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The Scariest Things Podcast: An Interview with “Totally Killer” editor Jeremy Cohen
Just in time for Halloween, Liz sat down and chatted with film and television editor, Jeremy Cohen to talk about his most recent project Totally Killer! Jeremy has worked on numerous film and television projects and reunited with director Nahnatchka Khan on Totally Killer. The film is a pitch perfect time travel horror comedy staring Kiernan Shipka, as Jamie Hughes who travels back in time to 1987 to save her mother from being murdered by the Sweet 16 killer. Liz and Jeremy talked about maintaining the balance between horror and comedy, how important music is to a scene (and how awesome “Lady in Red” by Chris de Burgh is) and if we really should blame the editor, as we all seem to do, for faults in a film. Totally Killer debuted at Fantastic Fest 2023 and is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime. Check out the red band trailer below and enjoy the interview! https://youtu.be/vNm3VPPKEQI?feature=shared
The Scariest Things Podcast: An Interview with Glorious Director and USC Film Professor Rebekah McKendry
Dr. Rebekah McKendry is a Renaissance Woman in Horror Cinema. She carries the unique position of not only being a director, but also is a professor of film at USC (Just the best film school in the world, right?) Dr. McKendry was the keynote speaker at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival, and we got an opportunity to talk with her backstage to talk all things Cosmic, including her terrific film Glorious.
The Scariest Things Podcast: An interview with legendary screenwriter Dennis Paoli
Two movements in the 1980s helped elevate the works of H.P. Lovecraft to an unsuspecting public. The first was the Chaosium role-playing game, The Call of Cthulhu, pitting daring investigators against unspeakable horrors of the Lovecraftian Mythos. The second was the collaborative movie efforts of director Stuart Gordon, writer Dennis Paoli, producer Brian Yuzna, and actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Together, they created a B-Movie legacy of well-made and highly entertaining sleazy cosmic horror. Often outrageously gory and unabashedly erotic, these films dared to say the quiet things suggested in the dense and cryptic writings of H.P. Lovecraft out loud. Though these movies were limited to video release due to the explicit content that the Cineplex would not touch, millions of fans would forever associate these films with the best kind of forbidden fruit a horror film junkie could get their hands on. Movies beloved by horror fans such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak, and Dagon have become canonical cosmic horror. Though Stuart Gordon sadly passed away in the great pandemic of 2020, his legacy lives on. Suitable Flesh is the immediate inheritor of that legacy. A project that Gordon and Paoli had been shopping around Hollywood for the better part of a decade was pegged to be the next film to be translated from Lovecraft’s story “The Thing at the Doorstep” to motion pictures. One producer after another would pick up the script and rave about it, but in the end, determine that there was too much sex in the movie to make it viable. After Gordon passed away, Dennis Paoli contacted Barbara Crampton, who had become a powerhouse producer as well as a rejuvenated actress, and she loved the script so much that she offered to produce it, but only if she would star in it. I was fortunate enough to get an interview with Dennis, backstage at the Hollywood Theater when he showed up to present this film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival here in Portland, Oregon. Not surprisingly, as a master storyteller, he was a hugely entertaining guest for our Podcast. He shares his thoughts about his collaborations with Gordon and Crampton, going into great detail about the production of Suitable Flesh. Please enjoy my interview with screenwriting legend, Dennis Paoli. Eric Li backstage with Dennis Paoli at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Spooky Time Episode 25
We’ve got a full house, and are fully loaded with reviews, previews, and news of upcoming genre materials. In this week’s Spooky Time: Liz is back from Fantastic Fest, where she saw lots of really promising films in her weekend jaunt. Check our site for all the Fantastic Fest film reviews! Mike found a gory Dark Horse Graphic Novel Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? at Rose City Comicon. Mike found out that The Strangers will be reissued as a road trip / Home Invasion trilogy. The Exorcist: Believer is getting some mixed reviews. How will it fare at the box office? We read off some of the more notable review headlines. Mike thinks the movie is actually pretty good! You can check out his review on the Link. Eric discusses what the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival will be offering up, and stay tuned for film reviews from this long-running famous festival. Robert is doing a Horror Kickstarter Roundup! It includes fundraising for the return of a long-lost British horror studio, and one of the great horror comedy cult hits of the last ten years is looking for funding. A hint? Hail Satin! Don’t forget to rate and review our Podcast! Stab and utterly destroy that like button, please! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgPPGZQ5fvM
Spooky Time Episode 24
What is the scariest place you have ever been? Liz Williams may have you topped. In this duet of a Spooky Time episode, we talk about her trip to the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland, and many other new and spooky happenings in the horror-verse. Also in Episode 24: Liz heads out immediately to Fantastic Fest, and she previews the big Austin Festival. Make sure to check out her reviews from Fantastic Fest which have been posted over this past week. One of Eric and Liz’s favorite films from the Overlook Film Festival has been released on Tubi! Which one? Listen in. Eric has been playing a Cosmic Horror fishing game! Eric also listened to a modern classic… Cosmic Horror fishing book! (Hey, it’s a theme) Eric went to see A Haunting in Venice, and you can hear his opinion (slightly different from Mike’s impression) and you can catch his take in this episode. Audio Podcast Player Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXxladE_oA
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