I suggested doing a podcast about the "Phantasm" franchise. Kodiak Thompson wanted me to investigate the schizophrenic nature of "John Dies at the End". All of these features are from Don Coscarelli, perhaps the best auteur when it comes to affordable horror, so it was not hard to meet in the middle.

With the exception of his attempt to be a genre director, the American sword-and-sandals movie and HBO stable "The Beastmaster", all of Coscarelli's features come in at under 100 minutes. His filmography only features 11 full-length films and five of them make up the franchise that inspired the design of J.J. Abrams's Captain Phasma from the "Star Wars" sequels, so it should have not been overly difficult to cover his hits.