Oct 18, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 14 segments
Drew and Travis seek *Asylum*, the 1972 British anthology horror film written by *Psycho* author Robert Bloch! This classic stars Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom and more! *Asylum* is…
And yes, if you follow us every October, we normally like to do for our big horror celebration, we try and do something as we define it, classical or vegetables, as we call it.
You need to eat your vegetables, which are older movies, you know, that maybe aren't as whip, bang, zam as stuff that we normally do on here that you normally watch.
Sometimes, but, you know, for the most part, you know, we've done a number of black and white horror films on here before, you know, the haunting, the innocence.
But we really want to do an anthology movie because last year we did Black Sabbath and that went over so well.
And the Amicus movies, which Amicus was a smaller British studio that made a number of movies, but got really in the role of making what they called portmanteau movies or what we would call anthology horror movies.
The Amicus movies, I understand, were notable for being like the first adaptation of Tales from the Crypt.
Yes, they did two films, Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, which were adaptations of the EC Comics lines that were titled the same thing and had stories inspired from the comics.
But I mean, the first ever Amicus one, I believe, was Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
And it would establish a number of actors that you'll see pop up in a couple of these across the years and show up in asylum.
The reason I wanted to do asylum was it's it's kind of an odd duck in the rest of them for a couple reasons.
The screenplay is credited to Robert Block, who famously wrote the novel Psycho.
And I don't know if I don't believe that there might be something that's adapted from a short story he did.
The Weird Taylor is based on a short story that was originally published in 1950 by Block.
It had actually been adapted previously before Asylum in a TV series called Thriller that was actually hosted by Boris Karloff.
And yes, if you follow us every October, we normally like to do for our big horror celebration, we try and do something as we define it, classical or vegetables, as we call it.
You need to eat your vegetables, which are older movies, you know, that maybe aren't as whip, bang, zam as stuff that we normally do on here that you normally watch.
Sometimes, but, you know, for the most part, you know, we've done a number of black and white horror films on here before, you know, the haunting, the innocence.
But we really want to do an anthology movie because last year we did Black Sabbath and that went over so well.
And the Amicus movies, which Amicus was a smaller British studio that made a number of movies, but got really in the role of making what they called portmanteau movies or what we would call anthology horror movies.
The Amicus movies, I understand, were notable for being like the first adaptation of Tales from the Crypt.
Yes, they did two films, Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, which were adaptations of the EC Comics lines that were titled the same thing and had stories inspired from the comics.
But I mean, the first ever Amicus one, I believe, was Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
And it would establish a number of actors that you'll see pop up in a couple of these across the years and show up in asylum.
The reason I wanted to do asylum was it's it's kind of an odd duck in the rest of them for a couple reasons.
The screenplay is credited to Robert Block, who famously wrote the novel Psycho.
And I don't know if I don't believe that there might be something that's adapted from a short story he did.
The Weird Taylor is based on a short story that was originally published in 1950 by Block.
It had actually been adapted previously before Asylum in a TV series called Thriller that was actually hosted by Boris Karloff.
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