Lukas Hassel/Gino Alfonso

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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hey, what's up? Everybody? Welcome to the Jimmy Star Show
with Ron Russell. I'm Jimmy Starr and Ron Russell is
not going to be with us today. He's having some
problems with his knee surgery and he's not feeling well.
And we got halfway to coming in here and he
couldn't make it in here walking, so we put him
back in bed. And so this will be the very
first Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell that I don't

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have a co host. So let's see how we do.
Please bear with me because it's if you're prepared for
it ahead of time, you can come up with things
to talk about. But I didn't have any preparation because
it happened literally five minutes ago. So I hope you
guys enjoyed the show. We do have two great guests
for you guys today. We have Lucas Hassel coming on
from New York City and we have Gino Alfonso, which

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I don't know where he lives, but he's been on
the show once before as part of a group of
a movie cast, I believe, and I think we'll have
a lot of fun. We want to say hi to
everybody in the chat room.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Stefan Bell is the only one in there with us
so far. Hey, Stefan, hope everything as well, and hopefully
I don't miss any of the comments or anything that
are going on in here. It's just very unusual and different.
And I'm sitting in the middle of the screen. How
cool is that? I'm big in that. Hey, Don Hinton
has just joined us. Jeff Caperton has just joined us.
What's up you guys? Be Claudia from Germany, Congratulations Be

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your new glasses look great and thanks for all the
graphics that you made for me the other day. You're
fabulous again. Ron is having some problems with his knee
and couldn't make it, couldn't walk to the to get
in here actually because he's just having some problems with it.
So he went to therapy yesterday and they worked it
out really bad and now he's in a lot of pain.

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But anyway, I hope everybody is doing well. Thanks for
joining us. We do have a fun show for you
guys today. Before we get started, I don't know what
I was gonna say, but I'm glad all you guys
are here, and like I said, we have a really
good show. I think it'll be a lot of fun.
So we'll be rocking and rolling shortly before we might
as well do the advertising things and get some of

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the advertising stuff out of the way ahead of time
before our guests come on. Number one. First thing I
want to tell everybody, so you know, Eileen Shapiro and
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I hope everybody in the chat room is doing well.
And Ron and I actually watched a horror movie last night.
It was really a thriller, and it's an old movie.
I don't know if you guys have seen the movie
The Stepfather, but they made it, I think maybe in
the eighties, and then they remade it in two thousand
and nine. I actually liked the eighties version better, but
it had the guy from Nip Tuck, and it had
the guy from Gossip Girl, and it had Amber Herd,

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who I guess has been canceled, you know, because she
didn't blow Johnny Depp well or something. I don't know,
because they had that big fight and all that was
going on, and she hasn't worked since then. But it
was actually really really good. I also had Cell Award.
It was a lot of fun. So I think you
guys should check out check out The Stepfather. And today

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let's see what was I going to say? Now I
forgot See that's what happens when you don't have somebody
else sitting next to you help you keep things going,
and you have to just talk on your own. Everybody
in the chat room seems happy though. You're welcome for
the mention, you guys. Anybody who doesn't know be Claudia's
in Germany. Don Hinton just had shoulder surgery. Be Claudia
got new glasses. I saw him on Facebook this morning.

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Stefan Bell is rocking and rolling. He's a genius. We
want to say hello to his significant other, Tina. Hope
she's doing well. And see we did the Phoenix three
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I'm getting ready to start a new podcast. Follow us
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like everybody thinks, it's like a bad thing to be on,

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but it's a lot of lot of fun and I
enjoy it and I love watching out how to do
all of it, So I think it's really cool. And
Jeff Caperton says he could jump on a plane and
get here right before the end of the show to
fill in for Ron. Jeff k Perton, you guys is
a superstar, working on one to three movies with him.
I think we should have hopefully some news about The

(07:20):
Red River, the movie that it's going to be directed
by Jennifer James starring Ming Balad, who's getting worked on
by Lady Lake Music, and I and Ron's got a
role in it. So we should have some good news
about the funding about that soon. Also some good news
about Sam with a Shotgun coming soon, and hopefully on
Carnievel and Cry Havoc, which is the two other big

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films that we're working on. I can't wait. I hopefully
it all goes well. We'll see. The movie industry, like
we were talking about yes last week, is very indecisive
and difficult. There's a lot of competition. Not all films
make money. It's hard to find money, so it's a
difficult thing to be in and unless you really love it,

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it's not really worth being in. But I love it,
so I think it'll be really good. We also want
to miss wish Marcel Wills a happy birthday. We actually
didn't get to go to his birthday party because neither
one of us can drive in the car for two
hours yet it's a long time to sit when you
have a need that you have to move around all
the time. So we're working on We tried to get there,
but we just couldn't quite do it. It's just too

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long in the car, and so we're hoping in another
week or two we should be able to travel a
little bit more than we are right now, since we
haven't really left the house. I hope everybody had a
happy Father's Day in the chat room. I know Don
Hinton has a husband, so he had a Father's Day,
and Jeff Caperton's a father, so he had a Father's Day.
We hope everybody around had a happy Father's Day. Stefan

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just texted me something and it's nothing that I can
talk about here. Sorry about that. So I think, what
else do I have that we can like talk about.
I really should have made a list, but I just
didn't have time. You guys, I think Tina says high
to everybody, and Jeff k Prison said not as he

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only not had a Father's Day, but he's also a daddy.
What a perv. But that's fucking hilarious. You gotta like
love it. So I think while I am regrouping myself,
a little bit. I think we're gonna take a quick
music break because our first guest should be coming on,
and when I have somebody to talk to, it'll be
a little bit easier to keep things rolling and rocking.

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We're going to play a song called what Happened by
sus Rain. They were actually on our show a long
time ago. I've been going back because I'm inviting guests
that have been on the show previously, like last week
we had Uve Bowl, and I'm looking for some people
who were on the show ten and fifteen years ago.
Sus Rain was on the show probably fourteen years ago.
They're a really cool band. The name of the song

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is what Happened? And check it out here sus Rain,
what Happened? Enjoy.

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it's called the first second.

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Really thought that she could see you say, you know,
my god, what happen?

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had on him on the side you walk.

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Just another part of but nothing left to go. You're
reaching out a guest. Wonts ever got up of the
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Speaker 5 (11:24):
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You sell you home?

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I said, why you is such?

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Speaker 3 (12:44):
Job at out job go, So that's tous raining what
happen be. Claudia also told me I should mention that
the show we're on Apple podcasts. You can listen to us.
We're on YouTube, Apple Podcasts. She also said I should

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mention I used to be a clothing designer, which is true.
The biggest film I worked on was Too Fast, Too Furious,
but I addressed everybody, Madela, I owned John, all kinds
of cool people. It was a lot of fun, a
great time in life, and I love dabbling in a
little bit now. And she should, I should, so she
said I should also mention the credit graphic that I
got named the fifth most popular radio personality to follow

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on social media, which is a lot of fun. The
two people, two of the people that are ahead of me,
Ryan Seacrest is number one, and Sean Hannity's number three.
And I'm just happy to make the list at all.
And so we want to thank everybody for tuning in
supporting the show every week. We're going into our eighteenth
year and we're having a really good time with it all.
And now we're going to bring on our very first

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guest of today, So let's bring in Lucas.

Speaker 10 (13:56):
Hey, everybody, Hey, how you doing yet? I'm excited to
be good.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I can actually hear you well too, Okay, so we
Lucas Hassle, is that it?

Speaker 10 (14:05):
That's that's it?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Man.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh that's a very easy one to do, all right, everybody,
Now we want to welcome to the Jimmy Stars Show
with Ron Russell, actor, writer, director Lucas Hassele. Hello, and
welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
Thank you. I've just been listening to you last the
last ten minutes right here, and you have an amazing energy.
I love your glasses, oh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
I have them in every color, perfect, perfect, it's a
red days and I've got it. I collect Action figures,
and I have my own Funko Pop and even my
Funko Pop has red glasses because that's kind of like
my trademark.

Speaker 10 (14:34):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
I actually had green ones on before we started, but
my my significant other who's also my co host, we
had knee surgery and he's having some difficulties with it.
Literally five minutes before the show, he said, I can't
do it. I won't be able to do it, and
so I didn't have any time to prepare. So I
put my red glasses on just to help me feel comfortable.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
So from green to n that is like your comfort zone.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
My trumfort Zone. And this is the first show that
I have ever by myself in eighteen years because I've
always had a co host. So normally, if we don't
have a co host, we cancel the show. Because if
we were to have a problem, We've only canceled like
five of him in eighteen years. But if we were
to have a problem, we would cancel it, you know,
a day before or something. We wouldn't cancel it, you know,
five minutes before. So I'm winging it right now, but

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I'm excited. First of all, we have a chat room
full of people. Say hi to everybody in the chat room.

Speaker 10 (15:24):
Hey, everybody in the chat room.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
And then we have somebody in the chat room I
don't know. I'm sure she. I know she was in
there earlier. Her name is down. She's going to think
you're like the hottest thing ever. So say hi to Dawn.

Speaker 10 (15:33):
Hey, don I hope So, I hope I'm the hottest
thing ever. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, I know she's going to think it. Well, I
saw you on Instagram. I have to tell you, so,
I didn't even know who you were. I saw you
on Instagram and I thought, oh, look that's a really
good looking guy. I hope he's done something cool because
all the girls will like him, all the gay guys
will like him. He'll be a perfect guest. And then
I looked and I was like, Okay, he's done some
cool shit too, let's invite him now.

Speaker 10 (15:57):
Listen. I love that initiative.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Right.

Speaker 10 (15:59):
It's all about the community, and it's all about who
you can connect with and getting the word out there.
And yeah, we both you and I probably have been
at this for a while.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
So yes, we've been at it for a long time.
I've been doing entertainment for I don't know, like I mean,
I was like in stuff when I was in high school.
I'm sixty, I'm old.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
Oh listen, we're right in the same neighborhood. It's all good.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
And Ron, my husband, he's actually eighty five, even though
he only looks about sixty five.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
But he's eighty five, so okay, and he's I wish
him all the best for his for his knees. My
sister's just said knee surgery, and you know it's a
it takes a while for rehab for sure, but hopefully
he'll get there.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
We both had it. I had one too, but I'm
a little bit younger and my was like two months
before his. So anyway, it's it's going good. So you guys,
you can follow Lucas on Instagram at Lucas Hasle. He's
got it up there on his name, and he's got
a bunch of exciting stuff coming up. He's got a
really big thing because I think tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (16:53):
Tomorrow, well Friday, Friday is the big is the big
la premiere of the feature that I wrote that I'm
in with Natasha Hennistridge and Lynn Shay, a psychological horror
called House of Abraham. So that plays in the Royal Lemley.
Opens some Friday, and it's there all week and beyond,
and then it's going to sort of slowly roll out
across the country. We just opened in New York here

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this past week, so that was great.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
I think it's very excited. So, first of all, are
you a horror fan in general?

Speaker 10 (17:20):
I am a horror fan in many ways. I mean
as an actor, which is what I primarily do. I've
been in many horror projects. That's how I met Lynn. Actually,
that's how I'm met Natasha originally, and I'm just attracted
to the horror genre because it's one of those things
that as an artist, the rules are are out the window.
You can explore many different thematics in many different ways

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because you're not bound by the earthly realm, so to speak,
and sort of you can push the boundaries a little bit.
And that's what we certainly did with the House of Abraham.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
So this show originally started because I'm friends with I
was friends with a lot of eighties stars. My husband
was friends with the oldest stars, like he was friends
Jane was his best friend. He knew Davis and Elizabeth
Taylor and all those people. And I was really friends
with like the Corey Felmans and the Corey Haymes and
all the people from the eighties. And this show actually
started eighteen years ago, so I would have a show

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to promote all those cool eighties people. So we've had
everybody from the eighties on, every horror person possible. We've
had everybody who's played Jason. We've had Freddy Krueger, We've
had Pinhead, Clive Barker, everybody you know that's been big
in horror. Even last week we had Ouve Boll who's
a real controversial director, you know, and he was on
the show fourteen years ago and we had him on
again last week. Oh that which a lot of fun.

(18:36):
So I'm a huge horror fan. I collect action figures.
I have action figures of everybody who's been on the show.
Plus you know, I have like a seven foot Jason
and I have a Crampus so it's like eight feet big.
And I literally have you know, probably you know, close
to twenty thousand action figures.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Wow, that's amazing. I've been out to some of the
rcons and I see they sell figurines and all kinds
of love that STI and I have everything.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I have tons of like autographed stuff like my so
my favorite horrors. Actually, my favorite actor is Lance Hendrickson.
I'm not sure why he's getting older now, but and
one of my coolest experiences was I was at a convention.
So when I was a clothing designer, I used to
be clonings. I would take clothes and give it away
to all the people if they would like come. And
that's how I built the podcast. Oh wow, Like like

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I was on and within six months I had Malcolm McDowell,
Lance Hendrickson, Clive Barker, you know, Expose the Singing Group.
I had Gary Wright Jeam Weaver Gary. I had all
these people because I would go and meet him at
the conventions, give them clothes, become friends, and then they
would come on the podcast. In my most prized possession, So,
Lance Henrickson from Alien makes these tiles and it's the
Alien Monster tile that he's ceram mctiles and he doesn't

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sell them, but they're like if you see him one
on eBay, they're like thousands of dollars and he just
gave it to me at the end of the weekend.
He wrote, You're the coolest fucker I ever met. He
signed it and gave it to me, and that's like
my most prized possession.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
Wow, that's that's absolutely incredible. Yeah, I've I've come across
quite a few of these horror icons over my career
working in front of the camera. I've acted with some
of these lovely folks and it's it's a real community.
I mean, I also do sci fi and I am
interested in drama and so forth. There's not just horror
for me.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
But I know you've done everything, which we're going to
talk about it.

Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yeah, but I've met a bunch of fantastic people that
are high sort of icons. In the horror world, and
I've I've been fortunate enough to work with some of them,
so we'll we'll probably touch on someone.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
So let's talk about let's talk about House of Abraham.
So first of all, you wrote this, you star in
it because you play Abraham. It's called that House of Abraham,
so you must be the star of it. Lynn Shay
who was on our show about twelve years ago, and
she is probably the most understated, well known horror actress
that there is character actress. I mean, she doesn't brag

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about it, but she's been Yeah, she does big movies.
She's all the biggest horror movies that there are. She's
a phenomenal actress. She's super cool. Did you cast this
film since it was your film? Or how did you
like work out casting it?

Speaker 10 (21:10):
So it was a mix of things. Like Lyndn Shay
is in my mind a complete rock star, right, she is,
I agree, incredible talent. She is a powerhouse. She comes
on set with a million different ideas and it's just
about trying to sort of hold her back, this amazing
racehorse of talent, and then every now and then letting
her power set loose. In the free Flag Fly so

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to speak, because she is incredible to watch. And so
that was the only role I wrote with somebody in mind,
like I had Lindn Shaye in mine. Because I've worked
with her before, I was confident I could get the
scripture her and I was of course hoping that she
would like it and come on board. And she was
the first one we cast. I made this with my
collaborator Lisa Belcher, who ended up directing the film. We

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produced it together. She produced it essentially out of Austin,
that's where we shot it. And so I brought on
Natasha Henstritch, who I've worked with before as well, a
very dear friend of mine, someone whose talent is immense
as well. Of course you know her from CC's and
Ghosts of Mars, all those incredible films, and she.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Is That's funny that you just said that too, because
literally I was on Facebook right before Ron had his problem.
I just sit here because I'm waiting for the show
to start, and there's a big, a big somebody posted
a big thing about Ghost of Mars, and I was like,
oh my gosh, Natasha Hensters because I forgot she was
in that. And the movie got panned as a terrible movie,
but I liked it.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
I think it was great as well. And listen, I
can watch Natasha read the phone book. She's just that good.
And so you said before that I'm the star of
House of Abraham. Although I'm the title character of it,
I'm really the antagonist. And really Natasha is the core
of this movie. She holds it together. She's the heart
of the movie. She's the main she's a protagonist and
she you know, I set the script to her. She's

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a wonderful human being, which is also no nonsense, and
because we're friends, it's a little tricky sometimes when you
send somebody a script and it's like, so I was like, listen,
no pressure at all, but take a read and see
if you're interested. And I think you could be right
for this. I think you would knock it out of
the park. And she got back to me within a day.
She loved the script, and so she was on board
as well. And she's been such an amazing partner in

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this production. So between Natasha, Lynn and myself, we then
with Lisa the director, we created an incredible supporting cast
out of Austin mainly, who had one fantastic transactor Marvel Rex,
who's based in la One of the characters is a
trans character and we were adam it. We wanted a
transactor for that, and so Marvel we found through social media.

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Lisa found him actually, and he was incredible as well.
And so we've just been very, very lucky with our cast.
But apart from Lynn and Natasha, it was all Lisa
who brought the cast on.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
So, you know, that's a great thing about social media
because I've met so many like wonderful friends. You know.
I have one friend who's always usually in the channel,
but she's on Ocasion Cidney Ladylake, and she's a music
promoter and now she's actually doing marketing on one of
the films I'm working on. And I've never met her.
I've talked to her every week for fifteen years, but
I've never met her.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Wow, Okay, he assumed with her and I know what
she looks like and everything. But it's like it's like
the modern pen pal. Yeah, it's like the modern penpal.
And I think that's social and that's how I basically
get all the guests for the show. I really don't
like to go through agents and managers because they make
everything difficult.

Speaker 10 (24:28):
You know, sure, I think that's very smart. I think
that's that's also part of your energy is like it's
very open, it's very flowing. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, we like to just have it fun. So I
think that the fact that you have Lynchhay is great.
I'm going to tell you a little Natasha Hendrick story. So,
so I produced a bunch of films. I think I
have about forty films I produced. And I had this
film called get Her, and I guess Chris Browning and
Michael Jay White we're going to be in it. And
I asked Chris Browning, because I know he's friends with her,
if he could get her to do it. And just

(24:56):
so you know, so the movie never got made. We
made a like a ten minute short and the funding
fell through it the last minute. The whole thing fell apart.
So it didn't matter that she didn't do it, but
like we gave her this Chris Grave for the script
and politely came back and basically said, you know, she
said no, And I was like, she thinks it's ship right,
and so so your film has to be good because
she doesn't do just any film.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
No, absolutely not she she is films and her and
Chris are more than friends. By the way, they were
an item, So just f.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
I think back then though they had just they were
just dating, you know. I know they're an item now.
And Chris on the show. He's been on the show
a bunch of times.

Speaker 10 (25:33):
He's another incredible actor as well, and he came on,
he came on location with us, and he was very
supportive and a really great presence to have around us
on set.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
He's a great guy and he's a super talent. We
had a blast on the show. I think that because
this is several years ago now that that's happened, and
I think they were dating, but I don't know, well
at least if they were, if they were more than dating,
nobody knew it yet.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Right right now, I feel confident I can say that
because I Instagram there pictures of them together. Not I'm
not I'm not ruining anybody's illusions or I think they're
buildings filling the beans.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
They're both super talented to have them. So can you
give us a without giving too much away? Can you
give us a little bit of idea of what is
the story about the house that's the way anything.

Speaker 10 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, of course, it's in the psychological horror genre.
And it's basically A House of Abraham is about Abraham
who takes in six people every weekend and makes their
end of life happen, so to speak. So it's basically
people arriving there too unlive and in this particular weekend,
the lead protagonist, Natasha comes in with a secret agenda
that changes everything, so it becomes a thriller horror movie.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I love it.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
Yeah, it's very dark, it's very it's very You're going
to see things you haven't seen in other films before.
It was fun to watch the screenings here in New
York and people were literally either either hiding their faces
looking away, or or definitely coming up to me afterwards
and asking, am I insane for writing this? So so
there is that. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
There you go, those are the best stories. And also,
you know it sounds different like one of my Well,
if Ron was here, his whole thing is he can't
stand like we even last night we watched The Stepfather,
which you know, there's one in the eighties and then
there's the one that came out in two thousand and nine.
He's like, it's the exact same thing. You know, one
person goes and just kills everybody. You know, I make

(27:21):
a lot of slasher films because that's what sells, you know,
you know where people do it. But He's just like,
you know, I would really like some stories that you know,
at least have a real story and that are just
a little bit different, not just you know, everybody just
goes to camp and then everybody gets killed and exactly.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
And this this was my this was my personal premise
setting out writing it, right, because when people come up
to me and saying asking me, how do you come
up with your scripts, and I said, I always tell
them to write from the heart. In this case, it
was written from the heart, but also from the head, right.
The heart part was I wanted to explore manipulation. I think,
like we see that across the country today, how people

(27:57):
are being manipulated by wealthy people, more powerful people hypothetically.
So I wanted to explore this notion of be careful
who you trust when you're at your most vulnerable, right,
So that was the heart of it. So more than anything,
this film tackles manipulation in many different shapes of forms,
and that's what we're exploring, and then from the head,

(28:17):
as you said before, slash the filmselves. I mean, the
genre of horror is very big in the indie movie
industry because it's tough to get any attention, and so
we knew we wanted to make it in the horror world.
But I didn't want to write something I'd seen a
million times before of people arriving at a house and
dying off one by one. We've all seen those, so
I wanted to make us take a spin on that.

(28:38):
And then I think your best shot as an indie filmmaker,
actor writer is to do something Hollywood would never touch.
So I was very adamant to come up with something
that Hollywood wouldn't do, because if they want to do,
they can do it bigger and better, only bigger stars
everything else. So I think your best shot is an
indie filmmaker is to do something a little bit outside
of the box.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Oh No, I love that. I actually have a feature
that I'm raising money for now called The Legend of
Bunny Man, and I actually have action figures and stuff
already made, which when I play your trailer, I'm going
to pull it out and show you I've made action figures.
I want to compete with your Terrifiers and everything, but
mine's an actual story. You know. I think Terrifier is
one of the most amazing franchises ever, but I think

(29:18):
the movie is shit. This is a cloud.

Speaker 10 (29:21):
I'll have to tell them. I just did a film
with those guys, actually, the Levi brothers, Fuzzing the Lens Productions,
and I did a I'm in a horror film that's
coming out next year called Pitchwork Retreat with Tony Ton
and Dee Wallace and Daniel Harris, all these big things,
and they were the producers behind Pitchfork Retreat. So I'll
have to tell them that Terrifier wasn't your big thing.

(29:43):
I haven't a full disclosure. I haven't watched them myself.
I certainly I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Think I think people who like to see blood and
guts because there's not really a story. It's just a cloud.
It was around killing everybody. Hey, you know what they
marketed it brilliantly. It's it's not I give you one
prop for being the most successful indie horror film basically
almost ever made. Yeah, so they created but it wasn't
for me. It's for the people who just want to

(30:07):
see heads flying.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
And correct, absolutely, absolutely correct. It was all about coming
up with the special kills, and then they created ourn.
They created a character that people dress up as now,
and that's hard to do. I mean there's a lot
to do, and there's a lot of people. Yeah, a
lot of people to try that before and failed. It's
very difficult to get that into the I'm.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Going to try it, so we'll see how it goes. Okay, Yeah,
it's a lot of fun, so I'm hoping it'll all
go well. But here's what I want to do with you.
So I actually have I took the House of Abraham
trailer off at YouTube. Sure we could play it so
everybody could see it. So here's what I want to do.
I want you to introduce it, and then our engineer

(30:45):
want to play it. You hang on and then we'll
come back right after the play. So go ahead and
introduce it for us, right.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
So, here is the trailer for a House of Abraham.
It's a dark, psychological horror. You're going to see all
the lead all the lead actors, the supporting cast in
very tricky situations and don't look away.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
I am Abraham.

Speaker 10 (31:05):
Welcome to my house.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
I'm here to guide everyone would love, and if in
the end anyone has a change of heart about what
they came here for, that's absolutely fine. You also the
bell outside. That is the bell of courage and support.
When you are ready, you will ring it together the
troops for your death.

Speaker 12 (31:25):
Why are you doing this?

Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's complicated. What if I change my mind? You won't.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
I saw you by the way I saw you trailing
Abraham to his lodge. Why I am Abraham.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Welcome to my house.

Speaker 11 (31:40):
I don't know what the fuck you're after, but don't
screw this up for the rest of us.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
She's trumped.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't think anyone can leave.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Death is what I signed up for.

Speaker 10 (31:59):
This.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
This man has been orchestrating people's stats for decades.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
It means a lot to me.

Speaker 11 (32:19):
My sabotage what I'm trying to do here.

Speaker 10 (32:28):
I salute your courage. I wish your happiness on the
next leg of your journey.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Life is not for everyone. Actually looks awesome. I am
telling you you look so good on screen. I'm not

(32:55):
sure that it used to be like the next like Horror,
pin up, gin Up. Because I think that people are
gonna love it. I think Natasha looks great.

Speaker 10 (33:06):
I mean, Natasha is just studying. I mean, it's just
thank you for saying that, by the way, But it's
it's it's definitely a dark movie. It's definitely out there.
You're gonna you're gonna feel seriously uncomfortable, which was my
goal in writing this particular film.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
And that's terrific because there aren't that many There aren't
that many films that actually do.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
That, right, I mean it's I find myself very rarely
scared at movies, right I sort of. I can see
a lot of beautiful set pieces, and I can see
a lot of work going into all these films, but
rarely am I really affected. And from what I could
see this past week at Screetings in New York, people
are super uncomfortable, which is fabulous.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Which I love it. There's only one I don't know.
There's a film that came out a long time ago.
It's called Martyrs, and it's probably like I could only
watch it once. It's not even a movie I could
actually like watch again. It was so made me so uncomfortable,
and it was basically a movie about the I think

(34:05):
it's about the Catholic Church, but about you know, these
people and they put them through as much pain as
they could go to see how much pain they could
go to in the name of the Lord or something.
And literally they like peel all the skin off the
lady's body, so she's just like bones and veins and shit.
And it was the grossest, creepiest thing ever. But other
than that, I don't get like my cousin movie, I
don't get creeped out. I mean it's like, oh, right,

(34:26):
right now.

Speaker 10 (34:28):
This is this is a very different thing because for me,
I mean at the heart of at the heart of
any good writing for me, and the heart of any
good movie is drama. And then you can gussy it
up and sci fi, you can gussy it up in horror.
But if you don't have characters rooted in good drama,
good steaks, then you're just going to lean back and
be entertained by the look of it. But you're not
going to lean into the movies. So this is a

(34:49):
very character driven drama story set in horror, and so
I think you're gonna feel people squirm when they see
some of the stuff that goes on here. And it's
not bloody, it's not gory. It's worse because it's cycled logical.
That's the dark side of human nature, and that.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
To me is worse. The people in the cage in
the water freaks me out because drowning is one of.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
My I'm telling you that scene.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
That scene automatically just watching it for what three seconds.

Speaker 10 (35:14):
And I was like, Oh, you're gonna you're gonna feel
out of breath. You're gonna feel out of breath for sure.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I like love it.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Okay, So I want to just show you this real quick,
because I haven't really shown this to people. So I
made the action figures. I don't even have the movie funded,
but the script is so good and I have and
I basically have like half the cast of people who
said I if I get the funny and they want
to be in it. So it's called buddy Wow. This
is the three and a half inch action figure, and
this is twelve inch action figure.

Speaker 10 (35:40):
Oh super creepy. Wow.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
It's not just a normal slasher. I can't tell you
the story yet. That's good.

Speaker 10 (35:46):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
But he's but he does kill people, but not not
for no reason. Let's put it that I'm.

Speaker 10 (35:53):
Looking forward to it. I I that the terrified people
just had a I think screen Boat came out as well,
and they have they had to Kill a Mouse. I
didn't see that either, but I.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Didn't see it. I actually got and they asked me
if I wanted to bring on the director, and I
was like, you know, I'll take the director if you
can give me the stars. Yeah, and then they did
do it. Then they came back later and also they
have they're part of Stream.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
I think it's called stream Stream, yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Which I had somebody from Stream on the show. And
I know a lot of the people Internet because I've
been in horror such a lot, like Daniel Harris and
all tho people.

Speaker 10 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, I know all of them. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
and yeah, totally totally lots of good people.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
So do you have a favorite horror movie?

Speaker 10 (36:35):
I do, but it's probably like it's it's old school
because it's very hard for me now to get scared
by movie. But the classic, of course is The Shining Yes,
I can watch that. Whenever that pops on. It's hard
for me to turn it off. And I'm one of
the people who believe that it's really Shelley Duval's movie.
Everybody always talks about Jack Nicholson who nailed it. But
I think without Shelley Duvall, and it comes back to

(36:56):
this thing I just said before about character building. Without
this ball ability that Shell Daval is able to get across,
that film would never have worked. So she's the one
who holds it together, and she's the one who makes
you lean into this and then you can be amused
and amazed at Jack Nicholson's flashy and fabulous performance, but
it's really Shelley that makes you feel.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
She was such a great actor too. And you know
she did she did one film before she died recently.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm the director. Yeah, I know
the director would put that together. Yeah, and managed to
finally get a hold of her, who she was a
real recluse. But the man is to manage to get
in her inner circle and shoot something with her.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
You actually, do you live in New York?

Speaker 10 (37:33):
Then I live in New York. Yes, all these are
sort of New York peeps, So I'm doing this from
Manhattan as we speak. But yeah, that's perfect, And I
think as one of the more modern films, it's still
an oldie at this point. That works for me would
be The Ring. The remake actually of The Ring I
thought was super well constructed and built and acted and
only wats in the in the remake of The Ring,

(37:55):
which is rare the remakes work, but that one I
thought was fantastic. And I'm a big supporter of Blair,
which I know a lot of people now sneaker at
it and say it's not all that, But that created
that film created a whole sub genre.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
My gosh, that film.

Speaker 10 (38:07):
So when that came out, it was the first of
its kind. It was the first one to use the
internet with fake fake news. So to speak about all.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
That, I loved it. I had to take drama, mean though,
because the shaky camera thing upsets my style. I actually
took drama, I mean before I see it. But I
actually liked it. I met the director of it at
an event one time, and I think the Rings they're
okay for me. My favorite my favorite horror movie. Uh
maybe it's just because I'm friends. I was friends with
like half the cast, but my favorite horror movie is

(38:36):
The Lost Boys. Sure like it. I'm an extra in
it and I've just always like loved it. And bro Harder,
who played Paul, he's the one who gets killed by
the dog in the bathtub was a very very good
friend of mine, and Corey Ham you know, used to
wear my matter of fact, uh, I still talk to
Cory Ham's mom, but like they I had given him
a bunch of my Jimmy Starr clothes back in the

(38:58):
day and they actually like sold all stuff on eBay
to pay for his funeral. Sure fortunate, but so holds.
You know, it's kind of weird because horror is my
favorite genre. But I do have my handful of like
movies that are like my favorite movies. Like like when
I was single and I would go on a date,
you know, if somebody didn't like the movie Pretty Woman,

(39:19):
I wouldn't go out.

Speaker 10 (39:22):
Well, we all have our deal breakers, right, we all
have our deal breakers.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
For me, that's like my fantasy beautiful, fabulous. That's hilarious.
That's hilarious now. But listen, we all love different things,
and that's the beauty of art. It's so subjective and
so people respond to different things, and people, you know,
love different things.

Speaker 10 (39:37):
I'm not into vampires. I'm not into zombies, so that's
just not my thing. So you know, psychological paranormal activity,
I love that as well. Yeah, that's a whole I
like this at aquieters Eerie or more than like the
show where films I suppose.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
So now how will people be able to see howse
of Abraham? Is it going to have a theatrical You
said it's going to be going out, So is it
having a theatrical release?

Speaker 10 (39:59):
Yeah, it's having e thetric. So we just opened in
New York here, It's been playing all week in New
York in the cinema, in a cinema here, and then
it opens in the Royal Lemley in la on Friday,
and it's going to play there and then we're slowly
going to roll it out in the bigger cities around
the country before eventually it'll hit streaming. But you know,
it's a rare opportunity to get theatrical distribution, so we

(40:22):
were thrilled that this was a possibility. And it helps
awareness about the streaming thing because it's very difficult for
India films to get noticed anywhere. So anywhere you can
in any way you can get the word out, the
more helpful it is.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
And I think it's genius that you've got a theatrical release.

Speaker 10 (40:36):
Now we've been super fortunate with it. We have a
fantastic distribution company, Abram Morama behind us, and Lisa is
the producer director. Is an incredibly hard worker and talent,
and so she's been doing all that hard work in
post which you know a lot of filmmakers. I go
out to a lot of different film festival because I'm
also a filmmaker myself, and I have a short film

(40:57):
I just finished called up Close that's coming around the
country now. And you go out and you see a
lot of these writer filmmakers. They think all the work
is in pre pro and shooting and then this it'll
lose that end game, but that's really where a lot
of the work begins, where you're exhausted from making the film.
But like the post game is where you particular features.
For shorts, it's different because the festival.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Nobody gets that. Nobody thinks about what they're going to
do with the film when it's finished.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
And that's right.

Speaker 10 (41:23):
It's a huge part. Yeah, it's a huge part of.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
The Actually, I actually make sure that all my films
that are over a million dollars have at least a
half a million dollars.

Speaker 10 (41:32):
For like in pre sales or something.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
No, just to half a million dollars, I mean half
a million dollars to market it.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Nobody ever has any money to market it. I'm a publicist.
Is my everyday job. I'm a publicist and people will
come to me and they'll be like, oh, I have
this movie and it'll probably make a ton of money,
you know when you do the press for me, And
I'm like, yeah, you know, do you have a budget,
And they'll be like, you know, no, not really, but
we'll give you part on the back end. I was like,
if you don't have any money for marketing and promotion,
they aren't going to be.

Speaker 10 (41:59):
A That's exactly right, because it's the equivalent of a
self published book. It doesn't mean your book is bad.
It just means you're going to give to friends and
family for one hundred and twenty copies to friends and family,
and then nobody's gonna find it. You can, you can
put it on Amazon, you can put it on Apple,
but nobody will find it. So it's very trick there.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Yeah. Absolutely, So you have a couple, so we actually
have a movie, uh not really like in common, but
it's like our sixth degree of separation. Okay, you did
a Mahall Brothers movie The Art of the Dead. I did, yes, yes, yes,
were you Were you at the premiere for that? I was,
so we were there. So we didn't meet you, but
we were there, okay, yea.

Speaker 10 (42:38):
I was there with rich with Richard Rico and Tara Reid. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Richardo is a really good friend of ours. He's been
on a million times. Yeah, very well. Richard Rico, Tara Reid,
I met her there. Jessica Morris is in it. She's
a good friend of ours.

Speaker 10 (42:51):
Yes, I played. We played together as we played husband
and wife in that movie.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Okay. And Robert Donovan's a good friend of ours, and
they've all been on the show, you know.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
Robert Donovan is coming on Friday with Esther Goodstein, who
helped produce Art of the Dad, and Ralph Konewski, who
directed and wrote this fabulous film. He has moved over
to New York and he was going to come to
the screening of New York but last minute it couldn't
make it. But we're all in touch, like we're close
family with all those wonderful people. For sure.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Yeah, we see all of them and we're kind of
like we all run the same red carpet, like go
to the premieres, you know, together and they all come
on the show. I love Robert Donovan to death.

Speaker 10 (43:26):
I think he is like he's the ultimate gentleman as well,
and he can really do anything. I think he's incredibly gifted.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
He's incredibly gifted. And that was our very first Mahall
Brothers film premiere that we went to, and then we
became friendly with them and they invited us to all
of them and so we've been to all of them
since then.

Speaker 10 (43:43):
Right right of the passing, yes, yes, was very very
sudden and very sad. So yeah, a shout out to
the malls for sure.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
But I hope that that they keep it all going.
I know they have a film going. But anyway, that's
our six degrees of separation. Yeah, and I did.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
I did a film with ralf Kski before out in
La called The Black Room, and that's how I met
Lynche and that was my second film with Natasha, and
so so there is, Yeah, there are deep ties with
it with all these horror films in some way they
all connect, right because a lot of these actors sort
of are big in the horror world. And Tiffany Shep says,

(44:22):
is somebody else I've worked with on The black Room,
for instance, And.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
She's our show too. I don't know. She was on
our show like the first year that we were on
the air, and I haven't I don't know why we
don't ever run into her anywhere.

Speaker 10 (44:36):
You know, she's always working, I mean, she's always working. Yeah,
she's a great actress, Oh for sure.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
I also I made a list of some of the
other stuff that you've you've done. First of all, you're
on The Blacklist, which I only watched the first episode
of it, and then you know, my problem is I
have to watch I have to watch whatever whoever's coming
on the show. I try to watch something of theirs, sure,
you know, and so I haven't had a chance to
see it. But The Blacklist, James Spader, I believe is
one of the greatest actors ever to live.

Speaker 10 (45:03):
Yeah, well, listen, I mean it's it's network TV, right,
which has its pros and cons. And for sure, it
was an absolute blast to be the bad guy on
the Blacklist for over two seasons. It was really fun.
And but you know, network TV is one of those
things where it's incredible exposure, you work with incredibly talented,
qualified people, but it's not collaborative in the sense that

(45:27):
everything is moves on, you know, it's it's timed, its speed.
It's all about not messing up. And and so you know,
I got into acting because I like collaborating with other
crazy creatives and so TV is not that network.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
T V is not that.

Speaker 10 (45:42):
So it was a it was a different exercise, was
an exercise and concentration. It was great for exposure, you know,
it's helpful for the bank account of it.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
They don't like it. They don't like it though.

Speaker 10 (45:51):
If you mess up, no, no, correct, you cannot you
cannot mess up. That'll be noticed. So it's terrifying in
many ways. Right, So it's really an exercise and not
losing your confidence on set because then you're done for
right and you acting with all these big names, and
so you just got to keep your calms. It's really
an exercise in sort of making sure your solid and yourself.

(46:13):
And that's also why they're very careful about who they
bring on as re recurrent characters, because they don't want
actors who are going to freak out and freak out
on the day or whatever. They just don't have time
for that. So it is a matter of building up
your credits with a co star and a guest star
and eventually a recurring and so forth. So it's very
structured on network TV that way. So it was it
was a fabulous experience, and I've been recognized more for

(46:36):
that than for any of the other films that I've
done in total. Like the reach of TV is nuts
in South Africa. When I was down there in Australia,
people recognize me. So it's TV has a lot of
power still.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
So let me ask you a question, because we're really
good friends with a lot of soapi's we call them
soap like soap opera stars like Sean Cannon's a very
good friend of ours. And he was in Bold in
the Beautiful and General Hospital, and he's in Cobra Kai
and Karate Kid and all, and he does a lot
of cool indie films and he tell you know, he says,
you know, basically, like the day before, they'll give you
like forty or fifty pages. You know that you got

(47:10):
to you know that you got to like learn you know.

Speaker 10 (47:13):
Yeah, I mean not quite that many, but yeah they will.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
My question, do they give you like because he's like
I can do forty pages in like an hour, and
I was like, yeah.

Speaker 10 (47:22):
Full disclosure, full disclosure. I've never done soap work, not
because I think I'm better than it, just because I'm
too tall for soaps, because they only build sets a
certain height, and if I'm in with a co star,
it's hard to find a two frame. I'm six with fours. Yah. Yeah, yeah,
so soaps just never. They brought me a couple of times,
but it never worked out, mainly because of my height.
I'm pretty sure and so but they're renowned for giving

(47:45):
people pages the night before, the day before. But even
on the Blacklist, you have to you know, I knew
my lines inside and out for the same reason we
talked about. You want to mess up, but they might
give you an adjustment and a new line on the days.
You can't be so stuck in your words that you're
not flexible, right, So you have to come in relative
and nimble on your feet, relatively open, and then see

(48:07):
what they throw out you on the day because things
may change. So even in shows like that, things can
change last minute. I like love it.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
I think I don't think I could do TV. I
don't act anymore. I'm a really shitty actor. I've been
in like I've been about a one hundred and fifty
or two hundred, like like indie films and stuff. But
I really suck. And I know I suck, but because
I have millions of followers and millions of people who watch,
so people are always contacting me, Hey, you know, will
you be in the movie? Because they want me to
talk about it and my social media. I see, yeah,

(48:35):
of course it's not because I'm any good. My husband,
on the other hand, phenomenal actor. Me, I like suck,
but I'm a really good producer.

Speaker 10 (48:42):
Okay, Well that's a skill set and is on. I mean,
we need good producers too.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
So and basically, unless you're a big star, you know,
the producing is where the money is. No listen, it's
it's you know, I'm all about the producing part of it.

Speaker 10 (48:56):
So smart.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
We've worked it out that he does the acting and
I do the producing, and and I think that it
works out really well and it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
And that for anything, when you can find that partnership
with somebody on and off screen, that's super helpful. I mean, uh,
that's that's key. And you know, if you can work
with people that you really get on with or even
friends with. It makes the experience so much better. You know,
I'm great friends with Natasha is one of my closer friends.
And I'm great friends with Lisa the director. I've good

(49:26):
friends with Rolf Konevski who directed those films, and so
forth and Rob it Donovan. So when you work with
people that you're close with, it's just you have an
ease and a trust on set that you don't have
to try to create a bill, so you have a synergy. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
She already have a heads up, you know. And when
we show House of Abraham, myself and Natasha shared a
house close to set, so every night after a really

(49:47):
long day of shooting, we'd go back home, we'd cook together,
we'd get a Gin and tonic and talk about the
day and then run lines for the next day. And
it was like three weeks of that was just a gift.
It was, you know, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 13 (50:00):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
I hope the film is a really big hit.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
Thank you, man.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Appreciate You've actually worked with some people in different things
that I really like. First of all, Fire Island was great,
actually sure, yes, So Connor Polo, how do you founc
a Polo Connor, Polo Bennett and Timothy Murkley has been
on our show, Robert kloh HESSI but but I think
a great slap Face which I haven't seen. But Mike

(50:24):
Manning has been on the show, and I'm probably Mike is.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
A great another big showbacktor. But he's he's so much
more than that. He is incredibly gifted and also a
producer in his own right.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (50:34):
Jeremiah Kip, who's a very good friend of mine, directed
and wrote slap Face. And so Mike has been a great,
great presence on set. Really just an honor working with him.
And and yeah, so it's you come across incredible people
through throughout industry.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
And how is Dan Hada? Did you do Dan had? Dad?

Speaker 10 (50:51):
Yes, I had, I had a scene with him. Dan
is jen Is you know, such a pro like he's
let's say he's not a young man anymore, let's put
it that way, and he but he just exudes so
much gravitas and so much charisma. So when he's on set,
like everybody's extra focused and extra on. And he was

(51:11):
just a gentleman, just a real gentleman. And he had
a tough scene, like kind of physical to do when
I was in it, and he was a trooper, you know,
he did it over and over and it was just
great to see someone of his stature on a production.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
I love Dan Hodea, So you can probably tell since
my husband's twenty five years older that I have a
thing for like older men.

Speaker 10 (51:32):
Got it.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Danday is like in my top ten like secret crushes.
I could go on a date and talk to them, right,
He's one of them. I just think there's something about
him that is so cute.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Well, I'm happy I don't have to dispel anything because
he is all that. So your crush is very valid.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
There you go. It makes me happy. And then we
have rich Boy, Rich Girl, And I'm bringing it up
because we've had Elaine Hendricks and Sean Huayl and I've
both been on the show, and Wet Kristin Bauer but
she didn't come on the show. Sausage Jackson. Really you
have quite a quite a variety of different kinds of
films because you did that one. And then Borstal Boy

(52:10):
with Sean Hattersey. I'm going to try to get him
on the show. I love seantastic Yeah, that was my
Michael York. I love Michael Michael York. Michael York is
an interesting story because I grew up in Denmark. I'm
from Denmark originally, and I grew up having like three
VHS tapes from films that I had recorded back in
those days. And I had Where Eagles Dare sounda Music
and Cabaret, and Cabaret to this day is still my

(52:32):
all time favorite film. I think it was way ahead
of its time in terms of editing and storytelling, and
I thought Bob Fosse did an incredible job. But so
I grew up watching Michael York on my little TV
in Denmark and this rural town somewhere cut to you know,
I go to Trinity College for Acting in Dublin, Ireland,
and I could cast in this film Porstal Boy, and
here I am hanging out with Michael York on set,

(52:53):
like and it just showed me that anything is possible.
Like this person that I had.

Speaker 10 (52:57):
Seen and revered on my TV screen as a as
a ten eleven year or twelve year old boy in Denmark,
now I'm working with him on a set and it
was it was such an incredible experience. A gentleman and
and and it's a pleasure to be around. So that
was that was my first real film experience. It was
right after acting school. I got that got that role
in Bors Boys.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
That's so amazing, actually, it's so cool. So did you
always know you wanted to, you know, go into entertainment
when you were like a young child.

Speaker 10 (53:28):
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid,
And I now I have a screenplay that that just
won out in Brooklyn Film Festival Best Screenplay, called Astronaut.
So I sort of I've created that script for yourself.
Yes I may not be in it, but it's certainly
in that world. But I think once I realized a
I was too tall for being an astronaut and be

(53:49):
involved being you know, weightless and probably nauseous half the time,
I said, that's probably not for me. But I had
a school teacher, like a classic story, I had a
school teacher who put on plays at my school. We
had a sydnium art like a theater in the school.
So that was the thing you did. And from early
age I knew I was better than my sort of
friends at it, maybe because I loved it more or whatever.

(54:10):
And so once time came to finish high school, I
was like, well, let's let's give this a shot. A
well known writer came to see our graduation show and
she pulled me aside and said, I think you should
take this seriously and set me up with a fabulous
Danish actor with some private lessons. And then I did
at Trinity College and got accepted, moved to Ireland knowing

(54:32):
no one, and before I knew it, I was in
the trenches of acting school and got cast straight away
out of acting school in a traveling theater around Ireland.
So got my theater chops, you know, well, practiced very
very quickly. And so after a while I decided New
York was it. I was sort of a little over
theater in some ways and wanted to get into more

(54:52):
TV and film. And that's that's how New York came
to be since nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Now, oh, that's so, you've been there a long time.

Speaker 10 (54:58):
I've been there a long time. I'm living here in
New York with my lovely husband, who is a psychiatrist,
and we've been here. Yeah, we've been together almost twenty
one years.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Good for you, run, I've been together thirteen years, but
I was with someone else for twenty five years before that.
He was a psychiatrist.

Speaker 10 (55:14):
Way, oh wow, there you go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Yeah, and Ron Rons from Brooklyn, so he's actually from Brooklyn.
And Jeff Caperton and the chairman. He's a producer. I'm
working with on three projects. He's an Emmy winning producer.
And he says Sasa Jackson is awesome. She's a great funder.
I don't know if it's he, but great friend.

Speaker 10 (55:32):
Yeah, that's from a bridgeboard. Britch Girls an incredible actress.
I think she was in Blue Surf or something Too
or something. She just a trooper, just incredibly charismatic, a
sweetheart on set and very very talented. Yeah, I like
love it.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
So here's something I like to ask all the different
people who come on who are especially actors, So like
a bucket list, you've already done a lot of cool things.
So it's a two part question. Number one male and
female actor that would be like on a bucket list.
They can be living or dead that you would like
to have been able to have an opera or that
you would like to have an opportunity to work with.

(56:07):
And then you know if you could have ever been
in any movie that's ever been made? What movie would
you have liked to have been in?

Speaker 10 (56:12):
Wow, that's such a fabulous question. Wow that's a tough
one though.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Boy, well, can you give me a few people if
you want?

Speaker 10 (56:19):
Okay, now, I think I think I'll give you. I
think I'll give you a few people. I think, Uh,
you know the classic actor that I grew up with
that I had, you had, Dan haddeya crush. I had
to carry Grant crush for sure. Uh, And so I
always had a special thing for him. When he got
sort of into his later films. In particular, I thought

(56:40):
he really developed his skills. So I wished I a
chance to not only meet him, but also work with him.
I think on that, I think that's my husband's favorite. So, oh, really,
there you go. I think someone like Melon Monroe I
think is vastly underrated as an actress. I think she's
more than just a beautiful face and a funny voice.
I think she's actually really really gifted as an actress.

(57:03):
She's very detailed in what she does, and that vulnerability
that she gets across I think is admirable. So those
are sort of two of the more silver screen stars
that I sort of harkened back to but in modern day.
You know, I think someone whose career I would love
to emulate or to have a similar career as is
someone like Mark Duplas. He is. He's an actor and

(57:24):
a writer and a director. He created Creep Creep two.
He's been on the Morning Show as an actor, and
he's just a super humble, smart, down to earth indie
kind of guy. And I really aspired to someone like him.
He's just there's nothing that he can't do, and I
feel I am. I'm solid as a writer, I'm solid
as an actor and as a filmmaker. I still have

(57:46):
to do my first feature as a director, so I'm
still waiting for that to happen. I'm in the process
of making those reel turned with two different projects right now.
We'll see if those come together. But that's sort of
my next trajectory is to direct my first feature because
I've done a lot of shorts and I have this
My new short is just going around the film festival
circuit now coming up called Up Close. It's coming to
La in the fall in the film festival there. So yeah,

(58:08):
so different things, but so Marctuplas and then a female now.
I mean, there's just so many good ones. The classic
obviously is Meryl. You can't you can't not want to
not work with her. I would love to experience what
that presence is like, because I think she's hilarious as
a person. And people who are known as being serious

(58:30):
actors but off screen are very funny tend to be
the best ones because they have both. They have a
lot of nuance, and I think Merril is one of
those who can probably be in the moment very well.
And that's always more exciting as an actor when you're
with somebody who's present and you can tell it straight
away when you get on set, if somebody's going through
their lines in the head, or if they can actually

(58:51):
manage to be in the moment and see what magic
you can come up with right then and there.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
I love that, I'm not I mean for me, males peep,
it's just like okay, Ron, you know, being really good
friends with Jane Russell. She used to tell him all
kinds of stories about Maryland from gentlemen prefer blondes. Oh wow,
And I think it was cool And for me, uh,
Carrie Grant, like of the older actresses, my would be
my second favorite. My first favorite is Gary Cooper.

Speaker 10 (59:18):
Ah, he's a slightly older, right, more western, but yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
He did this movie and now I can only remember
the name of it because I'm on the spot, But basically,
he does this movie where he's, uh, gets divorced and
he's meets his daughter's best friend and the and he's
staying in his daughter's house and the best friend comes
and they started an affair and they had you know,
there's like a thirty year difference, and it's like an
you know, a May September relationship movie. And then at

(59:45):
the end, you know, it doesn't work out and he
basically drinks himself to death because he was so inlve
with her. But it's it's a phenomenal movie. And I
just think he's like, you know, smoking hot are the
two they're both and actually so we the Palm Springs
and Carry Grant has a house here. It even says,
you know, it's a that's Carry Grant's house and everything

(01:00:07):
on the front of it. Somebody bought it about four
or five years ago for like four million dollars or something.
And it's beautiful, because that's amazing people have houses here
you know Elizabeth Taylor had a house.

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
Everybody share. I mentor a mentor once a year at
a writer's retreat, writers retreat close Sin his story. It's
it's it's for writers. They can send in scripts and
then they get paired up with mentors. And that's up
in Idle Wild and a lot of the palm a
lot of the palm springs. Three people come up to Idlewild,
and I was there and saw a lot of the
palm springers up there was lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I can't do the Idle Wild thing because of the
drive up the mountain is so freaking.

Speaker 10 (01:00:42):
I know a lot of people have spooked out by
I don't. For me, it doesn't bother me, but I
totally hear.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
I had to.

Speaker 10 (01:00:46):
I had to drive a fellow writer up because she
didn't want to drive, so I had to get into
her car and get us up there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
I can't stand it. That's the one thing I absolutely
just cannot stand. Okay, and wait, did you tell me
a movie? What movie would you have like to have
been in?

Speaker 10 (01:01:00):
Oh? What movie would would like to have been in?
I suppose something like something spacey. I think I'm I
like the notion of sort of people together in a
tight space. I think one of my favorite sci fis
is is a film called Sunshine that Danny Bowle Danny
Boyle wrote and directed with Killian Murphy and Dan Evans

(01:01:24):
and uh and I just I like this notion of
being sort of stuck in a space station or something,
so probably Sunshine or in the classic way maybe the Abyss,
which I heard was a disaster to make. I heard
it wasn't very pleasant on set, but it's still it's
still a great product that ended up with and of
the old ones. You know, it's hot, it's some like
a hot just seems like a hoot. I would have

(01:01:45):
loved to have been on set for that. Yet stick
me in anywhere in that film I could, I would
have had a laugh watching everybody work.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
I'm sure I like loved I think I have like
a list of like I like a lot of kid
move movies, but movies with younger people that that for
some reason, movies that don't do well, I always usually
like them, like you know, like like as a for instance,
like like I'm a huge Mariah Carey fan, and she
did that movie Glitter and it got panned as like ever,

(01:02:14):
but I enjoyed it. It was fun, you know, as
I follows, I have a good time. I'm okay with it.

Speaker 8 (01:02:18):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
There's another movie called The Covenant about these guy warlock witches,
you know, guy witches, and it got panned and everybody
in it's a huge star now, you know. But I
like love it. But Pretty Woman is probably like my.

Speaker 10 (01:02:31):
Well, that's again, that's one of those it's hard to
turn off when she once it comes on. Yeah, it's
so iconic. It's one of those fabulous films that you
could always watch. Absolutely no, I totally understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
And we watched north By Northwest a line and rear
view mirror. What's it called river Mirror? I think the
one with Jimmy. I've watched that every time it comes
on because I like that a lot too. But I
think it's all fun. So okay, So what do we
have so everybody, you guys. First of all, Lucas you
can follow her on Instagram. He's at lucassso he actually
like posts a lot of stuff, probably prost too much, right, yeah,

(01:03:06):
he posts a lot of stuff. Soon hopefully coming to
a city near you. If you're in a big city,
you will see House of Abraham where he writes it
and plays Abraham with a great cast. I also wrote
down a wait list love his story. That's not a
horror movie. I'm going to.

Speaker 10 (01:03:21):
Assume no, no, that's a whole the whole bunch of
different things in the works right now. But I say
the thing that's coming out that's going to be sort
of getting a lot of attention is called Pitchfork Retreat,
directed by a good friend of mine, Gregory fan Vores
and assistant Nicole, And that's the film that stars Tony Todd,
one of his last performances before he passed again. Such
a such a rock star, a gentleman on set and

(01:03:43):
just incredibly aspiring to watch him work with Dee Wallace,
who is an absolute sweetheart and can do anything, Daniel Harris,
Adrian bubbo Is and it there's a whole Terry Kaiser.
There's a whole bunch of fabulous people in this very
dark horror film that we've been filming over the last
year and half. And it's nearly finished, so it's going
to come out most likely I guess Spring Up twenty

(01:04:04):
twenty six, So Pitchfork Retreat, look out for that one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
I love it. I love a gimbarbo. We had a
blast with her when she was on the show and
she was super, super duper a lot of fun. And
Tony Todd's been on the show a bunch of times,
and I actually used to give him a bunch of
my Jimmy Star shirts back in the day and he
would wear him at conventions and stuff. And his sister,
which I don't know if it's his blood sister, Monique Duprie,

(01:04:27):
but she always introduces him as her brother and he doesn't,
you know, say no. But anyway, she's been on our
show a bunch of times also, And his passing was
really really really sad and really shocking for the movie community,
but especially the horror community because he's such an icon. Yeah, big, big,
big loss. So it was a big, big loss. But Okay,
I want to thank you for coming on the show.

(01:04:48):
I've had a blast. I really hope your movie House
of Abraham blows up and everything goes well. Good luck
on Friday, safe travels.

Speaker 10 (01:04:56):
Thank you so much, Sam, and I rate I appreciate
you having on and uh and finding me on Instagram
and supporting indie movies and if my long hair helped
me get on your show. I'll take it there, you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Go take it an the other movie comes out next year.
You know, we'll bring me, We'll bring you back because
love to have you again.

Speaker 10 (01:05:14):
Brillian Jimmy, thank you so much, all the best of
your husband with his knee.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Thank you so much. Bye bye bye. Hey everybody, So,
Lucas was great. What a cool guy. I liked him
a lot. It was a lot of fun. And in
the meantime, we're gonna take a quick music break, you guys.
I hope everybody is well. This is Stevie B. The
name of the song is take It All Back. I
don't think we'll get flagged for it, so check it
out because Stevie B has also been on the show,
and the show is the song is a lot of fun.

(01:05:38):
To enjoy it, everybody, Hey, hey, hey, go back.

Speaker 10 (01:05:57):
I was sweating your look the first thing to have
seen you.

Speaker 14 (01:06:00):
I can't even sleep away for the next day, just
to speak your cross, to see you when you walk
from my hearts get to.

Speaker 10 (01:06:05):
Beat like a spicy d you sleep deep in the
prow odd speels thing.

Speaker 14 (01:06:10):
Oh hereaty, taking up doing it away that time when
the worm went saw time and not there my merses
hot there, my merses we were young.

Speaker 15 (01:06:21):
One free all I was more feet not there, my
messes hot there, my medicines.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
It's abounding, everybody.

Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
Who's escaped going wrong about standing up in the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Wet.

Speaker 13 (01:06:36):
Enough problems and fun for the shelves and the joy
for the selves.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
I'm not sleeping with us.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Get they only going supper.

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
We can take it all bare.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
We can take in the whole.

Speaker 13 (01:07:14):
Just describe contemna tell my musins, could tells us sad,
so he says a little into the mistake done.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
My free style was sold.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Could tell us not.

Speaker 11 (01:07:29):
Sound rat When you say it's.

Speaker 13 (01:07:35):
Vocal, they say.

Speaker 15 (01:07:37):
A music your bo yourself, it should move yourself.

Speaker 14 (01:07:41):
I know you know.

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
We take it all back with us.

Speaker 14 (01:07:46):
They only do the summer.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
We can take it off bad. We can take it off.

Speaker 9 (01:08:12):
Indeed, take it off the babe. It was a basement
boska ring.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
And I know the medicines.

Speaker 15 (01:08:28):
I know the medicines, and the bacon makes me when
a big little rocks game by those tails are said
them right day and look around and everybody can stas
based before the.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Three sidly love what's you? I'm also to tell you this.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
We take.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Refused to be.

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
They can.

Speaker 12 (01:09:38):
Hop up the party, pop up the party, hop up
the party, Hop up the party, pop up the party,
pop up the party.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Taking night.

Speaker 6 (01:09:58):
We can't whim walk today like the fun I'm personally.

Speaker 14 (01:10:05):
And make sure you're found the sun.

Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Some taking with jewels that.

Speaker 14 (01:10:14):
Somehow we can take it in the whole, taking the strange.

Speaker 9 (01:10:23):
We can take it up, go back, way back, we
take it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
I don't understand.

Speaker 14 (01:10:46):
Take the whole time.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
We take the whole with jewels all we take it

(01:11:17):
all that.

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
We need, we need, take all that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
So that was TVB. You guys take it all back.
I have to say I really missed the the freestyle
days of music. How much fun that was. So I
think I wish it would come back. Actually, instead of
us having to go back to it, I wish it
would just come back to us. But anyway, now we're
going to bring on our next asked, let's bring on
Geno Alfonso. I think he's in the waiting in the
green room. Hey good, how are you good? Long time

(01:12:10):
real see, thanks for having me back. Yeah, I was
gonna say, you have been on here before, right yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
With Joe Kelly when we were first promoting Compatible Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Didn't even know that it was for Compatible. I thought
maybe it was for one of the clown Motel movies
or something, because I was just like, I knew I
knew you, and I know we're Facebook friends and all
of that, but I just wasn't sure when you were
on before. So all right, let me do let me
do a little INChO. All right, everybody, now we want
to welcome to the Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell.
Missing Ron Russell. Today we want to welcome writer, director,

(01:12:42):
and producer Gino Alfonso. Hello, and welcome back to the show.
Thanks for having me again. Good to be here. So
where are you actually located. I'm in Denver, Colorado. Oh
that's why come, you know. I couldn't figure out. I
was like, why did Joe do the Compatible premiere in
Colorado when like everybody lives someplace else, And yeah, it

(01:13:04):
makes sense, Yeah it was.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
It was about eighty percent of the cast and crew
was Colorado, and then everyone else was either through the
Kickstarter campaign or people that he brought on from California,
so we had an even mixture.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
So a lot of people actually a lot of people
were from Colorado that went to the premiere then, correct, Yeah,
and a lot of people came back for the premiere
from California, Eileen and Larry Butler and Joe. So yeah,
it was good to see everybody again. I liked. So
how do you like living in Colorado? It's been great.
I've born and raised here forty one years.

Speaker 7 (01:13:42):
It's uh, some areas are better than others, but it's
it's definitely a great state to shoot in and a
lot more a lot more flexibility as far as like
permits that kind of thing. So there's a little bit
more leeway what you could do as opposed to La
and California in general.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
La La is not so flexible. You know. I produce
a lot of films, but we don't shoot too many
of the in LA. Or if we do, we shoot
in the outskirts. Yeah, yeah, that's what La proper. So
juice juice ski I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:14:16):
I'm actually like one of the most inactive people except
when I want to set.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
That's so funny because I like, I don't anymore, but
I used to, you know, love to go skiing when
I was young. Oh nice.

Speaker 7 (01:14:27):
Yeah, I'm more of a person with the beach and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
So and you live in Colorado. Yeah, that works. I
like love it all right.

Speaker 16 (01:14:36):
So let's first of all, let's say hi to the
chat room. There's a bunch of people in the chat room,
so say hey everybody else, guys. So let's tell everybody
a little bit about Compatible. First, you guys, First of all,
I wrote, I wrote a little the little synopsis. I
guess it's on IMDb, so I'm gonna read it. And
then when you tell us a little bit kind of
like what it's about and how it came together. Compatible.

(01:14:57):
So you, guys, the name of the movie is Compatible.
It's not out yet, but it will be coming out soon.
I guess we'll talk about that soon. Compatible Dating site
or Nightmare. Emily Taggert joins Compatible, a new interactive dating
app where viewers can judge your dates. At first, Greg
gets perfect compatibility until he doesn't. Now tell us how
did this whole thing come apart? Because I also noticed

(01:15:18):
on IMDb it says you and Tammy Smith both directed it.

Speaker 7 (01:15:23):
It was like an assistant directing kind of thing. But
it was my first feature as a director. Okay, but
she did help a lot on the project as far
as location scouting, things like that, stunts, and a bunch
of different other things as well. But yeah, no, this

(01:15:44):
was my first foray in the feature films. I'd been
doing shorts for a long time and finally decided to
force myself to graduate from short films just because they
weren't pulling.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
In anything at all except a couple of awards, and.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
You know, they were doing good for me for a
little while, but I needed to push into the feature world,
so I took a year off came up with what
I thought was really easy, contained horror thriller, but it
ended up being one of the most complicated films.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
That I've ever shot. You know, I was like, oh,
I've saw Searching and Missing and Unfriended and all those.

Speaker 7 (01:16:26):
I'm like, I could do one of those, not realizing
all the complexities that went into actually making one of
those screen life type thrillers. You know, you still have
to shoot it like any other film to be able
to get everything on the computer screen, so you're, you know,
you're still doing all the regular stuff you would do
on any other set, and then with the visual effects

(01:16:47):
on the computer and stuff that really added a lot
more to it that didn't really come off on the page.
But we had to find it in post. So that's
why the post production took so long, was because we
had to really find the look in the style of
the film with a lot of the visuals that came
with it, in between scenes with the actors and stuff

(01:17:11):
like that. But some of those scenes are actually some
of the most liked in the film from the premiere
and from the trailer that we have out now.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
So who plays so? I think so Joe Kelly plays
Greg right correct.

Speaker 7 (01:17:25):
He is the villain in the film, and he goes
from zero to sixty really quick.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
So, you guys, everybody knows Joe Kelly's been on the
show a million times. He's the director, writer director of
the Clown Motel franchise which Clom Hotel three premiere is
in October. And who plays Emily Taggart.

Speaker 7 (01:17:46):
Her name is Bergan Reese. She's a local here in Colorado,
compatible as I believe her like second or third independent film,
but she's definitely an up and comer. We've been in
contact recently or no kind of what's going on with
the film and that it's on its way to distribution
and finally going to find a home hopefully soon.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
I love that.

Speaker 15 (01:18:08):
So you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Here's a list of other people that are at first
of all, you guys. So Ron and I have a
cameo in this, you guys, And we actually shot it
when we were doing Clown Motel two, So we shot
it a long time ago. And Gino had contacted me
on Facebook because he wanted to come on with uve
Bowl last week, and I guess I already had a
second guest, so I invited him to come on this

(01:18:31):
week and I asked him, did we make the final
cut and he said yes, So we're actually in this film.
It's short and quick, but so we're in it, you guys,
So you should see it definitely, just for our little
clip because he said, people laughed it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
Was it was hysterical. You guys got a lot of
a good laugh. I think you're in it a couple
two or three times, like a couple of the clips.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
That you're in. Oh, I love that. I got some
really good laughs. So but besides us, you guys, because
we've had almost like everybody in the cast just about
has been on the show. We have Alyssa Dawling, you
guys is in it, Nicole Butler's in it, Minnie Robinson
Aery Lehman, Sean Phillips, Julianne Prescott, Eileen Deets, Sherry Davis.

(01:19:10):
All those people have been in it in our show.
Robert Bess is in it. Gee, Larry Butler's been on
our show. Dietrich Call's been on Thrall has been on
our show, Ozzie Capri, Denny Nolan, Tammy Smith Pack who's
not he's been on the show. And Johnny Parati even
I love Johnny Roddy you guys, he's handy in the
Clown Motel you know films. He's the fat like one
who wears the pig face in Clown Motel and he's hilarious.

(01:19:31):
And Johnny Protty is one of the coolest guys ever.
So so you have basically and I was like, looking
at it, I was like, she like like half of
the probably half of these people, if not more, are
in the Clown Motel franchise. Is that how you kind
of met them through working on indirectly?

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
So Eileen was actually the first one on the film,
and we had shot like a little scene with her,
but it wasn't fully developed yet as far as like
the crew and stuff, and she kind of came home
and said, hey, we're gonna kind of help make this
a little bit bigger.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
And so she started to.

Speaker 7 (01:20:05):
Kind of rally some of the people that she knew,
and she brought on Joe Kelly and Alyssa and actually
Alysa Dowling reached out to me when she heard the
project was going and wanted to be in it. So
once it started going, everyone wanted to be in it.
I actually had to turn down a lot of people.
Once we kind of had it cast and everything, I said, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
No more roles. I love it. Alyssa Dowling is a
sweetheart and we used to see it all the time.
She moved to Florida, but she's well. We've worked with
her on different films and I love her to the death.
She's a lot of fun. Yeah, we actually around. You
don't have anybody I like. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:20:42):
We actually had her daughter on set for the Pickup
days that we shot out in California, and I was
holding her daughter while my mom was screaming on camera
and the daughter was watching the monitor like is that
really mommy?

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
It was.

Speaker 7 (01:20:56):
It was fantastic. So never thought I would direct a
movie holding a baby, But you know, there's that you gotta.

Speaker 10 (01:21:03):
Do whatever you have to do.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
So then you did you did you write this? Also?
Did you come up with the whole idea or who?

Speaker 10 (01:21:09):
Who I did?

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 7 (01:21:12):
Like I said, it was kind of at that time
when I didn't know where to go with from short
films to features, and I thought it would be something
nice and contained, something easy, And it was to a
point until that we really.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Started to have to get into the more technical side
of things.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
And then that kind of heightened as we got more
into post production and like we're really figuring out the
complexities of the placement of the camera and the characters
that they wore, and the computer camera and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
There was a lot of back and forth on the
technicalities of that. And so now you had a premiere
is and but you have not secured distribution yet, so
we don't know when we can see it correct.

Speaker 7 (01:21:55):
We've we've got it out to a couple of people
that are viewing it right now, just kind of weighing
out the best offers and seeing who comes at us with,
you know, the best home for it. All in all,
we've got one company looking at it for potential worldwide distribution,
a couple of companies looking for a minimal theatrical release

(01:22:17):
because it really played well in front of an audience
at the premiere. And I think if we even had
a handful of screens like forty or fifty, it would
do pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Oh, I think it's I think it's great, and if
you can get a theatrical release, that's really good. And
I also think that you know, also, you just have
to always be very careful, you know, going into distribution,
because so many distributors are crooked. Yeah, which I know, joke,
he's open, So you just got to be careful. So
I I actually took the trailer. I don't know, I

(01:22:47):
don't know if there's more than one, but I took
a trailer for Compatible off of YouTube so we could
actually play it for everybody. So while we're gonna do
the one that says Compatible Official trailer, but I want
you to do gas. You just say who you are
and then introduce the trailer and then hang on, we're
going to play it for everybody. You bet again.

Speaker 7 (01:23:05):
I'm Gino Alfonso, the writer, director, producer of Compatible, and
we're happy to share with you the updated trailer of Compatible,
which is edited by Taylor Nickerson. Who also was an
editor on the Pirates of the Caribbean, five Trailers and
the recent Father of the Bride. And he's done a
million other movies. Kind of an unknown name, but you've

(01:23:29):
seen his work, so I hope you enjoy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Hi. My name is Jane, and I will be your
Compatible instructor.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
We unveil Compatible, a revolutionary company that is redefining the
rules of digital matchmaking.

Speaker 7 (01:23:48):
Cheers, too, Compatible, Compatible, and then she finds out I'm
a horror fan.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
I've been Incompatible for two weeks, but our compatibility is
really high. It's such a violation of privacy. Have voiced
their concerns. It's just it tells me that you're dating
somebody you met on the line and e col Hey
are Greg?

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Nine one one. What's the nature of your emergency?

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
I need a report me.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
You gotta proceive the POSSI hit the worst dream. I
like to introduce you to two people him.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
And be careful.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Not everyone is who they say they are.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Greg. So, now is that the most updated trailer or
is there another one? No, that's the most updated one. Yeah,
I love it. I think I think it looks like

(01:25:12):
a lot of fun and I enjoy it so much
because I know everybody in it. It's to me, it's
exciting to see all my friends, you know, actually do
in a film together. I have to tell you. So
I didn't know who. I didn't know who. What's her name,
but I didn't know who Burgan Reese was. But she
looks terrific in the trailer, and you know, she reminds
me of Kristen Stewart. Did people tell tell you that?

Speaker 7 (01:25:34):
I have not heard that, but I can see that. Yeah,
I can see that a lot. Kristin Stewart's one of
my favorite actresses. Like, I think she's super cool. If
I was straight, I think she's super hot, especially when
she did Charlie's Angels with that short hair. You know,
I'm not strange, so she doesn't do anything for me,
but I love her.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
I just love her. I love her as an actress though,
And even though the Charlie's Angels movie sucked, she was
really good in it. And I'm a big fan of hers.
And I could see Bergen, you know, looking very similar
to her. Yeah, yeah, and she could probably if pursues
this and she's good, she could probably have a good career. Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 7 (01:26:10):
She says, she's been doing quite a bit of work,
so I'm anxious to see what else she has coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
We do have potential compatible too.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
I've been starting the script called Emily's Revenge, so we're
looking at going forward with that, just not sure when.
We'll kind of see how the distribution goes. But I
have other films Harvest and Hostage on streaming services, and
my next film, Closing Shift, is in post production. And

(01:26:39):
I have another film coming that's kids movie actually called
The Vampire's Vacation, based on a book by Ron roy Oh.
I love a lot of stuff coming up.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
I think that in the day and age that we
are right now, going into, you know, just the way
the world is, like, doing family films and kids films
and stuff a really good way to go because I
don't think there's a lot of good, like nice fun content,
you know, for kids and families. I have a bunch
of family films I'm working on. Unfortunately for me at least,

(01:27:10):
it's been difficult to raise money for family films. It's
like people don't want to like put money into them.
But I think it's an area that we need.

Speaker 7 (01:27:17):
To have, yeah, definitely, And I think I've been doing
on my new TikTok page, kind of how to from
the ground up, raising financing, doing the adaptation.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
I'm sorry, So then you're talking, So I'm like, I
don't think I follow you on TikTok? Do I gino?
What is your TikTok? Just restarted my page.

Speaker 7 (01:27:42):
It had been down for a while when everyone had
that scare that TikTok was going to go away for
a while.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
So it was one of the few that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:50):
Got rid of it, which kind of sucks. You had
over a thousand followers. Now do you rebuild you Geno
Alfonso three or who are you?

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Genome? G I n O m E dot Okay g
I n O m E dot Films got it.

Speaker 7 (01:28:10):
It's a picture of me at the premiere of Compatible.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
On my Oh you're following me, okay, I'm following you back.
I love TikTok. I have I get so much play
you guys. My TikTok is this is Jimmy Stars, Instagram,
everything else I'm gonna hit. I've hit on TikTok. I've
got like sixteen million plays on TikTok. Oh A nice?
So I like love TikTok and.

Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
Tag you and everything. Then so I get no tag
me because.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
I'll reach I'll share it if I know that it's there,
I'll share it, you know, to the people. And see.
I don't have a huge following. I only have I
mean I have like forty thousand followers or something. It's
not huge like other people have.

Speaker 7 (01:28:44):
But my I think I'm only about fifty right now,
back getting back up there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
So that's for sure. I think it's a lot of fun.
I don't think anything's gonna go away with TikTok. I
think they'll work it out eventually. There'll be a lot
of scares. Yeah, definitely, they'll work it out. So what
are your so are you? Were you a horror movie
fan before you started doing all of this, Like, are
you a horror movie fan in general?

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:29:08):
Yeah, no. I started off some of my earliest short
films when I was like eleven years old with some friends.
We did a little werewolf movie on VHS, you know,
back in the day, and I did the VHS camcorder
edit to the VHS player and did the in camera
edit like the old school way. I wouldn't remember how

(01:29:28):
to do it now, but yeah, I started with short,
little horror films and stuff like that, and The Exorcist
was like one of the earliest movies that I ever
saw as a kid, when I think I was like
eleven or twelve. So getting to work with Eileen on
this was sort of a bucket list dream come true.
And she was just a great support on it, and

(01:29:50):
she loved the script from the get go. But yeah,
I'd watch horror all year round. I'm not just in October.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
All up. What are some of your favorite horror movies?

Speaker 7 (01:30:03):
Well, definitely the Exorcist is number one.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
I mean, Clockwork Orange.

Speaker 7 (01:30:09):
I don't know if that's really considered horror, but it's
up there as like one of those really strange and
bizarre type of films that's up there. And having gotten
to meet Malcolm McDowell a couple of years ago, also
a bucket list I.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Love Malcolm McDowell. I'll tell you just a quick story.
So I used to go The reason that this show
became so popular is because I used to be a
clothing designer, and I would take my clothes to the
conventions and set them up in my room and give
them to the stars if they would let me take
pictures with them and I was single at the time,

(01:30:43):
and I always buy VIP tickets so I don't have
to wait in line. And so I went up to
Malcolm McDowell to take a picture and I whispered in
his ear and his manager heard me. I said, I
know you're straight, but if you were gay, I would
rock your world. And he loved it. He gave me

(01:31:03):
a big hug, and then he went to the room
and you know, took a bunch of clothes and he
was wearing them. And then like in the on the
second day, he called me in the middle of the
day and it's like it's tea time, you know, for
me to take a break. You want to go get
something to drink. And I went with him, and then
I went to dinner with them. And then the next
day they he and Doug Bradley who's pinhead, and Lance Hendrickson,

(01:31:25):
who's my favorite actor. They called me and I had
given all of them some clothes and they were like,
you want to go have breakfast with us? So then
I got to have breakfast with the three of them.
It was like one of the greatest like that, and
Clive Barker come into my room for like seven hours
and talking to us and just telling stories and stuff.
Those are like my two like highlights of of you know,
meeting people that I like so much. Cool. And Lance

(01:31:48):
Hendrickson gave me an alien tile. He makes these ceramic
tiles with the alien monstrang He doesn't sell him anything.
He made them, and at the end of the convention
he called me and said, come by my booth, you know,
real quick. And I went over there, and you know,
I had a great time with you this week. I
just want to get this to you. And it was
the alien talent on the back of road, you know,
to Jimmy Starr, You're the coolest fucker I ever met.
And he signed it, oh sweet, very cooly. I like

(01:32:12):
that collectible stuff. I love all that collectible stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:32:15):
Yeah, it's great thing for men.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
So I think that's all like a lot of fun.
And I like all different kinds of horror movies. Like
I told our last guest, you know, the Lost Boys
is like my favorite movie. Lost Boys is fantastic. It's
just a fun movie and I enjoy it a lot.
But I pretty much like it, you know, pretty much.
I can never think of things when I'm trying to
think of them, But like, but I like, you know,

(01:32:39):
zombie movies and werewolf movies. I actually have a werewolf
movie that we haven't raised the money for yet, but
I just signed up Adam Marcus, who wrote and directed
Friday the Thirteenth, Jason Lives, I think, and Masteracre three D.
He's the writer and director and he's going to direct
it for us. Oh nice.

Speaker 10 (01:32:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
The editor on my film Closing Shift.

Speaker 7 (01:33:00):
He was in the art department on Friday at thirteenth five.

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
There you go. I love one of the first films.

Speaker 7 (01:33:07):
So yeah, there's there's a lot of people that come
from those those earlier horror films and stuff, and he's
branched more into writing directing, but he's coming on as editor.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
I asked for this one. You worked on a bunch
of stuff. You were asked, first of all, what did
you do on clom Motel too, because I wrote Climo
to a Tel two down. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
So we were shooting the pickup days for Compatible out
in Lancaster and they were doing the pickup for Clown
Motel too same time. So I was helping out a
little bit, and I thought we were going to be
more in like the actual La area, So I went
out with like a bunch of money, and I was like,
I'm not going to be able to spend all this

(01:33:47):
money out here because there's nothing to do. And I
saw that Joe needed some help with some food and stuff,
so I went out and got food for the cast
that was waiting for shooting in the desert scene. And
so he gave me a co producer credit on that
film for helping out on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
Because I see that you've also worked on a bunch
of the Mahall brothers films, which I love. I love
their films, and I love the Mahall Brothers, and and
basically like I went to the premieres of a lot
of these films, Death Count, Arena Wars, Bloodthirst, neither the
Tommy Knockers. I think I went to all. I went

(01:34:27):
to all those different ones. And it's very sad that
that that they had a death in the family and
that that that stuff's going to get all messed up now,
because I think that as far as like Indie Go
Go films go, there's their films are really good. Yeah,
that that was a.

Speaker 7 (01:34:43):
Big hit, and Sonny and Michael were really the ones
that really gave me my first start.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Into this whole.

Speaker 7 (01:34:53):
World of the ultra law budget micro budget filmmaking I
with being on attack of the unknown. I put in
for one of the side roles of the associate producer
credit went out to La. My partner and I got
stranded out there through a guy that had driven us

(01:35:14):
and he left us out there and the ma Halls.
I had already filmed my first scene and I had
another scene to shoot two days later, so we couldn't leave,
and so the ma Halls put us up at a hotel.
They ubered us to the airport. They were just really generous.
Richard Grico was amazing. He kept an eye on my
partner because he was he's more introverted, and he kept

(01:35:38):
asking him if he was okay, and you know, just
it was just a fantastic experience other than being left
out in La, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
But very cool guy. Actually I knew him many many
years ago, and then I used to work for a
record label and they tried to sign him to the
record label. This is like twenty something years ago. And
then we actually met him though at Arted the Dead
at the Apparent Dead, and Ron was peeing next to

(01:36:08):
him and talking like, oh, you should come on our
show and stuff, and Richard Rico probably thought we were crazy,
but we've become very friendly with him, and he's been
on the show like I don't know five times or something,
and oh nice. He's a really good guy, and I
actually would like to use him in some of the
stuff I'm working on now. I'm doing a little bit
bigger budget stuff right now that I'm working on, and
so I have to have stars who can get me

(01:36:29):
really good distribution. But for some of the other roles,
I'm hoping I can bring him on board for some
of them. Yeah, it'd be nice. Yeah, And then attacked
the unknown.

Speaker 7 (01:36:37):
I met Robert Losardo and Ray by my movie The Hostage,
and he was the first one that kind of helped
spearhead that because we were doing Harvest and Hostage like
at the tail end of COVID, and he said, let's
not shoot in la He's like, I'm all about coming
back to Denver. And it was funny because he'd actually

(01:36:58):
worked on a movie called Tiger Street, which was shot
out here in Denver back in the early nineties. And
one of the earliest producers that I ever met was
one of the producers on Tiger Street and when I
told him about that, he was like, oh my god,
I haven't thought about that movie and forever. So it
was kind of cool that we had a connection that

(01:37:18):
went so far back. And then you know, we ended
up working on Hostage together and they're doing pretty well
on streaming, So yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
I Robert Losardo is one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
He does everything from huge films to really little films.
We actually met him at the knight of the Tommy
Knockers premiere, I think it was or bloodthirst Too, and
I was almost like afraid to talk to him because
he's so mean looking when you first see him and
all his roles, you know, he plays somebody who's going

(01:37:48):
to fucking kill you. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
Yeah, I was a little bit afraid. I just starting
that kind of started. Even my husband was the same
way when he first met him on the Hostage. But
then they started talking and he's like, no, he's a
really cool guy. He's not as intimidating as he looks,
but it's just the characters.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
He gets really into it. He and Ron hit it
off great. They were talking about classic movies on Turner
Classic movies because Robert Starto looks young, but he's not young,
you know, and he's a great guy. He's been on
our show twice and he calls me like every I
don't know, every couple of weeks. We can get on
the phone and just say hello and see how we're doing.
I also noticed that you did Okay, so you did
Harvest with Nicolson Aglia, who I've interviewed before, and Vernon Wells,

(01:38:30):
who's been on our show. But I also have a
movie out right now called The Beast inside that he's
the star, one of the stars of it. He's a
great guy. They caught that on to be so he's
he's a really, you know, cool guy. He was telling
us some wild stories when we were on set. And
it's funny because the very first pop culture convention that
I went where you get autographs and stuff, which was

(01:38:50):
like probably in the nineties, you know, in the late
nineties or so, and the very first one I had
ever gone to, he was the star of it. You know,
he was one of the main Him and Corey Felman
were two of the main people. And I remember thinking
how excited I was to meet the guy. Yeah, and
then you know, here I am twenty five or thirty
years later. You know, I actually did a movie with him.
I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, No, he was great.

Speaker 7 (01:39:12):
He told us some great stories too, on like how
he got cast and inner space based on his performance
in Commando and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Some of the stunt stuff that he had to deal with.

Speaker 7 (01:39:24):
And really connected with him on like the Buddhist side
of things and talked with them a lot about that.
And him and his wife had a wolf sanctuary in
California and that's my spirit animal, so that, you know,
we had that connection and we just talked like for
a couple of hours before we started shooting and really
got to know each other, and it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Was really we did a really good time. I had
a very good time with him. A matter of fact,
while we were making the movie, I like bought a
like his character from what's the fucking Mel Gibson movie,
Oh Warrior, Matt Max or whatever. I actually bought the
action figure and brought it to set to have him

(01:40:07):
signed for me because I collected figures so so I
wanted him to sign one of them. So I thought
it was really cool. Okay, so does your husband make movies? Also?

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
No, he does some gothic jewelry he's done some production
design and hair and makeup on some of the films.
He did the production design Oncompatible, he did the production
design and hair and makeup and Hostage and some of
the production design on Harvest.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
But yeah, he's not not as much into it as
I am. So how long have you guys been together.
We're going on thirteen years next month. Oh that's what
we are to thirteen years. Oh nice figures. Congratulations to
you guys too. I think that's cool. I think for me,
like I like like, so I collect the action figures

(01:40:58):
from anybody who's been on the show. And I have
new movie I'm working on now. It's an original script.
It's an original killer that hasn't been done yet in horror. Really,
but I actually had it's called the Legend of the
Bunny Man. And I actually had action figures made. Oh
so it's twelve inch and this is my three and
a half inch. Oh cool, And hopefully I'll come up

(01:41:20):
with the money to get the movie made soon. It's
funny because I put a thing saying all the posters
that I've made a bunch of posters and said that
we're looking for funding, and literally I had like ten different,
like kind of iconic people in the horror world asked me,
who's playing bunny Man? They all want to play bunny Man.
Oh nice. So I don't think it'll be hard to
cast it.

Speaker 7 (01:41:39):
Yeah, casting a killer is never usually hard. It's everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
I think it's going to be easy, and I think
it'll be a lot of fun. Actually, So tell everybody
what movies do you have that are so other movies
like the Hostage and Harvest those are shorts though, then right.

Speaker 7 (01:41:54):
No, those are both features as well. Like I said,
I shot those back in twenty twenty one, back to back.
Those are streaming on Amazon, fowsome, Roku, channel to be
and Harvest is also on Plex TV. And then they're
doing well enough the distributor may be distributing one of them,

(01:42:15):
not sure which one yet, but on DVD here pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
So I'm going to watch those. Then, for some reason,
I thought that you said Compatible was your your first features,
so you shot these after Compatible, but it just took
a long time because Compatible hasn't come out yet.

Speaker 7 (01:42:29):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, those were a
little bit quicker turnaround. But Compatible is the third movie released,
but the first film.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Done Okay, I know that's cool because you got good
people and them Robert Lasardo is a good one to
have in films, and Vernon Wells is a good one
to have in films. And uh and then attack of
unk known you were actually an actor too, right you actually?
So you shot you said you shot two days. That
one's on that's on two b I.

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
Think, Yeah, that's on just about every streaming platform you
can find to the paramount plus Apple TV, you can
find it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Just about everywhere. That movie has a lot of famous
people in it, like, like really a lot Like that
was a really good one. It was done Douglas, Douglas, Tate.

Speaker 7 (01:43:10):
Julie Anderson, Griico Lesardo. I can't even remember the rest
of them. There's there's a ton.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
So then how did you do that? Like like did
you did you indy go go to raise the money
for Compatible or how did you raise the money for Compatible? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:43:30):
Compatible was my first really big kickstart campaign that was
a full success, and that was a big part in
to Joe Kelly coming on board network.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
After that, it was it was all more.

Speaker 7 (01:43:45):
Independent private investors. That's typically how I raised financing. Harvest, Yeah,
Harvest really as soon as we had the poster, I
had my first investor for ten thousand dollars that awesome,
which was which was great, And I wish it was
always that easy, but.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
It's you know, hit or miss sometimes.

Speaker 7 (01:44:05):
But we're trying to raise the final finishing funds for
Closing Shift right now, which is thirty grand for post production,
and then the next one is forty to sixty grand.

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
The vampire movie the Kids won. I think it's so
I'm not against it in Indigogo. I don't want to
say like negative things because everybody has to make movies,
you know, however they make them. But I like the
Indiego go campaigns where you can buy movies and posters
and visit the set and stuff. But like my only
and I told this to the Mahall brothers, so it's
not like it's you know, we talk about it all

(01:44:37):
the time on here. I don't like the fact, like
we went and saw Night of the Tommy Knocker's great movie.
They did a great job. It's a great movie. There's
like fifty characters in there that with one line that
you didn't need. Yeah, you know they have to be
in there because they paid for a role.

Speaker 10 (01:44:51):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
And that's the only thing I don't like about the
indiegog campaigns is that I think it sometimes bastardizes the
quality of the people. All those people maybe think they're actors,
but most of them are really not and they're not
really any good. And so I don't like that part
of it. But but I have total respect anyway, because
I think I don't think that. I think there's a

(01:45:13):
lot of like armchair quarterbacks that sit around saying, oh,
your movie sucked. I mean, I've made a lot of
movies that have sucked. You know, well, you know, not
every movie is great. But I don't think people realize
how hard it is to actually make a movie, get
it and get it distributed. You know, everybody, everybody who's
never done it, because sistent says that movie sucks, that

(01:45:35):
movie sucks, but you know, have you done it? No,
you know, have you tried to do it? No, I
really realize how difficult it actually is to actually do
it and get distribution. The fact that you've got distribution,
you know, for the hostage and harvest you know already
and stuff. I think it's a big kudos to every filmmaker,
every independent filmmaker, whether your movie is whether I think

(01:45:59):
your movie it's good or not, the fact that you
took an idea and you started it and you completed
it and you got it out for the world to see.
It's a very difficult thing to do. And I don't
think that people who haven't done it really shouldn't talk
about really shouldn't talk about it, because I don't think
that they comprehend how difficult it actually is to get
the whole thing done. Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 7 (01:46:17):
And I mean I got the distribution actually without a
sales agent. I had had a couple of people that
were trying to help, but they were just coming at
me with these offers.

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
It was like, what are you even doing?

Speaker 7 (01:46:30):
Like you know, And I was acquainted with the head
of it and distribution on LinkedIn and they watched him.
They weren't for them, but he referred me to Breaking Glass,
and so he's like, I think Breaking Glass might be
able to do something with this, and they absolutely love

(01:46:51):
Tom Malloy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:51):
I think is Breaking Glass Tom Malloy? I'm not sure
which I think. Yes, I think Breaking Glasses is Tom
malloy owns Breaking Glass. I'm not sure I believe. So.

Speaker 7 (01:47:01):
Yeah, I've been talking with Mike Conroy and Rich Wolfe
or my original contacts through them. I think the Gentleman
you mentioned, I think he's through deliver films that brings
them to the streaming platforms and stuff like that. But yeah, no,
it's it's definitely a hard process and the fact that

(01:47:24):
they're doing as well as they are. And actually that's
how I got the deal for The Vampire's Vacation. The
kids film is the author of the book Saul Harvest
On to Be, and he reached out to me through
Twitter and asked me if I would be interested in
doing one of his books. And I had no idea
who he was or how long he'd been around.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
He's been writing since seventy four.

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
And so he's in his mid eighties right now, and
nothing of his has ever been made into a film
or an animated series.

Speaker 3 (01:47:54):
He's got five or six series out for young kids.
Love it. That's super cool though.

Speaker 7 (01:48:02):
Yeah, So it was really cool that that was the
connection that he saw my work and reached out to me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
So I'm gonna watch Hostage and Harvest. I'm gonna watch
him because I do pr work all day, so I
can watch watch while i'm going, so we want to
tell everybody Compatible. I'll let you guys, I'll let the
world know Incompatible is available. You guys, check out the
hostage and Harvest on t B. And we want to
thank you for coming on the show and talking with
me today and good luck with everything. And I'm glad

(01:48:29):
you reached out. I'm glad you reached out. And let's
see what we can do forgetting some I'd love to
do the sequel to Compatible, so let's see what we
can do. That'd be great.

Speaker 7 (01:48:37):
And if anyone's interested in coming on board, my email
is genome Films at gmail dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Yeah, you help me an email. There you go, all right,
g you know, thank you so much. We'll see you.
We'll see on social media. Thank you appreciate it. Bye
bye bye, all right, everybody, Hopefully you enjoyed the show today.
I know it's a little different than what we're used to,
but I had a good time. And I send Ron
all your best because I see all the messages, and well,

(01:49:03):
we'll see you guys next week. Have a great weekend.
Bye bye.

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
Jimmy start you're sitting down and designing where every time
I'm not drinking, what are we gonna be wearing YO.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
See Bigott, what's that crazy? Jimmy begot myself to know
how you don't want to know you ms always that Jimmy.
You'll want to want to be Jimmy. Stop and take
you out

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