Episodes

Markian Tarasiuk and Sean Harris Oliver are the filmmakers behind Hunting Matthew Nichols , a true-crime-style horror mockumentary that has become a notable self-distribution success story. Made for a budget of $300K Canadian...

Patrick McMahon and Rick Shaine are the editors behind the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I n this special live conversation at the Metrograph theatre in New York, Pat and Rick reflect on everything from working with Wes C...

Rod Blackhurst is a filmmaker, director, and producer whose work spans documentary, narrative, and horror. He made his narrative feature debut with Here Alone , winner of the Audience Award at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, ...

Jeremiah Kipp is a New York–based horror filmmaker whose work includes The Sadist , Slapface , and The Geechee Witch: A Boo Hag Story . In this episode, Jeremiah breaks down his expansive career journey and finely tuned proce...

Brandon Christensen is back. A Canadian horror filmmaker, his recent run includes Puppet Man , Night of the Reaper , and his most recent release, Bodycam . Brandon writes, directs, produces, edits, and often handles visual ef...

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...