Episode 2: How NOT To Cast A Movie

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Episode 2: How NOT To Cast A Movie

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Jul 17, 2022

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In a horror movie, the lead's important but the villain is more important than anything.

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Jul 17, 2022

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There are stories of movie-making disasters and then there's the making of "Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood", a movie NONE of its film makers wanted to make. The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast tells an epic tale of Hollywood hubris and creative compromise. In turns outrageously funny, compelling and painfully honest, It's about what can happen when you do things for all the wrong reasons. Spoiler alert: nothing good.

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Episode 2: How NOT To Cast A Movie: In a horror movie, the lead's important but the villain is more important than anything. by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E3: Casting About With Victoria Burrows: In this episode of “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast: Horror Stories From The Movie Making Trenches”, we sit down with one of the biggest casting directors in the business, Victoria Burrows. Or, as we prefer to put it, we go “Casting About With Victoria Burrows”. In season one of “The How NOT […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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Episode 4: "Special Effects": In a horror movie, makeup special effects are everything. Get them wrong and your audience will hate you. It’s just how the horror business is: no guts, no glory. If Freddy Krueger had looked like 1953’s “Robot Monster” (with a gorilla body and a deep sea diver helmet head – with antennas), the whole “Nightmare […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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Episode 3: "Welcome To Vancouver/Can We Go Home Yet?": This episode also could be called “Location, Location, Location!” Where you shoot your movie makes a huge difference. One surefire way to turn craftsmanship into crap is to shoot somewhere you have no organic reason to be. For “Bordello of Blood”, that location was Vancouver. Like the script for “Dead Easy”, “Bordello of Blood” took […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E36: It's FORBIDDEN!: Bill Malone fell in love with Robby The Robot the moment Robby entered the classic sci fi movie “Forbidden Planet“. Characters like Robby and the Creature From The Black Lagoon completely captivated Bill. They piqued something deep inside him. Like a lot of burgeoning movie-makers, Bill spent time with a super 8 movie camera as a kid. In Bill’s case, that love led him into a career making movies. It also gave him the chance to actually own the character that helped inspire that love: Robby The Robot! Bill’s one of those great storytellers whose own story is pretty damned […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E6: "How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie": Welcome to our Halloween podcast – How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie. One of the masters of movie make up special effects is our very good friend Todd Masters. We’re sure you remember Todd vividly from Season One of The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast. Todd became Tales From The Crypt’s permanent […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E16: Car Ride To Hell: Welcome to our first new episode of 2023! We’re dropping a Joel Silver story we’ve been threatening to tell since we started this podcast last year. The Car Ride To Hell! How do we know it ended up in Hell? Well, for starters, Donald Trump makes an appearance – two actually! Here’s the setting. As […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E15: "Best Bits": For a lot of people, 2022 was an outright annus horribilus. One to forget. That wasn’t the case for us here at the How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast. For starters, we came into being this year. That was a good thing (all things considered). We found a growing audience – that’s been even […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E23: "Bordello - The Whole Schmear (Parts 1-4)": Spoiler alert: this story has a happy ending. At its core, our podcast is the story of a creative relationship. How making a dumb horror movie destroyed that relationship. And how doing a podcast about making that dumb horror movie healed the wounds and reignited the relationship. That’s after not speaking to each other for […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E19: "Rust Makes Our Heads Explode": Nobody should ever die on a film or TV set. No one should ever get injured either but physical things happen (stunts, for instance). Injuries should should be rare. Death should be a complete stranger. With hundreds of hours of produced film and TV content under our belts, Gil Adler and I had the exact […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E18: "Who's The Boss?": Film sets are a fascinating place to work. They definitely reflect the nature of the people working on them – especially at the top. But who’s really in charge of any set? Who’s the boss? Most sets are like bee hives. And, while everyone thinks the director is queen bee, on the set itself, it’s […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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S2E66 Inside The Dark Castle: DARK CASTLE Entertainment sorta kinda rose from the ashes of BORDELLO OF BLOOD. The creative team had some of the same people as Crypt. And HORROR was its calling card. The brain child of JOEL SILVER, ROBERT ZEMECKIS and GIL ADLER, Dark Castle set out, initially, to re-make the movies in the WILLIAM CASTLE canon: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, 13 GHOSTS, THE TINGLER… For a brief moment, it looked as if Dark Castle might catch fire. Its first feature – House On Haunted Hill did okay financially. Its second and third features (“13 Ghosts” and “Ghost Ship”) also performed. But […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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Bonus Episode: A Crypt Tribute To Elliot Silverstein: Our good friend – and a guest on this podcast – ELLIOT SILVERSTEIN – just passed away. He was 96 and had an extraordinary run. He was a terrific director with features like CAT BALLOU, A MAN CALLED HORSE and THE CAR to his name. Also, Elliot directed lots of TV including TALES FROM THE CRYPT. That’s when Gil and I first met Elliot. In total, Elliot directed 4 episodes of Crypt including “The Reluctant Vampire“, one of Crypt’s most beloved episodes. It stars our other friend Malcolm McDowell. Perhaps Elliot’s biggest accomplishment though happened off screen. Elliot led the […] by The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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Episode 2: How NOT To Cast A Movie

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