Apocalypse Cinema

Screenwriter and Producer Darren Callahan sits down with Rob Herman to discuss the highly entertaining 90s films from Steven Seagal

This week we talk with Stephanie Sack about the renaissance in Women Horror Directors. 

Films and Directors mentioned on this podcast:

• Stephanie Rothman 

• Velvet Vampire 1971

• Anna Biller

• The Love Witch 

• Raw

• Antonia Bird-  Died - 2013

• Ravenous (You are what you eat - byline)- 1999 - 

• Rachel Talalay

• Ghost in the Machine - 1993

• Jen and Sylvia Soska - Identical twins

• American Mary

• Humanoids from the deep

• Silent House - presented as a single-take experience - Elizabeth Olsen

• Mary Lambert

• Pet Semetary and Pet Semetary II

• Karen Lam

• Evangeline 

• Karyn Kusama -

• The Invitation -

• Destroyer - Nicole Kidman

• Claire Denis

• Trouble Every Day - Vincent Gallo - Poetic bloodbath romance

• Kathryn Bigelow

• Near Dark 

The ambitious team at Apocalypse Cinema take a crack at rating their top ten Anime shows and Movies.

Author M.Stern talks to Apocalypse Cinema about his most recent published works

We talk to Jason Zink more than a year after seeing his movie "Straight Edge Kegger" at a Chicago Horror film festival. On this episode we discuss the challenges of making a micro-budget horror film and getting it distributed.

Tonight we talk about sequels and prequels. Which are the best and which are the worst.

We also delve into the CHOP CHAZ news from Seattle with first-person reporting from Cow Shea

Tonight we delve into cinematic blood. We have recipes too!

Here are the blood recipes I researched for you all to try. Careful! Some of these recipes include poisonous elements!

On this episode of Apocalypse Cinema we speak with author M. Stern about the origins of Giallo and our favorites from the genre

This week we had Matt Storc on. Matt is a local Chicago horror movie maven who puts on screenings and the Windy City Horrorama Film Festival.Matt will be at the Logan Theatre on Tuesday, Oct 29th to present a double feature of Halloween (1978)  and Halloween (2018). Show starts at 9:00PM

Tickets here:

This week we talk with filmmakers Chris Adams and Tommy Sigmon who are taking the independent cinema scene by storm with their collaborative anthology piece "Paradigm Grey".

Topics include black filmmakers unique voices in horror and sci-fi genres, the impact of Jordan Peele's success and future projects.

Here is a link to more information about the Paradigm Grey project: