Episodes

“ There was no separation for me between art and life, which was powerful in some ways and painful in others.“

“When you put boundaries up it can actually help you be more creative, because you think 'what’s an interesting way of doing something like this?' so you don’t feel like you’ve seen it before even if you have."

Frank Sabatella is a writer, director, and photographer who’s made such films as Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, and most recently, 2019’s The Shed. One of the things I really appreciated about The Shed was how it explored pretty serious...

Anthony C. Ferrante is an American filmmaker, director, and writer, best known for being the man behind the Sharknado franchise. In addition to Sharknado 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Anthony has directed such horror hits as Boo, Forgotten Evil, and Zombie...

“You can't wait around for anybody, we’ve toyed with studios, but ultimately nobody cares about the project more than you, it’s like a baby.”

Welcome to the Nick Taylor Horror Show! Keola Racela is the director of one of FANGORIA’s new acquisitions, PORNO! Porno pits a hapless group of upright religious & abstinent teens against a deviant sex demon who they accidentally release by...

Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker and one of the most unique and interesting documentarians working today.  His career was kickstarted by an 8 minute docs-short called THE S FROM HELL. Sidenote: this film is awesome. It focuses on this bizarre...

Radio Silence is a filmmaking collective comprised of Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, and Tyler Gillet. These three are behind such films as Devil’s Due, Southbound, VHS, and last year’s outstanding Ready or Not. I personally loved Ready or...

Welcome to The Nick Taylor Horror show! Carter Smith is a writer, director, and photographer who has directed such movies as The Ruins, Jamie Marks is Dead, and the recent Into the Dark film for Blumhouse, Midnight Kiss, which is now available on...

Welcome back to the Nick Taylor horror show! Today’s episode has Tara Wood. Tara is the director of the Quentin Tarantino Documentary, QT8, the First 8. Prior to this she did the Richard Linklater documentary, 21 Years: Richard Linklater. The movie...

As always each episode of The Nick Taylor Horror Show explores and deconstructs the success strategies of established horror directors while summarizing the key insights and resources that you can use on your own horror filmmaking journey. Today we...

Welcome to The Nick Taylor horror show! As always each episode of The Nick Taylor Horror Show explores and deconstructs the success strategies of established horror directors while summarizing the key insights and resources that you can use on your...

Tyler Jensen & Roman Chimienti are the directorial duo behind Scream Queen, My Nightmare on Elm Street. The documentary dives deep into the story behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, a sequel that was notorious for its homoerotic innuendo and lots...

Today I am very pleased to announce that we have one of the OGs of the show, Mr. Tom Holland. Tom Holland is an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker and a household name for us horror fans as the writer director of two enormously important...

Tommy Stovall is an American writer, director and producer. He’s directed multiple feature films, including Hate Crime, Aaron’s Blood, Sedona and his newest horror thriller, Room for Rent, starring the iconic Lin Shaye. I had a great time speaking...

Gigi Guerrero is a Mexican-Canadian Filmmaker, Writer and Actress. She started her career making shorts including the Mexican wrestler gorefest, Luchagore which is now on Shudder. Gigi made her feature debut with the scathingly confrontational social...

"I love the practical reality of making movies with a smaller budget, when you have to be creative and solve problems. More like the real world… I believe very passionately in the language of cinema, so not for one moment do you compromise just because

“I think the task of the horror filmmaker is to break through the conscious mind, which protects the unconscious, and hit that childhood fear, recreate it, and hopefully conquer that fear.”

"We did a couple of takes and I kept dropping my lines. I sat down, and I was getting self-conscious. Suddenly I heard this voice in my head say, "Bill, go over there and sit down. I got this." It was the voice of Otis. I realized I had to get out of the

“Honestly, my biggest piece of advice stems from Patton Oswalt, which is, ‘It's chaos. Be kind,’ because there are a lot of people in this industry that are not kind, and scream, and yell. Honestly, I've gotten where I am because of kindness. That a

“It's a risky thing to do, but I do recommend not giving yourself a choice. If you have a fallback that's too comfy, you won't end up doing enough work to get your first film made… It's an insane process, it's really difficult, and it's really trying,

“If anyone gives you a good idea and you're receptive to it and you can get over your ego, that's where some of the best stuff comes from. That crew will work 10 times harder for you because they feel like they're actually like having an impact on the p

“Wes Craven was an academic, and John Carpenter wanted to make Westerns, and George Romero wanted to make Tarzan movies. They fell into horror and they eventually embraced it, but their brand of horror was more groundbreaking because they weren't just i

“Cannes probably thought that they were buying a film from a real studio, but it was just three losers in a basement. Then we just continued to bring them out, Blood Runs Cold being our second film, which we did with a $5,000 budget. We never even attem