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Tonight we bring you a different kind of Horrorhound interview. Not a filmmaker but tied to a film that is near and dear to our hearts. We, by chance at Horrorhound, met in line to meet the 'Blair Witch' cast & as we mentioned our podcast, the mayor of Burkittsville, Maryland introduced himself. Yes, you heard that right, we bring you our interview with Michael Robinson, the mayor of the town that set up the fictional town of 'Blair' for the film that put Burkittsville on the proverbial Hollywood map. We talk about how Michael became the mayor, his love for all things horror & of course, "The Blair Witch Project." 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Our fifth Horrorhound Filmfest interview tonight is with Mr. Michael Squid, the director of the horror short "Janelle's Baby" that won best editing this year! Infertility with a body horror twist, this slow burn has a jaw-dropping surprise ending. We get all the insights from Michael about the film as well as what inspires him and what he has coming up. To watch the teaser trailer for "Janelle's Baby" as well as his other works, check out Michael Squid's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@MrMichaelSquid?si=7pOdUwIEiD0n4E3y 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

We're keeping the Horrorhound Film Fest interviews coming! Tonight we are joined by Sean Kenealy & Eric Silvera to discuss their short film, "Two Knocks on a Door." The log line is "A father grows suspicious that there's an intruder in his house, only to discover something much darker" but depending on who's watching, it's so much more than that. This was very polarizing but we loved it & we loved even more talking to Sean & Eric about it! Spoiler Alert & NSFW Warning: We do discuss self-pleasure quite a bit, but in a very comical way LOL. Catch "Two Knocks on a Door" at festivals coming soon! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

She's a Killer Queen, She's Horror Barbie, but you will come to know her simply as Sheryl. Tonight we've got another incredible Horrorhound Film Fest interview with Justin Best and Anthea Neri Best, director and star of the full-length feature Sheryl, a fun ride with a bad ass sexy anti-hero that just wants to be seen, whether it's her face or someone else's. We had an absolute blast with this interview & we can't wait for our listeners to become fans of these awesome people & their awesome film. Catch Sheryl coming soon to a film festival near you! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

We've got Horrorhound interview #2 for you guys, this time with the director of the short "Dead Men Ride Again," Caden Butera. This zombie western short was a fun ride, no pun intended. We discuss this and other projects Caden has worked on as well as our time at Horrorhound and nerding out about movies and film facts. Big thanks again to Caden and please check out his YouTube channel to see the other things he's worked on as well as the trailer for "Dead Men Ride Again" which is tagged below. https://www.youtube.com/@CadenButera 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Tonight is one of our first of many Horrorhound Filmfest interviews and starting things off is Rob Tiemstra, creator of the short film "No Slasher Here." We discussed with them what piqued their interest in filmmaking, other shorts they've worked on, what horror films they enjoy or inspire them as well as the importance of queer themes in cinema. This was a great, fun interview that we hope everyone enjoys & please check out "No Slasher Here," if you can, at a film festival near you! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

This is the interview of all interviews. Tonight is a holy grail episode, the one, the only, Eduardo Sanchez, director of the acclaimed found footage film "The Blair Witch Project." Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, Eduardo was a guest at Horrorhound that we met and so graciously agreed to talk with us. Besides Blair Witch, we discussed his other film, 2014 "Exists," and talk at length about our shared love of all things Bigfoot. We also discussed his most recent collaboration with other Latino filmmakers in the 2022 Shudder featured anthology "Satanic Hispanics." This was a dream come true for us and we can't thank Eduardo enough for his time. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...FROGMAN?! We talked about the movie last week, this week we're talking about the legendary cryptid that inspired it: The Loveland Frogman of Ohio. With the first sighting in 1955 and the last sighting in 2016, for over 60 years the legend and lore surrounding Frogman (or FrogMEN?) has been shrouded in mystery. Is it real, is it a hoax, is it a Pokemon? Find out for yourself at 3AM down by the Little Miami River. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

*PREVIOUSLY RECORDED EPISODE* We're bringing you guys another great interview tonight with the director of "Frogman," Anthony Cousins. A found footage gem inspired by "Willow Creek" & "Digging Up The Marrow," it is based on the local Ohio legend of the Loveland Frogman. We discuss the inspiration for, concept for and inception of the film as well as all of our first time at the Loveland Frogman Festival! "Frogman" can be streamed on Vudu, YouTube and AppleTV. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Well guys this is year 2 of our press coverage for Horrorhound Film Festival and 2024 did not disappointment. We reconnected with fellow podcasters and got to see another crop of great indie horror films. The two main standouts that we talked about tonight was "Sheryl" and "Compression", both great films as well as having a great team of filmmakers behind them. We also saw trailers for other great films, networked with other amazing filmmakers and the major highlight, aside from the Film Festival, was meeting the cast and creator of the horror film that changed our lives as horror fans as well as having a huge impact on our podcast, The Blair Witch Project with this being the 25th anniversary of the movie's release. Thank you again to Horrorhound for having us back this year and we look forward to the interviews that we will have coming up so stay tuned! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Back again 3 years later we sit down with Ricky Umberger of the Fear Footage trilogy to talk about his most recent film Project Eerie. Another found footage anthology gem set on Halloween of 2020, we discuss the process of making his 4th film, where the concept came from and how the whole thing came together. We even talk about our favorite found footage films that we have haven't seen. Check out all of Ricky's films on Amazon Prime and for Blu-ray purchase on thefearfootage.com. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

The Goatman legend spans 3 states: Maryland, Kentucky and Texas. In Maryland, he stalks the woods of Prince George's County, possibly the result of a science experiment gone wrong. In Kentucky, he hides under a train trestle near Pope Lick Creek using hypnosis to lure trespassers to their deaths. In Texas, there are 2 reported legends, one in Fort Worth near a nature center and the other on Old Alton Bridge in Denton with the latter having very tragic, racist ties. Tonight we talk about all the legends and even a 2023 film (neither of us had seen by the time of this recording.) Is there one Goatman or many? 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Tonight's episode is an interview with the co-writer and actor from the film "Evil Lurks," Chris Shern. Chris plays Harold in the film who through hypnosis is trying to help Kimberly (played by Amanda Winston) overcome her grief but assaults her while under possession & 15 years later Kimberly has to finally stop the Evil that still Lurks before all hell literally breaks loose. Chris shares with us what the process was like shooting the film, where the concept originated & what other projects he has in the works. "Evil Lurks" is currently streaming on Tubi. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

A modern re-telling of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Bomani Story's directorial debut, "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster" tells the tragic story of Vicaria and her view of death as a disease as she is overcome with the grief of losing her brother due to gang/drug violence. When she tries to "cure" him of his "disease," all hell breaks loose and Vicaria is tasked with the decision of dealing with the "Monster" her and society ultimately created. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD! We talk about the movie in its entirety as well as a little backstory on Mary Shelley. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is currently streaming on Shudder. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Madame Delphine LaLaurie had a sorted past from birth. But in 1834 when her massive mansion in New Orleans caught fire, the truth of her misdeeds finally came to light. Known around by some to be cruel to her slaves, if hearsay is true, that became an understatement when found beneath the smoke and ashes were slaves that had been tortured, abused, if still alive, or left to rot still chained even after death. Madame LaLaurie was never apprehended for her crimes, but her infamy lives on within the bowels of 1140 Royal Street where spirits of the damned can still be seen & heard. To catch the first ever televised paranormal investigation inside the mansion, watch Season 1, Episode 7 of "Portals to Hell." 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

In 2015 a small town in Missouri was rocked by an unspeakable crime: a loving mother found brutally murdered and her disabled teen daughter missing. After an arrest in Wisconsin, the truth of the story came to light. The disabled teen daughter was not a teenager nor disabled and the mother was not loving at all. She had been systematically torturing her daughter with unnecessary surgeries & medications all her life making her believe she had seizures, cancer and other ailments as well as lying about her age until her daughter could take it no longer and enlisted her online boyfriend in murdering her mother to free her from the abuse. Not all is as it seems. Tonight we discuss the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee Blanchard. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Another real life true story meets Hollywood, tonight we discuss "The Haunting of Connecticut." The 2009 film fictionalizes the real life 1986 story of the Snedeker Family. After moving into a former funeral home in Connecticut to be closer to the hospital for their older son's cancer treatments, the Snedekers immediately started having horrifying paranormal experiences. They finally got Ed & Lorraine Warren involved and after an exorcism, the experiences stopped. The movie version takes on a slightly different version with seances, necromancy and dead bodies in the walls. Listen in tonight as we compare and contrast the real story to its movie counterpart. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

In the middle of North Carolina on the aptly named "Devil's Tramping Ground Rd" sits a barren spot of land in the woods where supposedly no vegetation grows and no animals cross or stand. Over many decades the site has been rumored to be where the Devil himself angrily walks every night, where an Indigenous battle raged between two warring tribes or where a UFO landed and left in its wake a spot where so much radiation soaked into the soil, it forever remains tainted. Is it evil, alien energy or just a bunch of nosey trespassers? Tonight we discuss the history and folklore behind The Devil's Tramping Ground of Chatham County, NC. 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Even though we're into January, this episode is a fan suggestion that we couldn't pass up. Tonight we review "It's A Wonderful Knife," a horror spin on the 1946 classic "It's a Wonderful Life." Starring Justin Long, Jane Widdop, Joel McHale and Katherine Isabelle, the movie centers around Winnie who within a year has lost her best friend on Christmas Eve to a psychotic killer that she later murders. When she wishes she never existed, she is transported to a parallel universe where the maniac is back and with the help of the town outcast, she must defeat him again and return to her own reality. As always, there are spoilers, so stream on Shudder if you haven't seen it yet, then enjoy the episode! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.

Tonight we sit down with the lovely Victoria Vertuga again to talk about the release of her most recent film Cold Blows The Wind! You can now watch the movie, buy it, and even get movie merch! Check it all out here at https://coldblowsthewindfilm.com/ We also discussed the Actors/Writers Strike that happened last year, her work with pitbull rescue and our love for films and filmmaking. This was such a blast and we hope you guys enjoy! 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry Merchandise: https://dfwtopodcast.creator-spring.com/ Sponsored by: Dietsmoke.com - use promo code DFWTO for 50% off your purchase Betterhelp: Visit betterhelp.com/dfwto to get 10% off when you sign up for your first month.