Season Five of the Irish horror anthology podcast Petrified launches on May 13, and we're excited to exclusively reveal three incredible new additions to the already-stacked cast.
Providing their vocal talent for Petrified's fifth season are Ghostface himself, Roger L. Jackson (Scream series, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Candyman, Azrael, Femme) and comedian Gearóid Farrelly (Four Mothers).
Created by writer-director Peter Dunne and producer Liam Geraghty, Petrified explores the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates. Previous seasons have featured guests stars scream king David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Dylan Baker (Trick r’ Treat), genre legend Larry Fessenden (Good Boy) and Cecil Baldwin (Welcome to Night Vale).
The full cast of Season Five includes Michelle McMahon (Eastenders), Donncha O’Dea (Fran: The Man), Paul Reid (Power Ballad), Annette O'Shea (Harry Wild), David Fennelly (Game of Thrones), Ali Fox (Flora and Son), Áine Ní Laoghaire (Róise & Frank), Clodagh Mooney Duggan (Bodkin), Ciaran O'Grady (The Last Duel), Tierra Porter (Tall Tales and Murder), Rowan Finken (Love & Friendship), Gene Rooney (The Woman in the Wall), Amy O’Dwyer (Fair City), Ciara Lyons (Wish List), Ste Murray (Northern Lights), Deirdre Monaghan (Game of Thrones), Deborah Wiseman (Vikings), Georgina McKevitt (Accelerator) and Ciara O’Sullivan (Spooky FM).
Here's what Jackson has to say about joining the cast of Petrified:
The French director Robert Bresson said ‘The eye sees, but the ear imagines.' There's no monster you can make as frightening as the one in your own mind, and when you don't see it, you create that monster. It's the magic of radio theatre. I'm so glad Liam [Geraghty] and Peter [Dunne] are doing this. Thank you Petrified for allowing me to play in the fields of your minds.”
Stewart-Jarrett adds:
Liam [Geraghty] and Peter [Dunne] asked me and I just thought ‘this sounds cool!' I just thought ‘this sounds really, really cool!' There's a freedom when you're just thinking about the voice. You can kind of almost commit in a different way. I really enjoy that you're just using your voice and it's this intention – kind of like dancing, y'know? I also really love listening to podcasts because it feels very intimate. Just someone in your ear or a group of people in your ear.”
Keep up with Petrified over at the pod's official Instagram account, and catch up with previous seasons right here. For more Irish horror goodness, here's our complete guide to the new wave of horror coming from the Emerald Isle.
