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Woodstake Graphic Novel: Shawn Hainsworth on a Vampire Crashing Woodstock 1969
Episode 93
Saturday, October 17, 2026 • Duration 42:27
Woodstake is the vampire graphic novel that sends a Dracula-style predator to Woodstock 1969, and we sat down with the man who made it. Shawn Hainsworth (who writes as Darin S. Cape) joins Meaghan and Arthur to talk about how rereading Bram Stoker's Dracula alongside Michael Lang's The Road to Woodstock turned into a pun, then a screenplay, then five years of work on the Woodstake graphic novel.
The elevator pitch is simple: hippies vs. vampires. What's underneath it is a lot more interesting. Shawn wanted to take one of the most cynical creatures in horror (a centuries-old predator who knows human failings better than anyone) and set it loose on a generation that honestly believed it could change the world.
Woodstake: Hippies vs. Vampires at Woodstock 1969
Shawn Hainsworth's elevator pitch for the Woodstake graphic novel: a vampire descends on Woodstock in 1969.
The idea hit while he was rereading Bram Stoker's Dracula and reading Michael Lang's The Road to Woodstock at the same time. The pun came first; the scenes followed.
He didn't want it to just be campy, so it took a while to find something bigger inside the concept.
A Dracula-Style Vampire vs. the Peace and Love Generation
A cynical, centuries-old vampire who knows human failings better than anybody, set against people who believed they could change the world.
Three kinds of hippie: Nina, the true believer; Artie, who might sell out and become a yuppie; and Jon, chasing his own career.
The Vietnam War divide runs through the villains, including a vampire who argues about the war while trying to kill Artie.
Recreating Woodstock 1969 in a Graphic Novel
Shawn and Felipe Kroll watched the Woodstock documentary on repeat to get the details right.
Every act appears when it actually played, and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising lands right as things come to a head.
Michael Lang makes a cameo, and the story ends with a conversation between the vampire and Jimi Hendrix.
Shawn's dream backstage passes: Richie Havens stretching his set into Freedom, Santana, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Arlo Guthrie, and Hendrix.
From Screenplay to Graphic Novel
Woodstake started as a screenplay; the whole prologue was added after the first two issues were written.
Felipe Kroll's painted art style looks nothing like a typical comic book, and he repainted pages to get them right.
Woodstake took about five years from idea to finished graphic novel.
Vampire Movies and Why Vampires Never Die
Shadow of the Vampire, Willem Dafoe and the Max Schreck legend from the making of Nosferatu.
Meaghan's festival pick Los Vampires, about the Spanish-language Dracula crew that shot at night.
Shawn calls vampires the Swiss Army knives of the horror world: What We Do in the Shadows, Interview with the Vampire, and even Star Trek's salt vampire.
Woodstake '99 and What's Next from SHP Comics
Woodstake '99 concludes the story at Woodstock 1999, with darker art and a vampire who is back for vengeance.
Issues are named after songs: Going Up the Country, My Generation, Freedom, Bad Moon Rising and Purple Haze. There's a companion Spotify playlist too.
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Other Mommy Review: Jessica Chastain Can't Save This Incidents Around the House Adaptation
Episode 92
Saturday, October 10, 2026 • Duration 40:34
Our Other Mommy review, fresh from the theater: Jessica Chastain plays a mom and the thing wearing her face, and it should have wrecked us. It didn't.
Rob Savage (Host, The Boogeyman) directs this adaptation of Josh Malerman's 2024 novel Incidents Around the House, produced by James Wan through Blumhouse-Atomic Monster. The cast is stacked: Jessica Chastain, Arabella Olivia Clark, Jay Duplass, Arian Moayed, Dichen Lachman and Karen Allen (yes, Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark).
Other Mommy Review: Our Verdict and Scare Factor
Other Mommy gets 4 digs out of 10 from both of us; a stacked cast and great visuals can't fix a story with no build.
Scare factor: Fun and Wild, with Light scares (and yes, we argued about it).
Meaghan's tagline for the movie: "Don't lie to your children."
Incidents Around the House: Josh Malerman's Novel vs the Movie
The novel is told entirely from eight-year-old Bela's perspective, which Meaghan compares to Emma Donoghue's Room.
In the book, the entity is tall, boxy, and wrong (eyes on its chin), and it stays in Bela's closet far longer.
The book's ending is much darker than the film's, which Meaghan refuses to spoil on mic.
Want the full book breakdown? Our friends at Drawn to Darkness are covering it.
Why the Dread Never Builds
The Other Mommy movie reveals its entity in the opening minutes, before we know anyone in the family.
One throwaway line explains why the entity can suddenly leave Bela's room.
There's almost no ambiguity between Ursula and Other Mommy; the novel's impersonation scenes are where the real fear lives.
What Works: Practical Effects, the Ball Pit and the Upside-Down Party
The melting face and the seven-foot entity land some genuinely creepy moments.
The ball pit to bedroom to ocean transitions look great (and feel very James Wan, very Insidious).
The upside-down party sequence with babysitter Kelvin is Meaghan's favorite scene in the film.
Jessica Chastain's Dual Role and the Motherhood Theme
Jessica Chastain is grounded as Ursula and deeply unsettling as Other Mommy; her glued-on smile made a kid on set scream.
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V/H/S/Mixtape Review: The Most Unhinged V/H/S Yet?
Episode 91
Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 35:24
V/H/S/Mixtape review time, and this one is cuckoo nuts bananas. The ninth V/H/S film turns sound, music and heavy metal into the horror, and we came out of it with our jaws on the floor.
Arthur and Meaghan break down Shudder's newest found footage horror anthology, starting with GWAR's deranged MTV-style wraparound and moving through all four main segments: Renee Zhan's Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance (killer puppets from Jim Henson's Creature Shop, plus Barbara Crampton), David Moreau's Heartbeat (two urban explorers, a soundproof chamber and the sound of your own body), Ernest Dickerson's The Music of Mr. Sze (a film student, a violin and something cosmic living in the attic) and RZA's Death Tone (Neela Jolene, a dead producer's tape and a very literal hunt for the perfect sound). We also get into the two music video interludes, Flying Lotus's stop-motion Another Cabin and Tobias Forge's Premature Burial.
The ninth V/H/S film, streaming on Shudder October 9, 2026, builds every segment around sound, music and heavy metal.
Spoiler-free verdict: gory, wild, and easily one of the most unhinged V/H/S movies yet. Arthur compares its sound-horror focus to Undertone.
How it stacks up against V/H/S/Beyond and V/H/S/Halloween, the two entries that got the franchise back on a roll.
GWAR's MTV-Style Wraparound and the Music Video Interludes
GWAR host a deranged, metal-only music video show that sets the tone in the first five minutes (don't eat dinner during this one).
Flying Lotus directs Another Cabin, a stop-motion nightmare about a boy, his awful grandmother, and a 30-foot monster in the woods.
Tobias Forge of Ghost directs Premature Burial, a metal music video about revenge and being buried alive.
Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance and Heartbeat
Renee Zhan's killer puppet segment: Jim Henson's Creature Shop builds Muppet-style monsters, Barbara Crampton plays the studio exec, and the song is a genuine earworm.
Watch for the V/H/S/Halloween Easter egg in the warehouse and the post-credit scene.
David Moreau's Heartbeat (from the director of MadS) traps two urban explorers in a soundproof chamber where their own bodies become the horror.
The Music of Mr. Sze and RZA's Death ToneV/H/S/Mixtape Segments Ranked and RatingsAlso on Our Horror Radar
Beware Boiúna Review: Mike P. Nelson's Giant Snake Movie Takes No Prisoners
Episode 90
Friday, October 2, 2026 • Duration 34:48
Our Beware Boiúna review is here, and this giant snake movie does not care who it eats. Spoiler-free first, full spoilers after Gary's warning.
Meaghan and Arthur review Beware Boiúna, the new creature feature from director Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn, Silent Night, Deadly Night), shot on location in the Amazon rainforest near Leticia, Colombia. A team of doctors on a medical mission heads upriver, an illegal gold mining operation is tearing up the jungle, and the Boiúna (the colossal river serpent of Amazonian folklore) wants every last one of them gone.
Beware Boiúna Review: Spoiler-Free First Impressions
Mike P. Nelson's Amazon creature feature was shot on location near Leticia, Colombia, and it shows: sweaty, gritty and fully immersive.
A stacked cast: Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Kiana Madeira (Fear Street trilogy), Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade), plus Juan Pablo Shuk, Will Close and Jackson Bews.
Meaghan's tagline keeps it simple: stay out of the jungle.
The Boiúna: Amazonian Folklore Meets Giant Snake Horror
The Boiúna is the giant river serpent of Amazonian folklore, here roughly titanoboa-sized and grounded in that legend.
An illegal gold mining operation sets the stakes, and the snake plays more like nature restoring balance than a monster looking for lunch.
Real-world context: Indigenous communities are confronting illegal miners destroying the rainforest.
Practical Effects, Stunts and a Brutal Location Shoot
The snake is digital, but the explosions, the collapsing structures, and a character getting flung into the air were done for real.
From our interview: a flash flood wiped out a set and forced a reshoot that Mike P. Nelson now prefers.
Huge credit to the stunt team, and to Kiana Madeira for that mud pit.
Why This Giant Snake Movie Beats the Creature Feature Stigma
Not silly snake fodder in the Anaconda mold; we're measuring it against Jaws and Jurassic Park.
The snake hunts in the water, in the jungle, and in a machinery yard, by day and at night. No safe rock like in The Devil's Mouth.
Scare Factor and Final ScoresMike P. Nelson's Next Move: Saw
Beware Boiúna Interview: Mike P. Nelson on Making a Giant Snake Movie Actually Scary
Episode 89
Saturday, September 26, 2026 • Duration 33:21
Beware Boiúna director Mike P. Nelson is back on Grave Tone, and this time he brought stories from the Amazon. Floods, a jungle blessing, a poison dart frog on set, and a giant snake that does not care who you are.
We sat down with Mike P. Nelson ahead of Beware Boiúna hitting theatres October 2 to talk about how this giant snake movie actually got made. He almost turned it down (giant snake movies come with baggage, and he knew it). What changed his mind was finding the link between Titanoboa, the real prehistoric snake discovered in Colombia, and the Boiúna of Amazonian folklore. Add a structure borrowed from William Friedkin's Sorcerer and a lot of respect for how Alien, Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Tremors hold back their monsters, and you get a creature feature built on dread instead of camp.
How Beware Boiúna Became a Giant Snake Movie Worth Making
Producers Robert Kulzer and Jeremy Bolt, with Tony Giglio, wanted a giant snake story. Mike P. Nelson almost passed because of the stigma the subgenre carries.
What won him over: tying Titanoboa, the real prehistoric snake found in Colombia, to the Boiúna of Amazonian folklore.
Why William Friedkin's Sorcerer was his main comp (one movie at the start, a different movie by the end).
Shooting a Horror Movie in the Colombian Amazon
Asking permission to film near Leticia, then a blessing ceremony (chicha included) where a healer told Mike to be "the father of your team."
Heavy rain floods the location of the opening gold mining siege, so the whole sequence gets shot from the other side.
Mike's favorite days: shooting aboard the Hermes, moving down the Amazon River with the cast.
A poison dart frog lands on a chair right across from Kiana Madeira. The snake wrangler handled it.
Practical Effects Behind the VFX Snake
A stunt performer was yanked 40 feet into the air with foliage blasting out, all in camera.
Real TNT brings down the lumber camp structure while the leads run down the ramp.
Mike's rule: if there is a VFX snake in the movie, something real has to go along with it.
The Cast of Beware Boiúna
Kiana Madeira as Lena: soft-spoken between takes, fully switched on in the mud and the viscera.
Protector or Predator: Boiúna, Folklore and Gold MiningMonster Matchups and Fill in the Blank
The IT 1990 Miniseries Gave Her a Tim Curry Phobia: Childhood Trauma with Graeae Horror
Episode 88
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 01:07:08
The IT 1990 miniseries is the reason Janine of Graeae Horror spent more than a decade unable to look at Tim Curry. She snuck downstairs at six, caught Pennywise taking Georgie through the banister, and the nightmares followed her home from school for years.
Childhood Trauma is back, and this might be the most traumatic entry in the series so far (that is saying something). Janine joins Arthur and Meaghan to revisit the 1990 ABC adaptation of Stephen King's IT, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, and to explain how one TV movie turned into a real phobia, a mid-screening exit from Burke & Hare and, eventually, a Pennywise tattoo. We go through the Losers Club casting, from Jonathan Brandis and Emily Perkins to John Ritter, Seth Green, Annette O'Toole and Tim Reid, and we have strong feelings about Bill Denbrough's ponytail (it is not okay).
How the IT 1990 Miniseries Created a Real Tim Curry Phobia
Janine was six when she snuck downstairs during the miniseries premiere and caught Pennywise taking Georgie; recurring nightmares of Pennywise waiting outside the local sweet shop lasted for years.
The fear spread to everything Tim Curry touched: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend, Muppet Treasure Island, and a mid-screening exit from Burke & Hare.
A forced VHS rewatch in her late teens, IT (2017) in a theatre with a dozen friends, and a Pennywise tattoo later, she is fine. Mostly.
Casting the Losers Club: IT 1990 Kids vs Adults
Jonathan Brandis carries young Bill Denbrough's grief; Richard Thomas's ponytail does not survive the rewatch.
Emily Perkins (Ginger Snaps) and Annette O'Toole (Smallville) give Beverly Marsh the most emotional weight, and the miniseries gives Bev's marriage far more time than IT Chapter Two does.
John Ritter is a better Ben Hanscom than we remembered, Seth Green has had the same face since 1990, and Adam Faraizl plays Eddie Kaspbrak as the kid everyone wants to protect.
Mike Hanlon (Tim Reid, Marlon Taylor) and Stan Uris (Richard Masur, Ben Heller) still get overlooked, in every version.
IT Miniseries vs IT 2017 and IT Chapter Two
The miniseries jumps between timelines like the book; Andy Muschietti's films split kids and adults, which made the story easier for a new generation to get into.
What the Miniseries Cut from Stephen King's ITPractical Effects and Tim Curry's PennywiseHenry Bowers and the Cycle of Violence
Resident Evil 2026 Review: Zach Cregger Pulled It Off
Episode 87
Saturday, September 19, 2026 • Duration 35:21
Our Resident Evil 2026 review, and the short version is that Zach Cregger cracked the video game movie. Arthur and Meaghan sat down right after seeing Resident Evil in theatres, and this is one of those episodes where the two of us do not land in the same place at all.
Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier taking a package up to Raccoon City General Hospital on a night that goes very wrong. That is basically the whole premise, and it works. No Leon, no Jill, no legacy characters, just an everyman with a handgun and a delivery to finish. We get into why going off-script inside the Resident Evil universe might be the smarter move after seven previous films, what the practical creature design actually accomplishes, and whether the humour helps or dilutes the horror.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Reboot and the Off-Script Gamble
Cregger wrote Resident Evil as an original story with Shay Hatten and dropped it inside the game universe instead of remaking a game. No Leon, no Jill, no legacy roster.
Eight films in, we argue a tangential character at the eve of the Raccoon City outbreak beats another straight reboot. That is the question of the episode.
Meaghan rewatched the 2002 original before this and still found it badly explained, which is a big part of why this one works for her at all.
Cregger's Barbarian and Weapons DNA is all over the tone, especially the way the jokes land in the middle of the gore.
Austin Abrams Carries the Whole Movie
Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier, and he is on screen for nearly every minute. Arthur's take: without him, there is nothing here.
Meaghan's point about the everyman quality is the best argument in the episode. No celebrity sheen, just a guy having the worst night of his life.
The wet socks moment. The grumbling to himself. A lot of the humour in this film is one actor alone in a room.
Sara Paxton, Cregger's wife, voices Michelle on the phone, continuing her cameo streak from Barbarian and Weapons.
Creature Design, Practical Gore and the Rooftop Drop
The infected are not tame Resident Evil zombies. They fuse, grow limbs, puke acid, and the final design is the best of the lot.
The rooftop drop sequence was done practically with weighted blood bags on cranes, and one of them landed inches from Austin Abrams.
Hope Movie Review and Ending Explained: What Really Landed in Hope Harbor
Episode 86
Sunday, September 13, 2026 • Duration 42:45
Hope (2026) movie review: Na Hong-jin spent ten years away and came back with a creature feature that is not a creature feature at all. Arthur and Meaghan review Hope, the Korean sci-fi horror epic that premiered at Cannes, opened in South Korea in July, and finally hit North American theatres on September 9 through Neon.
The setup is small. A remote fishing village called Hope Harbor, a police chief who is in way over his head, a dead cow that a bear did not kill. Then the thing in the mountains walks through a concrete wall in broad daylight, and the movie gets very, very big. This Hope movie review covers what works (creature design you can actually see, a setting that feels lived in, characters who make smart decisions and bring grenade launchers), and what does not (a middle section that lags, ten straight minutes of toilet humour, and a lore drop saved for the last twenty minutes).
Hope (2026) Movie Review: Na Hong-jin's Creature Feature Swing
Na Hong-jin's first film since The Wailing opens small and gets enormous, and the scale jump is the whole experience.
Both hosts land on a six out of ten. Good movie, real problems, no hedging about either.
The middle section lags and the toilet humour runs about ten minutes past funny.
Creature Design and Practical Effects in Hope
The creatures show up in broad daylight, in slow motion, in full view. No one-tenth-of-a-second monster nonsense here.
Each alien is designed differently, and the close-up work holds up even when the chase CG does not.
Arthur's number one pick of the episode, and the reason the first reveal lands so hard.
Hope Harbor: Setting, Scale, and the DMZ
A shabby little fishing village near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, full of elderly residents and no backup coming.
Meaghan's favourite element: storefronts that feel real, forests that feel enormous, overhead shots worth the ticket.
Communications are cut, and reinforcements are off fighting wildfires, which is how a small town becomes a sealed box.
The Alien Reveal and the Lore Drop
What looks like a Korean folklore sea monster turns out to be something else entirely.
Four aliens, four designs, a language built from a Mongolian dialect and actually spoken by the actors.
Casting Fassbender, Vikander, Russell, and BrittonHope Ending Explained and Sequel Talk
Return to Oz and The Peanut Butter Solution: 1985's Two Weirdest Kids Movies
Episode 85
Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 01:18:07
Return to Oz and The Peanut Butter Solution both came out in 1985; both were sold as children's movies, and both are genuinely upsetting. Meaghan and Arthur team up with Annie and Caroline from the Drawn to Darkness podcast for a Childhood Trauma double bill made entirely of films that were technically made for kids.
RETURN TO OZ: THE DISNEY SEQUEL THAT STARTS IN AN ASYLUM
The first thirty minutes are a straight horror film. Dorothy has insomnia, Aunt Em hands her to Dr. Worley, and we get a silent nurse, a dark corridor, restraints, and screaming from other rooms.
The electroshock therapy is a Disney invention. It appears nowhere in L. Frank Baum's Oz books.
Fairuza Balk was actually the right age for the character in her feature debut, which makes the stakes land harder than the 1939 version ever did.
The lightning cuts the power right before the machine fires. Everyone on this episode thinks it worked anyway.
THE OZ BOOKS, MGM'S COPYRIGHT, AND WHAT DISNEY COULD NOT USE
The film combines The Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz (1907). Baum wrote fourteen Oz novels before he died in 1919.
MGM owned the 1939 designs, so Disney paid for the ruby slippers (silver shoes in the book) and left the gingham dress alone.
Book two is a girls' revolt fought with knitting needles, and the messaging has not aged into anything coherent.
The Gump's reward for saving Ozma is asking to be taken apart. That is in the novel.
PRINCESS MOMBI, THE WHEELERS, AND THE NOME KING
Jean Marsh plays Nurse Wilson and Princess Mombi, the same doubling trick the 1939 film used. She also played Bavmorda in Willow.
Mombi's hall of heads is Elizabeth Bathory logic in a Disney film. Trophies, kept young, screaming.
The Wheelers sit between Freddy Krueger's stretched silhouette and Biff's gang in Back to the Future Part II. The book defuses them. The film does not.
Nicol Williamson plays Dr. Worley and the Nome King, so Dorothy's real trauma follows her into Oz wearing a different face.
Jonathan Janz on Marla, His TV Adaptation & Moonflowers
Episode 84
Saturday, September 5, 2026 • Duration 01:10:08
Jonathan Janz on Marla, the horror novel that sold out before it went on sale and then spent four years being the book nobody could find. Now it is everywhere, and he came back to Grave Tone to explain how that actually happened.
Marla was published in 2022 by Earthling Publications as a 500-copy limited edition hardcover. That was the whole run. Paul Miller told Janz it was the most requested post-sellout book he has ever had. Four years, one agent change, one manager change, and a three-book deal later, Weird Tales and Blackstone Publishing gave Marla a wide release on August 18, 2026, and Janz walks us through every turn of that road (including the parts most authors would not say out loud).
Marla, From 500 Copies to Everywhere
Marla was a 2022 Earthling Publications limited edition, 500 copies, and that was the entire run. Paul Miller told Jonathan Janz it was the most requested post-sellout book he has ever had.
Weird Tales and Blackstone Publishing released it wide on August 18, 2026, with a foiled cover, sprayed edges, and interior art.
The text is about 98 percent identical to the 2022 edition after a full editorial pass. If you read it in 2022, you are not getting a different book.
Inside King's Branch: Marla, Carl, Annie and Dylan
A reclusive young woman lives with her mother Irene in a house on the edge of town. Some say witch, some say prisoner, and nobody actually knows.
Detective Carl Lancaster connects her to a string of murders. Social worker Annie Frost carries a vague memory of her. Twenty-one-year-old Dylan Ellison sees someone he wants to know.
Moonflowers and the Marla TV Series
Marla is in development for television through Weird Tales and Lit Entertainment. Janz is working with a showrunner he cannot name yet.
Moonflowers is an 11,000-word novelette prequel covering the Halloween night eleven years before the novel. It ships with the hardcover and the audiobook.
The prequel introduces a character intended to matter in a possible second season, and it came out of Janz and the showrunner building the lore together (there is a Pinterest board).
Arabella Olivia Clark carries a hard role as Bela, and Jay Duplass makes Russ easy to root for.
The film keeps the book's honest take on parenthood: you can love your kid and still want your own identity.
Next week: Whalefall, Brian Duffield's adaptation of the Daniel Kraus novel.
We're catching Fresh Meat, Dead Meat's horror shorts anthology.
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THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION AND QUEBEC'S TALES FOR ALL SERIES
The second Tales for All entry, directed by Michael Rubbo and produced by Rock Demers. The series now runs to twenty-seven films and markets itself as family-friendly.
Michael gets a fright, loses his hair, ignores the ghosts' measurements, and everything after that is consequences.
The art teacher kidnaps a neighbourhood of kids for a paintbrush sweatshop and wears Michael's hair as a jacket. His dog gets a matching vest.
Celine Dion recorded her first English-language songs for this soundtrack at seventeen.
MONTREAL ON SCREEN AND TRAUMA THAT ACTUALLY STICKS
Three characters are brothers with three different accents, none French Canadian, which contradicts a claim made on the How Did This Get Made episode.
Return to Oz earns real credit for admitting the first film broke its protagonist, then tells her to keep quiet or go back to the asylum.
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How Marla Got Here: Agents, Managers, Weird Tales
A former agent read Marla as a reprint that would not sell. Janz disagreed; they parted, and he is clear that nobody was a villain.
Ryan Lewis introduced him to Patrick White at Lit Entertainment; Adam Kolbrenner became his manager. Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency opened their first call with what the hell is going on with Marla.
John Harlacher at Weird Tales read it and offered a three-book deal. Next up: The Stars Have Left the Skies, then Panopticon.
Adapting Books to Screen Without Being Precious
Janz has taught film lit for twenty-five years. Asked how he handles adapters changing his work, his answer was let the ultraviolence begin.
Patrick White wrote a 35-page treatment of Marla and pitched it as The Outsider meets Mare of Easttown, which is why it went to series instead of feature.
Widow's Bay, Horror Towns and Staffing One
Janz, Meaghan, and Arthur all love Widow's Bay. Patricia, the painting scene, the taser episode. Derry and Castle Rock get their due as towns that feel lived in.
We played a game where we asked Jonathan to staff a fictional town with horror characters. These were his awesome choices that we totally agree with!
Sheriff: Stu Redman. Doctor: Beverly Marsh. Teacher: Patricia. Funeral director: Clancy Brown's mortician from The Mortuary Collection. Neighbor: Eddie Dean, with Oy included.
Patricia Santomasso and Sean Patrick Hopkins narrate the Marla audiobook. Janz cried at his own book during a lunch break.
