JED Talks

This episode I chat to writer/producer Jimmy George and writer/director Chris Lamartina about one of my favourite found footage films of recent time. If you haven’t seen WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL yet, please do. You’ll thank me. It’s dripping with talent and love and so is this interview. We chat about their careers leading up to their new movie WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL SCARE YOU (which I also love) and plans for WNUF 2!

Let me know what you think on twitter @jedshepherd. Thanks for coming to my Jed Talk.

I’ve seen every documentary about The Exorcist out there and up until now had firmly believed that Mark Kermode’s FEAR OF GOD was the best of the bunch. That was until I watched a screener of AELXANDRE O. PHILIPPE’S new documentary LEAP OF FAITH which sideswiped me with how essential and quickly its risen to the top of that pile. Its trick is to just give Friedkin the foundation to build his stories upon and these are ones you also have likely not heard before.

LEAP OF FAITH is out TODAY (19th Nov 2020) on SHUDDER so watch it asap and let me know what you think!

You can find me on twitter https://twitter.com/Jedshepherd

This is really special for me. As most of you who listen regularly know, NIGHT OF THE COMET is my favourite movie of all time. It’s always on my mind when Im writing stuff because its the perfect balance of horror and levity and has two of the best lead performances in film history (imho).

So interviewing the genius behind it, the guy who wrote and directed it - Thom Eberhardt - has been on my bucket list for a very long time. He had a lot of stories I’d never heard before about the making of NOTC so it was a dream for me. I also surprised Thom with a Night of the Comet reunion of his two lead actresses, my friends CATHERINE MARY STEWART and KELLI MARONEY. These two actresses are the best kinda people and probably the two most underrated actresses working today. I want to see them in everything!

So tune in and hear me geek tf out and let me know what you think. Im on twitter @jedshepherd so come say hello!

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As I am writing this, it’s HALLOWEEN and HOST is the number 1 horror film on Rotten Tomatoes with 100%. If you told me this would happen only 6 months ago I would call you a liar. Bucket List completed! What made HOST special was it’s cast, my good friends (in appearance order) HALEY BISHOP, JEMMA MOORE, EMMA LOUISE WEBB, RADINA DRANDOVA, CAROLINE WARD, some who you have heard on this very podcast - before they became divas! They girls return to Jed Talks to talk a little bit about HOST but also I wanted to ask them questions they will never have been asked before like - Where’s the weirdest place you’ve urinated? There is 20 minutes on that.

Also there is a weird sub-plot about Emma recording this podcast LIVE from Elton Johns house.

Pure chaos but these are my friends when they let their guard down, stop being polite and start being real!

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Its the hardest thing in the world to do a GOOD Horror anthology. There have been so many - especially recently - but most have forgotten the golden rule of Anthologies - Make the Wraparound Story as good as your best segment. Ryan Spindell’s THE MORTUARY COLLECTION does this effortlessly and I had so much fun speaking to the writer/director of this film about his journey to make it and whats next.

Hit me up on twitter @jedshepherd and Ryan @RyanSpindell!

It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Mick Garris today, especially as his film HOCUS POCUS is the number 1 film in the US Box office right now! As you will hear, almost every story blew me away as Mick has a knack of being in the right place at the right time and knocking everything he has faced, out of the park.

We about THE GOONIES, BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, AMAZING STORIES, SPIELBERG, CRITTERS 2, SLEEPWALKERS, MASTERS OF HORROR, NIGHTMARE CINEMA, HOCUS POCUS and lots lots more!

Enjoy the episode and thanks for coming to my Jed Talk!

@jedshepherd

This week on JED TALKS I chat to to writer/director Damien LeVeck & Producer Natalie LeVeck about their new horror film The Cleansing Hour! It is rare that a film in the exorcism sub-genre wins me over, but this one did with its originality and subversion of the tropes. It drops on Shudder today - 8th October 2020 - so if you want to hear the story behind how they made it, this is for you!

Let me know what you think and just generally hit me up on twitter // https://twitter.com/Jedshepherd

See you next week and thanks for coming to my Jed Talk!

WELCOME TO THE REBOOT OF JED TALKS!

From now on, the podcast will almost entirely be Horror leaning. Some might say it already was, but now I’m making it official. Each week we will start with Horror news and then an interview with a filmmaker.

On this episode I have Rob Savage, who co-wrote HOST (the horror movie of 2020) with me and also Directed it. We chat The Craft reboot, Ben Wheatley’s lockdown horror and the Haunting of Bly Manor.

My special guests are the filmmakers behind SCARE ME which drops on Shudder TODAY (October 1st). Actor/Writer/Producer/Director JOSH RUBEN and cinematographer BRENDAN H BANKS talk about how they made Scare Me and their career leading up to it. I loved the movie and can’t wait to see what they do next.

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JED Talks is back with an interview with one of the greatest voices currently walking this planet… Rebekah Del Rio. You may know her as the crying lady from Mulholland Drive who literally dies onstage while singing. OR you may know her from the new Twin Peaks series, killing onstage with Moby! I absolutely loved hearing all of her stories about new Twin Peaks, David Lynch and her career and I hope you do too! Let me know what you think on twitter @jedshepherd.

It’s not every day I get to speak to a member of the Blue Rose Task Force, but today I did. Agent Tammy Preston, better known as singer/songwriter/model/actress (what can’t she do?) Chrysta Bell. Often touted as David Lynch’s muse, her experiences with Lynch coloured much of our conversation and for that I am truly grateful. We also discuss music and the fact this was basically Chrysta Bell’s first acting role!

A total joy to speak to, you can find Chrysta Bell at The Twin Peaks UK Festival in London this weekend (29/30 of September) or at her website https://chrystabell.com/ and all of the various links for further perusal are found within.

Thanks for listening and you can find me on twitter https://twitter.com/Jedshepherd

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