The Movie Crypt

Filmmaker Natasha Kermani (IMITATION GIRL) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss her career, Halloween, and everything in between.  (Well, maybe not everything  in between but it rhymed with Halloween so just go with it.)  From early conversations dissecting great battle scenes with her father… to attending film school… to directing commercials… to founding her own production company… to directing...

Filmmaker Jim Hosking (THE GREASY STRANGLER, AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN) flies all the way over from London just to pet Arwen and share his career journey with Adam and Joe! (OK, maybe he had some other stuff to do while he was in town but stopping by THE MOVIE CRYPT was definitely high up there on Jim's list of important things to do while in LA!)  From working on promos for MTV in NYC… to...

ArieScope Pictures (the HATCHET franchise, 2010's FROZEN, TV's HOLLISTON, this podcast, and more) turns 20 years old this month! With 10 theatrical feature films, 2 seasons of a television show, a record label, a published novel, several popular comic series', and well over 100 shorts films/web series episodes under their belt … ArieScope has become a leader of the indie genre scene over the last...

Director Jonas Akerlund (SPUN, LORDS OF CHAOS) sits down with Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his amazing career in music videos, international commercials, and feature films. From MADONNA to METALLICA to U2 to LADY GAGA… Akerlund has created visionary music videos for some of the world's most iconic acts.   He's brought his same unique visual style to his various features including his latest, th...

Director William Lustig (MANIAC, MANIAC COP 2) shares his career journey and industry insight with Adam, Joe, and Arwen in this episode that we only wish could have gone on for another 3 hours!  From dropping out of High School… to working on the set of adult films… to directing one of the most beloved horror films of all time (MANIAC – which even Martin Scorsese requested a copy of for his own pe...

Joe Lynch makes his triumphant return to THE MOVIE CRYPT and brings Production Designer Freddy Waff (POINT BLANK, BONE TOMAHAWK, STRANGERS 2) with him.  From a brief turn at the stage… to pretending to know how to drive a 5-ton truck… to working his way up through all positions of the art department in films like CAST AWAY, SPIDER-MAN, and THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON… to becoming a full-fl...

Writer Nick Giovannetti (FAR CRY 5, JUST CAUSE 4, Marvel's DEADPOOL comics) shares his career journey with Adam and Arwen in this super-sized episode.  From (accidentally) getting a PA job on CHASING AMY… to finding himself touring with INSANE CLOWN POSSE and undergoing the shortest "chaining ceremony" in hip hop history… to breaking into comics and video games… Nick's path through the entertainme...

Musician/host Jason Charles Miller (GODHEAD, STARTER KIT) and his guitar return to serenade Adam and Arwen with live music and stories!  Over the last two and a half years since he last recorded an episode with us Jason has performed live on both 48-Hour "Save The Yorkies" marathons… taught thousands how to play Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games… sang the National Anthem before a maj...

Actor/writer/producer/director/author Thomas Lennon (NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, RENO 911, THE STATE, BAD TEACHER) joins Adam and Arwen to discuss his career journey, navigating the Hollywood studio system, and his latest film PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH. Including some amazing stories about pitches gone wrong, advice on how to keep moving forward even when feeling consistently set back, important...

Actor/Comedian Brian Quinn (VICTOR CROWLEY, TruTV's IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, TELL EM STEVE DAVE Podcast) makes his triumphant return to THE MOVIE CRYPT and discusses all that he's been up to since first doing the program exactly 2 years ago.  From the top secret making of VICTOR CROWLEY and what it was like for Q to play a main role in his first feature film… to selling out arenas around the world on t...

The three-headed filmmaker that is "Road Kill Super Star" (TURBO KID, SUMMER OF '84) join Adam and Arwen for one truly remarkable conversation.  From making short films together for fun… to their (now beloved) short T IS FOR TURBO notbeing accepted into the ABC's OF DEATH competition… to turning that rejection into one of the most memorable feature films of this last decade… to the making of their...

James Murray ("Murr" from TruTV's IMPRACTICAL JOKERS) sits down with Adam and Arwen to discuss his career journey from college English major… to production company executive… to co-creator/co-star of one of the funniest shows on television… to headlining arenas around the world… to author of the fantastic new horror novel AWAKENED. Dr. Arwen prescribes her "Hollywood Therapy," Murr answers your "V...

Author Joe Knetter (VILE BEAUTY, ZOMBIE BUKKAKE) sits down with Adam and Arwen to share his life story and things get more personal than JAWS... … … THE REVENGE.  From growing up in Minnesota with a mind that didn't fit in with the norm... to being so discouraged after his first creative writing attempt that it would be years before he attempted to write again… to the honest truth about "making a...

Last year Andrew Yong sat down with Adam Green for this in-depth interview about his book I, SURVIVOR, however due to the publisher's demands the episode had to be held back from airing until the book's formal release. The lone survivor of the horrific 2007 "Honey Island Swamp Massacre," Yong stood accused of viciously murdering over 4 0 people in the New Orleans bayou in his now infamous trial. S...

Writer/actor Adam G. Simon (MAN DOWN, the upcoming remake of THE RAID) shares his career journey with Adam, Joe, and Arwen in this truly inspiring episode.  From school plays... to learning screenwriting from a copy of the script for LABRYNTH… to doing personal security for the high powered rich and famous… to finding himself divorced and homeless … to writing big Hollywood action films… Adam pull...

Game developer/producer Ronnie Hobbs (FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE GAME) takes Adam, Joe, and Arwen to video game "Summer Camp!"  From pitching a slam-dunk game/title only to have all of the major gaming companies foolishly pass on it...  to the trials and tribulations of crowd-funding such a massive endeavor… to the growing pains of releasing something so technically involved… to going above and beyond b...

Filmmaker Travis Zariwny (CABIN FEVER 2016, THE MIDNIGHT MAN) sits down with Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career path so far.  ( DO NOT MISS THE LAST FEW MINUTES OF THIS ONE! )  From the camera department… to working for years as a production designer on films and television shows (including many of our own ArieScope productions like SPIRAL, CHILLERAMA, HOLLISTON Seasons 1 & 2, HATCHET 3, a...

Filmmaker Paul Davis (SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, BEWARE THE MOON: REMEMBERING 'AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON', INTO THE DARK) sits down with Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey thus far.  From writing for HORROR HOUND magazine… to making the definitive  documentary film about AMERICAN WEREWOLF… to directing numerous short films… to playing a creature in DOCTOR WHO… to keeping his hea...

The legendary Roger Corman (THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, THE WILD ANGELS, PIT AND THE PENDULUM, HOUSE OF USHER, THE INTRUDER) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for a 4thof July spectacular!  From the countless artists that Mr. Corman discovered, mentored, and/or gave a first shot to (Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Pam Grier, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, etc)… to the whoppi...

Actress and writer Cleopatra Coleman (FOX's THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, HOVER, STEP UP REVOLUTION) delivers one of Adam, Joe, and Arwen's most favorite episodes of THE MOVIE CRYPT yet!  From an aspiring multi-racial and one-of-a-kind actress growing up in Australia… to landing her first national commercial… to moving to Los Angeles and coming so close (again and again and again) to booking life/career-...

Screenwriter Simon Barrett (THE GUEST, YOU'RE NEXT, BLAIR WITCH) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for an incredibly humble and honest episode that details his long journey from aspiring filmmaker to screenwriter to one of today's most exciting cinematic voices.  From his first produced screenplay DEAD BIRDS and all he learned on that production… to joining forces with director Adam Wingard and making so...

Srdjan Spasojevic, the filmmaker behind one of the most controversial films ever made (2010's A SERBIAN FILM), joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for a wonderfully candid and honest conversation about his career journey so far.  From a child growing up in Serbia with only two TV channels and limited access to films… to a teenager with newfound access to video stores and a love for Chuck Norris… to making...

Editor Marshall Harvey (THE 'BURBS, SMALL SOLDIERS, MATINEE, LAKE PLACID) discusses his tightly paced, well-timed, and L-cut filled career journey from film school student to the editor of some of the most classic films of our time.  Fans of THE 'BURBS and LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION are especially in for an Arwen-level treat  as Marshall shares behind the scenes stories about the making of both...

Filmmaker Jacob Gentry (THE SIGNAL, SYNCHRONICITY) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for an amazing discussion about his journey from a child recording his own "podcasts" (decades before podcasts were even a thing) to one of our generation's most unique and exciting voices in filmmaking.  From technical geekery (you won't believe what other film the Panavision lenses were used for on one of Jacob's first...

Filmmaker GJ Echternkamp (DEATH RACE 2050, VIRTUALLY HEROES) discusses his career with Adam, Joe, and Arwen.  From a commercial actor… to an editor and director… to working for Roger Corman… to remaking his own narrative feature about his family as a real life documentary about his own family (FRANK AND CINDY), GJ's path has been incredibly unique.  Dr. Arwen prescribes some "Hollywood Therapy," y...