Invasion of the Pod People

Jason Trost is the writer/director/star of Waves of Madness, an experimental "side-scrolling" Lovecraftian horror/action film. You can find Jason's work and social media here: https://linktr.ee/JTROPresents Powered by Firstory Hosting

Project MKHEXE is a fake documentary about a fictional CIA experiment akin to the very real Project MKULTRA. You can watch it now on ScreamBox: https://www.screambox.com/details/1000000053303/Project-MKHEXE Powered by Firstory Hosting

Round the Decay is a new "small town with a secret" horror film, one of my favorite subgenres, which you can hopefully find in theaters or on streaming at some point. If you're a distributor, reach out to me and pick it up! Powered by Firstory Hosting

Delicate Arch is a new surreal horror film now streaming on Screambox. You can follow Matt on Instagram, and follow the Delicate Arch Instagram. Powered by Firstory Hosting

Frogman is a found footage creature feature now streaming on FoundTV and you can watch Scare Package on Shudder. You can see more of Anthony on Youtube and his personal Instagram, and more about Frogman on the movie's Instagram. Powered by Firstory Hosting

No new interviews for a little while - I'm taking a break from interviews to focus on editing my first feature film, THE PHILIP EXPERIMENT -or- HOW TO CONJURE AN IMAGINARY GHOST Powered by Firstory Hosting

Taking a break from interviews for a bit to focus on editing my first feature film, THE PHILIP EXPERIMENT -or- HOW TO CONJURE AN IMAGINARY GHOST Powered by Firstory Hosting

Clawfoot is a sort of home invasion thriller with some really surprising twists and turns Stream it on Amazon Instagram Powered by Firstory Hosting

Glowzies is about slime and zombies. What more could you want? Made in Grand Junction, Colorado, Glowzies won Best Schlock Feature and Best Use of Slime at the 2024 SlimeFest, a film festival I put together last summer. Glowzies will be released by Terror Films instagram.com/KevinBr00ks Powered by Firstory Hosting

Siege at Nune High is an action thriller about defending a school, like Assault on Precinct 13 but starring kids, made by some high schoolers and their teacher. You can watch Siege at Nune High at www.siege-movie.com and on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@siegemovie You can follow along on instagram: @siegemovie Powered by Firstory Hosting

Compression is a colorful psychological thriller about an agoraphobic podcast host https://www.instagram.com/compressionmovie https://www.facebook.com/CinephreakPictures/ https://www.instagram.com/emjdurch_ Score Needle Drops Powered by Firstory Hosting

The Creeping Death is a cozy Halloween centered horror movie, available now on ScreamBox www.creepingdeathmovie.com https://twitter.com/MattSampere https://www.facebook.com/creepingdeathmovie https://www.instagram.com/creepingdeathmovie Powered by Firstory Hosting

Baleful is a surreal nightmare film that's coming soon. You can follow along on the Deformed Lunchbox youtube, instagram, or twitter Powered by Firstory Hosting

Beezel is a haunted house story told over three generations. You can find more information about Beezel and the other spooky stories Victoria and Aaron make here: http://www.epic-pictures.com/film/beezel https://x.com/DreadPresents https://www.facebook.com/dreadpresents/ https://www.instagram.com/dreadpresents/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyFWveJ8VzuCksq-KKeb2g https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialHouseFilms https://www.instagram.com/socialhousefilms/ https://www.facebook.com/socialhousefilms/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Austin Smagalski, writer/director of To Die Alone, a psychological thriller set in the woods. You can find more info on Austin's films at www.glasscreekfilms.com and https://www.charmingstranger.com Tickets and updates: https://linktr.ee/todiealonefilm IG: @charming_stranger_films and @todiealonefilm and @austinsmagalski X: @CharmingStrange FB: https://www.facebook.com/CharmingStrangerFilms/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@glasscreekfilms Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Devin Montgomery, writer/director of Monsters Within, an upcoming small town psychological thriller. You can watch the trailer for Monsters Within here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ib2Ia1BzI Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Adam Newman, writer/director of Everwinter Night, a horror/comedy You can watch Everwinter Night here: https://tubitv.com/movies/100018318/everwinter-night Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's interview is with Adrian Țofei, writer/director/star of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, one of the most intense and realistic found footage films I've seen, and with Duru Yücel, who joined him to make We Put the World to Sleep, their upcoming sequel to Be My Cat. Lots of links today! You can watch Be My Cat here: https://tubitv.com/movies/491721/be-my-cat-a-film-for-anne Support Adrian and Duru's work here: https://www.patreon.com/AdrianDuru/posts And find all of their things here: https://linktr.ee/AdrianTofei https://linktr.ee/DuruYucel https://linktr.ee/BeMyCatMovie https://linktr.ee/WePutTheWorldToSleep Powered by Firstory Hosting

The Fetch is an upcoming thriller that fits into the "the real monster is trauma" subgenre. Powered by Firstory Hosting

Continuing with this June's theme being things that are about horror movies rather than are horror movies themselves, here's Nina Nesseth with Nightmare Fuel, a book about the science of horror movies. You can buy Nightmare Fuel anywhere Tor Nightfire books are sold, such as on amazon, and follow Nina Nesseth on twitter: https://twitter.com/cestmabiologie/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

This June we're looking at things connected to indie horror filmmaking that aren't films themselves, starting with Horrifying Hot Sauces. You can buy them here: https://horrifyingco.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Chris Notarile, writer/director of Methodic and just a ton of fan films. You can watch Methodic on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Methodic-Niki-Notarile/dp/B0CQKJY5WC/ And you can watch his fan films on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@blinky500 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's episode is a special one. Instead of the usual deep dive with one filmmaker about a specific film, I interviewed as many people as I could at the Pueblo Film Festival, asking them "where do you see the future of independent film going?" https://pueblofilmfest.org/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Charlie Steeds, a hugely prolific British film director. We talk about Gods of the Deep and Freeze, a modern and period piece adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness respectively, as well as his other work. You can watch a lot of his movies on tubi: https://tubitv.com/person/5f5ca9/charlie-steeds https://twitter.com/darktemplefilms https://www.instagram.com/charliesteeds Powered by Firstory Hosting

Followers is a new slasher/home invasion film that just came out on March 12th, 2024, and is streaming exclusively on ScreamBox. https://www.screambox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/smallertown Powered by Firstory Hosting

This month I'm changing things up by not interviewing people about specific movies they've made. Instead, my guest today is Rudi Womack, director of the Wyoming International Film Festival. We talk about WYOIFF and film festivals in general. You can find more information about, and submit your films to, WYOIFF on Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/WyomingInternationalFilmFestival And their website: https://www.wyoiff.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Continuing this month's theme of interviewing people about things other than specific films they've made, I'm interviewing Richard Hansil about founding a new indie film studio. You can learn more about 3one8 Films and follow along with their development on their website: https://www.3one8films.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Here For Blood is an upcoming home invasion movie about a babysitter protecting their charge from a cult. The twist? The babysitter is a professional wrestler! Here For Blood is coming to theaters and ScreamBox on February 9th. Powered by Firstory Hosting

My guest today is Christopher Wesley Moore, writer/director of Children of Sin, a horror movie set at a gay conversion camp - but not the one you're thinking of. You can stream Children of Sin on tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/679385/children-of-sin Powered by Firstory Hosting

My guest today is Adam Marcus, director of Secret Santa, a holiday horror flick that will be showing at New Fear's Day, the winter and holiday themed horror film festival I've put together, and is currently streaming on ScreamBox: https://www.screambox.com/details/1000000019139/Secret-Santa He also directed Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, which is currently streaming on tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/682530/jason-goes-to-hell-the-final-friday Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Peter Cannon, director of Exposure, which is not yet released Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Samuel Morrison, writer of By Deception. You can watch By Deception here: https://tubitv.com/movies/699196/by-deception Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Kevin Kopacka, director of Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, a German metamodern horror film that you can watch here: https://tubitv.com/movies/689314/dawn-breaks-behind-the-eyes Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Greydon Clark, a prolific director of low budget independent films for many decades. You can find lots of his films on Tubi, as well as on his website, where you can also get his autobiography, which I greatly enjoyed reading as preparation for this episode: http://greydonclark.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

It's been just about a year, and the feature film of Tapehead is out! You can watch the original 45 minute "short" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60ldSPJ6ZY And you can buy the feature film, Return of Jacob Cobb, here: https://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00ZYO1CG&pp=1 Powered by Firstory Hosting

This is a special episode celebrating Six Feet Under Horror Fest, which sadly my short did not get into. Today's guests are Bryan Oliver and Will Grey of Cirrus Studios, whom I met at the previous 6FU. You can see their work here: https://www.watchcirrus.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Thomas Jacobson is one of the members of 5 Second Films, and one of the directors of Dude Bro Party Massacre 3, which you can watch here: Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Preston DeFrancis, director of Ruin Me, a metamodern slasher film. You can watch it, and the director and writer's commentary, on Shudder: https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/ruin-me/7dfe6d8d92cc6b23 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Justin Seaman, creator of The Barn, and '80s throwback horror movie. The Barn Part II is coming soon, and in the meantime you can watch The Barn here: https://tubitv.com/movies/491603/the-barn Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is John Johnson, director of Curse of the Blue Lights and Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain. This is a special episode, as John Johnson is also a resident of Pueblo, Colorado, where I live! This is the first episode I recorded in person, in our local public library - the same place where I first saw a showing of Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain. Curse of the Blue Lights is a supernatural horror film shot in Pueblo, Colorado, and set in a fictionalized version of Pueblo. It was inspired by local folklore. Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain is a historical dramatization of the true story of Zebulon Pike's expedition west, filmed on location in the locations his journey actually took him to. You can find Curse of the Blue Lights here: https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Blue-Lights-Special-Deluxe/dp/B00EXDVDIS And Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain here: https://www.zebulonpike.net/ John Johnson's main site is: https://johnhjohnson.net/ And his Damon Runyon site is: https://damon-runyon.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Fred Vogel, director of The Final Interview, a psychological thriller set almost entirely in a single room, and the August Underground trilogy, highly influential and hard to find fake snuff films. You can find The Final Interview here, and the August Underground trilogy is set to be re-released later this year, starting this month. https://www.thefinalinterviewmovie.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

In this first annual Slimy Awards episode, I take a moment to reflect on the first year of doing Invasion of the Pod People, talk about what's changing going forward (not much, just more interviews!), and of course present the first annual Slimy Awards. If you are an independent filmmaker and would like to get interviewed about your work, send an email to invasionofthepodpeoplepodcast@gmail.com Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's quest is Lloyd Kaufman, cofounder of Troma, the world's longest running independent film studio. You probably already know who Lloyd is. You can watch all sorts of Troma movies on Troma Now: https://watch.troma.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Pierce Berolzheimer, the writer/director of Crabs!, a genre-bending horror comedy creature feature about, you guessed it, crabs invading a small town. You can watch Crabs! here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0QRXUKUZPS46G1CFCCIJI9MFWD/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

A bit of a disclaimer: my mic had some difficulties this episode, so my audio is a bit garbled. Fortunately my guests are audible just fine. In today's episode my guests are Chris McInroy, the director, Stacey Bell, the executive producer, and Kris Phipps, another producer, of several horror shorts: GUTS, Bad Guy Number 2, Death Metal, We Summoned a Demon, and the One Time in the Woods segment in the Scare Package anthology. You can watch their shorts here: https://vimeo.com/chrismcinroy And you can watch Scare Package exclusively on Shudder. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

In today's episode my guest is Noah Bunyon, the director of The King in Yellow, an adaptation of the 1896 collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. You can watch The King in Yellow here: https://www.amazon.com/King-Yellow-Mike-Newman/dp/B0B6WVBK24 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Fable Siegel, director of the Lackadaisy animated pilot, a cartoon about anthropomorphic cats in prohibition era St. Louis. You can watch the Lackadaisy pilot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 And you can read the original Lackadaisy comic here: https://lackadaisy.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today's guest is Tracy Butler, creator of Lackadaisy. Lackadaisy is a comic about anthropomorphic cats in prohibition era St Louis that was recently adapted into an animated pilot. You can watch the pilot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 And you can read the original Lackadaisy comic here: https://lackadaisy.com/ Powered by Firstory Hosting

In today's episode I interview Rick Ives, writer/director of Solid Rock Trust, a tense heist movie set almost entirely in a single location. You can watch Solid Rock Trust here: https://tubitv.com/movies/701273/solid-rock-trust?start=true You can follow Rick on twitter here: https://twitter.com/flashbulb_films Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

tw: discussion of suicide In today's episode, my guest is Matt Gordon, a special effects makeup artist from right here in Pueblo Colorado. A warning, this episode does get a bit heavier than most. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

In today's episode, I interview Rico Dalsimer, creator of the Durty D youtube channel and the Dawn of the Friend short film. You can watch Durty D here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DurtyD And you can check out the 72 hour Kickass Film Fest here: https://filmfreeway.com/KickAssFilmFestivals Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4t13kxz012w01xi0gxphf5d/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting