It Came From the Indies

Tristan Risk is a neo burlesque performer of considerable renown who has wowed audiences around the world. Tristan caught the eye of many a horror fan after her scene-stealing performance as Beatress Johnson in Jen and Sylvia Soska’s AMERICAN MARY. Now in high demand Tristan Risk has a great number …

Women in Horror Month! We’re kicking things off by talking to writer Ashlee Blackwell whose website Graveyard Shift Sisters has earned her praise for talking about the experience of being a black female horror fan and for looking into the history of black women and horror. Women in Horror Month …

Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. which rose to prominence as one of the great practical effects studios in the world. As well as being the team responsible for H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph from Alien 3 onward their filmography runs the gamut from The Santa Clause to …

A quick ‘n’ dirty bonus episode with Nigel McGuinness! Former pro-wrestler turned multimedia wonder, Nigel McGuinness ran a very successful Kickstarter campaign to create an extremely well-received documentary about his retirement from wrestling. Now Nigel returns with a much larger and more ambitious proposition, the opportunity to back LA FIGHTS. …

Stuart Willis is an Australian film maker who wowed many with his short film PAYLOAD and is currently putting the finishing touches to his crowdfunded mini-series RESTORATION. Martin and Stuart talk about both projects as well as science fiction storytelling, crowdfunding, community building and digital distribution. Stuart Willis is an …

John Portonova and Jeremy Berg are part of The October People, a group dedicated to making independent horror and genre film. With two films under their belts and a third one on the way they are definitely a group to look out for as their budgets grow and their ideas …

FIRE CITY: THE INTERPRETER OF SIGNS is the first in a series based on a city where demons coexist with humans in plain sight, humans conditioned not to see their supernatural cohabitants. After developing not just a story but a whole world for these ideas to exist in creators Michael …

Freeman Williams is a performer, writer and b-movie aficionado who once experienced making a low budget horror movie when he wrote what became FOREVER EVIL. After talking to some young talent making low budget genre films in the current cinematic climate and hearing Brad Sykes talk about his experiences in …

LFO: the Movie is a very off-kilter low-fi sci-fi with some creative ideas, great performances and a wickedly black sense of humor. Director/writer/composer Antonio Tublen and lead actor Patrik Karlson talk to Martin about the film. Topics include the low-fi aspects of the film, the score, the personality of Patrik’s …

Stewart Thorndike is an exciting upcoming lesbian filmmaker who wants to make horror with a particular focus on strong female characters. After making her first film LYLE available for free during her Kickstarter campaign for her second film PUTNEY many people got to see one of the best indie horror …