154: 'Salem's Lot with Noah Segan
Joining The Kingcast boys is actor/writer/director Noah Segan. You'll recognize him from all his work with Rian Johnson (from Brick to Glass Onion) and his newest project sees him stepping behind the camera directing a vampire tale of his own called Blood Relatives, which is now out on Shudder. Noah tells the boys all about what he pulled from this adaptation of 'Salem's Lot for his vampire mov...
1hr 18m Nov 30, 2022
1hr 18m
153: Jerusalem's Lot with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Director duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Synchronic, The Endless, Something in the Dirt) are no strangers to cosmic horror themselves and they join the Kingcast boys to discuss Jerusalem's Lot toying with Lovecraftian tropes, their own experience with "the unknowable," their long history with King (and specifically The Dark Towr) and a ton of other random conversational alleyways. This wi...
1hr 43m Nov 23, 2022
1hr 43m
152: The Monkey with Stephen Graham Jones
Author Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is A Chainsaw) makes his triumphant return to The Kingcast to discuss one of King's creepiest short stories as well as a share yet more unbelievable real-life encounters with snakes, wasps and other creepy crawlies. This is one of those chats that wildly switches gears, goes down alleyways, and is guaranteed to put a smile on your fac...
1hr 40m Nov 16, 2022
1hr 40m
151: Firestarter (2022) with Charles Soule
Noted Star Wars novelist and comic book author Charles Soule (Darth Vader, Light of the Jedi) makes his triumphant return to The Kingcast by forcing Wampler and Vespe to watch the new Blumhouse Firestarter movie. And boy did they not like it. Up for discussion this episode: How's Soule liking being in the Lucasfilm braintrust? How cool is The Push as a power and what would you do with it if yo...
1hr 26m Nov 09, 2022
1hr 26m
150: Insomnia with Danika XIX
Pop Pop Wampler and Uncle Vespe are joined by Danika XIX, a popular model, writer and YouTuber who wears her nerdy passions on her sleeve and loves Stephen King so much she adopted "19" into her moniker. Unfortunately, the issues at the heart of this 1994 novel are even more relevant today than when it was first published and a good chunk of the conversation is devoted to the complex wedge is...
1hr 32m Nov 02, 2022
1hr 32m
149: Queer for King with Bryan Fuller
Kingcast favorite guest Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Queer for Fear) returns to the show to talk a little about both the intentional and unintentional queer representation in Stephen King's work. How rocky is King's approach to queer characters? The boys discuss the ups and downs of representation and Fuller brings his trademark insight, wit and unabashed opinions to bear on the subject. Topics co...
1hr 56m Oct 26, 2022
1hr 56m
148: If It Bleeds with Chuck Tingle
The Kingcast Boys are joined by noted author and larger than life social media personality Chuck Tingle (the upcoming horror book Camp Demascus and a whole series of erotica-centered reading material) to break down If It Bleeds story by story and explore any overarching themes at work in this book as well as some truly nerdy deep dives into the more ambiguous aspects of these particular stories.
1hr 59m Oct 19, 2022
1hr 59m
147: N. with Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski
The screenwriters of Hellraiser, Super Dark Times and The Night House join The Kingcast boys in this wide-ranging discussion that covers everything from kink demons, kaiju, The Dark Tower, growing up with alcoholics and, of course, the topic at hand: Stephen King's creepy short story N. From chaotic to personal to analytic and back to chaotic again, this episode will surely keep you on your toes.
1hr 52m Oct 12, 2022
1hr 52m
146: Cat's Eye with David Bruckner
Director David Bruckner (Hellraiser, The Night House, The Ritual) joins the Kingcast boys to talk a bit about his new Hellraiser movie as well as the massive impact Cat's Eye had on him as a young horror fan. Bruckner is also no stranger to the anthology format, having worked on things like The Signal, Southbound and VHS and has a unique viewpoint on what makes a good anthology and why the hell...
1hr 10m Oct 05, 2022
1hr 10m
145: Billy Summers with Matt Braunger
The Kingcast boys are joined by the very funny Matt Braunger (Agent Carter, Superstore) and the discussion goes from who is acceptable to murder, why are all the real hitmen you hear about dumb as rocks and hired off of Craigslist, deconstructing the thought process behind all the Shining easter eggs, and who exactly should be cast in the upcoming Bad Robot adaptation. Yes, we do JJ Abrams' wor...
1hr 35m Sep 28, 2022
1hr 35m
144: Suffer the Little Children with Clay McLeod Chapman
The Kingcast boys are joined by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Clay McLeod Chapman (Ghost Eaters, The Boy and Henry Selick's upcoming Wendell & Wild) to break down this particularly dark and nasty short story, especially how much more impactful it is in today's world of regular school violence. Is the lead character in this story crazy or is there some demonic force taking over all the ch...
1hr 15m Sep 21, 2022
1hr 15m
143: Creepshow with Greg Mottola
Superbad and Confess, Fletch director Greg Mottola joins The Kingcast boys to break down Creepshow, analyze Ed Harris's sweet, sweet disco dance moves, debate over which gruesome death in the movie would be the best way to go out, and even go into some person George A. Romero stories from his brief stint as an unpaid intern on Day of the Dead.
1hr 19m Sep 14, 2022
1hr 19m
142: You Know They Got a Hell of a Band with Eve 6's Max Collins
If The Kingcast boys were going to tackle a Stephen King story set in a place called Rock and Roll Heaven we needed the help of an actual rock star. Eve 6's Max Collins answered the call and joined us for a rousing conversation about the trap of nostalgia, the sketchy adaptation of this short story for TNT's Nightmares and Dreamscapes series, why The Beatles rule, who would be in our own Rock a...
1hr 25m Sep 07, 2022
1hr 25m
141: The Stand with Karen Kilgariff
Karen Kilgariff of My Favorite Murder fame joins The Kingcast boys on a wild conversation that covers some talk about her wildly successful podcast, her time on Mr. Show with Bob and David, King's first epic: The Stand, our feelings on how we'd handle a post-apocalyptic situation, whether or not we'd be tempted to join Randall Flagg in Vegas, how truly screwed up the Zelda sequences in the Pet ...
1hr 43m Aug 31, 2022
1hr 43m
140: The Dark Tower (2017) with Molly Quinn
Our guest this week is the delightful Molly Quinn (Castle, Agnus) who braved 2017's The Dark Tower and came back to run down what she thinks The Dark Tower is about. We steer clear of book spoilers, but the beat by beat from Molly is quite the rollercoaster of misremembered names (Ronald the Gunslinger, for example) and surprising details gleaned while watching this movie. Come for the Dark Tow...
1hr 22m Aug 24, 2022
1hr 22m
139: The Jaunt with Gary Whitta
Screenwriter Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Book of Eli) joins the Kingcast boys to break down why The Jaunt is so damn terrifying. What makes a good Stephen King adaptation? How would one go about adapting The Jaunt? Is it even possible? Would you take a jaunt if the technology was real? What's it like working with Denzel Washington? All these pressing questions and more are an...
1hr 52m Aug 17, 2022
1hr 52m
138: Carrie: The Musical with Joe Iconis
Vespe and Wampler and joined by Tony-nominee Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) to get all the backstory of the original Broadway production of Carrie the Musical as well as its more recent revamp. As usual the conversation goes down some blind alleyways as well, most notably a fantastic tangent in what other King stories Mr. Iconis thinks would make a great musical. Also, why the hell were there togas...
1hr 29m Aug 10, 2022
1hr 29m
137: The Raft with Dan Trachtenberg
Who better to lead us into this extremely disturbing story and it's entertaining, if not problematic, adaptation in Creepshow 2 than 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Boys and the upcoming Predator film, Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg? All the important questions are asked, like what was it with '80s movies and melting/dissolving things? What makes a Predator movie a Predator movie? How would you survi...
1hr 25m Aug 03, 2022
1hr 25m
136: The Long Walk with Timothy Simons
Timothy Simons (of Veep fame) joins Wampler and Vespe to break down what could be King's very first masterpiece. Since this is The Kingcast, the serious part of the discussion is sidetracked multiple times along the way for some fun nonsense, like the concept of golf as a bloodsport, grilling the guest on what it was like growing up in Stephen King's backyard, and sharing emotional scars from t...
2hr 3m Jul 27, 2022
2hr 3m
135: A Conversation with It Mini-Series stars Emily Perkins, Brandon Crane and Ben Heller
Topics of conversation range wildly as Emily, Brandon and Ben share stories of working with Tim Curry, reading "that" scene in the book, in-fighting, crushes, their thoughts on the Andy Muschietti movies, awkward fan encounters and even a passionate debate about 7/11 sushi.
1hr 44m Jul 20, 2022
1hr 44m
134: Children of the Corn Part IV with Ben Mekler
The very funny Ben Mekler (Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, Mortal Podkast) joins in on the fun as discussion turns to what kind of skills a grown man would need to dispatch a mob of corn children, death by medical gurney, the old Private Ryan dude who randomly shows up, Naomi Watts's early star power and a very random theory on how Stephen King lost his virginity. Wampler has never laughed ha...
1hr 44m Jul 13, 2022
1hr 44m
133: It: Chapter 1 with The Whirl Girls
Online personalities and hosts of the very funny Bitch Out of Water podcast known as The Whirl Girls (Dorina Arellano, Steph Sabraw and Roxy Stiar) join The Kingcast boys in an interesting experiment: how does It: Chapter 1 play for someone who is scared to death of horror movies? Well, predictably, there is some trauma, more gaslighting than you'd expect, and also a lot of laughs. These very f...
1hr 15m Jul 06, 2022
1hr 15m
132: The Dark Tower Series with James Austin Johnson
SNL's James Austin Johnson joins The Kingcast boys to delve deep into Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower series. Turns out, Johnson is a deeply addicted Dark Tower junkie and he came to play, going deep into the bizarre worlds, characters, monsters and tonal shifts that you get with these books. There might even be a lengthy section where we get a visit from former President Donald J. T...
2hr 23m Jun 29, 2022
2hr 23m
131: 11/22/63 with Tim Heidecker
The very funny and insightful Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, On Cinema) stops by to answer the truly pressing questions, like "are assassinations good, actually?", and reveals a long time connection to Stephen King's work... so long, in fact, that he once recorded his own title song for Maximum Overdrive when he was a child. You know, the kind of interesting nonsense you li...
1hr 13m Jun 22, 2022
1hr 13m
130: Carrie with Scott Derrickson
Horniness, bullying, big studio complexity of the 1970s and the hungry nature of both Brian DePalma and Stephen King are on the docket for this chat as director Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone, Doctor Strange) returns to The Kingcast stage, his sights set on this early King title. This surprisingly deep conversation tackles the themes of faith, cruelty and, yes, overt sexuality of King's boo...
1hr 37m Jun 15, 2022
1hr 37m
129: Finn with Andy Levy
The Kingcast boys are joined by Andy Levy, co-host of The Daily Beast's The New Abnormal podcast, to talk about the most recent piece of fiction from Stephen King: the short story Finn. The conversation balances the tangential chaos you come to expect from this show while also tackling the short story, including its ambiguous ending, from a lot of different angles. We talk about video games, ...
1hr 33m Jun 08, 2022
1hr 33m
128: Sometimes They Come Back with Paul Rust
The very funny Paul Rust (of Netflix's Love, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and With Gourley and Rust podcast fame) joins the Kingcast boys to break down this odd made-for-TV movie, the original much darker short story and inject a copious amount of extremely bad Dino de Laurentiis in the process. Bullies, dismembered jocks, mean girls on Twitter and the cool neighborhood kids who made fun ...
1hr 52m Jun 01, 2022
1hr 52m
127: Graveyard Shift with Akela Cooper
Akela Cooper, the writer and producer behind Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Malignant, joins the Kingcast boys to dig into mutated rat-bats, Stephen Macht's outrageous Maine accent and Brad Dourif's commitment to the bit. Akela also regales Vespe and Wampler with stories about her discover of Stephen King, the importance of Silver Bullet, her own personal Uncle Red dishing out dirty jokes le...
1hr 32m May 25, 2022
1hr 32m
126: BONUS: Shelbyville Chapter 4 - The Ballad of Chutt Buggins
The Ballad of Chutt Buggins brings the iconic Kingcast mascot (along with his legendary mullet) into the fold as Chutt teams up with Crystal, Bug and Bruce on their quest to battle the forces of evil that is quickly enveloping their shitty little seaside town. Bombs will be built, cryptids will be fought, sewers will be traversed and maybe, just maybe, Bruce will finally get to stab something.
2hr 54m May 19, 2022
2hr 54m
125: Night (Shift) of 100 Stars Anniversary Ceremony
You are cordially invited to celebrate The Kingcast 2nd Birthday at this prestigious, classy and very, very serious special event: The Night (Shift) of 100* Stars. Celebrating the onset of The Kingcast's Terrible Twos is a veritable who's who of fan-favorite Kingcast guest including Bryan Fuller, Elan Gale, Joe Lynch, Shiv Ramdas, Stephen Graham Jones, David Dastmalchian, David Lowery, Elijah...
2hr 48m May 18, 2022
2hr 48m
124: BONUS: Shelbyville Chapter 3 - The Gang Makes Some New Friends
Things are looking dire for our weirdo New England kids. Crystal is not only hurt, she's in the clutches of a crazed adult while Bruce and Bug cluelessly flip through old copies of Highlights Magazine. As the forces of darkness intensify in the town of Shelbyville we will come to find out that these rebellious kids aren't the only people fighting the good fight. Chapter 3 leads to a jawdropp...
2hr 29m May 17, 2022
2hr 29m
123: Bonus: Shelbyville Chapter 2 - The Haunted Hotel
Shelbyville Chapter 2 - The Haunted Hotel brings Crystal, Bug and Bruce in contact with spooky ghosts, a mysterious artifact and the scariest monstrosity concealed in the deepest, darkest depths of New England: canned bread. So, jump on your sick-ass bike and join these tweens as they get themselves into a whole heap of trouble as The Kingcast builds to the Shelbyville season finale which will...
2hr 28m May 17, 2022
2hr 28m
122: BONUS: Shelbyville Chapter 1
Welcome to Shelbyville, an Actual Play RPG series presented by The Kingcast and featuring your beloved co-hosts, Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe, as well as Kingcast favorite and mother of Chutt Buggins Mallory O'Meara and Game Master Jacob Hall. Set in the fictional Maine town of Shelbyville, a rival neighbor town of Castle Rock, in the early '90s, Shelbyville focuses on three tweens: a clove-sm...
2hr 45m May 16, 2022
2hr 45m
121: Crouch End with David Lowery
David Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story) returns to The Kingcast to take a look at one of our favorite Stephen King short stories: Crouch End. The boys once again force Lowery to pitch how he'd adapt this story which spawns a deep conversation about cosmic horror, how it can work on-screen and why it so often fails.
1hr 25m May 11, 2022
1hr 25m
120: The Outsider with Dani Fernandez
Actress, writer and whirlwind personality Dani Fernandez (Ralph Breaks the Internet) joins Wampler and Vespe to talk a little bit about The Outsider. The conversation starts with loving up on the Twilight Zone before moving onto the HBO adaptation of King's novel, the unbearable hotness of Ben Mendelsohn, superstition, cryptids, aliens, and, naturally, Oprah's psychic. Yes, Oprah has a psychic ...
1hr 37m May 04, 2022
1hr 37m
119: The Tommyknockers with Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson are the masterminds behind Showtime's fantastic series Yellowjackets and they also happen to be big Stephen King nerds to boot, so they joined up with the Kingcast boys to dive deep into the book that King himself called "awful." In between the important questions, like what kind of Tommyknockers invention would you create and what the hell you'd do if you found...
1hr 43m Apr 27, 2022
1hr 43m
118: ???? with Bill Hader
We didn't know what the Stephen King topic would be when Bill Hader came on the show and we thought that was kinda fun, so we're not telling you, either. What we can say is that Bill Hader is a scholar and a gentleman who knows his King stuff backwards and forwards. Come for the funny hijinks, stay for a wide-ranging discussion of what really makes King's work so impactful. Oh, and lots of Ba...
1hr 28m Apr 20, 2022
1hr 28m
117: The Man in the Black Suit with Anthony Breznican
Vanity Fair's Anthony Breznican joins the Kingcast boys to take a look at this important, but under-discussed entry into Stephen King's canon in which an old man recalls a run-in with Satan himself while he was a young child. As usual, discussing veers wildly when you get a bunch of King nerds together and the conversation whiplashes between serious topics, like the death of children, to not-so...
1hr 48m Apr 13, 2022
1hr 48m
116: The Night Flier with Elan Gale
Elan Gale, a writer on Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass and the producer of popular reality shows FBoy Island, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, joins Wampler and Vespe to discuss the important topics on the minds of every man, woman and child on this planet... like, how can a vampire piss blood? Why would a vampire need an airplane in the first place? And why the hell hasn't this movie been rema...
1hr 58m Apr 06, 2022
1hr 58m
115: BONUS: An Interview with Michael Whelan
Enjoy this bonus episode, pulled from behind our Patreon paywall as a special gift this April Fool's Day, in which Wampler and Vespe nerd out while talking with the legendary fantasy illustrator Michael Whelan, who also just happened to provide all the artwork for The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower. Whelan talks about visualizing the world of The Dark Tower, King's inconsistency in describing R...
1hr 9m Apr 02, 2022
1hr 9m
114: Bonus: The Moving Finger with Wynter Mitchell
The Moving Finger is one of Stephen King's weirder short stories and many people don't realize there was an early '90s adaptation of it starring the great Tom Noonan for a horror anthology TV series called Monsters. What a fitting topic for this surprise bonus episode of The Kingcast, pulled from behind the Patreon paywall, just as a little gift on this lovely April Fool's Day. Our good frien...
1hr 14m Apr 02, 2022
1hr 14m
113: Desperation with Jeremy Slater
Moon Knight head writer Jeremy Slater joins Vespe and Wampler to break down what works and what doesn't work in King's extremely entertaining book. Slater also talks about a pitch he went on with Sam Raimi to adapt this particular story and gives us a little insight into his contribution to another pending King adaptation: The Tommyknockers. Conversation also manages to cover the comic card ex...
1hr 29m Mar 30, 2022
1hr 29m
112: Joyland with Chelsea Stardust
Director Chelsea Stardust (Satanic Panic) joins Vespe and Wampler to break down this lovely and oddly overlooked King title while also sharing stories about traumatic theme park experiences. Other topics include a lengthy discussion on why carnies are so fascinating, they best way to adapt Joyland as a feature film and why The Haunted Mansion rules so hard.
1hr 43m Mar 23, 2022
1hr 43m
111: Children of the Corn with The Boulet Brothers
The ghoulishly delightful hosts of Shudder's The Boulet Brothers' Dragula join Vespe and Wampler to talk about King's super creepy short story, Children of the Corn, and its oddball '80s film adaptation. You will hear about drag queen drama, nightmarish camping stories and a surprisingly in-depth and thought out answer to the greatest hypothetical question ever asked: how many corn children do...
1hr 27m Mar 16, 2022
1hr 27m
110: The Jaunt with Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt joins Vespe and Wampler to pour through King's disturbing short sci-fi story The Jaunt, which features a happy little family about to go on their first teleportation trip together. What could possibly go wrong? In this episode you will hear Patton and Wampler give dueling awful British impressions, whether or not social media is a net negative or positive and also discuss if any...
1hr 8m Mar 09, 2022
1hr 8m
109: A Conversation With Stephen King
The day has finally come. The Kingcast boys are joined by the one and only Stephen King to discuss his books, the adaptation process and some incredibly nerdy Dark Tower questions. Topics discussed: the funny story behind the publication of The Dead Zone, King's limited experience with podcasts, what the hell kind of headspace was King in when he wrote Revival, what makes a good Stephen King ad...
1hr 9m Mar 02, 2022
1hr 9m
108: Dreamcatcher with Blank Check's Griffin Newman and David Sims
Blank Check's Griffin Newman and David Sims joins The Kingcast Boys to pick apart all of the many questionable choices that went into Lawrence Kasdan's all-star AAA Hollywood blockbuster adaptation as well as many of the insane choices King himself made while writing it while high on pain-killers after almost losing his life. This one's a gas, folks.
1hr 48m Feb 23, 2022
1hr 48m
107: The Shining with Thomas Lennon
Reno 911's Thomas Lennon (Lt. Jim Dangle himself!) pays a visit to The Kingcast boys to explain why he finds Stephen King's The Shining to be one of the best American novels ever written. Naturally, things go off the rails instantly when the trio try to compare and contrast the book, Kubrick's film and the Stephen King-approved TV mini-series. There's a ridiculous amount of Fred Gwynne/Jud Cran...
1hr 27m Feb 16, 2022
1hr 27m
106: The Mangler 2 with DC Pierson
Continuing his streak of covering The Mangler on this show, comedian and author DC Pierson (Mystery Team, Captain America: Winter Soldier) returns once more to delve deep into this bizarre Canadian production that gives us the gift of a cyborg Lance Henriksen quoting The Spice Girls to a goth hacker chick and so much more. The is one of our most flat out entertaining episodes about a movie that...
2hr Feb 09, 2022
2hr
105: The Overlook Hotel with Glen Mazzara
The Walking Dead and The Shield screenwriter/showrunner Glen Mazzara makes his triumphant return to The Kingcast stage to go beat by beat through his sadly unproduced Shining prequel script titled The Overlook Hotel. This thing was somewhere between Kubrick's film and There Will Be Blood and delighted in freaking you out. Mark Romanek was slated to direct, but the plug was pulled and now the ...
1hr 51m Feb 02, 2022
1hr 51m