Team Fresh Blood's top horror movie picks for this month! Mike: Evil Dead Burn (cinemas) Steph: I Am Frankelda (Netflix) Brad: Redux Redux (NOW TV) Becky: Touch Me (Shudder) youtube.com/evolutionofhorror

Team Fresh Blood reviews the latest gore-fest from the Evil Dead franchise: EVIL DEAD BURN (Sébastien Vaniček, 2026). You can watch all our new horror movie reviews from this month's episode of Fresh Blood on the EOH YouTube channel: youtube.com/evolutionofhorror

Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in sync this week on Hammer Time as we discuss THE MUMMY'S SHROUD and both agree it's pretty good actually! OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

Ta @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social on behalf of all Hammerheads for another wicked episode! I was stoked to hear how highly you rated this, as it was a first-time watch for me and i loved it! The kills are wild, the Mummy’s a great, sad bastard and Mr Ripper’s on centre stage. Banger!

This poster! 👩‍🍳💋

So hyped to see THE INVITE tonight!

ICYMI yesterday's episode of Hammer Time sees Kevin and me having our second disagreement in as many weeks! All good fun though 🤭 Whose side will you take over FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967)? 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

TOMORROW NIGHT! Join us 🏳️‍🌈 🎟️ evolutionofhorror.com/events

On the new episode of HAMMER TIME, out today, Kev and I chat (and largely disagree) about the BRILLIANT The Witches from 1966! 😏 Please tell me what you think of this one! OUT NOW Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

ICYMI last week on Hammer Time, Kev and I discussed the much-maligned (and rightly so) Hammer remake of THE OLD DARK HOUSE from director William Castle. Not a good film but the chat was fun! Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

LIVE ONLINE LAUNCH of the brand new book: THE EVOLUTION OF HORROR SUN 05 JULY | 8PM BST Mike will be chatting to friend of the pod Becky Darke all about the first companion book to the podcast! And there'll be an opportunity for audience questions too. Don't miss it! youtube.com/evolutionofhorror

Born on this day in 1920 (d. 2013), Happy Birthday, RAY HARRYHAUSEN! 🎉

We're back being uncomfy and not just because of the heatwave! Listen to @mikemuncer.bsky.social and me chat about AMERICAN BEAUTY over on the @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social Patreon. Out now! 🌹

We've got a special show to celebrate Pride weekend at The Arzner, London's gorgeous LGBTQ+ cinema, on Friday 3rd July. Come watch A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE with the EOH crew, including a pre-film Q&A and a queer horror pop quiz with giveaways! 🏳️‍🌈 thearzner.com/TheArzner.dl...

Join us! 📚

One for @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social ? Peter Cushing’s slippers. THOSE slippers.

After hearing @bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social talk about this on Hammertime pod mailbag episode, I just knew I had to pay a visit. 😊

An absolute blast of a chat with @bunnydarke.bsky.social about the structural challenges of Rowntree's Secret, bathtime toy Tubby Turtle's propensity for accumulating sudsy gunk, semi-canonical Muppet Folk Horror and much much more... timworthington.org/2023/01/28/l...

The new Fresh Blood is out now on Patreon and YouTube! The team chats horror news, cinema releases, TV shows, physical media, books and more including Passenger, Backrooms, Scary Movie, Faces of Death, Widow's Bay and The Boroughs! 🎧 patreon.com/evolutionofhorror 📺 youtube.com/evolutionofhorror

Made a little pilgrimage today. When’s the Hammer locations tour @bunnydarke.bsky.social @eofftv.bsky.social ?

Out now on Patreon, we're sharing last week's live podcast from @hayfestival.bsky.social where Mike and Becky hosted a sold out show about horror literary adaptations! Listen now (plus a 20 minute intro in the pub first!!) patreon.com/evolutionofhorror

Our latest episode of HAMMER TIME is all about one of my faves! The Plague of the Zombies (1966). OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

Thank you to Oxford uni for having @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social to present a screening of the Perfect Movie™️ GET OUT last night, and to Oxford in general for always being stunnn

@eofftv.bsky.social @bunnydarke.bsky.social @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social Peter Cushing leaping over tables & swinging from windmills is impressive n’ all, but he just isn’t up there with Sylvia sending those Fox Hunters in the wrong direction. Bravo!👏 👏 🦊. #SensitivityToTheWellfareOfWildAnimals.

@bunnydarke.bsky.social @eofftv.bsky.social I don't know about the availability outside the US, but there's a humble movie streaming app called Thriller Classics Channel that has a LOT of Hammer's catalogue available for free

Back on my fangboy shit. I blame @eofftv.bsky.social and @bunnydarke.bsky.social for getting me addicted to Hammer again.

I had a blast chatting horror and comedy with @mikemuncer.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social and Susan Calman for the first @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social roundtable. Listen now on the HAMMER TIME podcast feed or watch us(!) on the EOH YouTube channel

Join us for a pre-screening podcast & discussion about Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ with @mikemuncer.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social and Leila Latif, cultural critic & host of of Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies podcast. 🗓️Sunday 31 May, 6pm 📍Schwarzman Centre

ICYMI the latest episode of HAMMER TIME sees Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me chatting about the flawed but still pretty great DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS from 1966. OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

A few years ago, I wrote a piece about love magic on screen, and with Curry Barker's new movie Obsession currently in cinemas and getting a lot of love from horror fans and beyond, this felt like the perfect time to revisit and reshare it. Just dropped for free on my Patreon patreon.com/bunnydarke

This week on Patreon our Discomfort Movies series is back as Mike and @bunnydarke.bsky.social chat all things cringe comedy and dive into two movies about awkward, obsessive friendships: Ingrid Goes West (2017) and Friendship (2024). patreon.com/evolutionofhorror

A clip from @mikemuncer.bsky.social's video with Transport for London 'Horror Movies on the Underground' as mentioned on this week's mailbag episode of HAMMER TIME, featuring the brilliant Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Watch the full video on the TfL YouTube channel!

I think zines are starting to come back as an outlet for post-AI, punk-rock art (that can't be scooped into training AI models). Got another one on the way, planning my own later in the year. These are by the very rad @bunnydarke.bsky.social #nowreading #filmsky

This week's episode of HAMMER TIME finds Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me going through your comments and questions! Thanks to everyone who sent such lovely messages and fun stuff. 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

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On this week's episode of HAMMER TIME, we're chatting about my favourite Hammer film yet! The brilliantly dark THE NANNY (1965), starring Bette Davis. 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

Our newest episode of HAMMER TIME is all about the paranoid thriller film HYSTERIA from 1965. Not the best, but not the worst either! And Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I had a fun chat as ever. 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

Team Fresh Blood are back to review all of this month's new horror releases! Including Obsession, Hokum, Exit 8, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, Apex, They Will Kill You, The Mortuary Assistant, 1000 Women of Horror, Thrash, The 'Burbs and loads more! patreon.com/evolutionofhorror

ICYMI the latest episode of HAMMER TIME is out now! Kevin and I are locked in the attic discussing Hammer's first foray into hagsploitation with the 1965 religious thriller FANATIC

I visited the Arrow Video Store and picked some perfect date night movies from their incredible back catalogue. Check out my recommendations on YouTube youtu.be/UXKKFpTXWUQ?...

I've added a new zine to my online shop beckydarke.com/shop JASON LIVES! A FRIDAY THE 13TH ZINE is my A5 ‘coffee table fanzine love letter’ to the Friday the 13th franchise. The picture-packed 68-page fanzine includes: Final girls! Jasons and our other killers! Film posters! Quotes! Vintage ads!

HAMMER TIME is back this week with THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB! Spoilers: Kevin and I did *not* care for this film but we do have a fun chat about it and look back at 1964 with an instalment of our feature HAMMER IN HISTORY! 🎧 Part of the EOH Network @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

Happy Patti Smith Group's Easter day

There's a book called DEAD PRETTY: BEAUTY IN THE HORROR GENRE coming out & I'm contributing! It's a collection of essays exploring beauty within horror media & you can pledge to get perks like receiving the book once it's made, T-shirt bundles, zine bundles etc ⬇️ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/deadpretty

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are battling the Ancients alongside some Hammer horror greats - Christopher Lee! Peter Cushing! Barbara Shelley! - in Terence Fisher's THE GORGON from 1964 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🪨 OUT NOW

I'm back on the Evolution of Horror Patreon chatting more discomfort movies with Mike 🫣 It's SHAME (2011) and BABYGIRL (2024) this time 🍆🥛 I like one way better than the other: listen in to find out which is which patreon.com/evolutionofhorror

On HAMMER TIME this week, Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are chatting about THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964) which is... flawed 😵‍💫 but does have some interesting stuff going on ⚗️🧪⚡️ Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

ICYMI the latest episode of HAMMER TIME has me and Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) battling bad dreams as we chat about the paranoid thrilled NIGHTMARE from 1964 💤😰

There's an exciting new book called DEAD PRETTY coming out from @tnhczine.bsky.social. It's a collection of 25 essays exploring beauty within horror media, and I'll be contributing! The book is being crowdfunded and you can support, and get some gorgeous perks www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/deadpretty

New ep of FRESH BLOOD is here! 🩸 All the chat about new horror stuff that's out there for you to enjoy (or not 😂🤭) Spoilers: I like Whistle and I hate The Bride! and I get very cross (and correct) about the cancellation of Buffy: New Sunnydale. OUT NOW! 🎧 patreon.com/evolutionofhorror