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Andre Gower who played Sean in 1987's cult classic The Monster Squad and the follow-up documentary Wolfman's Got Nards stops by the show to talk about the eponymous children's monster movie of the late 80's. The Monster Squad is enjoying an ever-growing fan base and calls for a sequel continue to ring out. Andre stays busy with a number of productions in the works as well. We hope you enjoy the th...

Today we're taking brief detour of chilling horror and suspense and we sit down with veteran action movie filmmaker Sam Firstenberg. Sam was the director behind the cult classic American Ninja (1985) and 1987 sequel, both starring Michael Dudikoff. Sam takes us on a journey through his famed career and speaks about his recent novel "Stories From The Trenches: Adventures in making High Octane Holly...

Welcome to another episode of The Grim and Bloody Podcast! We had a lot of fun with this one. Today we host David Howard Thornton star of Damien Leone's 2016 Terrifier that introduced the world to Art the Clown. We also get to talk about the upcoming Terrifier 2!   Synopsis for Terrifier: On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clo...

We talk with Matthew Banks, a writer for We Belong Dead Magazine that has published numerous articles and short stories revolving around early gothic era of Bela Lugosi's Dracula. Matthew penned Where Does Imagination End and Reality Begin? Re-Examining the Horror Classic: an entertaining and informative journey through the annals of Horror, examining those classic scare fests from the Golden Age...

Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker (who in 1897 penned the Gothic horror novel Dracula ) and is the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead, the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula . Dacre is also the co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years . Dacre stops by the Grim and Bloody Podcast to talk about his life and adventures...

Sunday is the day we usually reserve to exorcise the plethora of demons we collect during the week, but today we happily made an exception and brought on Dillon Brown, writer and director of The Flock. A gritty, horrifying take on the cult subgenre. In this POV-style feature a mysterious cult, calling themselves "The Flock," has set up camp somewhere in Northern Nevada, leaving behind a trail of m...

Welcome to another episode of the Grim and Bloody Podcast. Today we sit down with Mick Strawn, the production designer behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Boogie Nights, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Lawnmower Man, Freddy's Nightmares, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and more. Mick has so many stories we had to pick and choose the best ones! One story in particular we...

Welcome to another episode of The Grim and Bloody Theater. Today we host Ann Myrna and Steve Hermann behind Acrostar Films and preview their latest film Trepidity starring Taydem Shoesmith as Samantha, Magdalena Conway as Trish, Beth Metcalf as Melissa and voice of The Demon, Ashley Hefner as Allison, and Paige Bourne as Taylor.  Trepidity is an independent horror film in the 80s slasher styl...

She is known as the girl in the bathroom. Originally called to be a stand-in on Wes Craven's horror slasher Scream, Nancy earned the role as the girl in the bathroom, an albeit brief scene that has given her a legacy character title and invitations to numerous conventions and speaking engagements. Join Kevin Nickelson, Al Omega, Joe Flynn and Anthony DeRouen as we delve into Scream!  New on T...

Welcome back horror enthusiasts! In this episode of the Grim and Bloody Theater Beatrice Boepple, the actress who played Amanda Krueger in Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. The Grim and Bloody Theater is part of the Death’s Parade Film Festival: Northern California's premiere horror film fest. DPFF provides a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to horror and...

On this episode of the Grim and Bloody Theater we talk about Blumhouse Production's Halloween trilogy which started in 2018 and finishes on October 14th with Halloween Ends. With John Carpenter's help Halloween reignited the franchise. Although Michael Meyers cannot never die, we eagerly anticipate the conclusion to this well done Blumhouse series. Halloween is near and dear to our hearts. We can...

In this episode of the Grim and Bloody Theater - Veteran producer Frank Farel stops by the show to talk about the supernatural hit Spookies from 1986.  Frank speaks candidly about the trouble releasing the film according to his vision, the comprehensive re-release by Vinegar Syndrome, and his thoughts on Spookies gaining a cult following since its release.   Synopsis:  After their c...

In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Julian David Stone regarding his new book release "It's Alive!". The novel details the pivotal change in Universal Studios leading up to the classic film Frankenstein, led by the young and brash Junior Laemmle, son of the famed studio head Carl Laemmle.  We speak to Julian about this time in history, about Boris Karloff's eventual...

In this episode of the Grim and Bloody Theater Michael Rooker (Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy,  Days of Thunder) spends time with the guys to discuss his new film Corrective Measures, premiering on Tubi today! Additionally, we talk about Michael's quiet, intense acting method on Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, his undeniable screen presence during AMC's The Walking Dead's early hey...

In this episode Writer and Director Adrian Tofei stops by the Grim and Bloody Podcast to talk about his breakout horror film Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, growing up in the post revolutionary 90's in Romania, and his upcoming apocalyptic feature We Put the World to Sleep . In other news - From now until May 11th all filmmakers are encouraged to submit their horror, thriller and suspense films to the...

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time. Jack Finney 's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a story told on rinse and repeat with varying results. Philip Kaufman's 1978 effort stands out as a crowd favorite (no disrespect to Don Siegel's 1956 mem...

1982 was a good year for horror, and Visiting Hours - starring Michael Ironside, Lee Grant and William Shatner - continues that trend. Michael Ironside plays a silent, demented, crafty and relentless killer who has a fondness for praying on women in hospitals. According to Kevin Nickelson, Joe Flynn, and Al Omega Visiting Hours was not an easy film to sit through in 1982 due to the subject matter...

We had the privilege and honor to speak with Greydon Clark - a screenwriter, director, producer, and actor that has earned a permanent place in the hearts of fans of late night and straight-to-video fare starting with 1973's Tom through 1998's sci-fi Stargames starring Tony Curtis. Greydon has so many stories to share that this episode is thirty minutes longer than our normal one. We touch on such...

The original Evil Dead is considered a genre maker in terms of horror films. Thanks to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell Evil Dead created (and disrupted) many of the tropes of the horror genre. It’s influence is felt in the films of the Coen brothers, Peter Jackson, and Edgar Wright. It is campy without being bad. It's disgusting, hilarious, and a film that will make you jump. Join Al Omega from The O...

In this segment, we are joined by John Evans, host of the popular Behind the Fiends podcast on Spotify, Apple and other platforms. John is also an Associate Producer on six pending features, including Z Dead End (2022) and The Sawyer Massacre (2022). What's new on the Creature Feature show? Teenage Zombies from 1959! Submissions are open for the Death's Parade Film Fest - send in your work now .

We were beyond excited to preview two new shock doc specials on discovery+ today February 18th with executive producer Tom Jennings. We cover the two new specials Alien Abduction: Barney and Betty Hill, and Alien Abduction: Travis Walton.   Barney and Betty Hill stands as the first real report of Alien Abduction. Contrary to what you may have seen in the past Tom Jennings and 1895 Films...

We have been looking forward to speaking with San Francisco Bay Area horror writer Fred Wiehe for some time, and we finally got him on! Fred Wiehe has dabbled in all forms of written horror: from novellas to poems to screenplays and has also found time to teach the fine of writing as well. Today we talk about how Fred got into writing, his writing process, his latest works, and just how in the hec...

Welcome to our first retrospective of 2022! The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 supernatural horror film directed by John Hough , and stars Pamela Franklin as the mental medium Florence Tanner, Roddy McDowall as the physical medium Benjamin Franklin Fischer, Clive Revill as the physicist in charge of the investigation into the afterlife, and Gayle Hunnicutt as Ann Barret as the physicist's wife. Wi...

In this short and very informal episode the crew of The Grim and Bloody Podcast welcome Samuel Glass to the DPFF team. Samuel has a long history of writing horror and we're stoked to read his upcoming work. We're excited to introduce our newest DPFF feature - editorial reviews! We will be covering a wide spectrum of horror that includes film, television, books, illustrations, video games, music an...

In our latest episode of the Grim and Bloody Podcast we are joined by Robert Restro, the filmmaker behind Amazon Prime's horror thriller THE BRAIN HUNTER, and the upcoming feature Z DEAD END.   New on The Creature Feature Show: Krampus Origins 2018 .  We hope you have a safe and warm holiday season! Enjoy Horror.