The Grim and Bloody Podcast

Award-winning young adult horror and fantasy author Tricia Copeland joins the Grim and Bloody podcast to discuss her latest addition to her Kingdom Journals series, the prequel fantasy thriller Of Witches and Vampires, about a heroine who is part vampire and part witch who fights to protect her own progeny and their growing powers.

Check out our talk with Tricia here.

On this show, Kevin Nickelson and Al Omega have a look at two alien invasion films from the early 1990s, Abel Ferrara's 1993 Body Snatchers and Stuart Orme's 1994 rendition of Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. How well did either work for us?

Why did both under-perform at the box office? Was the alien invasion genre finally on the decline? We discuss and discourse on all of it. Check it out!

Hailing from the UK, Nathan Shepka (co-director with Andrew Crane on the 2025 gothic slow burn chiller The Baby in the Basket) joined Kevin Nickelson and Al Omega on the podcast to talk this period horror set in 1944 at the Scottish St. Augustine's church. A baby left in a basket at the church's doorstep is either a blessing from heaven or the cursed hell of a demon ready to be born in disguise for the nuns in the monastery. Unexplained occurrences, murder and madness follow.

Nathan has a plethora of stories to tell of filming the chiller, which stars Shepka, along with legendary actress Maryam D'Abo (former Bond girl Kara Milovy in "The Living Daylights" and Paul Barber (Horse in the 1997 classic "The Full Monty").

Dunfermline, Scotland's own David Izaat joins the Grim and Bloody podcast to talk with Kevin Nickelson and guest co-host Craig Johnson about his intriguing, minimalist 2024 sci-fi/horror chiller Skinjacker, about a group of disparate travelers in the Isle of Skye who begin disappearing one by one after being stranded on a roadway by a mysterious power outage affecting their cars and campers.

David gives us the rundown on filming on location and with a very tight budget that often demanded just one take to film. You can check the film out on Amazon Prime or Fandango!

Only a sojourn into the twisted, tortured mind of a traumatised man, who's busy setting his own psychotic designs on a fractured abuse victim could bring director Steve Merlo back into the Grim and Bloody fold for another chat. Once again, he presents more minimalist chills and a focus on inner human demons to scare audiences silly!

Check it out as he chats with Kevin Nickelson all about the behind-the-scenes machinations into the making of this twisty chiller!

Riding on the coattails of Shark Week, Jonathan Zuck, director of the action-packed and grisly horror thriller Chum starring Alice Eve, stops by the Grim and Bloody podcast to chat all things 3-d shark imaging, prosthetic gore effects, the whole shark horror craze, having a star like Alice Eve on board and filming in gorgeous Malta!

Check it out here before you next go to the beach for surfing!

The Grim and Bloody Podcast welcomed Abraham Lopez, Deborah Shirley and Natalie Moore, the director and lead actresses for the creepy, twisting 2025 chiller Sharp Obsession, centering on a young musician who is trying to break away from her abusive mother, only to fall in with a woman who turns out to be driven by obsession and murderous psychosis and has her own plans for the tortured singer. Many stories shared on the creation of the horror gem!

Witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves are the order of the day in 2025's My Neighbor is a Witch, the new exciting chiller to reach Amazon Prime! Local high school students in Georgia come to believe that a neighbor of theirs is a malevolent witch and is responsible for the disappearances of some of their classmates. Are these incidents of a human crime variety, or are supernatural forces at work to build an ultrabeast to rule us all?

Director Omar Reid, star Tisha Ison, and cinematographer David Haynes joined host Kevin Nickelson to discuss all of the behind-the-scenes on the creature feature!

Director Julian Richards drops in all the way from the United Kingdom to talk about his 2012 gem serial killer chiller Shiver, about a serial killer targeting a mentally abused young lady in Portland, Oregon. Will the damaged heroine find the courage to stand up to this psycho's terror reign or will she be just another fallen victim.

Danielle Harris, John Jarrat, Casper Van Dien, Rae Dawn Chong, Valerie Harper and Brad Harris comprise the cast of vets. The film is just released on Shudder. Check out the show here!

Natasha Kermani stops by the show to talk Abraham's Boys, a twisting and unusual chiller that dives into whether vampires exist or is the true demon religious fanaticism gone to insane lengths. Titus Welliver (of Bosch and Deadwood fame) stars. Available on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms."

Director Johannes Grenzfurthner joins us on the show to talk 2024's Solvent, an Austrian-set creepy journey into extreme horrors, Nazi history, a liquified demon hell-bent on furthering the malignant evil of the Third Reich and a ptsd-riddled American ex-pat protagonist trying to come to terms with his own violent history as an Iraqi and Croatian war vet.

A deeply unsettling, brutal yet compelling chiller newly released on Shudder!

David Howard Thornton, the crazed, bloody smile behind Terrifier stars in this manic and otherworldly take The Dead Place! which is streaming for free (with ads) on Bloodstream. It's a fairly unknown platform, overshadowed by Shudder, Tubi, Netflix and Prime. We sit down with writer and director Michael Pickle to dissect The Dead Place!

Predator Wastelands takes the titular character in a different path, and we love it! The story revolves around an alien hunter who hunts down a gang of warlords and unexpectedly becomes a folk hero to the oppressed locals. Now with their support, the alien sets its sights on the warlords' ruthless leader.

Predator Wastelands is currently available to stream for free with a library card on Hoopla. It is also available to rent or buy on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Google Play Movies.

Fans of the Human Hibachi series should be pleased with Mario Cerrito's latest found-footage effort Human Hibachi 3: The Last Supper. We talk with friend of the podcast Mario Cerrito on the newest installation to the franchise, the religious twist and more!

The Resident Evil film franchise isn't known for it's successful iterations. The films are universally panned, and barely scrape a profit. Bringing in an established and well known talent like Zack Cregger shows us that Constantin Film may be tired of mediocre releases. Anthony DeRouen and Kevin Nickelson discuss the potential for a serious Resident Evil adaptation.

As the story goes: an L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger. Starring Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long, and Freddie Gibbs Night Patrol has a strong 90' Los Angeles racial tension/supernatural vibe to it that we enjoyed. Well executed with loads of practical effects. Writer and Director Ryan Prows stops by the 'cast to dish on Night Patrol!

Many fledgling filmmakers looking to breakout in the business will know this talk all too well. You have a book or film you're working to have picked up. You've seen some interest but nothing has solidified yet. This is the current state of The Damned Next Door. A solid piece of content waiting for a producer's home. Join us as we delve into the story and find out what's next!

The Fetus revolves around a couple who become pregnant with a half-human, half-demonic fetus with a thirst for blood-and must uncover its terrifying origins before it's too late. Starring Bill Moseley and Lauren LaVera has everything you want in horror: practical effects, primal screams, excellent sound design and camerawork, and Bill Moseley ! This is a film you need to favorite and watch.

Join Kevin Nickelson and Anthony DeRouen as we talk The Fetus with Joe Lam!

After mysteriously inheriting her parents house, a lifelong orphan finds a camcorder and a collection of video tapes containing the gruesome secrets of her family's past, and the horrifying truth behind the camcorder they were captured on.

We sit down with director Bruce Wemple to get the scoop on the rising in popularity found footage horror film Capture!

Beyond Mamushi a new psychological supernatural horror film from writer and director Beyond Mamushi tells a story about the effects of mental abuse on the human psyche, and when the abnormal becomes normal. Due to its dark matter this was not an easy film to make, but the execution, atmosphere and tension are well crafted.

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