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54 episodes
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Date created
2024/09/04
Latest episode
2026/02/01
Average duration
73 min.
Release period
7 days
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What is modern horror? Join author and podcaster A. J. Black and horror writer and podcaster Hugh McStay for a bloodthirsty exploration of cinematic horror from 2010 onwards, talking everything from INSIDIOUS to IT FOLLOWS to IN A VIOLENT NATURE and beyond. Prepare to have your collies wobbled and spines tingled. We'll be right back... A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk
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Modern Horror Screams: Coming Soon!
2026/02/01
Do you like scary trailers?
The first spin-off from Modern Horror arrives late February in Modern Horror Screams, hosted by Baz Greenland.
Timed to coincide with Scream VI from Kevin Williamson, Baz will look at the entire Scream franchise in this limited run podcast series with an array of guests... indeed both Tony and Hugh could well be victims of this too!
Subscribe now to Modern Horror Screams on all podcast platforms, including Spotify.
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Primate with Kat Hughes and director Johannes Roberts
2026/01/28
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Joining Tony and Hugh this week is the apesolutely fabulous returning guest Kat Hughes, joining them to chat new crazed animal horror, Primate.
They get into their favourite animal horrors since 2010, the movie monster chimp that is Ben, the deeper ideas beneath the movie and if that's not all, Kat drops in for a chat with Primate director Johannes Roberts about the making of the film...
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
Guest
Kat Hughes (@GizmoShikari)
Special Guest
Johannes Roberts
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple with Kat Hughes
2026/01/21
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Joining Hugh and Tony this week, returning to the world of 28 Years Later on their journey to The Bone Temple (not a euphemism) is returning guest Kat Hughes.
Our trio discuss some a heavy metal show for the ages, the film’s worrying political subtext, the terrifying Jimmies and the surprisingly tender heart of Nia DaCosta’s film...
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Co-Host
A. J. Black
Guest
Kat Hughes @GizmoShikari
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Ranking Modern Horror
2026/01/07
We bid you welcome to the first MODERN HORROR PODCAST episode of 2026.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best,
worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
They begin a brand new year with a special episode where they look back at all 57 films and TV series they have covered in the last year and change, putting them in a ranking order and attempting to find the 'Dark God'; the modern horror movie to rule them all. Which film will emerge on top?
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
The Rank on a spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxoiREJpiI6XYKTkTs9M2ma4NJxuLLjaqF0RphvWeCk/edit?usp=sharing
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Title music:
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It: Chapter 1 & 2 with Dee Molumby and Kat Hughes
2025/12/31
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best,
worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Joining Hugh and Tony to celebrate their 50th
episode is wonderful Kat Hughes and Dee Molumby as they return to the small New England town of Derry for IT: Chapter One and Two. Modern Horror’s very own Loser’s Club discuss the novel and 90’s mini-series before diving in to Andy Muschietti’s two-part adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most famous novels.
A big thank you to all of our listeners for sticking with us the past 18 months and helping the podcast grow!
Here’s to another 50!
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Co-Host
A. J. Black
Guests
Dee Molumby @deirdremolumby
Kat Hughes @GizmoShikari
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Title music:
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It: Welcome to Derry - 1x07 ‘The Black Spot’ / 1x08 ‘Winter Fire’ with Kat Hughes and Dan Owen
2025/12/21
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
With Tony indulging in his pre-Christmas hibernation cycle, Hugh and Dan Owen are joined this week by another magnificent Loser, podcaster
and critic Kat Hughes.
Our intrepid trio put their wits together to discuss the
final two episodes of It: Welcome to Derry where we discover the importance of Bob Gray to our interdimensional monster (no, not Dan Owen), witness a horrific racist atrocity, discuss the US Army’s frankly insane masterplan and wax lyrical about an astonishing final instalment that may rank as one of the best hours of television this year...
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Guests
Dan Owen (danowen.bsky.social)
https://linktr.ee/vampirevideos
Kat Hughes @GizmoShikari
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It's a Wonderful Knife with Steve O'Brien
2025/12/17
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
This week Tony and Hugh, joined by recurring guest, journalist Steve O'Brien, get all festive with the schlocky, time-travelling slasher, It's a Wonderful Knife.
The gents unpick any connections to the seminal It's a Wonderful Life beyond the title, whether the film successfully pulls off making a Hallmark movie into a violent horror, and decide whether this deserves to be up there amongst the best Christmas horror films out there...
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
Guest
Steve O'Brien
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It: Welcome to Derry - 1x05 '29 Neibolt Street' / 1x06 'In the Name of the Father' with Dan Owen
2025/12/07
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards,
examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
With Hugh taking a week off to soak in a bath while a grandparent berates him, Tony is joined by recurring guest, podcaster Dan Owen.
They look into the fifth and sixth episodes of It: Welcome to Derry, as revelations abound about the history of Derry and indeed Pennywise, with some stray thoughts of Dan's raising a few eyebrows...
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Guest
Dan Owen (danowen.bsky.social)
https://linktr.ee/vampirevideos
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Bring Her Back
2025/12/03
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
This week the gents turn their attention to the Philippou brother’s second feature film, the horrifying and tragic Bring Her Back.
Featuring a staggering performance from Sally Hawkins, Tony and Hugh discuss the film’s devastating subject matter, one of the most horrific horror set-pieces in recent memory and the emergence of two bold new voices in horror cinema in the form of Danny and Michael Philippou...
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Co-Host
A. J. Black
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It: Welcome to Derry - 1x03 ‘Now You See It’ / 1x04 ‘The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function' with Mary Munoz and Dan Owen
2025/11/23
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards,
examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
With Tony taking a week off to fulfil his life-long dream of exploring the New England sewer systems, Hugh and Dan Owen are joined this week
by another magnificent Loser, podcaster and critic Mary Munoz.
Our plucky trio explore the third and fourth episodes of It: Welcome to Derry where the origins of the entity are explored in some terrifying flashbacks and Andy Muschietti delivers some of the most unpleasant eye-horror this side of Eli Roth’s Hostel…
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Guests
Dan Owen (danowen.bsky.social)
https://linktr.ee/vampirevideos
Mary Munoz (@MissMaimePeas)
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The Borderlands with Sam Stokes
2025/11/19
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best,
worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Hugh and Tony welcome new guest Sam Stokes to the podcast as
they discuss 2013’s disturbing found-footage folk-horror The Borderlands.
The gents discuss the melding of genres, the film’s central struggle of
Christianity versus Paganism and compare anxieties over the film’s deeply
unsettling and upsetting ending...
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Co-Host
A. J. Black
Guest
Sam Stokes
Find him on:
Den of Ten
Reel Talk
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It: Welcome to Derry 1x02 - 'The Thing in the Dark' with Dan Owen
2025/11/09
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Over the next few weeks, they will be covering the brand new It prequel series, Welcome to Derry, which takes the terror of Pennywise back to 1962, and joining them for the journey is Vampire Videos host Dan Owen.
The trio discuss 1x02 'The Thing in the Dark', chatting new characters, a fleshed out sense of narrative and mythology, and some deeply effective slices of nightmarish horror...
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
Guest
Dan Owen
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Under the Skin with John Bleasdale
2025/11/05
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Join Tony and Hugh, plus John Bleasdale, film critic and author of Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, as they discuss the director's strange 2013 adaptation of Michel Faber's novel, Under the Skin.
The trio discuss Glazer's unique career thus far and dig into how this film straddles the boundaries between horror, science-fiction and beyond. Is it one of the most profound examples of its form?
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
Guest
John Bleasdale
Buy Darkness Visible here:
https://stickingplacebooks.com/darkness-visible-the-cinema-of-jonathan-glazer/
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It: Welcome to Derry 1x01 - 'The Pilot' with Dan Owen
2025/11/02
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema (and sometimes TV) from 2010 onwards, examining the best, worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Over the next few weeks, they will be covering the brand new It prequel series, Welcome to Derry, which takes the terror of Pennywise back to 1962, and joining them for the journey is Vampire Videos host Dan Owen.
The trio discuss 1x01 'The Pilot', the introduction of the characters, the striking beginning and end in terms of horror theatrics, and where all of this might be going in the broader context of Stephen King and It...
Host / Editor
A. J. Black
Co-Host
Hugh McStay
Guest
Dan Owen
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Halloween Special: V/H/S Halloween
2025/10/29
We bid you welcome to the MODERN HORROR PODCAST.
Hosted by authors A. J. Black and Hugh McStay, Modern
Horror focuses on horror cinema from 2010 onwards, examining the best,
worst, biggest and most obscure horror pictures from around the world.
Hugh and Tony return to the V/H/S franchise this week as they
look at this year’s timeous offering of V/H/S Halloween. The gents discuss each segment in depth, revelling in some gory seasonal silliness, some truly dark and disturbing entries and one of the most fun segments that the series has ever produced...
Host / Editor
Hugh McStay
Co-Host
A. J. Black
Find the podcast on social media via Linktr.ee:
https://linktr.ee/modernhorrorpodcast
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Title music:
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