Macabre...ish Cults, Classics & Horrors

Mar 01 2025 80 ep. 35 mins 98

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Here we chat with the people who make the movies we love. Old and new, big budget and small. We celebrate the classics, cults and horrors. Find more movie at www.macabreish.com, as well as macabre_ish on IG and tiktok.

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Patrick Rea, Director of Nailbiter & Arbor Demon

Mar 01 2025 58 mins

Patrick Rea has been making movies his entire life, in high school, he was given free rein to put his movies on the school’s cable tv channel. And his introduction to the filmmaking business was on the set of Election, at 17 years old. He went to college and one of his mentors was his professor, academy award winner, Kevin Wilmott (you’ll know him as one of the writer’s of 20

Steven LaMorte, director of The Mean One & Screamboat

Feb 23 2025 42 mins

Steven La Morte started making stop motion videos as an only child in New York, then moved his little productions to the school tv station in high school, where he found his love of storytelling and there he met the producer of Terrifier. After high school he went to NYU Tisch and also spent time lying about his age so he could direct music videos for labels. It wasn’t long befor

Final Blood in Them Hills w/ co-directors Kellen Garner & Christopher Sheffield

Feb 19 2025 42 mins

This is the 3rd and final part of Kellen & Sheff's episode...Kellen Garner’s journey into the film industry. Starting from when he was a kid and not really getting that it was a job. He realized being in drama and theater, it was a good outlet him and he was in theater in high school and in college and in community theater. Some theater friends got him into a noir indie f

More Blood in Them Hills w/ co directors Kellen Garner & Christopher Sheffield

Feb 17 2025 23 mins

Part 2 Sheff and Kellen tell us how the production for Blood in Them Hills came together. Making the monster FX work and worrying it wouldn’t. Talking about the random adjustments that were made to make it all look authentic. Sheff talks inspirations for certain scenes and Kellen explains how the landscape and weather is what makes the movie work. Making hard decisions including

Blood in Them Hills, Co-Directors Christopher Sheffield & Kellen Garner

Feb 13 2025 60 mins

Christopher Sheffield is back and this time with co-director and writer, Kellen Garner and they’re here to talk about their new film, Blood in them Hills. This is part 1 and they talk about how they work together, the idea for Blood in them Hills and the often grueling task of getting the film made.From the first day, it was tough, from grinding through terrible winter weather, t

Elliott Lester, Director of The Thicket

Feb 09 2025 52 mins

Elliott Lester got his start making music videos for everyone from Jessica Simpson and Selena Gomez to Alicia Keys and Method Man. He got his start as a filmmaker with funding from an unusual source. But then the big break came when he was offered a movie called Blitz, starring Jason Statham and Paddy Considine, it's about a serial k!ller who hunts cops.Later, after his divorce, El

Filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams, Director of The Cottage & Bull

Oct 29 2024 27 mins

Paul Andrew Williams got his start in acting having landed a place in a prestigious drama school in London at age 18. But he became disenchanted, was side tracked and returned home to start over. But he returned to London to make a short film and music videos, little by little each small project brought in more money until one of his indie shorts got the attention of Fox Searchlig

Dave McRae, Voice Actor & Director of It's Me, Billy

Oct 03 2024 74 mins

[Before the show starts Chris, Carlos and I have have such interesting conversations and on this day before Dave shows up we were talking about Terrifier, Damien Leone and the impact of physical FX artists who become filmmakers. And Carlos talks about his personal experience with physical fx in his zombie film, Duck & Cover.] Dave McRae arrives and we discovered that he and C

John Isberg, Director of Final Summer

Jul 23 2024 54 mins

This is part 2 of John Isberg’s interview. He goes more in depth about his story and possible future project ideas. He started as an intern grip in 2014, five years later he’s working on friends music videos and five years from then he made his first feature, Final Summer. He talks about the money being in commercial work but the passion projects are a different matter. John

John Isberg, Cinematographer & Director of Final Summer

Jul 19 2024 41 mins

John Isberg director of Final Summer, took time out of his busy schedule, while the set was being prepped, to talk to us. He started making short films in high school and wanted to go to film school but only managed Intro to Film before he dropped out because of the expense and his ADHD. In his 20s he was in bands and during the process of making music videos he became very int