PUBLIC VERSION. Musician and filmmaker Spider One (lead singer of POWERMAN 5000, ALLEGORIA, TV’s DEATH VALLEY) stops by the ArieScope studio to share his career journey with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. From a punk rocker growing up in Northern Massachusetts… to a rapper getting airplay and huge accolades on Boston radio… to forming the successful platinum selling rock band POWERMAN 5000… to producing MTV’s DEATH VALLEY… to an on-air personality hosting all kinds of interviews and events for FEARnet… t...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 474
PUBLIC VERSION. Musician Spencer Charnas (lead singer of ICE NINE KILLS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope studio to share his incredible career journey from playing clubs in the Boston area to sharing stadium stages all over the world alongside juggernauts like METALLICA and SLIPKNOT. From playing cover songs in a punk/ska band in High School… to making the decision to pursue music for his lifelong career and taking the time to truly learn the business… to never giving up no matter ho...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 473
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor and filmmaker Dean Cameron (“Chainsaw” from SUMMER SCHOOL, BAD DREAMS, ROCKULA, SKI SCHOOL 1 & 2, IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, WE BARE BEARS, SHAMELESS, WILL & GRACE, ALF and so many more) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen in the ArieScope Studio to discuss his career journey. From stealing the show at just 6 years old when he starred in a play alongside his father… to performing in plays as a teenager alongside actors like John Ritter and Eric Stoltz… to moving to Los Angel...
Jun 20, 2022•58 min•Ep. 471
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Charles Dorfman (BARBARIANS) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey in this refreshingly honest filmmaker on filmmaker conversation about the long process of bringing an idea to the big screen for the first time. From a child enamored with his grandfather’s vast collection of VHS films… to reading every book about film directing that he could get his young hands on… to studying theater as a student at University where he initially started acting as a m...
Jun 13, 2022•57 min•Ep. 470
THE MOVIE CRYPT’s special roundtable series continues as Adam sits down with Mick Garris (THE STAND, NIGHTMARE CINEMA), Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW 2-4, REPO! THE GENETIC ROCK OPERA) and Tom Six (THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 1-3, THE ONANIA CLUB) to discuss violence in cinema and where they draw the line with the art that they put out into the world. From the films that disturbed them… to whether or not it is an artist’s responsibility to consider who might wind up seeing their work… to dealing with the MPA...
Jun 06, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 470
PUBLIC VERSION. Actress and filmmaker Hannah Fierman (V/H/S, SIREN, ST. AGATHA, DARK CIRCLES, CREEPSHOW, VAMPIRE DIARIES) shares her career journey with Adam, Joe, and Arwen. From making ends meet financially in the early days… to the inspiration Hannah found in seeing Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET for the first time… to adapting the play she wrote for her college senior thesis into her first short film… to learning that the first feature film she ever acted in just so happens to be “huge in Nig...
May 30, 2022•58 min•Ep. 469
PUBLIC VERSION. Actor Akie Kotabe (EVERLY, THE BATMAN, THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER, VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey. From majoring in computer science at UT Austin before randomly noticing a casting call and on a whim actually auditioning… to bombing that very first audition but catching the acting bug… to fearing the odds of ever becoming an actor and deciding to move to Japan to teach English instead… to his mother’s passing causing h...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 468
PUBLIC VERSION. Musician, actress, and filmmaker Lola Blanc (AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL, FATALE COLLECTIVE: BLEED) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for a heartfelt conversation about the personal side of the creative process and and the pressures an artist faces from an industry that’s always chasing after the next “hit.” From what can happen when you focus only on trying to create something that “everyone will like” rather than creating art that means something to you… to the internal scars that ca...
May 16, 2022•58 min•Ep. 467
PUBLIC VERSION. In THE MOVIE CRYPT’s special 9th anniversary episode Adam, Joe, and Arwen are joined by make-up FX master and filmmaker Robert Kurtzman (EVIL DEAD 2, WISHMASTER, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, SCREAM, BOOGIE NIGHTS, and SO many more)! Covering everything from Kurtzman’s childhood love of monsters and having his FANGORIA magazines taken away from him by the nuns in Catholic School… through his early days working for John Buechler and getting to travel the world ma...
May 09, 2022•59 min•Ep. 466
PUBLIC VERSION. Director Michael Schultz is an absolute legend in film (THE LAST DRAGON, COOLEY HIGH, CAR WASH, DISORDERLIES, KRUSH GROOVE, SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, etc) and one of the most prolific directors in television (THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES, L.A. LAW, PICKET FENCES, FELICITY, ALLY MCBEAL, CHARMED, GILMORE GIRLS, BLACK-ISH, NEW GIRL, ARROW, CHUCK, etc). Starting out with a dream of serving in the United States Air Force, Schultz unexpectedly found himself pivoti...
May 02, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 465
PUBLIC VERSION. Acclaimed filmmaker Aharon Keshales (RABIES, BIG BAD WOLVES) began his career as a teacher and critic of film before paring up with his former co-directing partner Navot Papushado (GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE) to create some of the most provocative cinema in the last few years, including the first horror film out of Israel! Aharon discusses what it was like directing solo for the first time with his new film SOUTH OF HEAVEN (starring Jason Sudekis, Evangeline Lily & Shea Whigham and curr...
Apr 25, 2022•46 min•Ep. 463
PUBLIC VERSION. Actress Elisha Cuthbert (HAPPY ENDINGS, 24, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK, OLD SCHOOL, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, LOVE ACTUALLY, HOUSE OF WAX, and SO many more) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss her career journey. From the intensity of shooting a series as ambitious as 24… to her honest initial reaction to Richard Curtis’ screenplay for his genius romantic comedy LOVE ACTUALLY… to the choices that made Luke Greenfield’s THE GIRL NEXT DOOR such a classic coming of age film… to the disa...
Apr 18, 2022•58 min•Ep. 463
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Deborah Voorhees (FRIDAY THE 13th PART 5, AVENGING ANGEL) has been one of the horror genre’s favorite Scream Queens ever since her work on the infamous 5th installment of the Jason Voorhees (no relation) saga, a role made even more iconic by the music video for Wolfie’s Just Fine’s “A New Beginning” in 2016. Now Deborah is back in the director’s chair for what could be her most personal work to date, a slasher film that delves into the world of stalkers and the trials o...
Apr 11, 2022•53 min•Ep. 462
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaking team Chris Cullari & Jennifer Raite (12 DEADLY DAYS, THE SLEEPOVER) have been working together for years but it took a pandemic for the dynamic duo to hit the dirt (literally) and write and direct their first feature film, THE AVIARY, starring Malin Ackerman, Chris Messina and Lorenza Izzo (coming to theaters and VOD April 29th). Jennifer and Chris discuss how they met and persevered with a creative partnership well after they broke up as a couple… collaborating with J...
Apr 04, 2022•50 min•Ep. 461
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Joe Swanberg (DRINKING BUDDIES, YOU’RE NEXT, Netflix’s LOVE) is one of the most prolific artists working today. Writer, director, producer, actor, editor, cinematographer… he literally does it all! Swanberg sits down with Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss his career journey from aspiring basketball player to filmmaker… the films and filmmakers of the mid-80’s to mid-90’s that inspired him while working at Hollywood Video… how he prioritizes projects that “can be made tomo...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 460
On November 14, 2019 a student at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, CA brought a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun to school with him. The boy shot 5 of his schoolmates before shooting himself in the head. Mia Page-Tretta (daughter of actress Tiffany Shepis) was one of the students that was shot. While she fortunately recovered, two of Mia’s classmates (one of whom was her best friend) did not survive. The weapon used was an unregistered "ghost gun" that had been assembled from a kit. Even wi...
Mar 21, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 459
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Steven R. Monroe (I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2010, THE EXORCISM OF MOLLY HARTLEY, HOUSE OF 9) has one of the most prolific resumes in Hollywood. Hell, he was 1st assistant camera (focus puller) on the 1991 Steven Seagal ass-kicker OUT FOR JUSTICE and he directed 8 TV movies in 2017 alone! Seriously, look the guy up on IMDB and your head will spin! In this fantastic conversation, Steven joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss the reality of being a steadily working director in a...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 458
PUBLIC VERSION. In the second part of our expansive conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Mark Pellington (ARLINGTON ROAD, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, PEARL JAM's "Jeremy" music video) Mark rejoins Adam, Joe & Arwen to continue discussing his wide and varied career with a focus on the feature film and TV side of his work. Including amazing anecdotes on the making of films such as his first feature GONG ALL THE WAY (which he is currently painstakingly restoring)... to the trials of studio storytellin...
Mar 07, 2022•58 min•Ep. 457
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Mark Pellington (ARLINGTON ROAD, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, I MELT WITH YOU, PEARL JAM’s “Jeremy” music video) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen for a discussion about his career that is so epic and fascinatingly detailed that even at 2.5 hours long they barely scratch the surface. That’s right, the guys geeked out so hard over Mark’s early MTV years that they will need to record a separate episode dedicated to Mark’s feature film work! Pull up a front row seat to the birth of MT...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 456
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Rob Jabbaz’s new film THE SADNESS took the festival world in 2021 by storm. The story about a dangerous virus that causes the infected to lose their inhibitions has shades of our own Joe Lynch’s MAYHEM (2017), however Rob takes it all a bloody, graphic step further. Audiences who have already seen THE SADNESS internationally and on the festival circuit have been disgusted, shocked, and full of praise for the film which will see its US release this spring. Adam, Joe, and...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 455
In the first of a new series of Movie Crypt roundtable conversations, Adam, Joe, and Arwen welcome the co-creators and co-hosts of The MJ Cast (Jamon Bull, Q, and Elise Capron) along with award winning British investigative journalist and frequent MJ Cast contributor Charles Thomson (THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE GUARDIAN, THE SUN, and more) as they candidly discuss toxic fandom in a cancel culture world. Created in 2015, The MJ Cast is a podcast celebrating Michael Jackson through in-depth interview...
Feb 14, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 454
Producers and directors Jordan Wayne Long & Mattt Glass (12 HOUR SHIFT, SQUIRREL) have been working together for years, developing their unique, hand-crafted style on everything from short form web content to feature films. From their auspicious beginnings creating content for YouTube… to making mini-documentaries… to the trials of making a “viral hit”… to writing, shooting, editing, composing music, and even building their own locations… Jordan and Matt truly do it all! Their new film, GHOSTS O...
Feb 07, 2022•50 min•Ep. 453
PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaking partners Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks (BED, PAINS) join Joe, Adam, and Arwen this week to discuss their new film ALONE WITH YOU, which is being released theatrically on February 4, 2022 and other digital platforms February 8, 2022. From a fateful first date to being confined together due to the pandemic, Emily and Justin made the most of their quarantine time by combining their skills (as an actor and cinematographer, respectively) to not only produce, direct and shoo...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 452
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
