PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Andrew Cumming joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss the journey to making his debut feature film OUT OF DARKNESS (in theaters now). From starting out with commercials and shorts… to moving into directing episodic television series (RIVER CITY, CLIQUE, COLD FEET)… to getting the inspiration to make a horror/adventure set 45,000 years in the past… to working with his co-writers to create a new language for his characters to speak… to how he pulled off such an ambitious, ...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 560
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Ted Geoghegan (WE ARE STILL HERE, MOHAWK) returns to discuss his latest feature, the Saturn Award nominated BROOKLYN 45 with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. From trying something completely different on the heels of his successful 2015 horror film WE ARE STILL HERE with his 2017 historical action drama MOHAWK… to the pride he takes in hearing from an indigenous elderly Mohawk man that his film was “the first time he ever saw a film in his native language”… to making his triumphan...
Feb 19, 2024•59 min•Ep. 559
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker and musician Richard Elfman (FORBIDDEN ZONE, SHRUNKEN HEADS, MODERN VAMPIRES) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss his career journey. From his humble upbringing in the most unlikely of towns… to how his love for the weird and wild took him around the world… to his part in the creation of THE KNIGHTS OF OINGO BOINGO (which then morphed into the famed 80’s rock band OINGO BOINGO)… to making his 1980 surreal classic FORBIDDEN ZONE… to jumping back...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 558
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Barnaby Clay (THE SEEDING) joins Joe Lynch for an interview recorded in front of a LIVE audience at USC. From his years working in the commercial and music video world working with artists such as Rhianna, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Gnarls Barkley… to the 8 years that he spent developing the story that ultimately blossomed into his first feature narrative THE SEEDING (currently in theaters and available on VOD)… to the difficulties of shooting out in the desert… to what i...
Feb 05, 2024•51 min•Ep. 557
PUBLIC VERSION. Musician and actor Lee Ving (lead singer for FEAR, actor in FLASHDANCE, STREETS OF FIRE, CLUE, DUDES, NIGHTMARES) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his incredible career. From growing up in a working class family in Philadelphia, PA… to his many decades fronting L.A.’s seminal hardcore punk band FEAR… to the band’s legendary performance on Saturday Night Live in 1981 (arranged by the great John Belushi) that resulted in absolute mayhem… to what it was like making the transiti...
Jan 29, 2024•58 min•Ep. 556
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Josh Forbes (DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS, CONTRACTED: PHASE 2) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss his career journey. From honing his craft and making his mark as a music video and commercial director… to making the jump into feature films… to the difference between subversive bloody fun and b-movie shlock… to working with the great Jonah Ray (MST3K, VICTOR CROWLEY) in a leading man role and the amazing Alex Winter (THE LOST BOYS, BILL & TED’S EXCEL...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 555
PUBLIC VERSION. Screenwriter Nick Shafir (I.S.S.) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss his journey to becoming a working screenwriter with a film that’s currently playing in theaters all across the country. From a dyslexic aspiring writer living in New York City who discovered THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast back in 2014 and drew his own personal inspiration from it… to paying his dues at various jobs including being the writer’s assistant to the staff of a major network TV seri...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 554
During THE MOVIE CRYPT’s 8th annual “Yorkiethon” last month, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham (BOOGIE NIGHTS, THE HANGOVER, SWINGERS, AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, BOWFINGER) joined Adam, Joe, and Arwen LIVE to discuss working on her latest film- Joe Lynch’s SUITABLE FLESH (now available on digital and Blu-ray). From growing up as an insecure, brainy, drama geek who never thought of herself as pretty… to becoming an internationally famous actress and considered one of the most beaut...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 553
PUBLIC VERSION. Happy New Year! Hosts Adam Green, Joe Lynch, and Arwen look back on the past year of MOVIE CRYPT episodes and highlight some of the films, TV shows, and books that they loved in 2023. Need a New Year's resolution? Start enjoying the FULL version of every week's new episode by supporting this program for just $1 a month at www.Patreon.com/TheMovieCrypt !
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 552
PUBLIC VERSION. Merry Christmas and happy belated Thanksgiving! Recorded LIVE during YORKIETHON 8 on December 10, 2023, filmmaker Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER, HOSTEL, THE GREEN INFERNO, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his craft and career journey. From the long gestating impetus for THANKSGIVING which started way back in his childhood… to the constant fear that all filmmakers share over someone else beating you to an idea… to the difficulties of making violen...
Dec 25, 2023•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 551
PUBLIC VERSION. Director Travis Greene and writer Jonathan Buchanan (8 FOUND DEAD- currently available to rent or purchase digitally) join Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss the making of their award winning new feature. From the writing of 8 FOUND DEAD’s non-linear story and pushing back on the note to “unfold it” and tell the story in a more traditional order of events… to Travis risking it all by selling his house to finance the production and then finding himself renting...
Dec 18, 2023•57 min•Ep. 550
PUBLIC VERSION. Documentary filmmakers Eastwood Allen and Chris Griffiths join Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss their epic 4-part documentary series ROBODOC: THE CREATION OF ROBOCOP. From how they got their start working on non-fiction documentaries about other films like HELLRAISER, FRIGHT NIGHT, and the IT mini-series… to why they felt the need to tell the story of how ROBOCOP was made… to how they didn’t get “RoboCop" himself (Peter Weller) to sit down for an interview until the very last minu...
Dec 11, 2023•58 min•Ep. 549
PUBLIC VERSION. The Adams Family of filmmakers - John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser (HELLBENDER, WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS, THE DEEPER YOU DIG) join Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss their journey as a filmmaking family! From making the decision to stop waiting for permission and start making films on their own… to the importance of practice and why trial and error is crucial if you’re going to learn how to do it yourself… to how they create their films in a way that makes the production possible...
Dec 04, 2023•59 min•Ep. 548
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Andrew Bowser (WORM, JIMMY TUPPER VS THE GOATMAN OF BOWIE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss has his career journey and the making of his latest film ONYX THE FORTUITOUS AND THE TALISMAN OF SOULS. From learning and developing his filmmaking craft while working at companies like Nerdist (where he briefly worked with Adam and Joe on the SABER 3 short film) and while working on indies and other web content… to the decade he spent forming his (in)famous “Onyx” viral cha...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 547
PUBLIC VERSION. Screenwriter and Producer Michael Kennedy (FREAKY, IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss his career journey. From working as an animation assistant and IT support on FAMILY GUY for 10 years and what it was like when his writing career took off and he was able to head out on his own… to the making of FREAKY and its release during the pandemic.. to defining his voice as a writer and finding his lane… to the comical tribulations of bei...
Nov 20, 2023•59 min•Ep. 546
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Franck Khalfoun (NIGHT OF THE HUNTED, P2, MANIAC) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope studio to discuss his career journey and the making of his latest film NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (available now in theaters and on VOD). From growing up in Miami and moving to California on a water polo scholarship where he studied theater and film… to making music videos in New York in the 90’s before moving back to Miami Beach, FL where he got a job on a feature film as a director’...
Nov 13, 2023•58 min•Ep. 545
PUBLIC VERSION. Director of Photography David Matthews (JAKOB’S WIFE, GLORIOUS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey and the making of his latest feature SUITABLE FLESH (directed by our own Joe Lynch and out NOW in theaters and on-demand). From first getting the bug for filmmaking and photography… to shooting everything from music videos and commercials to both short and feature length films… to working with different directors and shooting films outside of the Hollywood syst...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 544
PUBLIC VERSION. Screenwriter Dennis Paoli (RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, CASTLE FREAK, DAGON, BODY SNATCHERS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his incredible career. From fatefully meeting the great Stuart Gordon all the way back in High School and discovering just how much their artistic sensibilities overlapped… to his theater work as part of “The Human Race” satire group touring coffee houses in Chicago… to how performing “naked theater” wound up getting Stuart Gordon thrown in jail… to how ...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 543
PUBLIC VERSION. Reality TV casting director Renee Egan (FBOY ISLAND, THE PROFIT, FARMER WANTS A WIFE, JOE MILLIONAIRE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss her career journey. From dropping out of college on medical leave and realizing it just wasn’t for her… to writing her own stories about animals and her very own Jonas Brothers fan fiction (no, really!) and getting ghosted by Kevin Jonas… to briefly spending time on the wild side and working in the Las Vegas nightlife...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 542
PUBLIC VERSION. Documentary filmmaker Danny Wu (SQUARE ONE, AMERICAN: AN ODYSSEY TO 1947) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey. From an aspiring basketball player living in Canada… to the injury that shattered his original dream… to becoming a YouTube vlogger with a decent sized audience… to the injustice he was witnessing that inspired him to pick up a camera and make a documentary (SQUARE ONE) about one of the most controversial topics in popular culture (the original 1993 ...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 541
PUBLIC VERSION. Author and games writer Bonnie Burton (Lucasfilm/StarWars.com, GEEK DIY, STAR WARS CRAFT BOOK, HUNT A KILLER GAMES, GIRLS AGAINST GIRLS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss her career journey. From growing up in Kansas and feeling “like an alien” out of place… to becoming a published author at age 7… to going to college in Boulder, Colorado (in the same graduating class as Trey Parker and Matt Stone of SOUTH PARK fame) with the goal of becoming a writer…...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 540
Filmmakers Mike Mendez (TALES OF HALLOWEEN, BIG ASS SPIDER) and Alejandro Brugués (JUAN OF THE DEAD, NIGHTMARE CINEMA) return to the podcast to discuss the making of their new anthology film SATANIC HISPANICS. From the genesis of the idea for a horror anthology based in Hispanic heritage… to applying the lessons they learned from working on previous anthologies… to the tonal shifts between stories that make for a well rounded viewing experience and the amount of trust and creative control that n...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 539
PUBLIC VERSION. Singer/songwriter Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS, IGNITOR, WATCHTOWER, BROKEN TEETH) joins Adam and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to share his hard rocking career journey. From forming his first band at 17… to the 40 years he’s now spent playing in WATCHTOWER… to why religion is afraid of rock n roll… to what the true meaning is behind the slogan “keep Austin weird”… to the joys and success that can come from not having an agenda… to how quickly DANGEROUS TOYS found success and t...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 538
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Lewis Teague (CUJO, ALLIGATOR, CAT’S EYE, THE JEWEL OF THE NILE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope studio to discuss his 60 year career so far! From the Sam Fuller war film that inspired his curiosity in filmmaking… to starting an underground Cinema on the Sunset strip in the 60’s… to working in various capacities on films like George Roy Hill’s HAWAII (1966) and the seminal documentary WOODSTOCK (1970)… to working with the legendary Roger Corman… to how he br...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 537
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Laura Moss (BIRTH/REBIRTH) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss their career journey. From starting out after college as a general production assistant where they naturally found themselves gravitating towards the art department and eventually becoming a production designer… to working on shorts, television, and theater for well over a decade in positions such as editor, gaffer, special FX makeup, production manager, sound mixer, script supervisor, and more before maki...
Sep 11, 2023•59 min•Ep. 536
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Stewart Thorndike (BAD THINGS, LYLE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss the making of her new feature BAD THINGS (available on Shudder). From discovering her passion for the cinematic arts while traveling the country as a child… to the David Cronenberg film that changed the way she saw genre movies… to performing in front of the camera in the late Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT… to the trials and tribulations of writing and bringing her new film BAD THINGS to life…...
Sep 04, 2023•53 min•Ep. 535
PUBLIC VERSION. Documentary filmmaker Sam Lipman-Stern (TELEMARKETERS, Vice, Rolling Stone) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his unique career journey and the making of his new doc-series TELEMARKETERS (currently streaming on MAX). From dropping out of High School in 9th grade and going to work full time as a telemarketer when he was just 14 years old… to being gifted a SONY handi-cam that would ultimately set him on his career path… to beginning to develop his storytelling voice during the...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 534
PUBLIC VERSION. Legendary writer David J. Schow (THE CROW, LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III, CRITTERS 3 & 4, THE HILLS RUN RED, and SO MUCH more) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for an incredibly candid conversation about his prolific career. From writing a newspaper article about people overdoing their tans leading to David writing articles for various Men’s magazines… to his prolific arsenal of incredible one-of-a-kind short stories that created "Splatterpunk" and captured the attention of ...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 533
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Stephen Scarlata (BEYOND THE GATES, JODOROWSKY’S DUNE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope studio to discuss his career journey. From Stephen’s start working for the legendary Roger Corman back in the 90’s… to working almost every position and in every facet of production over the next three decades… to writing and producing 2016’s fantastic BEYOND THE GATES…to the making of his new documentary (and directorial debut) SHARKSPLOITATION (now streaming on Shudder)…...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 532
PUBLIC VERSION. French filmmaker Samuel Bodin (COBWEB, MARIANNE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey. From his hit 2019 Netflix horror series MARIANNE… to making the jump to features and working with producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on the new horror chiller COBWEB (in US theaters July 21st!)… to how Stephen King was a major influence on his work… to how he approaches violence on screen… to what it was like working on a film in a language secondary to his own… to how a...
Aug 07, 2023•53 min•Ep. 531
