Invasion of the Pod People

Today's guest is John Johnson, director of Curse of the Blue Lights and Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain. This is a special episode, as John Johnson is also a resident of Pueblo, Colorado, where I live! This is the first episode I recorded in person, in our local public library - the same place where I first saw a showing of Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain. Curse of the Blue Lights is a super...

Today's guest is Fred Vogel, director of The Final Interview, a psychological thriller set almost entirely in a single room, and the August Underground trilogy, highly influential and hard to find fake snuff films. You can find The Final Interview here, and the August Underground trilogy is set to be re-released later this year, starting this month. https://www.thefinalinterviewmovie.com/ Powered...

In this first annual Slimy Awards episode, I take a moment to reflect on the first year of doing Invasion of the Pod People, talk about what's changing going forward (not much, just more interviews!), and of course present the first annual Slimy Awards. If you are an independent filmmaker and would like to get interviewed about your work , send an email to invasionofthepodpeoplepodcast@gmail.com P...

Today's quest is Lloyd Kaufman, cofounder of Troma, the world's longest running independent film studio. You probably already know who Lloyd is. You can watch all sorts of Troma movies on Troma Now: https://watch.troma.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Pierce Berolzheimer, the writer/director of Crabs!, a genre-bending horror comedy creature feature about, you guessed it, crabs invading a small town. You can watch Crabs! here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0QRXUKUZPS46G1CFCCIJI9MFWD/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

A bit of a disclaimer: my mic had some difficulties this episode, so my audio is a bit garbled. Fortunately my guests are audible just fine. In today's episode my guests are Chris McInroy, the director, Stacey Bell, the executive producer, and Kris Phipps, another producer, of several horror shorts: GUTS, Bad Guy Number 2, Death Metal, We Summoned a Demon, and the One Time in the Woods segment in...

In today's episode my guest is Noah Bunyon, the director of The King in Yellow, an adaptation of the 1896 collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. You can watch The King in Yellow here: https://www.amazon.com/King-Yellow-Mike-Newman/dp/B0B6WVBK24 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Fable Siegel, director of the Lackadaisy animated pilot, a cartoon about anthropomorphic cats in prohibition era St. Louis. You can watch the Lackadaisy pilot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 And you can read the original Lackadaisy comic here: https://lackadaisy.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Tracy Butler, creator of Lackadaisy. Lackadaisy is a comic about anthropomorphic cats in prohibition era St Louis that was recently adapted into an animated pilot. You can watch the pilot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 And you can read the original Lackadaisy comic here: https://lackadaisy.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

In today's episode I interview Rick Ives, writer/director of Solid Rock Trust, a tense heist movie set almost entirely in a single location. You can watch Solid Rock Trust here: https://tubitv.com/movies/701273/solid-rock-trust?start=true You can follow Rick on twitter here: https://twitter.com/flashbulb_films Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi...

tw: discussion of suicide In today's episode, my guest is Matt Gordon, a special effects makeup artist from right here in Pueblo Colorado. A warning, this episode does get a bit heavier than most. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

In today's episode, I interview Rico Dalsimer, creator of the Durty D youtube channel and the Dawn of the Friend short film. You can watch Durty D here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DurtyD And you can check out the 72 hour Kickass Film Fest here: https://filmfreeway.com/KickAssFilmFestivals Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Power...

In today's episode I interview some folks who made Valentine Bluffs, a My Bloody Valentine fan film. We've got Chuck Ryan, who plays the miner and Axel and is a producer, John Piekos, the DP, and Darren Pastor, the special effects guy. You can watch Valentine Bluffs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIOv49awUU Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012...

In today's episode, my guest is Chris Dubey, producer and star of Paper City Burnout, a neo-noir / crime thriller tragedy. You can watch Paper City Burnout for free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/641760/paper-city-burnout Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today I interview Steve Rudzinski, the writer director of CarousHell, CarousHell 2, and more! You can watch CarousHell here: https://tubitv.com/movies/682665/caroushell?start=true And you can watch all of Steve's movies on his patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/SteveBuster/ Leave a comment and share your thoughts: Comment Link Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/us...

Today my guest is Dustin Matson, the writer, director, and one of the stars of Tapehead. We talk about Tapehead, the upcoming feature length sequel Tapehead: The Return of Jacob Cobb, and indie filmmaking in general. You can watch Tapehead here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60ldSPJ6ZY Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powe...

In this month's episode, I interview Prof. Dustin Morrow, writer / director of Black Pool (2019) and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Most games of Fear of the Unknown have one GM and multiple players, but it also works with just a single player! Join us today as Howard Frieze GMs and I play, trying to unravel a horrifying time loop. The kickstarter for Fear of the Unknown is now live throughout the month of October 2022! Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Po...

An actual play of Fear of the Unknown, a zero prep horror mystery RPG coming to Kickstarter in October. Featuring special guest star, horror screenwriter and producer Brian Patrick O'Toole, whom I interviewed on this channel last month! The kickstarter for Fear of the Unknown is now live throughout the month of October 2022! Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl...

In this episode I interview Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society , makers of film adaptations of The Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer in Darkness Also, the kickstarter for Fear of the Unknown is now live throughout the month of October 2022! Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory H...

In this episode, Thomas Eliot is the Oracle, Sean Patrick Fannon (Prowlers and Paragons) and Jamie Avery (playtester who literally had a nightmare about Fear of the Unknown) play the Deputy Sheriff and star hockey player in a small Alaskan town beset by a ravenous oil company. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by First...

In this actual play of Fear of the Unknown Thomas is the Oracle, Sean and Jamie play and are later joined by Graham, and together they play boat thieves in the 1950s on the shores of Lake Michigan battling against a vengeful Sheriff. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

I interview Brian LaGuardia, composer for Rice Games and Fear of the Unknown! Also releasing today are all of the Sixpence Games themes for our previous games: in addition to Fear of the Unknown by Brian LaGuardia, we also have Murder Most Foul, Professor Pugnacious, and Cultists of Cthulhu, each by Brent Hengeveld. https://ricegames.net/ Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.first...

I love evil doll movies. There's something so intensely unsettling about mundane, harmless things like dolls doing things they shouldn't be able to. If you found yourself being chased by a regular guy with a knife, at least people might believe you, but who would believe you if you told them you're being chased by a doll with a knife? Trying to get help could get you landed in an asylum! Here are...

In this month's interview I talk microbudget filmmaking with Len Kabasinski, the king of independent action genre cinema. You can support his work and see all of his movies on his patreon at patreon.com/killerwolffilms Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting