The Séance

Sophia Louisa was nine when three girls, a brand-new Ouija board and a dark house changed how she felt about the thing for good: "all of a sudden everything got really quiet, and the lights went out." So when she sat down at The Séance she would not touch the board, and we did not ask her to. This one is different in another way too: the whole episode is animated, the three of us drawn at the table, lip-synced to the real conversation. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one. The Séance, Episode 4: writer, producer and actress Sophia Louisa (@sophialouisalee), co-writer of The Wrecker (Tyrese Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Mena Suvari, Danny Trejo), sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. Her new short, Much Too Vulgar, shot the day before and set on the Georgetown campus (and the word parabiosis). The night the lights went out. How The Wrecker got written and what survived to the screen. Ed Wood's pitch, Bela Lugosi's last footage and Vampira, fact-checked. Cannes and Yes She Cannes. The Exorcist and Eileen Dietz. Who really made The Terminator (Danny was right). The Matrix Reloaded's digital Neo (Danny was right again). Ghostbusters, Street Fighter and Raúl Juliá. From Dusk Till Dawn and the clerk who turned out to be John Hawkes. Curry Barker's Obsession and why the win is winning the people. A lightning round answered out loud, no board. And one piece of advice for anyone who wants to write their first horror script: just do it. Find your haunted places and horror filming locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4 EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PT Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUD4hbTDPgcUQE52_nzHCLA Ep. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w Ep. 2 Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street): https://youtu.be/rjTOuRaV4o4 Ep. 3 Manta Mystic (channeling an Egyptian goddess, live): https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65E Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7a5aa287-bb98-488c-b59d-2fe610a52942 SOPHIA LOUISA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophialouisalee The Wrecker (2025, Quiver Distribution): on Fandango at Home and the usual rentals Sofi Stories: Off the Page, her show MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE The Wrecker (2025), dir. Art Camacho, written by Sophia Louisa, Niko Foster and James Dean Simington Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Bride of the Monster (1955), Edward D. Wood Jr. Obsession (2025), written, directed and edited by Curry Barker (Focus Features) Street Fighter (2026), dir. Kitao Sakurai; Street Fighter (1994) with Raúl Juliá From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); King Straggler (John Hawkes, Rodney Eastman, Brentley Gore) Screamfest LA: https://screamfestla.com HORRORMEET Join free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4 The Atlas (haunted places and filming locations): https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4 The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.html Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetapp Hosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidanny CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open: the Ouija night 0:39 Welcome to The Séance 10:17 The Ouija night 17:32 The Wrecker 22:40 Austin Powers, briefly 26:02 Make your own stuff 31:32 Ninety credits 34:20 Ed Wood's pitch 38:10 Festivals and Cannes 41:44 The Exorcist 43:35 The Other Tenant 45:55 The Devil's Heist and a first lead 50:14 Stunts 52:54 AI on set 60:44 The Asset: the motorcycle hit 63:52 CGI, Rick Baker, Stan Winston 67:02 Billion-dollar movies 70:42 Reading scripts 73:27 Street Fighter 76:37 Lightning round 79:55 Who pays for indie films 84:15 Obsession 89:14 Advice: just do it 90:07 The Atlas and the sign-off The picture is animated; the audio is the real recording. Fact checks on screen are sourced. Opinions about films and studios are the speakers' own.

Four minutes into the sitting, Manta Mystic closes her eyes and an Egyptian goddess named Wadjet starts talking: "I am her guidance, but more than that, I am her master." It is the first time she has ever channeled on camera, and it happens at a table with a Ouija board, two horror hosts and a dog with digestive issues. The Séance, Episode 3: channel and healer Manta Mystic sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. The live channel, start to finish, uncut. What a channeler is and is not (she is not a medium). The paranormal story from this house. Bali, Ubud and the guru. Shaktipat, Reiki, Kundalini. Mantak Chia and sexual transmutation. Wim Hof and DMT. LA's spiritual centres. The business of the unseen. And a word to the skeptics. Watch the video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65E Post your own paranormal story on HorrorMeet Sightings, free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance3 Manta Mystic: https://www.instagram.com/manta.mystic · https://mantamystic.com Readings and energy work are Manta's own services. The Séance makes no claim about their effects and receives nothing from bookings. Mentioned: Zula Den (zuladen.org), Patti Negri (pattinegri.com), Mantak Chia, Taoist Secrets of Love (1984) and Healing Love Through the Tao (1986), Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. Hosts: Landon Brittain (@landonxxl) and Danny Alamary (@ohidanny). From HorrorMeet: https://horrormeet.com The channeling is presented as the guest's own practice; The Séance makes no claim about what it is or where it comes from. DMT is a Schedule I controlled substance in the United States; nothing here is medical advice or an endorsement of any substance. Opinions are the speakers' own.

Warner Bros. legal called a fan filmmaker at the movies to tell him they had a file on him. Chris R. Notarile made six chapters of a Freddy Krueger prequel anyway, plus 400 shorts for almost nothing. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT: subscribe and ring the bell so you're in the chat when the next one premieres. The Séance, Episode 2: Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street) sits down at the table with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary: mockbusters and The Asylum, the first horror movie he saw at 16, making films for $10, Marvel pulling his Deadpool series, Fox and Prey, and a lightning round answered on a Ouija board. Krueger: Tales from Elm Street is on the HorrorMeet Film Shelf, free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance2 EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PT Ep. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w Ep. 3: next Tuesday, Oct 20, at noon PT. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/20qpMJI0zQFF4KfFqhitvE Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7a5aa287-bb98-488c-b59d-2fe610a52942 CHRIS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blinky500 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blinky500 Books on Kindle and in print: https://www.amazon.com/Chris-R-Notarile/e/B0GHSLCQ6V The Lost Blinky Fan Films (Deadpool, Punisher, Daredevil): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctLdbuxkDm9H5OqzXgOUvlFpnP5xQboX Lindsey Bean: https://www.instagram.com/reallindseybean · Baked by Bean: https://www.instagram.com/bakedbybeanofficial HORRORMEET Join free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance2 The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.html Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetapp Hosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidanny CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open: the board answers 0:32 Welcome to The Séance 2:04 The Krueger prequel 6:18 Danny, sommelier of horror 11:22 Why Michael Myers can't have a backstory 17:18 First horror film at 16: Halloween 19:54 The Blockbuster years 21:40 Krueger: first film on the Shelf 23:26 100,000 subscribers, a penny a view 25:58 The Asylum: 'I almost got mockbusted' 30:22 Freddie with an IE: do you take the money? 32:24 Photographic novels and Landon's first comic 35:54 Cookies, pop-up books and the Estate Sale 40:48 Deadpool, two strikes, 13 fan films 43:18 The Warner Brothers phone call 47:15 Prey vs. Warrior: Predator 52:52 Why hasn't Hollywood picked you up? 53:21 Lightning round on the Ouija board 56:23 Where to find Chris, and why 'Blinky' 61:30 Sign-off Opinions are the speakers' own. The Séance makes no claim about any company's business practices. Fact checks on screen are sourced; nothing here is legal advice. Photos and posters are credited on screen; licensed images via Wikimedia Commons. #horror #indiehorror #horrorpodcast #FreddyKrueger #fanfilm #TheSeance #HorrorMeet

A micro-budget horror director on the note that made her best scene, the crew that quit on her, and why perfection will kill your film. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one. The Séance, Episode 1: Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge). Horror fans sit down with the people who make independent horror. Director, writer and star Jasmine Davis and her cinematographer Julio C. Martinez Valle talk about making Killer Revenge on a micro budget, the crew that fell apart, why a great cinematographer is your eyes when you're in front of the camera, and why perfection will kill your project. Watch Killer Revenge free on the HorrorMeet Film Shelf: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance1 Join free at https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance1, where the next Séance is announced. Instagram: @horrormeetapp Watch the video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5w GUESTS Jasmine Davis: Instagram @thejasminedavis Julio C. Martinez Valle: Instagram @juliocmvalle and @mushroomhouseproductions HOSTS Landon Brittain: Instagram @landonxxl Danny Alamary: Instagram @ohidanny Special appearance by London Brittain: @london2xl CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open: "Please be obnoxious" 0:27 Welcome to The Séance 1:45 Killer Revenge: karma and choices 2:27 Where to watch: the HorrorMeet Film Shelf 3:09 How Jasmine became a filmmaker 4:23 Reshoots and actors who 'live in LA' 6:00 Who directs the director? 6:55 Cinematographer vs. DP 10:25 The ecosystem that broke 11:44 What editing really costs 17:46 Horror, comedy and Scream 20:06 Writing characters you want dead 22:56 Deadly DMs, Whispers and what's next 25:26 Perfection will kill your project 27:26 Lessons for the next film 34:26 Actors, money and the hustle 40:44 Your name is your career 44:07 Where to find them MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Killer Revenge (2026), dir. Jasmine Davis Online Dating (Jasmine's first film) Sinners (2025), dir. Ryan Coogler, shot by Autumn Durald Arkapaw The Experiment, dir. Hugo Will Halloween (1978) Friday the 13th (1980) Scream (1996), dir. Wes Craven, written by Kevin Williamson Deadly DMs (in development) Whispers (short film) Killer Revenge 2 (coming)