Tag: Horror Movies
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S2E44: “Hot Shots”
Want to have a  G R E A T weekend? Spend it being feted by the incredible folks (led by Chris Dortch) at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Nothing beats good people treating you like a couple of hot shots. We hope we gave half as good as we got! The Chattanooga Film Festival (named one…
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S2E39 Crypt And Crypt Again
In this episode, we’ll be singing “Chattanooga Choo Choo” because this year’s Chattanooga Film Festival is going to be singing “Tales From The Crypt”, “Bordello of Blood” and “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast“! Gil and Alan will be IN Chattanooga from June 23 – 25 as part of this year’s live events.…
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S2E26: “Tobe Or Not Tobe – A Tribute To Our Friend Tobe Hooper
There’s no data to back this up, but most of the people making horror movies – like horror movie fans – are some of the nicest people on the planet. Our friend Tobe Hooper (along with his writing partner Kim Henkel) created one of the most iconic horror characters of all time: Leatherface from The…
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S2E24: “Bordello Schmear, Part 2”
This episode/post is a continuation of S2E23 – Bordello of Blood: The Whole Schmear. I guess that makes this “the rest of the schmear”. Spoiler alert: this story has a happy ending. At its core, our podcast is the story of a creative relationship. How making a dumb horror movie destroyed that relationship. And how…
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S2E23: “Bordello – The Whole Schmear (Part 1)”
Spoiler alert: this story has a happy ending. At its core, our podcast is the story of a creative relationship. How making a dumb horror movie destroyed that relationship. And how doing a podcast about making that dumb horror movie healed the wounds and reignited the relationship. That’s after not speaking to each other for…
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S2E17: “Castle Of Horror”
The movie biz attracts all kinds. The horror biz attracts the most unusual among the movie biz. And those who succeed in the horror biz? They’re a truly special breed. The House On Haunted Hill… The Tingler… 13 Ghosts… These were all competently made horror movies. What made them noteworthy and keeps them noteworthy is…
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S2E16: Car Ride To Hell
Welcome to our first new episode of 2023! We’re dropping a Joel Silver story we’ve been threatening to tell since we started this podcast last year. The Car Ride To Hell! How do we know it ended up in Hell? Well, for starters, Donald Trump makes an appearance – two actually! Here’s the setting. As…
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S2E14: “Post Mortem” (Featuring Chelsea Rebecca & Jason Stein)
The body’s on the slab now. Let’s do the post mortem. This past Saturday, our little Podcast held a benefit for the Motion Picture Home – the MPTF. They’re a great organization that takes care of film folk in need. We performed a live table read of “Dead Easy“. That’s the “Crypt” film we never…
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S2E12: “Buried Bodies”
A great Hollywood assistant is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried because THEY helped bury em.
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S2E11: “An Unexpected Journey”
Doing this podcast has been the ultimate unexpected journey. It all started when when the Dads From The Crypt interviewed me for an episode of their podcast. The moment Jason Stein – one of the dads – told me the group’s franchise – reviewing Crypt episodes and giving parenting advice – they had me. And…
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Episode 10: Can We Talk Sequel?
I’ll close season one as a solo act with a few remaining “horror stories from the show business trenches”. I’ll tell more of those stories in Season 2! In this episode: a makeup special effects near disaster with actor Tim Curry playing three parts; how to tell an Oscar-nominated composer (Michael Kamen) you’re not happy…
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Episode 10: Can We Talk Sequel?
I’ll close season one as a solo act with a few remaining “horror stories from the show business trenches”. I’ll tell more of those stories in Season 2! In this episode: a makeup special effects near disaster with actor Tim Curry playing three parts; how to tell an Oscar-nominated composer (Michael Kamen) you’re not happy…
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Episode 4: “Special Effects”
In a horror movie, makeup special effects are everything. Get them wrong and your audience will hate you. It’s just how the horror business is: no guts, no glory. If Freddy Krueger had looked like 1953’s “Robot Monster” (with a gorilla body and a deep sea diver helmet head – with antennas), the whole “Nightmare…
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Episode 4: “Special Effects”
Nothing is more important to a horror movie than its makeup special effects. Ironically, we live and die by the quality, the craftsmanship, the authenticity and the sheer OMG-ness of how well we re-create the illusion of gore. That’s where this episode begins: we’ve realized that our local makeup special effects team – talented and…
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Episode 4: “Special Effects”
Nothing is more important to a horror movie than its makeup special effects. Ironically, we live and die by the quality, the craftsmanship, the authenticity and the sheer OMG-ness of how well we re-create the illusion of gore. That’s where this episode begins: we’ve realized that our local makeup special effects team – talented and…
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Episode 3: “Welcome To Vancouver/Can We Go Home Yet?”
There’s something inherently hopeful about starting a feature film or TV show. A team of strangers comes together to make something they all believe in. And then there’s “Bordello Of Blood”. Where a team of strangers got together – and simply got “stranger” with each other. In Episode 3, we settle in for the long…
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Episode 1: Sausage Making, Hollywood Style
Our story begins… How Universal pulled the plug on Dead Easy (a project we all loved and looked forward to making) and had us make “Bordello Of Blood” instead – a film not a single one of us wanted to do.
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Preview: “When Coming Attractions ‘Kill’!”
“Bordello Of Blood” – even 30 years after it’s tortured making – stands as an object lesson in what happens when you do things for all the wrong reasons. Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good!
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Episode 2: “How Not To CAST A Movie”
Casting, it’s been said, is ninety percent of any director’s work. Get the casting right and life is easy. Get it wrong though and even “Citizen Kane” can turn into “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.
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Preview: “When Coming Attractions ‘Kill’!”
Now, why (you might ask), would anyone care about a mediocre little horror movie that came out a thousand years ago? Well, in addition to the fact that “Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood” still makes the cable TV rounds every Halloween – like a movie monster that won’t die – it stands…