Welcome new listeners and returning listeners! Today we bring you director Patrick Lussier, who is known for the genre favorite My Bloody Valentine, White Noise 2, Play Dead, and Drive Angry starring Nicholas Cage.

For local listeners The Grim and Bloody Podcast will have a table at Sinister Creature Con in Sacramento. Stop by our booth, tell us what scares you at night and leave with a free poster.

The spooky season is upon us! Tonight Greg Cox is the writer of numerous film-to-novel adaptations including Underworld, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Ghost Rider, The Dark Knight Rises and many more. He peels back the curtains on this specific industry and shows us what is takes to get you foot in the door, expectations of future work a tease of upcoming projects.

Steamboat Willie cartoon entered the ⁠public domain in the United States⁠ on January 1, 2024, as the work was published in 1928. Much hoolpa surrounded if and how the mouse would be used creatively by others, notably if the mouse would receive the horror treatment like our dear pooh bear. Not many did, except for Jaime Bailey.

We talk about his effort in crating a film that slashes throats but doesn't cross the fine line!

Horror veterans Robert Englund and Lin Shaye round out a well put together cast, running scared against the horrifying backdrop of Quebec, Canada. Oh, those crazy Canucks!

As we do with as many of our guests as we can, we watched the Midnight Man and walked away impressed with the finer points of the production, quality of cast and the practical effects. But not all films go on without a hitch. Today with talk with Travis Zariwny to find out what went right, and what could have used fewer hands in the cookie jar, so to speak.

Hunter Hunter, now streaming on Shudder, written and directed by Shawn Linden, is a minimalist, practical effects shocker of a wilderness film we absolutely loved.

The film follows a family living in the remote wilderness as fur trappers. Their tranquility is threatened when they think they are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf, and the father leaves them behind to track it.

This is one Yellow Brick Road you do not want to follow!

YellowBrickRoad is a 2010 ⁠horror film⁠ directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton and starring ⁠Cassidy Freeman⁠, Anessa Ramsey and Laura Heisler. The film tracks an expedition to discover the fate of an entire town that disappeared into the ⁠wilderness⁠ 70 years prior.

We talk about the re-release YellowBrickRoad with updated visuals, the inspiration behind the film notably House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and the vision of combining the Blair Witch Project with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Join Kevin Nickelson, Al Omega and Joe Flynn as we talk a safe and uneventful (snark) trip down...YellowBrickRoad.

It's no secret The Thing (1982) is one of our favorite films to reference. It's a cinematic masterpiece in all phases, and stands as John Carpenter's finest work. Fans of The Thing have enjoyed numerous special edition versions, notably Arrow Films and Shout! Factory. The makers behind CreatorVC aim to best that. Today we are joined by Ian Nathan who directed the wildly entertaining Aliens Expanded. For that effort CreatorVC managed to wrangle the entire cast and crew including James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver (which is no easy feat), so the bar has been set exceptionally high for The Thing. Join us as we delve into the beginnings of what sure is to be a collector's item.

Love it or hate it: The Omen franchise is not going anywhere! So long as warm bodies flock to theaters or pay to stream it, 20th Century Studios will continue to churn out sequels. Or in this case, a prequel.

The First Omen serves as a spooky catalyst to the original 1976 classic. Nell Tiger Free plays Margaret, an American sent to Rome to work at an orphanage before taking the veil. If you have seen any of the previous installments then you have a pretty good idea where The First Omen goes, but we do give credit to the film's pacing, atmosphere, script and ending which lines up nicely to the main event: The Omen.