Todays guest, Rachel Kerry, is an award-winning filmmaker & theatre director who specializes in horror comedy, musical theatre, and interactive storytelling. Her work has been hailed as "unabashed extravagance" by Time Out, "triumphantly weird" by io9, and "uncompromising parody" by The Scotsman. She received her MFA in directing from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art and graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern California. In 2024 she was selected to be one of 10 fellows as part of Filmshop’s Breakthrough Series. And Just last summer, her film “Strangers on the A Train” took the prize for best slasher/stalker film at the Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream.

I met Rachel last year at the Queer Fear film festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and we had a great conversation on stage about our filmmaking that I was excited to expand on for our listeners.

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In this special spooky-season kick-off episode of Midnight Horror Picture Show, In addition to talking about filmmaking, Luke and I also have a long chat about his hometown of Salem, MA- which if you don't know is one of my FAVORITE cities. We're gunna talk shop about where to stay, where to go, and what to avoid if you plan on visiting the Witch City this spooky season.

Luke St. Germaine was born in Worcester, MA, graduated from Boston University, then fell into a door to door sales cult and traveled around the country. From a young age he had been interested in weird tales and the supernatural, writing short stories and then screenplays- including one feature that was optioned. It was only when He Moved to Salem MA that he started to fully make his passion a reality. In 2019 Luke made his first short film for fun, leading him to making a series of short films under his The Thornfall Society banner. Luke quickly started meeting fellow indie filmmakers at film fests and helping on their projects, and falling in love with the indie horror scene.

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Kaye Adelaide is a Montreal based trans lesbian filmmaker. She is an alumni of GEMS Genre Film Lab, as well as a recipient of The Diversity of Voices Initiative at the BANFF World Media Festival, and the SODEC Jeunes Createurs Development Program. Kaye has directed several award winning short films, including Don’t Text Back (2020), and MonsterDyke (2022). She just completed her first feature: The Rebrand (2024), which has been awarded Best Feature at four international film festivals in the first six months of its release. Kaye's work broadens representation for gender minorities, and challenges societal biases through a playful combination of genres including horror, speculative fiction, comedy, and camp. Kaye is definitely an artist to follow and her insights into her process, being a multi-disciplinary talent on set, and why horror and comedy work so well together made this interview a lot of fun to record.Learn more about Kaye's work: kayeadelaide.comFollow Kaye on Insta: @kaye.everydayOur theme music is by Nick Ferreri | Insta: @nick_ferreriPlease subscribe to our channel- Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or IHeartPodcasts. Follow us on instagram @midnighthorrorpictureshow#kayeadelaide #therebrand #queerfilm #queerhorror #practicalfx #montrealfilmmaker #horrormoviepodcast #transfilmmaker