Exploring the techniques, strategies, and key pieces of advice for aspiring horror directors, straight from the minds of some of the greatest filmmakers and creators in horror. Host Nick Taylor engages in one-on-one conversations with directors, producers, writers, actors and artists to uncover the keys to their creative and professional success in the horror business.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 10 hours 22 minutes
episode 10: Pledge’s Daniel Robbins, Zack Weiner & Zachery Byrd
Pledge is a recent indie horror gem from director/writer team Daniel Robbins and Zack Weiner. It follows three hapless college kids as they attempt to pledge for a highly exclusive fraternity and are subsequently subjected to a sadistic gauntlet of unspeakably horrific hazing rituals. Pledge mixes humor and horror in a well-balanced and thoroughly engaging narrative with main characters you genuinely care about...
episode 11: David Guglielmo and Nick Chakwin, The Writer/Director Duo Behind Hospitality & No Way to Live
Hospitality is a no holds barred indie thriller with compellingly memorable characters and a healthy dose of Americana pulp. It’s not horror, per se, but utilizes a number of horror elements which very effectively flavor this southern fried neo-noir with a fun, enjoyable eeriness...
episode 12: Jim Ojala’s Strange Nature
Jim Ojala is a special effects makeup artist, director, and co-host of my new favorite Shudder show, The Core, which is half horror talk show/half practical effects how-to with amazing guests such as Leigh Whannell, The Soska Sisters, and the lord of darkness himself, Glenn Danzig!
Additionally, Jim Ojala is a Troma alum. His latest creature feature, Strange Nature, fairly bursts at the seams with this schlocky pedigree...
episode 13: 30 Years of Practical Effects with Amalgamated Dynamics’ Tom Woodruff Jr & Alec Gillis
Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr are former apprentices of the legendary Stan Winston, and for the past 30 years, their company Amalgamated Dynamics has been at the forefront of some of the most epic and large scale practical effects in Hollywood. From the Graboids from Tremors, to the Aliens and Predators and even the dinosaurs from Jurassic World, Tom and Alec have been behind them all, and through the process have built one of the most prolific practical effects studios in history...
episode 14: The Wisdom of Shep Gordon
Shep Gordon is a legend in multiple industries. Manager extraordinaire to such acts as Alice Cooper, Blondie, Teddy Pendergrass, Gipsy Kings, Rick James and many others. Shep also was the sole inventor of the celebrity chef, paving the way for names like Emeril Lagasse and Anthony Bourdaine...
episode 15: In Search of Darkness: The Definitive 80’s Horror Documentary Director, David Weiner
In Search of Darkness is an upcoming horror documentary that comprehensively tells the story of 80’s horror, in all of it’s bloody, nostalgic glory. Having completed a successful Kickstarter campaign that surpassed it’s goal on day 2, director David Weiner is currently raising finishing funds for the film on Indiegogo, and horror fans couldn’t be more excited...
episode 16: Eric Pham’s Flay
Eric Pham is a director who started his career in visual effects. Throughout the course of his career he worked extensively under the great Robert Rodriguez on such films as Spy Kids, Grindhouse, and Sin City. Eric also did work on Lethal Weapon 4 and Mission Impossible 3.
His newest movie, Flay, is a nightmarish thriller about a supernatural entity of an ancient native American shaman who reeks bloody havoc on the people who summoned him. Flay stars Alita : Battle Angel's Elle LaMont...
episode 17: Beetlejuice the Musical’s Scott Brown and Anthony King
Beetlejuice will forever hold a very special place in my heart. It wasn’t only my quintessential gateway horror movie, but it shaped a lifelong unapologetic appreciation for all things weird and macabre. The movie had a ‘lightning in a bottle’ combination of a devilishly rebellious spirit and a singularity of vision that introduced the world to the wonders of Tim Burton. It was, and forever will be an iconic and magical movie...
episode 18: Puppetmaster The Littlest Reich Co-Director, Sonny Laguna
Sonny Laguna is a Sweden-based director who began his career with a number of super low budget films (costing between $5 and $10K) with his co-director Tommy Wiklund. He eventually got on the radar of S. Craig Zahler as he was writing Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Zahler and the team at FANGORIA were so impressed with Sonny & Tommy’s resourcefulness as low budget filmmakers, that they handed them directorial duties on Puppet Master...
episode 19: Editor-in-Chief of FANGORIA, Phil Nobile Jr.
Phil Nobile Jr. is a producer, director and journalist who was recently appointed to one of the coolest jobs in the world, Editor-in-Chief of FANGORIA Magazine. Between the recent ascension to the FANGORIA publishing throne and executive producing Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, Phil has had a hell of a year. We got to catch up with him in New York on all things FANGO did a fair share of geeking out along the way...