Episode Details

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. We’re joined by the homey Josh Alvarez of CINEPUNX and we’re talking about Empire Of Passion, Poltergeist, and The Others. Once again, we had some audio issues so please bear with us.

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We start by talking about what we’ve done involving horror recently. Josh talks about watching The Mortuary Collection and Books Of Blood. Liam and Justin talk about the entirely online Nightstream Fest, Liam talks about the films Save Yourself and The Wolf Of Snow Hollow as well as the new Netflix series The Haunting Of Bly Manor. Justin talks about some of the films he saw at Nightstream, including It Cuts Deep, Come True, Rose Plays Julie, and My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, as well as the film Hunter’s Moon and the Mahoning Drive In event that was a double screening of Poltergeist and The Exorcist as well as a screening of Fire In The Sky with Travis Walton in attendance.

Up first is Empire Of Passion. We begin by talking about our opinions on ghost stories, with the general consensus being that ghost stories are pretty cool. We talk about the history of ghosts in Japanese cinema. Josh gives a brief synopsis of the film and explains why he chose it.

Justin talks about how the film was more melancholy than spooky and some of t