S3E1: Starting Over, Part 1

The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast

It’s kinda weird, but we feel like we’ve been waiting for 2024 all our lives! And now that it’s here, we’re excited about “Starting Over”! On the one hand, by “starting over”, we mean going back to the very beginning (as Maria sings in The Sound Of Music, it’s “the very best place to start”). Back to how it was when Gil and I started making “Tales From The Crypt” together. We were just hitting our creative stride. We soared doing Crypt and we saw it as the launching pad to the next phase of our creative career together. And then “Bordello Of Blood” happened instead.

And all those lovely visions of career heights blew apart like a movie monster coming unglued. “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast” has always been a story about a relationship told with brutal honesty. That’s probably why ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY called our Season One “The Best Film Podcast Of 2022″.

This Is One Of Those Stories…

…where telling the story is part of the story.

Gil Adler and I didn’t speak for 25 years. There were some very hard feelings between us. But, after dealing with my own mental health issues, I felt not only ready to tell the Bordello story, I felt compelled to tell it. And that meant contacting Gil – and getting him to climb aboard this enterprise. That’s when things got super interesting. To our mutual surprise, more or less, we picked up right where we left off. 

Making “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast” about “Bordello of Blood” fixed what making “Bordello” broke. In fact, working on this podcast together has made things even better in lots of ways. Not only did we easily slip back into being creative together, an idea popped into the middle of that creativity and we’re about to take that idea – “ARE YOU AFRAID?” – out into the TV marketplace (to places like NETFLIX and AMAZON PRIME and APPLE TV).

So, as we start the year and our creative partnership anew – c’mon, 2024! – we want to salute and re-tell the story that “started it all” (by stopping everything) – the first five episodes of The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast. Or, as we like to think of it, our “origin story”.

Because of file size limitation, we have to break the story up into two separate podcast episodes. But that doesn’t mean you have to! Wit that in mind, here’s the whole “Bordello Of Blood” shebang right here in one glorious gulp –