Scarred For Life

This week we chat with Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen, the co-writers and co-directors of Tarot! We chat about working with some up-and-coming actors, working within the PG-13 rating, working with Trevor Henderson on the creature designs and more before revisiting Jaws and why the film continues to terrify.

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On this week's Little Cuts, Terry and MB are discussing:

• The Summer I Died (Book)
• Babes (In theaters)
• Kaiju No. 8 (Crunchyroll)
• Animal Wall (Video game)
• Season 3 Episodes 20, 21, 22 of 30 Rock

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This week we chat with actor, action actor, writer and filmmaker Jenna Kanell! You've seen her in films like Terrifier, Terrifier 2 and Renfield. Her latest film is Faceless After Dark, which they co-wrote and acted in, and it is currently in select theaters and available through VOD. We chat about "action acting", the way in which Terrifier inspired her film before going back to their childhood to discover their relations...

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

• Fallout, Season 1 (Prime)
• The Strangers Chapter 1 (In theaters)
• Sugar (Apple+)
• In A Violent Nature (In theaters on May 31)
• 30 Rock Season 3, Episodes 14 and 18

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This week we chat with author Laurel Hightower about her latest novel The Day of the Door (from former guest of the show Max Booth's publishing company), the cover art by (also former guest of the show) Trevor Henderson, ghostly encounters, paranormal investigative TV shows and so much more. Then we return to Grover's Bend to talk about Critter Balls, dickish Crites, the kickass grandma and so much more as we find out why ...

This week we chat with John Rosman, the writer/director of the sci-fi horror thriller New Life, out now on VOD. We chat about working with the legendary Sonya Walger, the film's depictions of ALS and more. After we discuss John's horror history, we explore homoerotic shaving, incomprehensible storytelling and Jason babies while discovering why Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday terrified John growing up.

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Welcome to this week's Little Cuts, where MB and Terry are chatting:

• Mary and George (series)
• Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (limited theatrical run)
• Problemista (digital and VOD)
• 30 Rock episodes 308 and 310

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This week we're so excited to chat with Brad and Fiona Dourif about Chucky! We talk about them working together, Brad tries to tell us where we might head next (before Fiona stops him) and we talk about the brilliance of Don Mancini. Then we find out their relationship to horror and how well they handle horror. And finally we find out why Grim Prairie Tales terrified Fiona growing up. This is a podcast first since we have ...

Happy Friday! On this week's Little Cuts, we're chatting:

• Civil War (in theaters)
• Sleep (Panic Fest)
• I Saw The TV Glow (coming soon to theaters)
• The Ceremony Is About To Begin (Panic Fest)
• The Contestant (coming soon to Hulu)
• 30 Rock episodes 301 and 304

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This week we chat with Stephen Graham Jones! He's the author of books like The Only Good Indians, The Indian Lake Trilogy and more. His latest comic True Believers: A Slasher Comic series is being Kickstarted right now! And there's four days left to contribute. We chat about writing comics, how it feels to close the door on Jade Daniels and his relationship to horror before finding out why The Howling terrified him. Wantin...

Welcome back to Little Cuts, where MB goes on rants about mukbangs and then we discuss:

• Abigail (movie)
• The Day Of The Door (book)
• What You Wish For (movie)
• Hippo (movie)
• Sheryl (movie)
• 30 Rock Episodes 210 and 211

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This week we're so incredibly honored to record with Larry Fessenden! A legendary fixture of the indie horror scene, Larry is a writer, director, actor and producer who has helped produce many indie horror projects while also writing and directing and running his production company Glass Eye Pix. He co-wrote the video game Until Dawn, wrote and directed films like Depraved, Wendigo and Habit and has acting credits in over ...

We're back from Unnamed Footage Festival and are here to share our faves from the fest! Then we dive into Episode 204 and 205 of 30 Rock.

Movies We Discussed:

-The Coldness

-Cuddly Toys

-Haunted Ulster Live

-Flesh Games

-#blue_whale

-Jeffrey's Hell

-Horror In The High Desert 3: Firewatch

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This week we're joined by Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith, the director and writers of The First Omen, the prequel to The Omen! We chat about Possession, working with Nell Tiger Free and so much more before digging into their horror histories and finding out why The Exorcist terrified them growing up as well as why religious horror continues to be popular decades later.

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This week we're so excited to chat with writer and director Erlingur Thoroddsen about his latest film The Piper! We chat about practical effects, the genesis of the film's plotting and working with genre stalwarts Christopher Young and the late, great Julian Sands. And then we dig into Erlingur's horror history, his relationship to the genre and more before finding out why John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness terrified...

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This week, we're chatting:

• Love Lies Bleeding (in theaters)
• Damsel (Netflix)
• T Blockers (digital and VOD)
• Femme (select theaters)
• SXSW picks (Oddity, Things Will Be Different, Hunting Daze, Birdeater)
• 30 Rock Season 1 Episodes 7 and 12

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This week we chat with writer and director Anthony Cousins! He's directed segments of Scare Package I and II and his latest movie Frogman is currently on VOD! We chat about making a found footage creature feature, cryptids and more. Then we find out why The Dark Crystal terrified him growing up.

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This week we're joined by Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti, who run the press DieDieBooks which features a number of writers writing about specific movies as well as the filmmakers behind the found footage horror film It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This. We chat about buying a haunted duplex, the unique distribution method for the film, their relationships to the horror genre and why Mickey's Christmas Carole terrified Rachel gr...