Choice Cuts is Shock's exclusive talk program. Each episode, host Ryan Turek brings on a new guest to discuss their tales from the Hollywood trenches.
AJ Bowen sits in the Choice Cuts hot seat this week to discuss his background, his career and his forthcoming projects. The actor landed on the genre map with The Signal and has been devoted to horror since, appearing in House of the Devil, Hatchet II and Chillerama. On the horizon: You're Next and Rites of Spring. Head inside for our candid interview!
It just dawned on me... Episode 40?! I never imagined Choice Cuts would keeping rolling along like it has, but here we are, 40 episodes down.
This is our third, and final, installment tied in to The Theatre Bizarre, a horror anthology film opening in theaters January 27. For the last couple of weeks, we've been talking to the contributing directors involved (click here for our previous two episodes) and this week we have Buddy Giovinazzo, director of Combat Shock and the segment in The Theatre Bizarre entitled "I Love You," in the hot seat.
Now, just because this is our last Bizarre-themed episode that doesn't mean we're done speaking with the directors. Tune in to future episodes of Shock Till You Drop's Shock Waves podcast for our chats with Tom Savini, Karim Hussain, Richard Stanley and Douglas Buck.
Last week, we kicked off our series of Choice Cuts episodes focusing on The Theatre Bizarre with writer-director-producer David Gregory. Today, we present our interview with director Jeremy Kasten, the man responsible for the wraparound segments embedded in this anthology horror film.
Inside, you'll find our chat with Kasten, who previously helmed All Souls Day, The Thirst and The Wizard of Gore remake. The director talks about working with Udo Kier, the challenges of his contribution to The Theatre Bizarre and his upcoming film The Dead Ones.
Two Choice Cuts episodes in one week? Yes, indeed. With installment 38, however, we're kicking off the first in a series of interviews we've conducted for The Theatre Bizarre, an unsettling and graphic slice of anthology cinema making its way into theaters beginning January 27 from W2 Media and Severin Films.
The interviews with the filmmakers involved are going to be broken up across Choice Cuts and our podcast, Shock Waves, over the next month, leading up to the film's release. And what better way to begin our in-depth coverage than with the man who got the ball rolling on the project as producer, and contributed to the film as a writer-director with the story entitled Sweets, David Gregory.
Next week, this year's Final Destination 5 makes its DVD and Blu-ray debut and, in anticipation of this release, we felt it was time to look back at the creation of that lucrative palette of gore and death called the Final Destination franchise with the man who kicked it all off, Jeffrey Reddick.
The screenwriter landed on the horror scene with 2000's Final Destination, a film that - at the time - sprung from the teen horror boom, yet offered a refreshing deviation from the masked slasher/body count formula. His contributions to the franchised waned over the subsequent installments, however, as we learn, he has always been just a phone call away from the series' producer, Craig Perry, for advice and to give his blessing.
Head inside for an exclusive chat with Reddick about Final Destination and its latest entry.
Tonight, the second part of Stephen King's Bag of Bones airs on A&E, wrapping up the two-part adaptation directed by Mick Garris. In our last installment of Choice Cuts, we ventured up to Garris' house in Hollywood to discuss his return to King territory. Now, we continue our conversation with the director in our 36th episode of Choice Cuts and pick his brain about the long-mooted The Talisman, Warner Bros.' upcoming redo of The Stand, horror on television and more.
Mick Garris is back in Stephen King territory once again, adapting Bag of Bones for A&E. The director, of course, is no stranger to King, having directed Sleepwalkers, The Stand, The Shining and Riding the Bullet (just to name a few titles).
This time, he directs Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George and Annabeth Gish in a ghostly tale that airs on December 11 and 12. To learn more, Garris invited Shock up to his house to discuss the adaptation and more. We hope you enjoy this episode which kicks off our second season of Choice Cuts! Stay tuned for part two of this interview.
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Shortly after the Sundance premiere of The Woman at the start of this year, Choice Cuts brought in star Pollyanna McIntosh to discuss the Lucky McKee film. Since this title is hitting theaters tomorrow, we thought we'd dust off the interview in case you missed it the first time it aired. In the film, McIntosh plays the titular feral female who winds up being captured by a family for domestication.
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Eli Craig visit the set of Choice Cuts this month to talk about his horror-comedy Tucker & Dale Versus Evil, available on VOD and opening in theaters today. We had a chance to chat about his background and the challenges of making a low-budget film with some rather familiar faces. Click on the player below for more!
Tucker & Dale Versus Evil stars Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labin and Katrina Bowden and is released through Magnolia Pictures.
Brea Grant is no stranger to Shock. Not too long ago we interviewed the Halloween II star about her comic book "We Will Bury You." Well, she's been mighty busy as of late. More comic book writing work has come in and she booked a gig on Dexter's sixth season. Click below for our interview!
