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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 toget...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 440•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 
