Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast
@onceuponavhs.bsky.social
Podcast on a queer & neverending quest through 80s & 90s fantasy films. Nostalgia & nightmares with Michael and Callum 📼🐉🏳️🌈🧚♂️🏳️⚧️🦄
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Imagine a podcast on a queer and neverending quest through the fantasy films of the 80s and 90s. Well, we're here! New podcast episodes are coming soon, but be sure to check out our back catalogue and let us know your favourites. linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Our new bonus episode - a long, spoilery discussion about Wicked: For Good - is out now!
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MLM, flip it around… WLW
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MLM, flip it around… WLW
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Our new bonus episode - a long, spoilery discussion about Wicked: For Good - is out now!
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MLM, flip it around… WLW
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MLM, flip it around… WLW
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November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Taran, Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam and Gurgi (plus the Fair Folk led by Dolli) - the heroes of The Black Cauldron (1985).
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Taran, Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam and Gurgi (plus the Fair Folk led by Dolli) - the heroes of The Black Cauldron (1985).
The Horned King animatronic, a featured villain in Tokyo Disneyland's defunct Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour - part of the strange legacy of The Black Cauldron (1985).
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Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Horned King animatronic, a featured villain in Tokyo Disneyland's defunct Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour - part of the strange legacy of The Black Cauldron (1985).
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
A surprisingly sensual witch encounter in The Black Cauldron (1985).
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November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A surprisingly sensual witch encounter in The Black Cauldron (1985).
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Oracular Pig
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Oracular Pig
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If Gurgi has no friends it’s because I am DEAD - we’re doing The Black cauldron on this week’s @onceuponavhs.bsky.social linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If Gurgi has no friends it’s because I am DEAD - we’re doing The Black cauldron on this week’s @onceuponavhs.bsky.social linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
New episode: The Black Cauldron (1985) with @jamescswanton.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New episode: The Black Cauldron (1985) with @jamescswanton.bsky.social
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Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
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Don't miss this week's Every Version Ever with @onceuponavhs.bsky.social and Jenna/Phantomwise! Today we are following up our discussion on Walt Disney's Snow White, looking at the 1916 silent film that inspired a 15-year-old Walt to make his own version over 20 years later!
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Snow White - 1916 Silent Film - With Phantomwise & Once Upon a VHS
YouTube video by Every Version Ever - A Joncast Podcast
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November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Don't miss this week's Every Version Ever with @onceuponavhs.bsky.social and Jenna/Phantomwise! Today we are following up our discussion on Walt Disney's Snow White, looking at the 1916 silent film that inspired a 15-year-old Walt to make his own version over 20 years later!
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A massive thank you from Once Upon A VHS - we’ve reached over 15k listens and next week we release our 50th episode (not counting the bonus ones)!
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A massive thank you from Once Upon A VHS - we’ve reached over 15k listens and next week we release our 50th episode (not counting the bonus ones)!
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Don't miss today's episode of Every Version Ever! Today is the first of a three part miniseries with Jenna (Phantomwise) and Callum, @onceuponavhs.bsky.social deep diving into Walt Disney's Snow White! Today we're talking about his original 1937 Masterpiece!
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youtu.be/h_i6jVdkzfU
Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs - 1937 - With Phantomwise & Once Upon a VHS
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November 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Don't miss today's episode of Every Version Ever! Today is the first of a three part miniseries with Jenna (Phantomwise) and Callum, @onceuponavhs.bsky.social deep diving into Walt Disney's Snow White! Today we're talking about his original 1937 Masterpiece!
youtu.be/h_i6jVdkzfU
youtu.be/h_i6jVdkzfU
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Taking our last trip to Middle Earth for the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon tonight and my notes are as insightful as ever
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Taking our last trip to Middle Earth for the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon tonight and my notes are as insightful as ever
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November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
There's no podcast recommendation this week, but featured so far...
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Three icons indulging in some casual witchery: Fairuza Balk as Mildred Hubble, Tim Curry as The Grand Wizard and Diana Rigg as Miss Hardbroom in The Worst Witch (1986).
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Three icons indulging in some casual witchery: Fairuza Balk as Mildred Hubble, Tim Curry as The Grand Wizard and Diana Rigg as Miss Hardbroom in The Worst Witch (1986).
It's been Agatha all along! Charlotte Rae teaches us about some very different facts of life as Miss Cackle's evil twin in The Worst Witch (1986). Are people born wicked, or do they have cheap pink wigs and bin bags thrust upon them?
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November 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's been Agatha all along! Charlotte Rae teaches us about some very different facts of life as Miss Cackle's evil twin in The Worst Witch (1986). Are people born wicked, or do they have cheap pink wigs and bin bags thrust upon them?
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Anything can happen on Fairuzaween! This week’s @onceuponavhs.bsky.social is a celebration of our scream queen, Fairuza Balk - join us for The Worst Witch and a return Return to Oz linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Anything can happen on Fairuzaween! This week’s @onceuponavhs.bsky.social is a celebration of our scream queen, Fairuza Balk - join us for The Worst Witch and a return Return to Oz linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
New episode: The Worst Witch (1986) and A Return to Return to Oz (1985).
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October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New episode: The Worst Witch (1986) and A Return to Return to Oz (1985).
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Behind the scenes of The Company of Wolves (1984).
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Behind the scenes of The Company of Wolves (1984).
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October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), the Little Red Riding Hood at the heart of The Company of Wolves (1984), with Grandma (Angela Lansbury), the Huntsman-Wolf (Micha Bergese), as the Devil’s Chauffeur(?) and dreaming in the real world(?)
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), the Little Red Riding Hood at the heart of The Company of Wolves (1984), with Grandma (Angela Lansbury), the Huntsman-Wolf (Micha Bergese), as the Devil’s Chauffeur(?) and dreaming in the real world(?)
We loved discussing The Company of Wolves (1984) with Rachel Lydia Barker of Girl On Film - and this body horror banquet sequence with a witch turning a bunch of snobs into wolves is a hair-raising highlight.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We loved discussing The Company of Wolves (1984) with Rachel Lydia Barker of Girl On Film - and this body horror banquet sequence with a witch turning a bunch of snobs into wolves is a hair-raising highlight.
Listen to our episode:
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Girl On Film:
www.youtube.com/@rachellydiab
Listen to our episode:
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Girl On Film:
www.youtube.com/@rachellydiab
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"The huntsman is a proto-Lestat" 🤯
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"The huntsman is a proto-Lestat" 🤯
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Hey showgirls! An absolute pleasure to go into the woods with Rachel Lydia Barker (Girl on Film) for this week's @onceuponavhs.bsky.social linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hey showgirls! An absolute pleasure to go into the woods with Rachel Lydia Barker (Girl on Film) for this week's @onceuponavhs.bsky.social linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM