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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November 28, 2025 at 9:09 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
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
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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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).
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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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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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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
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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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).
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.
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Girl On Film:
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Girl On Film:
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October 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Hansel and Gretel episode of Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics, the 1987 Nippon Animation anime series, deserves its guest appearance on the Nightmare Nail for this episode. It goes hard! That witch is metal af.
October 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Hansel and Gretel episode of Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics, the 1987 Nippon Animation anime series, deserves its guest appearance on the Nightmare Nail for this episode. It goes hard! That witch is metal af.
…Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Puss in Boots and Red Riding Hood.
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
…Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Puss in Boots and Red Riding Hood.
The other Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs…
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The other Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs…
Pete and Scott of @mtmugpod.bsky.social join Callum to talk about Cloris Leachman as the witch Griselda, in and out of granny drag, in our episode about Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1987).
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October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pete and Scott of @mtmugpod.bsky.social join Callum to talk about Cloris Leachman as the witch Griselda, in and out of granny drag, in our episode about Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1987).
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New episode - Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel with @mtmugpod.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New episode - Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel with @mtmugpod.bsky.social
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Our new Rewind episodes about The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz (1978) are now available for our Clamshell Club members on Patreon!
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#thewizardofoz #thewiz #oz
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#thewizardofoz #thewiz #oz
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our new Rewind episodes about The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz (1978) are now available for our Clamshell Club members on Patreon!
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#thewizardofoz #thewiz #oz
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#thewizardofoz #thewiz #oz
Two brand new Rewind episodes are now available exclusively on our Patreon! The Wiz (1978) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Two brand new Rewind episodes are now available exclusively on our Patreon! The Wiz (1978) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (with its Mouse Unit!) were responsible for both the cute mouse puppets and the… less cute aspects of rodent transformation in The Witches (1990). #jimhenson
October 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (with its Mouse Unit!) were responsible for both the cute mouse puppets and the… less cute aspects of rodent transformation in The Witches (1990). #jimhenson
Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston.
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New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social
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