Sophia Louisa was nine when three girls, a brand-new Ouija board and a dark house changed how she felt about the thing for good: "all of a sudden everything got really quiet, and the lights went out." So when she sat down at The Séance she would not touch the board, and we did not ask her to. This one is different in another way too: the whole episode is animated, the three of us drawn at the table, lip-synced to the real conversation. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one.
The Séance, Episode 4: writer, producer and actress Sophia Louisa (@sophialouisalee), co-writer of The Wrecker (Tyrese Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Mena Suvari, Danny Trejo), sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. Her new short, Much Too Vulgar, shot the day before and set on the Georgetown campus (and the word parabiosis). The night the lights went out. How The Wrecker got written and what survived to the screen. Ed Wood's pitch, Bela Lugosi's last footage and Vampira, fact-checked. Cannes and Yes She Cannes. The Exorcist and Eileen Dietz. Who really made The Terminator (Danny was right). The Matrix Reloaded's digital Neo (Danny was right again). Ghostbusters, Street Fighter and Raúl Juliá. From Dusk Till Dawn and the clerk who turned out to be John Hawkes. Curry Barker's Obsession and why the win is winning the people. A lightning round answered out loud, no board. And one piece of advice for anyone who wants to write their first horror script: just do it.
Find your haunted places and horror filming locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4
EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PT
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUD4hbTDPgcUQE52_nzHCLA
Ep. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w
Ep. 2 Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street): https://youtu.be/rjTOuRaV4o4
Ep. 3 Manta Mystic (channeling an Egyptian goddess, live): https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65E
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7a5aa287-bb98-488c-b59d-2fe610a52942
SOPHIA LOUISA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophialouisalee
The Wrecker (2025, Quiver Distribution): on Fandango at Home and the usual rentals
Sofi Stories: Off the Page, her show
MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
The Wrecker (2025), dir. Art Camacho, written by Sophia Louisa, Niko Foster and James Dean Simington
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Bride of the Monster (1955), Edward D. Wood Jr.
Obsession (2025), written, directed and edited by Curry Barker (Focus Features)
Street Fighter (2026), dir. Kitao Sakurai; Street Fighter (1994) with Raúl Juliá
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); King Straggler (John Hawkes, Rodney Eastman, Brentley Gore)
Screamfest LA: https://screamfestla.com
HORRORMEET
Join free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4
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The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.html
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetapp
Hosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidanny
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: the Ouija night
0:39 Welcome to The Séance
10:17 The Ouija night
17:32 The Wrecker
22:40 Austin Powers, briefly
26:02 Make your own stuff
31:32 Ninety credits
34:20 Ed Wood's pitch
38:10 Festivals and Cannes
41:44 The Exorcist
43:35 The Other Tenant
45:55 The Devil's Heist and a first lead
50:14 Stunts
52:54 AI on set
60:44 The Asset: the motorcycle hit
63:52 CGI, Rick Baker, Stan Winston
67:02 Billion-dollar movies
70:42 Reading scripts
73:27 Street Fighter
76:37 Lightning round
79:55 Who pays for indie films
84:15 Obsession
89:14 Advice: just do it
90:07 The Atlas and the sign-off
The picture is animated; the audio is the real recording. Fact checks on screen are sourced. Opinions about films and studios are the speakers' own.
