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From Slashers to Downers

Editor turned writer-director Josh Ethier on his joint love of horror movies and bleak, confrontational European cinema.

May 6, 2026

How A Group of “Dumb Americans” Made One of the First Ever Horror Movies Shot in Albania

Producers Justin Martell, Matt Manjourides and Seager Dixon share the deeply unlikely story of filming the 2020 remake of Castle Freak.

How I Lost My Face

Writer-director Sasha Rainbow on masks, identity, her toxic ex-boyfriend and her new feature, the body horror Grafted.

January 24, 2025

Revisited: How to Produce a Successful Indie Film in Three Easy Steps (by Doing Everything Wrong)

Producer William Rosenfeld on his unconventional approach to making the horror hit It's What's Inside, which sold for $17 million at Sundance.

January 6, 2025

How to Produce a Successful Indie Film in Three Easy Steps (by Doing Everything Wrong)

Producer William Rosenfeld on his unconventional approach to making the horror hit It's What's Inside, which sold for $17 million at Sundance.

November 6, 2024

Thoughts on Suffering for Your Art

Writer-director Anna Zlokovic, whose horror movie Appendage is now on Hulu, discusses finding balance and self-care in her work.

December 15, 2023

Become What You Are

Director Jacqueline Castel on how her debut feature My Animal showed her how to evolve into the person she was supposed to be.

September 7, 2023

Making a Brain Baby with Your Ex-Husband

Filmmaker Lee Moss, whose new film, birth/rebirth, is out this week, on legacy, progeny and identity in a mutable creative partnership.

August 17, 2023

Folk Horror Gave Hollow Hand and Spencer Cullum an Identity

The folk songwriters talk Wicker Man, Midsommar, why Europe is creepier than the US, and more.

February 28, 2023

How a Brush With Death Made Me an Even Bigger Horror Fan

Kimberley Elizabeth, one of the directors of the new horror anthology movie Sinphony, on her origin story as a genre filmmaker.

October 27, 2022

What’s Going to Happen Next

The Righteous’ actor-writer-director Mark O’Brien on The Game, Rosemary’s Baby and uncertainty in life and in movies.

June 8, 2022

From Punk Rock to Indie Horror, It’s DIY or Die

Whether playing guitar in the bands Bad Ash and Ashers or now making his debut feature Alone with You, Justin Brooks has kept the same ethos.

February 3, 2022