Split Your Head

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of disturbing and controversial subject matter, including violence and sexual assault. This episode I've got SOV filmmaker Susana Kapostasy on to talk about her most recent film, The Emasculator, as well as her previous work, Night of the Zodiac & Metal Maniac. Susana is a one-of-a-kind true artist, brimming with knowledge of exploitation cinema, maki...

And we're back! For the first episode of Season 3, Louise Weard has returned to talk about her expansive harsh indie drama, Castration Movie Part 1 & 2. Like Mike Leigh or RW Fassbinder strained through a DIY Dogme95 sensibility multiplied by queer punk rock urgency, Part 1 was 4+ hours of nuanced character studies that resonated in the most unflinching way. Louise is just about to film Part 2...

Make way for the final episode of Season 2! This time I had quite a sprawling chat about British horror with Dr. Ethan Lyon, whose PhD in Film Studies and British heritage gave us a hefty dose of things to talk about. As selected by Ethan, we cover "The Dark Eyes of London" (1939), "Horrors of the Black Museum" (1959), "The Plague of the Zombies" (1966), "Apaches" (1977), and "Hellraiser" (1987)....

This episode features an interview with David Stepanavicius from Atræ Bilis. Their latest album, “Aumicide” (20 Buck Spin), is a dazzling journey through the cerebral heights of "Spiritually Dissonant Death Metal". When David isn’t shredding riffs, he’s also slinging bootleg horror tees with his new venture, Fulci Rots. David and I chat about the state of death metal, writing with psychedelics, an...

This episode features an interview with Samm Deighan, a writer, film historian, podcaster, and special features content producer for Vinegar Syndrome. Samm's latest book, "Revolutions in 35mm", is a fascinating collection of essays from various writers all focusing on political violence and resistance in cinema. We chat about this passion project of hers, spending time specifically on the Japanese...

This episode features a friendly discussion on one of the most prolific and singular directors to ever come out of Japan: THEE SHINYA TSUKAMOTO! You may know and love him for his cyber-punk masterpiece, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN, but I've got my pal Jeremiah Rosario, a Florida-based filmmaker, to chat about 3 lesser known films by Tsukamoto: Gemini (1999), Haze (2005), and Nightmare Detective (2006). L...

This episode features a chat with Kelly Gredner, a fellow podcaster and writer who's been a strong presence in the horror community with The Spinsters of Horror and Our Bloody Obsession (RIP). She's now embarking on her own series, Kelly's Taboo Terrors, where she'll be exploring controversial and transgressive films all with taboo themes. Naturally, I had to have Kelly on to pick her brain about...

This sequel drenched episode contains a doozy of a chat with Seth Troyer, a filmmaker, musician, and fellow podcaster based out of Ohio. You may know him from co-hosting Unwatchables, but he’s recently dropped a hilarious experimental short film called “Vertigo 2” that is so meta and bonkers I couldn’t wait to chat with him about it once my head stopped spinning. We dive into all of the problems a...

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of disturbing and controversial subject matter, including violence and sexual assault. Dakota Noot is an LA based visual artist who has recently become completely enthralled in the world of Pinku Eigas. These Japanese erotic/exploitation films are incredibly unique, disturbing, and in turn fascinating, so Dakota takes me through his deep dive into the gen...

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of disturbing and controversial subject matter, including violence and sexual assault. This episode features a discussion of the underrated Japanese writer/director Takashi Ishii with returning guest Fred Barrett. Fred came on last season to discuss Hisayasu Sato after writing a phenomenal piece on Pink Films for the Big Ship. When I asked Fred to come ba...

WARNING: This episode contains disturbing and graphic subject matter. If you're at all squeamish, please keep that in mind. This episode features a lovely chat with Cory DeAn Cowley, the "Lady of Decay", a super talented actor, director, and FX artist whose most recent film "Trypophobic Possession" shocked me to my core with its intense body-horror textural hellscapes. Cory, however, is anything b...

Guy is back and this time he's joined by his podcasting co-host, Dave Jackson! Guy and Dave are two wild underground horror filmmakers that now both reside in Japan where they conduct their highly addictive podcast, Show Me Something Wrong. In this series, they explore films that they deem "wrong" - ya know, films that are provocative, baffling, controversial, or just completely WTF. Thanks to the...

This episode features Amy Hensarling and Jetta Weinstein, two podcasting/film-writing buds who both made appearances on the first season. Once I heard the inaugural episode of Amy's new series, She Said/She Said, where Jetta came on to dissect a couple films, I just knew I needed both of them on to discuss a couple horror flicks. Jetta picked William Friedkin's "Bug" (2006") and Antonia Bird's "Ra...

WARNING: This episode contains some very disturbing and controversial subject matter. If you're at all squeamish or easily offended, please keep that in mind before listening. This episode features one of the most intense and provocative discussions thus far as I interviewed Jonathan Doe along with Daniel Valient from the collective White Gardenia. Both artists operate within the extreme horror un...

This episode features an incredibly inspiring chat with Montreal-based filmmaker Terry Chiu, whose latest feature film Open Doom Crescendo is one of the wildest, weirdest, and most epic movies I've ever seen! ODC is really an "Experience" so singular and bursting with creativity that you'd expect Terry to be swimming in avant-garde art. Instead, Chiu is a devoted fan of the Insidious films and lov...

This episode features a chat with Finlay Blake, the singer of Last Retch, a death metal band from Hamilton, ON who have just released a brand new EP called Ergotism on CDN Records. Finlay is one scary dude on stage, but the complete opposite of that when he's not making a warpath of guttural destruction with his gnarly vocals. We talk about the Salem witch trial influences of the new EP, all the u...

This episode I got to interview Zarrar Kahn whose debut feature, In Flames, has been unleashed in North American theatres as of April 12th. Kahn's film is a doozy of patriarchal oppression, supernatural malevolence, and seething angst, all set in Karachi, Pakistan where two women struggle with the loss of the family patriarch. It's a super impressive debut and gave us plenty to talk about, like wr...

This episode's special guest is Rob Jabbaz, a Canadian filmmaker who created my favourite film of 2022 - The Sadness! If you haven't watched it yet, what are you waiting for?? It's one of the most brutal and exhilarating takes on a "viral horror flick" where people are succumbing to a mysterious infection that turns them into sadistic psychopaths. We talk about how his film was received in Taiwan...

Second episode of Season 2 and we've got the talented underground filmmaker, David Dawson. David's been carving out a unique style over the past few years, getting his friends together to shoot films that blend drama and horror together in an exciting way. His last film, "Flesh Games", took a Jackass-style mock-doc from goofy hijinx to nightmare cinema. A bit of genre-hopping sculpted to get the s...

The first episode of Season 2 is actually the last episode of Season 1! Yes, this particular recording was Frankenstein-ed together after numerous technical difficulties led to failed attempt after failed attempt - but we persevered because 1) THIS GUEST IS STEPHEN F**KIN' GRISCHUK, and 2) Stephen friggin' Grischuk! If you don't know him yet, you will know him soon, an indie horror filmmaker burst...

WARNING: CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS OF GRAPHIC CONTENT, INCLUDING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, & OTHER TABOO SUBJECTS THAT MAY OFFEND OR TRIGGER. Happy Halloween! For this fun episode, I've got two gnarly patrons of the extreme horror underground - Christian Michelsen and Goblin O'Riley from Quality Violent Cinema! We discuss the future of QVC, as well as their various projects, including their segmen...

This extra special episode I've got Jared Auner from Mondo Macabro (& Neon Eagle Video) to talk about their upcoming Halloween Sale and Flash Bundle dropping on October 20th. We go over all their bangers, overlooked gems, as well as hints at what's to come during the sale and in the new year! We also dive into other films, music, and the meaning life, but don't worry if you're just wanting the...

This episode might be the funniest one yet as I welcome the three dudes that produce one of my favourite podcasts: Unwatchables. Seth Troyer, Marc Dottavio, and Tony Scarpitti take extreme/challenging/avant-garde/wtf cinema analysis to a whole new level and I brought them on to pick their brains on what it's been like to endure films like Salo: 120 Days of Sodom and Space Jam: A New Legacy. We had...

This episode's special guest is none other than Payson Power from death metal astronauts, Tomb Mold! Payson also runs the horror & cult film long-sleeve shirt company, BodyBags, so we spent way more time gushing over Charles Bronson flicks than putrid riffs but plenty of time was still spent on Tomb Mold's brand new album, The Enduring Spirit, as well as his instrumental math-pop project, Dayd...

WARNING: CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS OF GRAPHIC CONTENT, INCLUDING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, & OTHER TABOO SUBJECTS THAT MAY OFFEND OR TRIGGER. This episode I had a lovely chat with Baltimore-based filmmaker/visual artist/author, Scott Philip Goergens. Scott's film '29 Needles' was one of the most intense extreme horror films I've ever seen but I still managed to chat about 'Willy Wonka & The Ch...