PUBLIC VERSION. Actress Gracie Gillam (FRIGHT NIGHT, SOME KIND OF HATE, TALES OF HALLOWEEN, TV’s Z-NATION) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss her career journey. From landing an agent right out of High School… to booking a role in the 2011 remake of FRIGHT NIGHT just 6 days after arriving in Los Angeles… to the making of her latest film SUPERHOST (available February 2nd on Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD) during the height of the pandemic… Gracie’s career has been a truly exciting one to watch. Dr. Arw...
Jan 24, 2022•59 min•Ep. 451
PUBLIC VERSION. Keith Gordon began his career as an actor (CHRISTINE, BACK TO SCHOOL, JAWS 2, THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN, ALL THAT JAZZ) before stepping behind the camera as a director (A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, WAKING THE DEAD, THE SINGING DETECTIVE, TV’s FARGO, DEXTER, NURSE JACKIE, HOMELAND). In this fantastic conversation, Keith sits down with Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey from being discovered in a drama program… to finding himself on the tumultuous (but amazing) set of JAWS 2… ...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 450
PUBLIC VERSION. WWE Hall of Fame wrestler and actor Mick Foley (“Mankind,” “Cactus Jack,” THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON, 12 HOUR SHIFT) made a surprise LIVE appearance during the opening night of last month’s YORKIETHON 6 where he discussed his career with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. In what turned out to be one of the biggest highlights of this past 48-hour LIVE charity benefit, Mick opens up about everything! From his love of Christmas… to his journey from the kid willing to eat weird things on the playg...
Jan 10, 2022•59 min•Ep. 449
PUBLIC VERSION. “That’s a wrap!” Adam, Joe, and Arwen recollect, reflect and reminisce on the year that was 2021. In this extra-extended annual year-end episode, the boys discuss their favorite episodes of the year, the big events that affected all of us in professional and personal ways, and of course some of their favorite films, TV shows, books, and more! Happy New Year everyone!
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 448
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker/actor/musician Krsy Fox (FRANK) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss her career journey and her new film I LIVE ALONE (shot during the pandemic) starring JACOB’S WIFE vampiric star Bonnie Aarons! Krsy discusses her path to the director’s chair, from her days on Vancouver Island dreaming of being in show business... to her stint acting in BC... to her journey to La La Land as both an actress and a successful songwriter... to starting her band KNEE HIGH FOX... to produci...
Dec 27, 2021•45 min•Ep. 447
PUBLIC VERSION. The legendary Bruce Campbell (THE EVIL DEAD series, TV’s ASH VS THE EVIL DEAD, BUBBA HO-TEP) and BLACK FRIDAY director Casey Tebo (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STEVEN TYLER: OUT ON A LIMB) joined Adam, Joe, and Arwen to open last weekend’s YORKIETHON 6 - and here’s the conversation again to prove it! Starting off with an exhausted recap of this year’s 48-hour LIVE marathon (including what happened after the cameras were off), Adam and Joe sum up their 6th annual charity benefit which raised a...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 446
PUBLIC VERSION. Happy YORKIETHON Weekend! We hope that you enjoyed (or are still enjoying) all the craziness we planned for our 6th annual YORKIETHON…but we also didn’t want to break our stream of never having a Monday come without an actual episode! Hopefully we saved a ton of dogs together this weekend! If you contributed- THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts! This week, writer Josh Miller (SONIC THE HEDGEHOG) stopped by while Adam and Joe were in the thick of YORKIETHON preparations for a ...
Dec 13, 2021•41 min•Ep. 445
It's here! YORKIETHON 6 is THIS weekend ! THE MOVIE CRYPT's 6th annual 48-hour live marathon starts THIS Friday (12/10) at 5pm PST and goes straight through until Sunday (12/12) at 5pm PST ! The legendary Bruce Campbell (THE EVIL DEAD, BLACK FRIDAY) will be kicking off this year's marathon followed by 2 days with OVER 70 SPECIAL GUESTS appearing around the clock! Live music! Live comedy! Live film commentaries! "Arwen's Silent Auction!" A live reading of Robert Zemeckis' very first draft of BACK...
Dec 08, 2021•7 min
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor Ryan Lee (SUPER 8, GOOSEBUMPS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey. In a bit of cine-serendipity, we have Ryan this week fresh off the holiday madness that is Casey Tebo’s new film BLACK FRIDAY (available now on VOD) and NEXT week we’ll have Casey the director AND “The Chin” himself, Bruce Campbell! We swear we didn’t plan this… but you’re welcome, Tebo. Just send the check to ArieScope Pictures. But we digress… Ryan is a fantastic actor who has worked ...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 444
PUBLIC VERSION. Happy Holidays! As the seasons change and the turkey leftovers slowly dissipate from the fridge, it’s time to embrace the chill factor and start gathering the gifts and what better way than to do it with one of the executive producers of the new season of DEXTER: NEW BLOOD, writer/producer Scott Reynolds (JESSICA JONES, IRON FIST)! Scott started like all of us with big dreams and a little luck which landed him in Los Angeles where odd jobs at bookstores fueled his fire to get in ...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 443
Screenwriter, novelist, and musician Josh Malerman (BIRD BOX, TV’s CREEPSHOW) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey and creative process. Jumping right in with a discussion about Josh’s song “The Luck You’ve Got” (performed by his band THE HIGH STRUNG and used for the iconic opening credits sequence of TV’s SHAMELESS) the conversation quickly moves into Josh’s writing process and the pressures that came once the 2018 Netflix film BIRD BOX (an adaptation of his 2014 novel) turn...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 442
Filmmaker Christopher Smith (CREEP, SEVERANCE, BLACK DEATH, TRIANGLE) shares his career journey with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. From a child collecting film magazines with a belief that he could someday make his own films… to having that belief confirmed during his time in film school… to the realization that he’d have the best chance of getting a feature off the ground if he made something in the horror genre… to the terrific reception of his debut film CREEP and the string of terrific films that ha...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 441
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmakers Philip Gelatt (LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS, EUROPA REPORT) and Morgan Galen King discuss their new animated feature THE SPINE OF NIGHT with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. Starting with an in-depth look at their painstaking decade long process of shooting live action reference and then rotoscoping beautiful 2D animation to create the fantastic look of THE SPINE OF NIGHT (now available!)… to their separate origin stories that got them started in the industry and ultimately working t...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 440
PUBLIC VERSION. In this special 2.5 hour episode ( for our Patrons ) filmmaker Adam Marcus (JASON GOES TO HELL: The Final Friday, CONSPIRACY, SECRET SANTA, co-writer TEXAS CHAINSAW 2013) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope studio for a conversion about his career journey that winds up being one of the very best episodes of this podcast that you’ll hear this year. From Adam’s childhood growing up around the industry… to the pros and cons of attending NYU… to Adam’s personal relationship w...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 439
Filmmaker Lowell Dean (WOLF COP, ANOTHER WOLFCOP, 13 EERIE, SUPERGRID) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey to date. From graduating film school and starting out at a local Canadian TV station… to making the frightening choice of stepping away from the financial security of his full time local TV station gig in order to gamble on himself and shoot his first short film on 16mm short ends… to freelancing as a production assistant whenever and wherever he could find work… to one...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 438
PUBLIC VERSION. Known by many as “Jill Sixx,” filmmaker Jill Gervargizian (THE STYLIST) has one of the most relatable and encouraging career stories that aspiring artists could hope to hear. Much like the majority of up and coming filmmakers who listen to THE MOVIE CRYPT religiously, Jill doesn’t live near Los Angeles or NYC… she didn’t go to film school… and she had to hold down a “real” job (she worked as a hair stylist for 10 years) to make ends meet while simultaneously getting her career as...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 437
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Elza Kephart (SLAXX, GRAVEYARD ALIVE) joins Adam Joe, and Arwen to discuss her career journey and the making of her latest feature film SLAXX. From realizing that she wanted to be a filmmaker at age 10… to leaving Canada to attend Emerson College in Massachusetts… to returning to Canada and writing/directing her first feature film GRAVEYARD ALIVE (2003)… to assisting in the art department, serving as a location coordinator, or providing research on major studio films li...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 436
PUBLIC VERSION. Comedy writer Mike Scollins (LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey so far. From his post-college days taking sketch and improv classes at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB)… to the importance of finding his “people” and how those early relationships ultimately provided him with an opportunity to prove himself… to his very first paid gig writing jokes for a conservative talk show… to working as a guest writer on SNL ...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 435
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor, writer, director, and #1 best selling author William Butler (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD, LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990), MADHOUSE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to share his career journey so far. From his early exposure to show business growing up working at a venue that hosted huge concerts like PRINCE and massive events like the circus… to following his childhood friend and beloved FX artist the late John Vulich out to ...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 434
PUBLIC VERSION. Director Marcos Siega (CHAOS THEORY, PRETTY PERSUASION, TV’s DEXTER, THE FOLLOWING, THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, THE PASSAGE, BATWOMAN) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey so far. From breaking in as a music video director and working with acts like WEEZER, PAPA ROACH, BLINK 182, and SYSTEM OF A DOWN… to becoming one of the most in-demand TV directors working today starting with series like FASTLANE, VERONICA MARS, THE NINE, TRUE BLOOD, and COLD CASE… to taking the ...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 433
PUBLIC VERSION. Editor Fred Raskin (ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, THE SUICIDE SQUAD) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey so far. From an NYU student considering directing as a career… to his realization that his love of editing was a better and more realistic fit… to paying his dues (like many of this podcast’s previous guests) at the school of Troma… to working his way up as an assistant editor to some of the industry’s titans o...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 432
PUBLIC VERSION. Writer, producer, and creator Ryan Silbert (Stan Lee’s ALLIANCES: A TRICK OF LIGHT, ALLIANCES: A NEW REALITY, THE GIRL IS IN TROUBLE, the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to share his career journey so far. From his start producing, writing, and directing countless short films… to producing features like the Wilmer Valderrama starring THE GIRL IS IN TROUBLE… to bringing the late Stan Lee’s ALLIANCES to vivid aura...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 431
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Alex Proyas (THE CROW, DARK CITY, I ROBOT, KNOWING, GODS OF EGYPT) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for this extra special super-sized episode! From Alex’s early days as part of the talent lineup at Propaganda Films directing music videos for acts like INXS, FLEETWOOD MAC, and CROWDED HOUSE… to his fateful step into studio feature films with the beautifully haunting THE CROW (1994) which underwent the devastating and well documented tragedy of the accidental death of star Bra...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 430
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond (CENSOR) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen from across the pond to share her career journey. From originally wanting to be an actress… to discovering that directing encompassed all of the aspects of story telling that she loved… to putting on an original theater production inspired by THE EVIL DEAD and THE COMPANY OF WOLVES that incorporated cameras on stage… to learning how to edit her own footage linearly (tape to tape) and absorbing the disciplines that ca...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 429
PUBLIC VERSION. Writer Grady Hendrix (SATANIC PANIC, MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM, PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES, HORRORSTÖR, WE SOLD OUR SOULS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to share his career journey as a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. From originally wanting to be a director… to realizing that writing was the only outlet where he would only have to count on himself… to writing about Hong Kong cinema for fan magazines and websites… to learning fro...
Aug 16, 2021•55 min•Ep. 428
PUBLIC VERSION. In episode 35 of THE MOVIE CRYPT (January 27, 2014) filmmaker Brea Grant shared her journey as an actress (TV’s DEXTER and HEROES, Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN 2, and more). Now, 7 years later and just 48 hours before starting principal photography on her latest directorial effort TATTERED HEARTS, Brea returns to discuss her experiences writing and directing with Adam, Joe, and Arwen! From her daily writing regiment… to the long wait that she endured between her first feature BEST FRIE...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 427
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor Emile Hirsch (INTO THE WILD, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, SPEED RACER, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to share his career journey. From a child actor that couldn’t take commercial auditions seriously… to guest star roles on TV series like KINDRED: THE EMBRACED, 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN, and NYPD BLUE… to his break out roles in THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR… to how he has chosen such interesting roles and wound up working with some o...
Aug 02, 2021•58 min•Ep. 426
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Chad Ferrin (H.P. LOVECRAFT’S THE DEEP ONES, UNSPEAKABLE, THE GHOULS, EASTER BUNNY KILL KILL!) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey. From growing up on a farm… to his move out West where he worked as a PA on films like HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE… to his brief time with Troma Entertainment… to selling his house to finance his first feature film UNSPEAKABLE… to his incredible 20 year run of making films happen his w...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 425
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Martin Wilson (GREAT WHITE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen all the way from Australia to discuss his career journey. From changing his major to film studies while at University… to becoming a runner/PA for a commercial production company… to his twenty years of experience directing commercials and short films… to finally having his feature filmmaking moment arrive in the form of GREAT WHITE and the unbelievably difficult process he went through making his very own shark mov...
Jul 19, 2021•59 min•Ep. 424
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor Devon Sawa (FINAL DESTINATION, IDLE HANDS, HUNTER HUNTER) joined Adam, Joe, and Arwen for a full interview in the final hours of last Christmas’ YORKIETHON 5. Since we’re now over halfway to YORKIETHON 6 (July is usually when we start putting together each year’s 48-hour marathon charity event) we figured now is the perfect time to make this terrific conversation available as its very own episode for the first time. The last half-hour has all of the best stuff, Patrons! Lik...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 423
