Welcome to episode 37 of the Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up we have The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue from 1974 and director Jorge Grau, starring Ray Lovelock, Cristina Galbo and Arthur Kennedy

We follow this with When Evil Lurks from 2023 and director Demian Rugna, starring Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demian Salomon, Silvina Sabater, and Luis Ziembrowski.

Recommendations:

Tombs of the Blind Dead (Armondo de Ossario 1972)

Blood Ceremony (1973 Jorge Grau):

https://youtu.be/E7rgJcNuPaU?si=uUKywANJNYT-oNip

Queens of Evil (1970) - available on TUBI

Tienen Miedo (2002, Demian Rugna):

https://youtu.be/IVqG_zGL5sM?si=lRuOlGnWLriIGjLU

Terrified (2017 Demian Rugna)

References & Sources

“Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema” by Jamie Russell

"Nightmare Movies" by Kim Newman

"Spanish Horror Film" by Antonio Lazzaro Reboll

"Jorge Grau: Catalonia’s Cult Film King" from the Synapse blu ray special edition

https://youtu.be/SRgHIPT0_Y4?si=VCvOf5X6KAf78BqQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lovelock_(actor)demianrugna.com

When Evil Lurks Second Sight 4K special edition

https://letterboxd.com/horrorville/story/satanic-hispanics-director-demian-rugna-on/

https://thehollywoodnews.com/2025/07/28/demian-rugna-discusses-when-evil-lurks/

https://www.polygon.com/23935228/when-evil-lurks-director-interview-demian-rugna-meaning/

https://www.goreinthestore.uk/interviews/demian-rugna#:~:text=DEMI%C3%81N%20RUGNA%20%2D%20The%20pesticide%20scandal,the%20pesticide%20was%20the%20demon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/agrochemicals-and-industrial-waste-threaten-argentinas-gran-chaco/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/jul/13/uknews#:~:text=The%20issue%20of%20lead%20in,to%20abolish%20lead%20in%20petrol.

https://filmhounds.co.uk/2025/07/when-evil-lurks-demian-rugna-second-sight-interview/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannetto_De_Rossi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Evil_Lurks

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373134

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Welcome to episode 36 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up we have Eyes Without a Face (1960) directed by George Franju, starring Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob & Alida Valli.

Then we jump forward to Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) directed by Seth Holt, starring Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir and James Villers

Recommendations

Tales From the Darkside – The Movie (1990)

Gritos en la Noche (aka The Awful Dr Orloff) (1962)

Lot No 249 (BBC TV 2023)

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

A Trip to The Moon: https://youtu.be/ZNAHcMMOHE8?si=2JAs0RNZGDFN3sJK

The Impossible Voyage: https://youtu.be/4ZVgCTQFKXo?si=FTwbh7xCDBL4exRg

Valerie Leon Hai Karate advert:

https://youtu.be/B2qQlsFN9ck?si=ABhD1I0wIAMvVzMI

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb

The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker (the complete version published by Seven Treasures Publications)

Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine issue 24

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb Featurette from the Studio Canal bluray release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=13400#:~:text=Bram%20Stoker%2C%20born%20in%20Dublin,of%20%E2%80%9Can%20immense%20dog%E2%80%9D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewel_of_Seven_Stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_from_the_Mummy%27s_Tomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiction_about_mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_ancient_Egypt

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/74/article/445326

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/572065/index.html

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3673210/blood-mummys-tomb-one-hammers-last-great-monster-movies-hammer-factory/

Eyes Without a Face

https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1777.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Franju

https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abstract/35/2/31/39712/Mystery-and-Melodrama-A-Conversation-with-Georges?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/eyes-without-a-face/#:~:text=But%20producer%20Jules%20Borkon%20saw,many%20comparisons%20to%20Alfred%20Hitchcock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s

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Welcome to episode 35 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

First up this week is City Of The Dead from 1960 and director John Moxey, released in the US as Horror Hotel, and starring Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Valentine Dyall, and Venetia Stevenson.

Then we jump forward to 2015 for The Blackcoat’s Daughter, written and directed by Osgood Perkins, and stars Emma Roberts, Keenan Shipka, Lucy Boynton and James Remar.

Along the way will be discussing the meaning of Candlemas Eve, British actor Valentine Dyall, the career of director Osgood Perkins, and much more

Recommendations

Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine

https://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

Appointment with Fear (BBC radio)

https://youtu.be/Nq3x3ybA3EA?si=k0VwnHG-4gyRtToh

The Night Stalker 1972

The Night Strangler 1973

References

Little Shoppe of Horrors issue 20

City of the Dead - Blu ray restoration release from Arrow Video

English Gothic Classic Horror Cinema 1897 – 2015 by Jonathon Rigby

Dark Romance: Sex and Death in the Horror Film by David J Hogan

https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-interview-filmmaker-osgood-perkins-on-birthing-the-blackcoats-daughter/

https://www.screamhorrormag.com/interview-osgood-perkins-talks-blackcoats-daughter/

https://cinemastrikesback.com/qa-blackcoats-daughter/

https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/02/15/oz-perkins-talks-the-blackcoats-daughter-and-mining-horror-cinema-from-pers.html

https://horrornews.net/119951/interview-lucy-boynton-blackcoats-daughter/#:~:text=Lucy%2D%20I%20mean%20prefer%20to,in%20the%20dead%20of%20winter.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-kiernan-shipka-learned-to-act-for-an-audience-of-millions/

https://www.nylon.com/articles/kiernan-shipka-emma-roberts-blackcoats-daughter

https://americana-uk.com/interview-elvis-perkins-on-recording-old-songs-and-being-called-elvis

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a-movie-can-be-a-poem-oz-perkins-on-the-blackcoats-daughter

https://youtu.be/JHIhbClRfds?si=VmPTwDpvl_dKhAaq

https://youtu.be/zfoL6AeQDE8?si=RG0Vd0Pf2tJZ-h4r

https://youtu.be/epo1_fELKGY?si=aPDuRM4R43jafbMd

https://youtu.be/1M6oERl-eDs?si=1I2CSfaIV3d05qIV

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