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We hope you guys have had as much fun as we've had with our Horrorhound 2026 Spring Filmfest interviews. Tonight the fun keeps rolling on with the writer and director of the short film Hide, Brian Barnes & Brendan Hubbard. The log line reads, "Still reeling from an incredible loss, a father and daughter cling to a bedtime routine keeping them safe in a town where an unfathomable horror visits...

Kicking off the 1st of the month, July 2026, we've got another Horrorhound Spring Filmfest interview guys with The Fuzzies' director & co-writer (and many other hats) Josh Funk about this fun, puppet-gore filled romp that's currently streaming on Tubi! Featuring co-writer Dustin Vaught as Mick, The Fuzzies is about friends reunited at their late friend's estate to discover her beloved kids TV...

Keeping the Horrorhound interviews rolling, tonight we are joined by the big winner at Horrorhound Filmfest of 5 awards including Best Feature for the movie "Jump Scare," writer and director Donnie Robbie. Shot very grindhouse, guerilla style, this Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspired film is about a metal band that encounters a crazy cannibal family. We discussed the process of making the film, the i...

Tonight is our lucky number 7 interview from Horrorhound Filmfest Spring 2026 with writer & director B.C. Jones to discuss his feature film screenplay "The Red Hourglass" that won the Horrorhound Filmfest award for Best Concept in a Feature Script. The short "The Red Hourglass" premiered at Horrorhound Filmfest Fall 2024 & this script is the feature length version of that short. The script...

We are back with another Horrorhound interview tonight guys! We are talking to another script writer, this time a first time screenwriter, John Hayes, and his script Chihuawolf. Why not have an animal transform into a werewolf and even better make it a chihuahua? We talk about that and his short film The Masterpiece which is debuting at International Horror Hotel Film Festival in Cleveland, Ohio J...

Tonight is another great Horrorhound Spring 2026 Filmfest interview with P. Patrick Hogan, the writer & director of a sci-fi horror short film titled Blindsided, that also won Best Lead Performance & Best Sound Design at the Film Festival. The logline to the short is "A blind schoolteacher is thrust into a nightmare game of survival when an alien ship crashes & unleashes a monstrous pr...

We are back this week my dudes! We've got another Horrorhound 2026 Spring Filmfest interview for you this time regarding an amazing script for a short entitled The Bonding with the writer himself Vinnie DiSanti. The Bonding won 4 awards at Horrorhound Filmfest & is a different take on a werewolf story that I think everyone will enjoy. We certainly did! We'll also be discussing his production c...

Our highly anticipated Horrorhound Filmfest interview (yes we're being biased) is tonight with Raymond and Evie, the director and special effects creator of the found footage ghost hunting film Paranormal Investigations. We talk about the inspiration for the film, the location where it was shot (and how its purportedly haunted) and we learn all about the practical effects and real life equipment t...

Horrorhound Spring Filmfest 2026 interview Number 2 is here and VERY queer with tonight's interview about the comedy horror short Bath Bomb and its director Colin G Cooper. We are not at liberty to give away any spoilers, but we do discuss what inspired Bath Bomb and all the serendipitous occurrences that made the film happen. We had a fun discussion about Giallo, queer representation in horror, O...

Our first 2026 Horrorhound Filmfest interview is here guys and we are talking tonight with writer and director Manny Gumina about his film Creature Fear, which won Best Writing & Best Lead Performance. Creature Fear is more of a metaphorical take on the word "creature" where the creature lives inside you. The character developments in this movie were outstanding and the ending leaves you wanti...

Tonight is another interview that is not from Horrorhound but Horrorhound related, thank you to The Barrens Hideout Podcast, and it is with the producer and actor of the Hellhouse LLC franchise, Joe Bandelli! We talk EVERYTHING Hellhouse LLC related, because Becky Gremlin is obsessed, and we got to know Joe's background, films he's a fan of, what inspires him and what projects he's working on and...

Frogman Returns! For another movie AND another episode! Tonight is all things Frogman with the return of director Anthony Cousins and new friend to the pod actress Chelsey Grant: we will discussing highlights from 2023 Frogman and what's to come with the highly anticipated sequel Frogman Returns that we were fortunate enough to catch as a double feature at the Loveland Ohio 2026 Frogman Festival....

Another killer weekend in the books guys, Horrorhound 2026 is done and tonight is our official recap! The convention and film festival were another huge hit this year and we had an amazing time as usual with both. Listen in tonight as we talk about our press experience, what shorts & movies we watched, what interviews we have lined up as well as our fan experiences with the celebrities we met....

Tonight is an easy breezy episode and one we've never done before: we're doing a Horrorhound precap! Tonight we're discussing previous Horrorhound experiences as well as this year's line up of celebrities and movies in the film festival. We mentioned which films we specifically want to see and which actors we hope to meet. If you've never been, we give some neat behind the scenes features and a fe...

*Trigger Warning Guys* Tonight's episode will be discussing child abduction and possible child murder. With that being said, tonight is a new true crime episode about the disappearance and possible kidnapping of 9 year old Asha Degree. One early morning 26 years ago in a small town in North Carolina, Asha packed a bookbag and left a relative's home never to be seen again. Originally thought to be...

SPOILERS AHEAD! Tonight we are reviewing Scream 7, apparently the most divisive movie in the franchise, amongst fans & critics, but still managed to make it to the Number One movie in America its opening weekend. We revisit our final girl Sidney with her teenage daughter in tow this time in this seventh installment that instills a wave of nostalgia throughout as they both battle against Ghostf...

Part 6 in our "WTF was that Ending?" series is all about the 2005 Michael Keaton paranormal thriller White Noise, which is currently for rent or purchase on Amazon Prime. This movie had a very promising premise: a man loses his wife and starts to receive EVPs (electronic voice phenomenas) aka white noise with what sounds like his wife's voice, but that's not the only voice he pulls through; unfort...

We love a good holiday-themed horror here at the DFWTO podcast and tonight we're talking about the 2025 Valentine's Day comedy slasher "Heart Eyes" currently streaming on Netflix. Starring Mason Gooding from "Scream 6," Jordana Brewster from "The Faculty" and Devon Sawa from "Final Destination," "Heart Eyes" follows a masked killer with glowing heart eyes that targets couples on February 14th forc...

True Crime Episode tonight guys so trigger warning. Richard Beasley & Brogan Rafferty, dubbed the "Ohio Craiglist Killers," killed 3 out of 4 men that they lured to a supposed farm under the pretense of job offers as caretakers of said farm. Starting in August of 2011 and ending that November after the 3rd victim escaped before the 4th victim was murdered, Beasley was sentenced to death row an...

Everyone has heard of the Bermuda Triangle, but most are unfamiliar with the Alaska Triangle. Covering most of the state from the cities Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik, this area consists of very dense forest and hidden caves that could make it very easy for people to go missing. Reportedly 20,000 people, most notable US Congressman Nick Begich and US Majority Leader Hale Boggs, have gone missin...

Interview Number 2 with friend to the pod Grayson Sebert discussing her latest short film on YouTube titled "Toothsome." We first interviewed Grayson from Horrorhound 2023 for her award winning short, also on YouTube, "The Master" & even though both films deal with death, both are vastly different in terms of theme and dialogue. "Toothsome" tackles forbidden, eternal love with a twist. As ment...

*WARNING: STRANGER THINGS SPOILERS* Tonight we'll finally be discussing the end of an era: season 5, the series finale, of Stranger Things on Netflix. This show has spanned 10 years, summer of 2016 to winter 2026 and has connected us as an audience to some unforgettable characters in this coming-of-age sci-fi horror drama. As mentioned, there will be spoilers about this final season as well as pre...

Our first episode of 2026 guys! So you know what that means: tonight we're talking upcoming horror for the New Year! Some great stand alone scaries this year to look forward to like Primate, Iron Lung and The Bride! and also some entries to fan favorite franchises like Scream 7, Scary Movie 6, Insidious: The Bleeding World and Ready or Not 2 - Here I Come. If there are any we missed, please let us...

Christmas movie review time! A lesser-known Christmas Horror film that gained cult status due to its praise from director John Waters, tonight we discuss the 1980 infamous holiday slasher, "Christmas Evil." A man driven insane from a traumatic event in his childhood goes on a rampage with a hatchet dressed as Santa Claus. Starring Brandon Maggart as Harry and Jeffrey DeMunn, beloved Dale from the...

A Christmas Murder in Scotland. Was this self defense or something more sinister? Melissa Young in December of 2013 claimed she killed Alan Williamson because he would not leave her home. When her story was not lining up with authorities, she changed it by stating she was under "demonic possession" and also upset Alan, her apartment neighbor for many years, did not like the Christmas gifts she had...