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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast
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Podcast on a queer & neverending quest through 80s & 90s fantasy films. Nostalgia & nightmares with Michael and Callum 📼🐉🏳️‍🌈🧚‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️🦄 linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · Nov 15
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
Cropped Letterboxd screenshot of the films covered on the Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy podcast.
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 4h
Labyrinth (1986) vs Hellraiser 2 (1988)
Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth. A young girl stands in a walled maze A young girl in a dark tunnel from the Hellraiser series David Bowie's Goblin King in an Escher-like maze A young girl dangles over a maze far below in Hellraiser 2
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 3h
Our very own @robwillb.bsky.social discusses one of his specialist subjects (Jim Henson) on a podcast "on a queer and neverending quest through the fantasy films of the '80s and '90s", and one of whose hosts, @hrfmichael.bsky.social just happens to be making their Bona Books debut in WRATH MONTH!
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

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The Witches UK VHS cover
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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3h
Wonder how they're getting on in the parallel world where Liza Minelli played the Grand High Witch.
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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3h
Revolting children! Vee are talking about The Vitches this veek with our good Judy @robwillb.bsky.social - available verever you get your podcasts
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

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The Witches UK VHS cover
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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 4h
Had an absolute blast chatting about The Witches, Roald Dahl, Jim Henson, and more on one of my favourite pods!
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

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The Witches UK VHS cover
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
purple eyes, another snake, Creature Shop excellence, a monstrous striptease, distressing transformations, wet puppets, cock-a-leekie or cress soup preferences, and of course Angelica Huston doing everything.

Who loved the mum’s shawl and who hated it? Listen and find out!
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
the children’s horror space, Jim Henson’s mouse unit, bad ADR dubbing giving a giallo feel, Anne Hathaway saying “gooorlic” in the remake, British seaside hotels, being a grandma’s boy, Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle, a girl being stuck in a painting…
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
The complicated legacy of Roald Dahl, loving a sad wash, the performance of gender, gay gasps at the long list of women who might have played the Grand High Witch, feminist filmmaking pioneer Mai Zetterling and her missing finger, feelings about the different endings of the book and film…
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
Witches of England... you are a disgrace!

Robert Berg, writer and copy editorial director of Bona Books (a queer press specialising in fantasy, science fiction and horror) joins us to peel back the layers of weirdness with this unsettling adaptation.
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 12h
New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

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The Witches UK VHS cover
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 13h
Rachel True, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney and Fairuza Balk in The Craft (1996).
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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Mar 19
Labyrinth Gum (1986-1986): A promotional, collectible item for the Jim Henson/David Bowie vehicle, consisting of packs of bubble gum, each adorned with illustrations of various characters from the movie
A blue box featuring illustrations of characters from Labyrinth, and the Labyrinth logo A display of small yellow bags, each with an illustration of a different "Labyrinth" character
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you so much! Be sure to check out @verbaldiorama.bsky.social - fantastically well-researched and presented retrospectives including some fantasy faves like Red Sonja and Flash Gordon!
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Em @VerbalDiorama: A Film History Podcast @verbaldiorama.bsky.social · 4d
All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. And I've achieved all but one of those things.

This week's Podcast of the Week is... @onceuponavhs.bsky.social, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

Next week's coming in verbaldiorama.com/newsletter
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 4d
We are the weirdos, mister.
Cast of The Craft (1996).
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 6d
We loved chatting about The Craft (1996) with @junodawson on our latest episode. We have complicated feelings about it, but what a cast!

Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
“Then why are you still bleeding?!” Listen and find out!
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
giving the gays more than they wanted, multiple Buffy the Vampire Slayer tangents, the Jezebel Etsy witch curse, gaslighting, Heidi Klum, finger-snakes, young Hollywood in the 90s, the pronunciation of athame, manifesting a Bratz dolls collaboration and the best outro we’ve ever recorded await.
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
queerness radiating out no matter what, Sex and the City, girl group chemistry, inconsistent elemental coding, Kath & Kim, cyberpunk earrings, sleepover shenanigans, Doctor Who companions, Neve Campbell’s hideous satin blouse…
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
Sarah’s cement-front wig, invoking Manon from KATSEYE, comparisons between The Craft: Legacy and The L Word: Generation Q, a pearl of wisdom from Rita Ora, living in a “Spanish”, music video DVDs, Rachel True appreciation…
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
Our special guest Juno Dawson, bestselling author of the bewitching Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series, screenwriter, actress and cohost of @sigttpodcast joins us to call the corners.
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
We are the weirdos, mister. Light as a feather, stiff as a board. I bind you, Nancy, from doing harm... It’s October, it’s an iconic performance from Fairuza Balk, it’s time to celebrate Fairuzaween with THE millennial mall-goth high school witch horror, 1996’s The Craft.
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 7d
New episode: The Craft with @junodawson.bsky.social

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The Craft UK VHS cover
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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 8d
If you're looking for a Hallowe'en treat, it's Season of the Witch over on @onceuponavhs.bsky.social - here's some of the witches we've hung out with recently...

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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 9d
Moments the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996).
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 11d
As it should be
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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 11d
A Gnome named Gnorm is still our least listened to episode
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