Castle Talk with Castle Bridge Media

This episode we’re talking to Leanna Renee Hieber whose new book A Summoning of Souls comes from Kensington/ Rebel Base Books… At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City houses both the living and the dead. And when it comes to crimes of an otherworldly nature, it falls to the psychics and spirits of the city’s finest secret agency—The Ghost Precinct—to serve justice beyond the earthly realm.

This episode we’re talking to Julius Berg, co-writer and director of The Owners, in theaters and on demand Sep 4, 2020. The film stars Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, Rita Tushingham. In the film, a group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

Jason chats with Chris Mooney, author of the new thriller Blood World, in which a cop must investigate an illegal trade in enhanced blood that renders those receiving a transfusion younger and healthier. We talk a lot about the craft of writing.

Jason is joined by Julia to chat with the Rifftrax comedy team of Bridget & Mary Jo-- Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl-- on their new feature-length riff of the late-50s monster movie Frankenstein's Daughter (Astor, 1958.).

Jason chats about the Shudder miniseries Cursed Films with the miniseries' director / Writer / Editor Jay Cheel and writer Mitch Horowitz (As a Man Thinketh), who provides much of the commentary on the series. They talk about the films the series covers, with an episode each for The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, The Crow and The Twilight Zone.

Jason chats with many-time New York Times Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson on two brand-new projects-- "Stake," a new novel about a cynic and a believer investigating a man who may be a vampire hunter-- or may just be a serial killer-- and "Monsters, Movies and Mayhem," a brand-new anthology of movie-inspired monster stories from top writers which Publisher's Weekly calls "fun and nostalgia-filled... horror fans won’t want to put this down." Along the way Anderson also reveals some of his secrets for getting more writing done, including learning to dictate your novels.

This episode we’re talking to Daniel Kraus, author of The Living Dead from Tor. Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler) and has been a Library Guild selection, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bram Stoker finalist, and more.

This episode we’re talking to Danny Wolf, director of the documentary series Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time. We talk about Danny's experience interviewing the stars of movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rock & Roll High School, Dawn of the Dead, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and more.

This episode Jason talks to Jeffrey A. Brown, writer and director of The Beach House, which comes to AMC’s horror streaming service Shudder July 9th (US/Canada/UK/Ireland).

In this episode Tony Salvaggio talks to Writer/Director Gavin Rothery about his soon to be released Sci-Fi thriller Archive. Gavin fill us in on the development of the film, his influences, and what it is like to transition from being an artist and production designer to being the writer and director on his first feature film.