Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts

Wanted to share with everyone that our podcast today has dropped an interview we did with Lee not long before he passed. As always, Lee is wonderful and I’m very proud of the episode we made together.

Please give it a listen and let’s all think of Lee.

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We’re back! And we sure missed you. We took some time to retool the show and are bigger and better than ever. We are now working on all our editing and post sound with powerhouse studio, Audio Process. We’ve put a fresh coat of paint on the show with a new logo and more diverse kinds of content that will be coming soon. It’s sure good to be with you all again so strap in for an upgraded Spill your guts.

Our guest today is someone very special to me. A friend, an endless source of information on all things horror, endlessly funny and quirky and an inspiration. Sadly, in May, he tragically passed away at the age of 44. He and I recorded this interview around a year ago and because of different scheduling reasons, the episode had yet to drop.

My guest today is beloved genre historian, celebrated writer, creator of unique and probing special features for physical media releases and all around genre advocate as well as tremendous lover of animals.

Today I am joined by the incomparable Lee Gambin.

I’d also like to welcome another sponsor of the show, Cinema 1. Cinema 1 is my go to store for many years for all my physical media (of which I have too many and not enough). They have some of the most hard to find titles and are lovers of the genre as well as collectors themselves. Be sure to visit www.cinema1.ca to pick up the films Lee and I discuss in this episode. Create your account and use promo code SPILLYOURGUTS to get 10% off your order.

Once again, welcome back to Kevin Lane’s Spill your guts!

Spill your guts is proud to welcome as a sponsor. Audio Process has done an outstanding job editing the show and we look forward to sharing their first episode with you next week. To all you creatives out there who need a post audio company for your projects, look no further. We’ll also be collaborating on some exciting new kinds of content so look for that soon. Check out www.audioprocess.ca and once again, thank you to Audio Process!

Spill your guts is coming back with a vengeance starting with a celebration of the great David Allen’s long thought to be lost magnum opus “The Primevals”.

Spill your guts is proud to announce our partnership with the masters of physical media, Cinema 1!
Expect all kinds of new and exciting episodes, videos and surprises as we delve into the love and passion for physical media.
Look for some big announcements in the coming weeks and please visit www.cinema1.ca to find all your favourite titles and maybe discover some new ones.
LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!

SYG returns for one of Canada’s greatest comic cons
We have been invited this weekend by Niagara Falls Comic Con to come out and speak with the guests, explore the booths and get lots of badass stuff. Look for some exclusive celebrity interviews throughout the weekend.

Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the truly amazing Lee Gambin. Lee was a kind and gentle person with a powerful love of cinema. He did wonderful work with his books, commentaries, talks and overall championing of physical media. We have an episode with Lee we recorded that will drop in the coming weeks. You will be greatly missed darlst.

Our guest today is a virtuoso of the genre having worked as either the producer, star, production manager, second unit director, or assistant director (sometimes a combination of a few of these roles) on a panoply of iconic films including several movies with the “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis, “American Nightmare”, “Terror Train”, “My Bloody Valentine”, “Humongous” and the cult classic sequels to “Prom Night” that turned Mary Lou into a horror anti-hero. These and many, MANY more.

We are joined by the “Wizard of Gore” himself, Ray Sager.

Ray is a master storyteller on the making of independent films. His early career began working with Herschel Gordon Lewis, who became his mentor. He also starred as Montag the Magnificent in the classic Lewis film “The Wizard of Gore”. Many projects later, Ray established himself as a producer during one of the most prolific eras in Canadian filmmaking. The mid 70’s to early 80’s saw an unprecedented amount of films being made due to hefty tax deductions for film investors and Ray produced a slew of them. Sometimes as many as 3 three features a year. Ray knows every trick of the trade.

He’s one of the most dedicated producers to work in horror and generous instructor for how to avoid the many pitfalls of independent filmmaking. This episode is a must listen for our indie filmmaker listeners.

Let’s pull back the curtain and learn about the magic of horror filmmaking with celebrated producer Ray Sager!

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This episode continues our series on overlooked and underseen films. Last episode we spoke with Michael Bonini, one of the stars of the 2022 influencer-skewering (yep, that’s a pun) “ ” and in this episode we are joined by the films writer and director, Travis Bible.

Travis explains how a short film version of the feature length film closed the movies financing, how to plot out a well executed jump scare and believe me, this film has some great ones, finding a fair and balanced approach to commenting on influencers and why the film has a title that gives away a rather significant plot point.

There have been many genre films that have examined the role that social media and influencers play in our current media landscape but few have tackled the subject and found why it works in horror as well as “ ”.

There are things far more terrifying for this group of influencers than whether or not followers hit the “Like” button so let’s take a look with writer/director Travis Bible!

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In our continuing series of under-seen or overlooked genre films, the next two episodes will be looking at the 2022 social media slasher “ ”.

Written by Travis Bible and Kemerton Hargrove and directed by Bible, is a razor-sharp, edge of your seat slasher that not only avoids the pratfalls of the overdone “influencer horror” sub-sub-genre but actually has a fresh perspective on those tropes while always remembering to honour the horror genre first with carefully constructed scares.

In this episode we will be sitting down with one of the films stars. Next episode we are joined by the films director, Travis Bible.

In , he plays Spicy Steve, one of a group of 4 social media influencers that livestream their trip to the aptly titled “Devil’s Manor” and run afoul of a satanic cult. He can also be seen in the new horror film “Followers” which drops today, March 12th exclusively on .

Welcome Michael Bonini!

Michael has an impressive list of credits for a young actor. One might also notice the eclectic variety of genres and characters types that Michael has taken on. He’s a jack of all trades actor who brings something fresh and unexpected to whoever he’s playing. From network tv favourites like “The Blacklist” and “New Amsterdam”, the Netflix hit “The Night Agent” to beloved King of the B’s Charles Band’s “Bad CGI Gator”, Michael is always a welcome presence in whatever he’s in.

We sat down to talk about the pitch-black and meaty role he played in another under-seen thriller “Hurricane Aaron”, how “ChadGetsTheAxe” found the right balance of social media commentary and suspense, what keeps his character Steve from being just another influencer dick and how you prepare as an actor for battling a floating CGI alligator for Charles Band.

Remember to like, comment and subscribe and let’s try and survive our stay at Devil’s Manor with Michael Bonini!

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This episode is a continuation of our last episode with actor Devon Sawa as we continue to discuss overlooked or under-seen genre films. As a quick recap, Devon is one of the stars of the 2020 hinterland horror “Hunter Hunter”. When the film came out the pandemic cost it the opportunity to play festivals or have a premiere and sadly, the movie didn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. It’s a smart, taught, shocking film and one hopes in time, more people will discover it.

In this episode we are joined by the films writer and director, Shawn Linden.

Shawn discusses the major influence of dark 80’s fantasy classics such as “The Secret of NIMH” and “The Dark Crystal”, the many hurdles he faced getting “Hunter Hunter” into production, how killing characters the audience expects to see save the day is effectively destabilizing and oddly not done enough and why audiences are far more comfortable seeing humans get killed on screen than non-human animals.

Let’s explore the savage and stark world of “Hunter Hunter” with filmmaker Shawn Linden!

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Our most recent guest, horror leading man Devon Sawa, is on the cover of the latest issue of Fangoria! If you don’t buy the mag, Chucky’s going to off Devon…again. So buy it! And listen to our in-depth sit down with Devon on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or whenever you get your podcasts.

The holidays have come and gone and it’s a new year and we’re back at it, bringing you intimate one on one sit downs with the most exciting voices in horror.

2023 was a fantastic year for horror and 2024 doesn’t look to be slowing down so though the New Year is often a time for looking forward at what’s to come, it’s also a time for reflection. This season we will be spotlighting some of the genres great entires that you may have missed or that for a number of reasons (a global pandemic for example) didn’t get the attention they so deserved.

The first film we’re going to delve into is the gripping and gutting 2020 film “Hunter Hunter” by filmmaker Shawn Linden.

“Hunter Hunter”, a raw and unforgiving survival story about a family living isolated in the wilderness, who begin to think they are being stalked by a rogue wolf but soon come to find it’s something far more terrifying, is a stark and nuanced genre film. Sadly, the pandemic robbed it of the ability to have a film festival run  (so important for indie films) and when the film was released in 2020, despite plenty of strong reviews from the critics, it came and went with not nearly enough notice.

With a stellar cast and taught lean direction, the film is equal parts terrifying survival story and intimate character work.

In this episode, we are joined by one of the stars of the film and one of the genres most beloved leading men. In our next episode, we will be talking with the films director, Shawn Linden.

Our guest today has been acting since he was a child and over the years, has become a horror household name having starred in films such as “Idle Hands”, “Final Destination”, “Black Friday” and the series starring everyones favourite Good Guy “Chucky”.

So lets get ready to sit down with the man who had the best battle with his own possessed hand since Bruce Campbell, thwarted deaths plan and has been killed by Chucky more than anybody… welcome horror’s leading man, Devon Sawa!

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Happy birthday to this great man, the one and only

Happy holidays from all of us here at SYG!

The winter solstice is upon and it’s one of the darkest times of the year. So as you're enjoying the lights on your Christmas tree and lighting your Christmas candles, just remember that though the holidays are a time for joy and cheer, it has a much darker history than that. This, our annual Christmas special, will be our final episode for the holidays but we’ll be back in a few weeks with more discussions with some of the luminaries of darkness.

Everyone has their favorite Christmas movie classics but perhaps the gold standard is Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Featuring Jimmy Stewart learning that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings, it was only a matter of time before some master of the macabre took a stab at the setup for a horror film.

And boy are we lucky that that particular filmmaker happened to by our guest today, Tyler MacIntyre with his new film “It’s a Wonderful Knife”.

If you don’t love the title already you deserve to be boiled in your own Christmas pudding.

With a genre cast to die for, a razor-sharp script by Michael Kennedy (who wrote the genre hit “Freaky”) and a Christmas killer sure to join the ranks of the great Christmas slashers, “It’s a Wonderful Knife” has all the ingredients to become a Christmas horror fans tradition.

Tyler and I sat down to discuss the importance of inclusivity in modern horror, some tips of the trade for pursuing a career in filmmaking that are sure to be of great help for our aspiring filmmaker listeners, what he took from Hallmark when creating his own Christmas tale and how the film nods to “It’s a Wonderful Life” in some very sly ways. We also discuss the creation of Justin Long’s insane and wonderfully bizarre villain.

“It’s a Wonderful Knife” is available on Shudder, AMC+ and anywhere you rent your movies.

Okay, let’s sharpen our candy canes and get our wings with Tyler MacIntyre!

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Santa is checking lists twice and all us horror fans are revisiting our favorite Christmas horror films. Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, Gremlins, Rare Exports, Krampus… the list goes on and on. Here at Spill Your Guts, our Christmas gift to you is two back to back episodes with the filmmakers of what are sure to become new Christmas horror classics.

In this episode, we are sitting down with director Jenn Wexler to talk about her new film “The Sacrifice Game”.

Set in the 70’s, the film is a love letter to not just classic Christmas horror but an atmospheric home invasion story with wicked supernatural flares. It’s also a thoughtful and sensitive look at finding friendship and connection.

Jenn and I sat down to talk about her inspirations, how she fell in love with the Christmas horror genre, the undying influence of Buffy Summers and why this movie had to be set on Christmas and in the 70’s.

“The Sacrifice Game” is available now on Shudder.

So, pour yourself some Eggnog and sit down by the Christmas tree and let’s explore some festive madness with director Jenn Wexler!

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Full Moon’s new crazy concoction “Bad CGI Gator” is a blast! And we’ve got the films star chatting with us about levitating gators soon. Check it out on streaming and Amazon and do a drinking game for every time the word “bro” is used!

Holiday horror season is upon us and this one is a jingle hell of a good time! Check out in theatres now and coming to streaming soon. Oh and we may be joined by some of the folks who made this blood soaked beauty in one of our December holiday episodes…

Happy 43rd anniversary to Alligator! 🐊 This would be the film’s opening weekend all those years ago.
If you haven’t heard the interview with Director Lewis Teague, check it out here:

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Alligator is available in 4K Blu-ray from Scream Factory and is streaming on AMC+ and Tubi.

Our guest today has one of the most diverse bodies of work of any director we’ve had on the show. He has worked in multiple genres throughout his decades long career and proven himself to be a filmmaker who kills in any genre space he works in.

Having come up in the business along industry friends such as Martin Scorsese and Sydney Pollack, he is part of cinema history as one of the filmmakers creating distinct and memorable work with a style that is unquestionably his own.

However, it is a film regarded as one of the best adaptations of Stephen King’s most beloved books that has made him an icon of horror

In this episode we will be joined by filmmaker Lewis Teague.

Often regarded by his peers and fans alike as “underrated”, Lewis first made a name for himself in the genre with the cult classic “Alligator”. Better than anyone thought an Alligator living in the sewer’s movie had any right to be, and featuring a bravura performance by lead actor Robert Forster, “Alligator” has gone on to become a favorite of horror fans.

Lewis’ 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s “Cujo” is considered by many, including King himself, as one of the ultimate King adaptations. With unbearably taught direction, nerve frying cinematography by legendary cinematographer Jan De Bont and a career best performance by genre royalty Dee Wallace, “Cujo” remains untouched in the canon of Stephen King movies.

With a great dry sense of humor and uncanny style for storytelling, Lewis shared with me his youth as a bit of a trouble maker before winding up in the military, finding his way in the hay day of Hollywood auteurs, his ups and downs in show business and his enjoyment in teaching in his later life.

So, let’s strap into a Ford Pinto and prepare to have our adrenal glands blown with Lewis Teague!

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It was thrilling to meet and interview some amazing stars at this Con! Stay tuned for the releases here. Nick Castle, PJ Soles, and Damien Leone to name a few!

Now you may or may not be listening to this on October 31st… this may be part of your long queue of spooky Halloween listening or maybe it’s November 2nd and you’ve just recovered from your Halloween bash but whatever the case may be, HAPPY HAPPY HALLOWEEN ghouls and ghosts!

Our episode today is something very different from our regularly scheduled programming. We will NOT be sitting down with a director or actor of one of your favorite films but instead, we’re doing the thing that Halloween lends itself to best. We will be in the company of two master horror story tellers, Soren Narnia and Jason Hill, and have our spines tingled and our gooses bumped.

Our next episode will feature one of horror’s heaviest hitting directors and we have a big one coming up near the end of November that has been months in the making.

Now, light some candles and make sure your phone has reception (I miss the days where the killer could just cut the phone line) and let’s get ready to be terrified!

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We’re taking you behind the booth this year with our friends and artists on what it’s like to be at these conventions from a vendor perspective. Stay tuned for the full interviews! Artists:

We definitely didn’t catch everyone, but these were some of our favourite costumes at Frightmare in the Falls!!

Frightmare in the Falls is chock full of amazing horror artists and vendors! Whatever horror goods you’re looking for… this is the place. And they don’t pay us to say this ;)

SYG is at the spooky and amazing this weekend getting all kinds of new one on ones to share with you from the best and beastly. Starting things off with the incomparable Felissa Rose and the unstoppable Elvirus.

Welcome to the season 3 premiere of Spill Your Guts!

We’ve been on hiatus for a couple months while I was attending film festivals near and far and sitting down with some of the genres best to share with all of you in this new season. And if I may so myself, it’s sure to be some of our best episodes yet. Some upcoming things to look out for are our episode on the great Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal where we watched some terrifying and crazy new movies and had the opportunity to sit down with the filmmakers and do the SYG thing. We also have a special episode coming up on filmmaker and Stop Motion animation legend David Allen whose magnum opus “The Primevals” is finally completed and seeing the light of day after 30 years. It’s an amazing story about one of the genres great unsung heroes.

In this episode I am joined by one of the genres great composers. A composer who has a sound and feel like none other and has brought us equal parts wonder and terror with his scores for classics like Re-Animator, Trancers, From Beyond, Ghoulies, Puppet Master and the Pit and the Pendulum. And that’s just a small selection from the list of great movies that have been scored by the one and only, Richard Band.

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH and let’s spill some guts!

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This Friday the 13th, Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts returns for season 3 with some of our most in-depth, illuminating and shocking conversations with the most beloved and exciting people working in horror. Once again, it’s time to open up!

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A pleasure to meet at ! We had a great chat about his work in “Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities”, “Creepshow” and “Z Nation” as well as his many other genre credits. Coming soon!