Episodes

  • This week we chat with Stuart Ortiz, the writer/director behind Grave Encounters 1 & 2 as well as Extraterrestrial. We chat with him about his latest movie Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, a mockumentary true crime film with cosmic horror overtones. Strange Harvest just premiered at Fantastic Fest 2024 and will be rolling out to other film festivals coming up. Mary Beth and Terry absolutely loved it and it was a joy to be able to chat with Stuart about his film, the world building, his relationship to horror and ultimately why Curse of the Blair Witch terrified him growing up. We chat about the Sci-Fi mockumentary's ability to terrify, Terry shares his story of watching it right before Blair Witch came out and Mary Beth shares her thoughts as a first time watcher.

    You can follow Stuart on Instagram. Also be sure to check out his music that he creates as Blac Corset here on SoundCloud or wherever you listen to music! And be sure to keep an eye out for Strange Harvest as it starts its festival run.

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  • This week we chat with Chris Grosso about the book Necessary Death: What Horror Movies Teach Us About Navigating the Human Experience, which he cowrote with former guest Preston Fassel. And the we talk about why Student Bodies didn't scar him for life...

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  • This week we're joined by Heidi Honeycutt. She's a writer, journalist, festival programmer and more. Her latest is the book I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. We chat about the research she did for her book, including gems she discovered while researching, the Etheria Film Festival, and more before finding out what terrified her growing up and, in particular, why The Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll" (AKA Talky Tina) scared her so much as a kid.

    Check out her book wherever you get your novels. Follow her on Instagram. If you have a short film you'd like to submit to her festival, get the information here. Submissions are open for the 2025 Etheria Film Festival!

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  • On this week's Little Cuts, we're chatting:

    Industry (Max)Terminator Zero (Netflix)Task Master30 Rock Season 5 Episodes 1 & 4

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  • This week we're joined by filmmaker Zach Clark! His latest film The Becomers is out in theaters, will be available on VOD soon and can be pre-ordered on Blu Ray through Vinegar Syndrome. We chat about his lo-fi take on a body snatchers movie, blending gender and telling a love story in the middle of a pandemic. Then we find out about his horror history and why Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors terrified him growing up. We talk low budget filmmaking, the differences between this and the musical and so much more.

    You can follow Zach on Letterboxd. Check out his movie in theaters or preorder it at Vinegar Syndrome.

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  • On this week's Little Cuts MB and Terry are chatting:

    Rings of Power, Season 2 (Prime Video)The Front Room (In theaters on September 6)Tactical Breach Wizards (On Steam)The Crow (2024) (Now in theaters)Season 4, Episodes 21 and 22

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  • This week we're incredibly excited to chat with writer/director/actor Adam MacDonald! He's the filmmaker behind Backcountry, Pyewacket and seasons 3-5 of Slasher! We chat about working with animals, the phenomenal Missy Peregrym, getting to meet Game of Throne's Ghost and so much more before taking it back to the beginning and learning about his horror history. Then we find out why the new The Twilight Zone episode "Teacher's Aide" terrified him growing up. We talk about Adrienne Barbeau, the effects and so much more.

    You can follow Adam on Twitter and Instagram.

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  • Welcome to this week's Little Cuts! We're chattin':

    Cemetery Man (streaming)Red Rooms (limited theatrical)Alien: Romulus (in theaters)30 Rock Season 4 Episodes 13 & 14

    TikTok Terry mentions: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP81VPySM/

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  • On this week's Little Cuts, MB and Terry talk:

    Skincare (in theaters)A Quiet Place: Day One (VOD)Servant (Apple+)Inside No 9. (Britbox)30 Rock Season 4 Episode 10 and 12

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  • This week we're joined by filmmaker Tilman Singer! He's the writer/director of Luz and his latest film Cuckoo is currently in theaters. We talk about working with Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens and then find out why Michael Jackson's Thriller terrified him (And Terry) growing up.

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  • Welcome back to Little Cuts! This week we're chatting about:

    Rats! (Fantasia)In Our Blood (Fantasia)Trap (In theaters)Cuckoo (In theaters)Steppenwolf (Fantasia)The Tenants (Fantasia)Rebel Moon Parts 1 and 2 Director's Cuts (Netflix)

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  • This week we were so psyched to chat with filmmaker Marcus Dunstan. He's the co-writer of movies like Feast and Saw IV, V, VI and 3D as well as the filmmaker behind The Collector franchise. His latest film is #AMFAD: All my Friends Are Dead. We chat about his talented young cast, the potential for a sequel, and Terry manages to ask what the latest is on the third The Collector movie, The Collected. Then we dig into Marcus' childhood relationship to horror before finding out why Dawn of the Dead is his Scarred for Life pick.

    The audio quality might not be the best this week because one of us was recording in a hotel in Montreal and the other still had COVID. For context, Marcus shows a video of him and his childhood friends making a movie and tossing a mannequin off the roof. He holds up a number of Dawn of the Dead memorabilia (figurines etc.) and the novel he holds up towards the end (that Terry says he's halfway through) is The Living Dead by George Romero and former guest Daniel Kraus.

    Check out #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead in theaters and online.

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  • This week we chat with filmmaker Damian McCarthy, the writer/director of the very scary movies Oddity and Caveat! We chat about the imposing house they shot in, the funny/creepy easter egg, and so much more before exploring Damian's childhood horror history. And then we dive into Hideo Nakata's Ringu and why it terrified Damian as a teenager. We discuss it and the remake, the existential dread of the video tape, urban legends and so much more.

    Damian isn't really on social media much, but you can follow his Instagram. Check out Oddity in theaters! It's a great experience in a theater.

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  • This week we're so excited to chat with Alejandro Brugués, the director of the recently released The Inheritance (co-written by former guest of the show Joe Russo). We talk about the film, finding the location, working with Joe and Demián Rugna. Then we find out about his horror history, Cuba and his uncle who...well, you'll have to listen to the episode to find out. And we discover why The Evil Dead terrified him growing up.

    Alejandro smartly stays off social media, but you can follow his inactive Instagram if you want. But there's an easier way to summon him (instructions in the episode).

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  • This week, we're chatting:

    Sunny (Apple+)Monkey Man (Peacock)MaXXXine (In theaters)Real Housewives of New Jersey (Peacock)30 Rock season 4 episodes 7 and 9

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  • This week we're incredibly excited to chat with director Nate Dushku and writer Amnon Lourie about their queer erotic thriller Birder. We chat safe queer spaces, birding, the discussion around sex in film and so much more before diving into their horror histories. We briefly talk about Nate's Scarred for Life movie, the wild 80s teen comedy Better off Dead and then spend most of our time digging into Wizards. From cigar-chomping wizards to the use of propaganda and symbols to Terry's first time watch with a crush, we explore the world that Ralph Bakshi created and why it scared us as kids.

    You can follow the Birder movie on Twitter and Instagram. And make sure to check it out wherever you watch your movies.

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  • This week we chat with multi-talented actor Daniel Roebuck! From Rob Zombie's The Munsters to The Fugitive to Final Destination, Dan has been involved in genre movies for decades. A monster fan from birth, we chat about Universal Monsters and Hammer horror, Dan discusses Monster General Store, a site he co-founded along with Pete Bregman and Brent Sorensen, and its mission to take you back to your monster kid days. We get to talk about Final Destination, working with Devon Sawa and more before finding out why Chitty Chitty Bang Bang terrified him growing up. There's even a special moment where Dan has a revelation about why it scared him and secretly stuck with him since.

    You can follow Dan on Instagram.

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  • On this week's Little Cuts, we're discussing:

    Somnium (Chattanooga Film Festival)The Lonely Man With A Ghost Machine (Chattanooga Film Festival)Spark (Dances With Films)Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman30 Rock season 4 episodes 5 and 6

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  • This week we chat with writer Ariel Powers-Schaub, the writer of the upcoming book Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence, releasing September from Encyclopocalypse Publications. We chat about the horror of the aughts, her affinity to the Saw franchise and more before revisiting The Blair Witch Project for its 25th anniversary. We chat about found footage, the fallout from the stars of the movie, each of our Scarred for Life stories with the film and more.

    Follow Ariel on Twitter. Preorder her book here.

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  • Terry got a kitten and she's the cutest ever!! We talk about her a whole lot before diving into:

    Wreck, Season 2 (Hulu)The Devil's Bath (Coming to Shudder on June 28)Horror Movie by Paul TremblayStill Wakes The Deep30 Rock Season 4 Episodes 3 and 4

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