The Grim and Bloody Podcast

Award-winning young adult horror and fantasy author Tricia Copeland joins the Grim and Bloody podcast to discuss her latest addition to her Kingdom Journals series, the prequel fantasy thriller Of Witches and Vampires, about a heroine who is part vampire and part witch who fights to protect her own progeny and their growing powers.

Check out our talk with Tricia here.

On this show, Kevin Nickelson and Al Omega have a look at two alien invasion films from the early 1990s, Abel Ferrara's 1993 Body Snatchers and Stuart Orme's 1994 rendition of Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. How well did either work for us?

Why did both under-perform at the box office? Was the alien invasion genre finally on the decline? We discuss and discourse on all of it. Check it out!

Hailing from the UK, Nathan Shepka (co-director with Andrew Crane on the 2025 gothic slow burn chiller The Baby in the Basket) joined Kevin Nickelson and Al Omega on the podcast to talk this period horror set in 1944 at the Scottish St. Augustine's church. A baby left in a basket at the church's doorstep is either a blessing from heaven or the cursed hell of a demon ready to be born in disguise for the nuns in the monastery. Unexplained occurrences, murder and madness follow.

Nathan has a plethora of stories to tell of filming the chiller, which stars Shepka, along with legendary actress Maryam D'Abo (former Bond girl Kara Milovy in "The Living Daylights" and Paul Barber (Horse in the 1997 classic "The Full Monty").

Dunfermline, Scotland's own David Izaat joins the Grim and Bloody podcast to talk with Kevin Nickelson and guest co-host Craig Johnson about his intriguing, minimalist  2024 sci-fi/horror chiller Skinjacker, about a group of disparate travelers in the Isle of Skye who begin disappearing one by one after being stranded on a roadway by a mysterious power outage affecting their cars and campers.

David gives us the rundown on filming on location and with a very tight budget that often demanded just one take to film. You can check the film out on Amazon Prime or Fandango!

Only a sojourn into the twisted, tortured mind of a traumatised man, who's busy setting his own psychotic designs on a fractured abuse victim could bring director Steve Merlo back into the Grim and Bloody fold for another chat. Once again, he presents more minimalist chills and a focus on inner human demons to scare audiences silly!

Check it out as he chats with Kevin Nickelson all about the behind-the-scenes machinations into the making of this twisty chiller!

Riding on the coattails of Shark Week, Jonathan Zuck, director of the action-packed and grisly horror thriller Chum starring Alice Eve, stops by the Grim and Bloody podcast to chat all things 3-d shark imaging, prosthetic gore effects, the whole shark horror craze, having a star like Alice Eve on board and filming in gorgeous Malta!

Check it out here before you next go to the beach for surfing!

The Grim and Bloody Podcast welcomed Abraham Lopez, Deborah Shirley and Natalie Moore, the director and lead actresses for the creepy, twisting 2025 chiller Sharp Obsession, centering on a young musician who is trying to break away from her abusive mother, only to fall in with a woman who turns out to be driven by obsession and murderous psychosis and has her own plans for the tortured singer. Many stories shared on the creation of the horror gem! 

Witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves are the order of the day in 2025's My Neighbor is a Witch, the new exciting chiller to reach Amazon Prime! Local high school students in Georgia come to believe that a neighbor of theirs is a malevolent witch and is responsible for the disappearances of some of their classmates. Are these incidents of a human crime variety, or are supernatural forces at work to build an ultrabeast to rule us all?

Director Omar Reid, star Tisha Ison, and cinematographer David Haynes joined host Kevin Nickelson to discuss all of the behind-the-scenes on the creature feature! 

Director Julian Richards drops in all the way from the United Kingdom to talk about his 2012 gem serial killer chiller Shiver, about a serial killer targeting a mentally abused young lady in Portland, Oregon. Will the damaged heroine find the courage to stand up to this psycho's terror reign or will she be just another fallen victim.

Danielle Harris, John Jarrat, Casper Van Dien, Rae Dawn Chong, Valerie Harper and Brad Harris comprise the cast of vets. The film is just released on Shudder. Check out the show here!

Natasha Kermani stops by the show to talk Abraham's Boys, a twisting and unusual chiller that dives into whether vampires exist or is the true demon religious fanaticism gone to insane lengths. Titus Welliver (of Bosch and Deadwood fame) stars. Available on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms."