Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre

Cultists, N&D have heard that Alien: Covenant is the most divisive film in the Alien franchise. Sir Ridley's second Alien prequel divided the fandom and allegedly any time it's discussed the internet explodes. Rest easy because your Horror Hosts are stalwart and not daunted by Toxic Fandom. So please join us for the second Dissection in our Ridley Scott Alien series.

There's a new Alien instalment on the horizon, Cultists. Perfect opportunity for your Horror Hosts to put Sir Ridley Scott’s three contributions to the franchise on the exam table. We’ll be dissecting the films in event order rather than release order, so first up the Cosmic Horror Epic, Prometheus. Please join us for the dissection.

Congratulations Cultists, you're the first to survive the audition. This episode we'll be putting Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome on the exam table. After the tragic death of his producing partner Byron Kennedy, Miller enlisted George Ogilvie to co-direct the ambitious conclusion of the original Mad Max trilogy. Please join us for the Dissection

What a lovely day, Cultists! Next up in our Dissection of George Miller's original Mad Max Trilogy is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior! Things have gotten precipitously worse for old Max since the first film, society has completely fallen and the world has become a Wasteland ravaged by Marauders. This is a genre defining film that people are still ripping off to this day. Please join us for the Dissection.

Cultists, the Apocalypse is having a resurgence! Between the Fallout series, the revival of Planet Of The Apes, and the upcoming Furiosa, the Wasteland is hot! Making this the perfect moment for your Horror Hosts to go back to before The Fall. Back to where it began, George Miller's Mad Max trilogy. Starting with 1979’s Mad Max, please join us for the Dissection.

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Cultists, we know you love the ‘80s Horror Classics. So this episode we're putting Joe Dante's 1981 supernatural crime thriller The Howling on the exam table. Possibly the most influential Werewolf film of the 1980s. Its impact is still felt on the genre today, but is it any good? Please join us for the Dissection.

Cultists, last weekend your Horror Hosts crept out of the Vault Of Darkness and went to the cinema to see Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man. Action Thrillers might seem slightly outside of our scope, but this film with its Neo-Noir lighting and intense bloody violence is actually quite Macabré. Please join us for the dissection.

Cultists, long before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, she cut her teeth in the world of Cult Cinema. This episode your Horror Hosts will be putting her solo directorial debut 1987’s Near Dark on the Exam Table. This Revisionist Western Vampire Thriller is a little hard to find these days but is well worth tracking down, so please join us for the dissection.



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Cultists, the Ides of March are upon us, and your Horror Hosts will be putting Denis Villeneuve's Space Opera Epic, Dune Part 2 on the exam table. N&D actually began their Podcast journey with a Deep Dive of David Lynch's Dune years ago, so this return to Arrakis feels like a homecoming. Please join us for the Dissection.

Cultists, your Horror Hosts have been talking about Dissecting Scion Sono’s Prisoners Of The Ghostland, since before its release in 2021. After a stretch of music episodes the time felt right to finally put the Post Apocalyptic Sushi Western on the examining table. Please join us for the Dissection.

We've made it Cultists. We've reached the creative peak of The Cure's Goth Trilogy, and bottom of the band's emotional downward spiral. Po*******hy is The Cure at their darkest, and the month after its release the band would break up on stage in Belgium. The Cure that would later re-form would be a very different band, so please join us for the Dissection.

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Cultists, let's wish the great .tolhurst a very Happy Birthday! His books Goth: A History, and Cured are what inspired our ongoing Dissection of The Cure's seminal "Goth Trilogy"

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We're back Cultists, continuing our series Dissecting The Cure's Goth Trilogy. This episode your Horror Hosts have 1981’s Faith on the examining table. Perhaps the most underappreciated of the trilogy, the album finds the band exploring themes of grief and loss. Please join us for the Dissection

Cultists, your Horror Hosts would like to wish the happiest of birthdays to the incomparable David Lynch! 🎂 from seeing the Elephant Man on TV as kids to skipping highschool to catch a matinee of Lost Highway to watching his daily weather updates during lockdown. David lynch has touched our Spooky lives since the beginning. Many happy returns Mr Lynch

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Cultists, but our most recent episode dissecting The Cure's 1980 album Seventeen Seconds, will unfortunately not be available on YouTube because of our extensive use of the album's music. We know this is very frustrating to the Cultists that prefer that platform and apologize for that inconvenience. Luckily the episode is available on all the other regular Podcast platforms, so you don't have to go without your Horror Host's dulcet tones and insightful commentary if you don't want to. Thank you for your understanding. -N&D

Happy New Year Cultists! At this time of year your Horror Hosts like to look back at their favorite media of the past year and discuss. Not every single piece of media dissected is necessarily “macabre” in nature because Nick and David actually enjoy a bit more of a balanced media diet, but have no fear exclusively spooky content will resume next episode

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Cultists, Welcome to a new world of Gods and Monsters…but don't get attached to it, because it's not sticking around. Universal's third and final attempt to launch a Dark Universe was 2017’s The Mummy. A proven franchise, tremendous star power, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a bit as it turns out.

Welcome back, Cultists. For Universal’s second attempt to Re-Launch their Classic Monsters line, they returned to Count Dracula. Going for a sort of Superhero Origin Story prequel to Bram Stoker’s novel. Please join us for the Dissection.

With Godzilla Day soon approaching, and David freshly returned from Japan, the time felt right for your Horror Hosts to tackle Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla. The film was nominated for 11 Japanese Academy Awards and won 7 of them, and is not necessarily the sort of film that comes to mind when people in the West think of a "Godzilla Movie", so please join us for the dissection.

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Halloween is soon approaching, Cultists! No better time to Dissect the debut album from Horror Punk Legends, The Misfits! 1982's Walk Among Us clocks in at a scant 24.38 minutes so obviously your Horror Hosts took four times as long discussing it. Please join us for the dissection

Welcome Cultists to Episode Zero of Nightshade Cult; A Podcast Macabre. Before the official launch on October 1st, your Horror Hosts wanted to give all the Cult Initiates an opportunity to get to know them, and to let you know what to expect in future episodes. So enter freely and of your own will, and please enjoy this Rapid Fire Dissection of Nick Grimm and David Graves. Episode Zero: An Introduction to Nightshade Cult, is live now!