VYS0064 | Things Aren't Always What They Seem In This Place - Halloween 2026: Labyrinth

October 28th, 2026  |  Season 5  |  2 hrs 12 mins

Halloween, Jim Henson, david bowie, faeries, folk horror, goblin king, goblins, jospeh campbell, labyrinth, magic, music, nature, occult, occult podcast, paranormal, sound, strange, supernatural, vayse, weird, weird fiction, weird stuff, weirdpod

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to the season 5 of Vayse. And to open this season, as a celebration of Halloween 2026, Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into the marvellous, mysterious and mighty muppety masterpiece: Laybyrinth.

A lot of ink has been spilled in service of examining the social/psychological/sexual subtext of this 1986 comedy/fantasy tour de force but rather than try to compete for an angle in this arena, the Vayse boys go back to their childhoods, examining the movie as an urtext of imagination and the supernatural: Buckley's obsessive twice daily screenings of the film during summer holidays as a child and his desire for escape into it's world as a teenager, Hine's fascination with how the story is woven together from illusions, magic and subverted fairy tales... and how every one of the main touch points of Vayse is explicitly or implicitly set out in this exquisite 1986 masterwork (recorded 19 October 2026)