Carey and William take a look back at Tobe Hooper's 1979 TV adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a small town overrun by vampires...
https://youtu.be/EGcuEB95Om4
Monday, September 16, 2024
A Look Back at Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Carey Vickers and I take a look back at Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the flawed but fondly remembered production that marked the first feature film adventure of Captain Kirk and company...
https://youtu.be/5W5PLecu__A
Godzilla Minus One - Discussion
After a lengthy hiatus, A PODCAST FROM BEYOND returns with this freewheeling episode in which Carey and William discuss a range of topics including the reemergence of the Big G himself in the new hit film from Japan, GODZILLA MINUS ONE.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Phans of PHANTASM - William Hopkins & Carey Vickers on A Podcast From Beyond
Phantasm has always been a favorite of mine, and now, on the latest episode of A Podcast From Beyond, Carey and I take a look back at Don Coscarelli’s 1979 horror classic… https://youtu.be/5n2oEUzVPXs
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
DARK SHADOWS gets over 19,000 views on YouTube
I'm happy to see our discussion of DARK SHADOWS getting over 19,000 views in eight months on YouTube -- which is pretty impressive for our podcast.
Hard to say why an episode focusing on the various TV and movie incarnations of Barnabas Collins and company should get such a positive reaction from viewers, but I suppose we can't completely rule out the possibility that it's a pretty entertaining episode.
Take a look and let me know what you think... https://youtu.be/A5xQyLnUdOc
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
Sleepless Nights Revamped: Buy the New Special Edition DVD
Vampire lovers and vampire slayers clash in a blood-spattered battle for world domination...
Sleepless Nights: Revamped Edition
A New Version of the 2002 Indie Vampire Epic... Restored, Remastered... Revamped!
The new DVD of Sleepless Nights is now on sale. DVD features include:
• New Director's Edit
• Remastered in HD
• Presented in Original Aspect Ratio
• Outtakes Reel
• Preview Trailer
• Audio Commentary Track with Director William Hopkins and 'A Podcast From Beyond' host, Carey Vickers
• New Cover Art Created for This Edition
• English Closed Captions
Available at Amazon.com
Also available at:
Walmart Movies Unlimited Deep Discount Import CDs Oldies
88 minutes, Color, Stereo, SD, 4:3 (1.33:1)
Manufactured on Demand
Distributed by Leomark Studios
Visit the Sleepless Nights official site for a complete list of viewing options: https://sleeplessnightsmovie.wixsite.com/revampededition
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Watch SLEEPLESS NIGHTS: REVAMPED EDITION - Now Streaming on Amazon, YouTube, Plex TV, Filmzie and more...
Sleepless Nights: Revamped Edition, is the newly re-edited version of my 2002 vampire epic. Stream it now in HD or buy the new special edition DVD…
BUY THE Blu-ray/DVD:
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepless-Nights-DVD-William-Hopkins/dp/B0BTV7194B/
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sleepless-Nights-DVD/1014262633
STREAM IT IN HD…
Pay Per View:
• Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B64CTT53
Free With Ads:
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/IMUkGiLtc_Y
• PlexTV: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/sleepless-nights-2002
• Filmzie: https://filmzie.com/content/sleepless-nights-2022
Free Without Ads:
• Reveel: https://reveel.net/programs/1300845/sleepless-nights
• Cineverse: https://www.cineverse.com/details/1000000015377/Sleepless-Nights
From Vampire Slayer to Vampire Lover... To live, she must become what she's sworn to destroy!
In the shadowy streets of New York, vampire lovers and vampire slayers clash in a blood-spattered battle for world domination. Who will rule the night?
A new version of Sleepless Nights, the 2002 indie vampire epic, completely re-edited by the director, fully remastered in HD, with a new musical score and new special effects. Presented in its original 4x3 aspect ratio.
A candlelit, fang-filled thriller in the eerie tradition of “Dark Shadows," coming soon to streaming.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
DEMON RESURRECTION on Roku, Amazon, Tubi, Xumo, Mometu…
Very happy to announce that my film, DEMON RESURRECTION, is now streaming free on the official ROKU channel! Roku makes an excellent presentation of the film, with a sharp, vivid, detailed picture, a good, strong audio track and minimal advertising. In watching the film again for the first time in quite awhile, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. We did a damn good job on DEMON RESURRECTION, if I say so myself, and I’ll be forever grateful to our brilliant cast and our terrific crew, especially our producers, Frank Cilla and Ed Wheeler. Everyone made an indespensible contribution to the finished film and I’m very proud of what we were able to accomplish. Now all we have to do is get the word out so more people see it and it finally becomes the cult hit it deserves to be, so spread the word and share the link(s) below!
DEMON RESURRECTION free with ads on THE ROKU CHANNEL:
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/bc2c32c95f65993230b5d51a825e4ff5/demon-resurrection
Or buy/rent it on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTT7OLT
Or watch it free with ads on TUBI TV:
https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/demon-resurrection
Or watch it free with ads on XUMO TV: https://www.xumo.tv/free-movies/demon-resurrection/XM0E2DCX90YGOA
Or watch it free with ads on Mometu:
https://play.mometu.com/movie/details/412845/
#BashirSolebo #LaurieMiller #ChadKessler #FrankCilla #EdWheeler #williamhopkins #cultfilm #midnightmovie #grindhouse #indiehorror #indiefilm
Thursday, February 10, 2022
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE - Rediscovering Donner's 1978 Classic
With all the big-budget superhero movies that the major studios have released in recent years, is it possible that the first one is still among the best?
Filmmaker William Hopkins (Demon Resurrection, Sleepless Nights), and APFB hosts Carey Vickers and Aaron Poe, take a look back at SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, Richard Donner's 1978 superhero epic, featuring lavish sets, innovative special effects, and star-making turns by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, all backed by John Williams' thrilling music.
Donner's deft mixture of Hollywood spectacle, screwball comedy, and 70s disaster film was a big hit at the box office in 1978, and its light, optimistic vision is particularly welcome in the troubled times we're currently living through. What the world needs now is SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE!
Note: While our rediscovery of Superman: The Movie was inspired by Danny Horn's excellent blog, Superheroes Every Day, any factual errors uttered in this episode are ours, not his. You can read Danny's scene-by-scene analysis of the film here: https://superheroeseveryday.com/2021/09/05/introduction/
Watch Superman: The Movie (1978) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xLvGCoz3puc and on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0012QVJXS/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
Listen to an extended, audio-only version of this episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/superman/id1448166847?i=1000549021333
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Watch William Hopkins' film, DEMON RESURRECTION, free on TubiTV: https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/ or stream it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01MTT7OLT/
Photos, film clips and poster art used in this episode are the property of the respective copyright holders and are used here for educational and review purposes only.
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WILLIAM CASTLE'S CAMP HORROR: Gimmicks, Ghosts & Vincent Price
1959 was a banner year for Hollywood Gimmick King, William Castle. That was the year he broke out his vibrating chairs and flying skeletons to promote two of his most entertaining productions: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THE TINGLER, both starring horror great, Vincent Price.
Along with the falling chandeliers, acid pits and bathtubs of blood, the films feature stylish performances, witty dialog and some of the wackiest plots ever commited to film. Filmmaker William Hopkins (Demon Resurrection, Sleepless Nights) joins APFB hosts Carey Vickers and Aaron Poe in this affectionate look back at Castle's camp classics.
Abundant spoilers in this episode.
Other films mentioned in this episode include: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Witchfinder General (1968), Psycho (1960), 13 Ghosts (1960), Bug (1975) Shanks (1974), The Innocents (1961), And Then There Were None (1945), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Rear Window (1954) and, Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973)
Edited by William Hopkins.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iAR_FI1EIkY
Listen to an extended, audio-only version of this episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/william-castle/id1448166847?i=1000538448095
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Watch William Hopkins' film, DEMON RESURRECTION, free on TubiTV: https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/ or stream it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01MTT7OLT/
Photos, film clips and poster art used in this episode are the property of the respective copyright holders and are used here for educational and review purposes only.
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Friday, January 21, 2022
Watch DEMON RESURRECTION free on TubiTV!
DEMON RESURRECTION is on TubiTV. Watch it free now:
https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/demon-resurrection
or stream it on Amazon Prime...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE: Flying Saucers, Bela, and the Best Bad Movie
Is it the worst movie of all time? Or the most entertainingly bad? Can anything be said about it that hasn’t already been said?
Filmmaker William Hopkins and APFB host Carey Vickers search for the answers to these questions as they look back to 1957 at the crowning achievement of notorious schlock maestro, Edward D. Wood, Jr: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, a film whose charm and lasting appeal may lie in its misfit cast, which features a 400-pound Swedish wrestler, a flamboyant TV psychic, a proto goth girl with a 17-inch waist, and an actor who was dead and buried a year before the film went into production — all under the direction of Wood, a tireless but talentless filmmaker with a passion for angora and stock footage, whose life post-Plan 9 would become a slow descent into poverty, pornography and alchoholism.
Other films and TV shows mentioned in the course of the discussion include ED WOOD (1994); GLEN OR GLENDA (1953); BRIDE OF THE MONSTER (1955); ORGY OF THE DEAD (1965); ROBOWOMAN (2019); VEROTIKA (2019); DARK SHADOWS (2012); ALIEN (1979); FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996); DRACULA (1931); HORROR OF DRACULA (1958); MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935); RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1943); RETURN OF DRACULA (1958); THE ROOM (2003); EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990); BATMAN (1989); PLANET OF THE APES (2001).
Abundant SPOILERS in this episode. Don’t listen till you’ve watched the film, which can be viewed, for free, here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_%281959%29.webm
Listen to an audio-only version of this episode: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-grd4r-10f98e2
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Watch William Hopkins’ film, DEMON RESURRECTION, free on TubiTV: https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/ or stream it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01MTT7OLT/
Photos, film clips and poster art used in this episode are the property of the respective copyright holders and are used here for educational and review purposes only.
#edwood #belalugosi #vampira #martinlandau #rickbaker #torjohnson #amazingcriswell #criswellpredicts #bunnybreckinridge #billmurray #timburton #johnnydepp #graverobbersfromouterspace #plan9fromouterspace #crossdressing #transexual #trans #transvestite #nightmareofecstasy #rudolphgrey #hollywoodratrace #sarahjessicaparker #sobaditsgood #camp #johnwaters
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
THE CHANGELING: Bathtubs, Bouncing Balls and Commander Kor
In this episode, we take a look at THE CHANGELING, the 1980 Canadian film that somehow made it onto Martin Scorsese's "scariest films of all time" list.
In their spoiler-laden discussion of the film, hosts Carey Vickers and Aaron M. Poe, and filmmaker William Hopkins, seek answers to two key questions: (1) What exactly is Mr. Scorsese smoking? and (2) How would WE change The Changeling?
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QXV4pqdWv_g
Other films and TV shows mentioned in the course of the discussion include ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968); THE EXORCIST (1973); THE OMEN (1976); THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973); THE HAUNTING (1963); THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1971); THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932); THE NIGHT STRANGLER (1973); COLUMBO: BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT (1974); STAR TREK: ERRAND OF MERCY (1967); and THE FLYING NUN (1967).
Abundant SPOILERS in this episode. Don't listen till you've watched the film, which can be viewed, for free, here: https://youtu.be/zm4rZJozMJc
Listen to an audio-only version of this episode: https://youtu.be/PvuvETOi2fo
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Watch William Hopkins' film, DEMON RESURRECTION, free on TubiTV: https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/ or stream it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01MTT7OLT/
Here's an IndieWire article about Scorsese's List: https://www.indiewire.com/2010/10/martin-scorsese-names-his-11-scariest-horror-movies-of-all-time-122026/
Photos, film clips and poster art used in this episode are the property of the respective copyright holders and are used here for educational and review purposes only.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH: Ghosts, Gaslight and Goya Beans...
In this episode of A PODCAST FROM BENEATH, we look back at one of cinema's best ghost stories... LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH, director John D. Hancock's 1971 thriller about a hippy vampire houseguest who plans to stay. Forever.
In his book, DANSE MACABRE, Stephen King listed LSJTD as a personal favorite, and if you're familiar with King's work, it's easy to see why he'd like it, and how it may have influenced his own writing, especially SALEM'S LOT.
William Hopkins, director of DEMON RESURRECTION, joins APFB hosts, Carey Vickers and Aaron M Poe for a discussion of this moody, atmospheric thriller which features beautiful location cinematography, an innovative synthesizer score, and an outstanding performance by Zohra Lampert as Jessica.
Other films mentioned in the course of the discussion include GASLIGHT (1944), ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), THE INNOCENTS (1961), DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971), DRACULA (1931) and ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2013).
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/snJIKrF0VgA
Listen to an audio-only version of this podcast on Podbean: https://apodcastfrombeneath.podbean.com/e/lets-scare-jessica-to-death
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Stream LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KXLcYQByrv0
Buy SHOUT!FACTORY's dazzling new Blu-ray release of LSJTD: https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Scare-Jessica-Death-Blu-ray/dp/B07YMFX3GV
Content advisory: This episode contains abundant spoilers and brief scenes of horror film violence.
Photos, film clips and poster art used in this episode are the property of the respective copyright holders and are used here for educational and review purposes only.
#letsscarejessicatodeath #johndhancock #stephenking #gaslight #daughtersofdarkness #rosemarysbaby #theinnocents #carmilla #theturnofthescrew #awomanundertheinfluence #theexorcist #theexorcist3 #johncassavetes #salemslot #zohralampert #careyvickers #aaronpoe #williamhopkins #demonresurrection
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