Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre

Cultists, despite being somewhat underwhelmed on their first visit, your Horror Hosts are returning to the town of Salem’s Lot. This episode, Gary Dauberman's 2024 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel,…

Cultists, continuing with the Sinners theme. Another one of the film’s often cited influences was Stephen King’s Salem's Lot. Adapted as a two part TV movie by Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe H…

Cultists, Sinners was a film that wore its influences on its sleeve.  One obvious influence was the ‘90s Cult Classic From Dusk Till Dawn. The film kicked off a series of Grindhouse collaborations be…

Cultists, because you demanded it (and because it became available to stream) your Horror Hosts are finally putting Ryan Coogler's Sinners on the exam table.  This genre defying Vampire film has held…

Cultists, hopefully we're not disappointing the hardcore 28 Weeks Later fans but your Horror Hosts have opted to skip that splatter fest, and jump directly to Boyle and Garland’s return to the franch…

Cultists, in 2002 director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland dropped 28 Days Later and inadvertently ignited a new Zombie craze that's arguably still ongoing. This month they're returning to that w…

Cultists, we hope you didn't think it'd be safe to go back in the water this summer. Because this year is the 50th anniversary of Jaws. This episode, we’re putting the film that catapulted the career…

Cultists, what do you think of when someone mentions Friday the 13th? A hulking hockey masked machete wielding ghoul stalking teens around a summer camp? Well, in Sean S Cunningham’s original 1980 Su…

Cultists, your Horror Hosts are finally putting an Alfred Hitchcock film on the Exam Table: his Proto-Slasher Psycho. The boundary-pushing film is celebrating its 65th anniversary, and it continues t…

Cultists, this episode your Horror Hosts are again returning to Y2K for another Cult Classic celebrating its 25th anniversary, American Psycho. The Neo-Noir Quasi-Slasher that generated countless mem…

Cultists, there are a number of films celebrating significant anniversaries in 2025. So your Horror Hosts are using that as an excuse to put some real gems on the Exam Table. First up the film that i…

Cultists, Nick and David have escaped from the Black Lodge just in time to bring you the fourth and final installment of our series Dissecting Twin Peaks. In this episode, your Horror Hosts put the 2…

Cultists, less the week after Twin Peaks Day we're back with the third in our Twin Peaks series. In this episode, your Horror Hosts will put Lynch's controversial film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,…

Cultists, we are back with the second part of our Dissection of Twin Peaks. In this episode, your Horror Hosts will put Season 2 of the cult series on the Exam Table. Notoriously the second season st…

Cultists, on January 20th, 2025, just five days short of his 79th birthday, the world lost David Lynch. A true auteur director, Lynch was someone we held very high esteem at Nightshade Cult. In respo…

Cultists, there's a new interpretation of the Wolf Man releasing this weekend. That means it's time for your Horror Host’s to put george waGGner's 1941 classic on the Exam Table. This was not Univers…

Happy New Year, Cultists. We're doing things a little differently this year. Because you demanded it, your Horror Hosts are going to deliver their Hot Takes on Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu before they g…

Cultists, we've arrived at the third instalment in our Nosferatu series. This episode your Horror Hosts are putting E. Elias Merhige's 2000 Metatextual Gothic Horror on the exam table. This fictional…

Cultists, for round two of our Nosferatu series your Horror Hosts will be putting Werner Herzog's 1979 homage to Murnau's seminal piece of German Expressionism on the exam table. The Bavarian auteur …

Cultists, in anticipation of Robert Eggers upcoming adaptation of Nosferatu, your Horror Hosts are going back to the original. In this episode, we put F.W. Murnau's 1922 Symphony Of Horror on the exa…