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Brian Hanson is a veteran and filmmaker who’s features include The Black String and most recently, The Bunker, an ultra low budget alien invasion horror/thriller starring Chelsea Edmundson, Tobin Bell and the late great Tony ...

Pierre Tsigaridis is the filmmaker behind such indie horror films as Two Witches and Traumatika . Pierre is a quadruple threat as he writes, directs, DPs, and edits his own movies, and in this episode he breaks down the makin...

Atticus Derrickson is a composer and music producer who recently scored The Black Phone 2. He is also the son of Scott Derrickson, director of both Black Phone movies, Sinister, and many others. In this conversation, Atticus ...

Whitney Moore is an actress, writer, director, and lifelong horror fan whose work spans indie genre films, hosting, and original creative projects. Whitney is known for her sharp perspective on horror culture, including her t...

Eduardo Lecuona and Ximena García Lecuona are the writer/director duo behind the Blumhouse found footage/narrative hybrid film No Me Sigas , which translates to Do Not Follow Me . No Me Sigas is Blumhouse's first original Spa...

Kevin Lewis and Oliver Trevena are the director and producer duo behind Misdirection, a contained neo noir thriller with Frank Grillo that builds a surprisingly big world inside a single location. Misdirection follows a coupl...

Stuart Ortiz is a film director, writer, producer and one of the founding member s of The Vicious Brothers , the filmmaking duo behind Grave Encounters 1 and 2. Stuart’s most recent feature is Strange Harvest , a true-crime–s...

Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman are the writer/directors behind Man Finds Tape , a faux documentary horror film that uses mixed media, curated “evidence,” and found footage logic to tell a cosmic horror story about a malevolen...

Ben Leonberg is the writer and director of Good Boy , the breakout indie horror film told entirely from the point of view of a dog. Shot over three years with a crew of three people and made for under seventy thousand dollars...

Brandon Christensen is a Canadian filmmaker and VFX artist whose directorial work includes Night of the Reaper , Superhost , Puppet Man , and VFX work on multiple films with a particularly close collaboration with Joe Begos o...

Show Notes Movies Mentioned Get Out Psycho Carrie Friday the 13th (franchise) Sharknado The Exorcist Hereditary Contagion The Evil Dead An American Werewolf in London The Fly Weapons Books and Stories Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Bro...

Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams are the filmmakers behind Dream Eater , a Lovecraft-inspired found-footage horror film shot on a shoestring budget in a remote Quebec cottage. When their original project los...

William Earl is the Executive Digital Director at Variety and the lead organizer behind the first annual Variety Horror Impact Report. The report spotlights the filmmakers, producers, executives, festival directors, and creat...

Joe Begos is a renegade indie filmmaker and a household name in horror. His body of work includes Bliss , VFW , The Mind’s Eye , Christmas Bloody Christmas , and his latest splatterfest Jimmy and Stiggs —which is easily one o...

Clark Collis is a British author and journalist best known for his long career at Entertainment Weekly , where he spent 18 years as a senior writer. Clark is the author of two major books on horror: You’ve Got Red on You: How...

Scott Brown and Anthony King are the Tony-nominated writers behind Beetlejuice the Musical. Together they adapted Tim Burton’s cult classic into a Broadway hit that blends grief, special effects, and lots of laughs. I am an u...

Hey everyone, back with another monthly episode of The Howl, where me and my cohost Adam Cruz break down the biggest horror news, share what we’ve been watching, and talk all things horror. This month we’re joined by screenwr...

Joshua Lastine is an entertainment attorney and the founder of Lastine Entertainment Law , representing actors, directors, writers, producers and more. A former in-house lawyer at Lionsgate and ViacomCBS , he has worked on hi...

Boaz Yakin is a New York City–born filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for his versatile work across indie dramas, mainstream hits, genre films, and TV. He began his career young, selling his first screenplay ( The Pu...

We got a great one today, someone I’ve wanted to have on the show since year 1. Jim  Mickle is in the house. Jim is a director and writer, known for his bold genre-blending style. After graduating from NYU’s film program he m...

Natasha Kermani is a director whose work includes Imitation Girl , Lucky , and V/H/S/85 . Her latest feature, Abraham’s Boys , is an atmospheric, emotionally grounded take on Dracula and Van Helsing , adapted from Joe Hill’s ...

Jamie Harrison is a renowned illusion designer, visual effects creator, and theater artist, who, alongside collaborator Chris Fisher, is responsible for the jaw-dropping illusions in Stranger Things: The First Shadow , the s...

Josh Stolberg is a director, screenwriter, and photographer whose work spans comedy, horror, and thriller. Among the horror crowd, Josh is best known for his work as writer on movies like Sorority Row and Piranha 3D . Josh is...

Chris Fisher is one of the leading minds behind the groundbreaking illusions in Stranger Things: The First Shadow , the stunning stage prequel to the beloved Netflix series. As Co-Illusion and Visual Effects Designer, Fisher ...