Episode 239: Filmmaker Marcus Dunstan and Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Scarred For Life

This week we were so psyched to chat with filmmaker Marcus Dunstan. He's the co-writer of movies like Feast and Saw IV, V, VI and 3D as well as the filmmaker behind The Collector franchise. His latest film is #AMFAD: All my Friends Are Dead. We chat about his talented young cast, the potential for a sequel, and Terry manages to ask what the latest is on the third The Collector movie, The Collected. Then we dig into Marcus' childhood relationship to horror before finding out why Dawn of the Dead is his Scarred for Life pick.

The audio quality might not be the best this week because one of us was recording in a hotel in Montreal and the other still had COVID. For context, Marcus shows a video of him and his childhood friends making a movie and tossing a mannequin off the roof. He holds up a number of Dawn of the Dead memorabilia (figurines etc.) and the novel he holds up towards the end (that Terry says he's halfway through) is The Living Dead by George Romero and former guest Daniel Kraus.

Check out #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead in theaters and online.

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