‘Halloween’ and what makes a good horror film

This is it. Today we present you a massive special episode full of wisdom, which answers your final pressing questions. Listeners wrote in from around the world — from Perth to Virginia to Prague — asking about music, cooking, careers, home, fashion and how to live a good life. L ...  Show more

It’s a time-honored tradition: for the third year in a row, FT Weekend editor-at-large Matt Vella joins Lilah to reflect on this past year, and muse on the coming one. We’ve asked listeners to send their predictions and wishes for 2025, and today we’re talking through them! Will ...  Show more

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After a long chat about why people like and dislike horror – and an excursion ...

Our Week of Halloween continues with the eponymous, slasher, classic John Carpenter's Halloween. If you haven't seen this incredible film you can buy or stream it right here. https://amzn.to/3Qe466IDon’t forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and ...  Show more

Halloween has come early, which is only fair as two of us are coming very late to Halloween, John Carpenter's genre-setting 1978 teen slasher classic. The adults are all busy at boring grown-up parties, the teens are constantly on the phone and swapping houses, and Michael Myers ...  Show more

Happy Halloween Cine-Files! We've now been making this podcast for so long that we actually have a full week of Halloween specials and so we've decided to give you exactly that, starting with our very first scary movie, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (including a brand new intro) ...  Show more