horror become a documentary? Those questions give the episodes a useful texture beyond promotion. Guests describe scripts, shoots, format choices, career returns, and the specific pressures of making genre stories stand out. The tone is informal. It can be affectionate, teasing, and blunt. It also takes the work seriously, especially when the subject is artistic risk, cult reputation, or the long afterlife of a maligned film. Festival episodes bring the listener into the immediate aftermath of screenings, with quick reactions from Boston Underground Film Festival and conversations around documentaries, shorts, and midnight programming. Interview episodes widen the frame to include body horror, stalker stories, monster movies, women and femme identifying people in horror history, Troma, Shakespeare riffs, comeback acting roles, and cinematography logistics. The show is strongest when it treats horror as both fun and labor. A monster is never only a monster here; it is also a script problem, a budget problem, a performance challenge, a career bet, or a fan argument waiting to happen. The result is genre coverage that feels close to the people making the work, with room for messy enthusiasm and behind-the-scenes detail.
Made for: For horror fans who follow indie films, cult cinema, festival screenings, practical craft, and genre careers. It especially suits listeners who like informal interviews with creators rather than polished press-tour summaries.
What sets it apart: The show pairs fan enthusiasm with granular production talk, giving equal space to body-horror premises, cinematography logistics, festival reactions, and career comebacks. Its archive and casual rapport make it feel embedded in horror culture rather than observing it from outside.
Without Your Head Horror Radio. Podcast showcasing entertainers and artists with a bit of darkness to their work. Without Your Head is on every Thursday at 9pm EST at www.withoutyourhead.com/live .
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, lively Lloyd Kaufman conversation links Shakespeare, Troma's rude social bite, and the grassroots push behind Mr. Melvin.
At the Coolidge Corner Theater, Lloyd Kaufman moves through Troma history, Shakespeare, and the work of getting Mr. Melvin in front of audiences.
A Buried Alive Film Festival chat that works best when the crowd reactions start to mirror the movie.
Creature Fear is presented as a Buried Alive Film Festival conversation about a Chicago musician heading to a lake town in Wisconsin to record an album before getting hounded by a starving felon and some eco-horror complications.
A Comic Con horror chat that sells Traction Park Massacre through twins, bikers, and an overgrown park.
Without Your Head presents Traction Park Massacre as a present-day slasher with old-school instincts, built around twin slashers, outlaw bikers, an abandoned park, and the terror twins Otto and Emil.
Chicago voices, live and unfiltered.
Doctor Who fandom, recorded in motion.
Dallas banter with no clean exit.
FDNY stories, roasted and remembered.
Movie talk with tangents worth keeping.
Host Nasty Neil interviews actor Melody Kay about her return to acting after a long hiatus, discussing her role in an upcoming movie and her experience being his first podcast guest.
Nasty Neil hosts writers and directors Adam Dubin and Douglas DeMonda to discuss their horror film Traction Park Massacre, set to premiere at New York Comic Con on October 9th.
Host Nasty Neil interviews director Manny Gumina and actors Billy Changari and Jared Langwinski from the indie horror film Creature Fear, which premiered at the Buried Alive Film Festival.
Host Nasty Neil interviews writer/director Julie Pacino and lead actress Lucy Fry about their film 'I Live Here Now', which follows a woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy who descends into her own psyche at a remote motel.
Host Nasty Neil interviews actor Spencer Wilding about his role in the 2025 Toxic Avenger film, discussing its release, reception, and cult potential.
Nasty Neal interviews Larry Fessenden and Itana Doyle about Trauma, or Monsters All, a Fantasia Film Festival film that brings together characters from Habit, Depraved, and Blackout.
Without Your Head interviews Dick Diamond, Robert McLean, Amy Diamond, and Rogério Matera about Plankenstein, a Hawaiian haunted-surfboard film made for about $8,500.
Patrick Hale and Peter Coulter describe Carrion Creek as a 22-episode horror anthology set in a town marked by mental illness, paranormal activity, monsters, and purgatory.
Without Your Head interviews Dee Wallace about the 40th anniversary of Critters and her work in Cujo, E.T., and The Howling.
Victoria Muir's habit of screeching on the set of Ice Patrol became the voice of the Rexel, the monster in Round the Decay, layered as a screech, a whisper and a growl.
Sammy Maloof helped The Town That Takes secure Tool, Texas, roads for a car chase with flipped cars.
Vinny Pacifico explains how 12 years of wrestling prepared him for improvisation and high-pressure acting.
Sophie Godin discusses her body horror film 'She Bleeds Green,' which follows a woman mutating into a reptilian monster while being targeted by a serial killer.
Cinematographer Joel Froome discusses how he got involved in the monster movie 'The Yeti' through local connections in Buffalo, New York.
This episode features an interview with Miriam Olken, director of the short film JAW, discussing its premiere at the Boston Underground Film Festival and its psychological comedy horror thriller plot about dealing with a stalker based on a true story.
The hosts review the documentary 'Boorman and the Devil' about director John Boorman's making of 'Heretic' (The Exorcist Part II), discussing its focus on artistic risk and career consequences.
This episode discusses the documentary '1000 Women in Horror' on Shudder, exploring how it adapts an encyclopedia-style book into a 90-minute film format that examines the history and contributions of women and femme-identifying people in the horror genre.
Without Your Head interviews Lloyd Kaufman at Coolidge Corner Theater about Mr.
Host Nasty Neil interviews actor Melody Kay about her return to acting after a long break, discussing her role in the movie 'Decay' and her experience being interviewed for the first time in over 20 years.
Actor and producer Kym Jackson discusses her upcoming zombie film 'We Bury the Dead', highlighting its unique take on the genre and her excitement for its January release.