269 | Writing Horror with the Carved Creative Team (REBROADCAST)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

With Halloween around the corner, we’re revisiting one of our favorite spooky episodes. Join us for a conversation with the team behind Hulu’s CARVED — director and co-writer Justin Harding, co-writer Cheryl Meyer, and star Peyton Elizabeth Lee — as they share how they brought their campy slasher film to life and what it takes to write really great horror. --- Looking for more support on your writing journey? Join Meg and Lorien inside ⁠TSL Workshops ⁠- your first 5 days are free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Lorian. Welcome to the screenwriting life. Happy Halloween. Today we're going to be
0:05.8	re-releasing one of my very favorite episodes where I got to talk to the creative team behind
0:11.2	Hulu's Carved, which came out last year. I got to talk to director and co-writer Justin Harding,
0:17.9	co-writer Cheryl Meyer, and star Peyton Elizabeth Lee. And the reason I love
0:22.9	this episode so much is because all three of these creatives showed up with so much joy about the
0:29.1	process and the movie itself. And it was really contagious. And I had a lot of fun talking to them.
0:34.9	All right. Let's listen to the episode.
0:45.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna. And I am producer Jeff.
0:49.8	Happy Halloween, everyone. In honor of this very spooky day, I'll be chatting with Justin Harding and Cheryl Meyer, the writers of Carved, a new horror feature that's now available
0:54.1	in the stream on Hulu. Justin, who directed Carved, in writers of Carved, a new horror feature that's now available in the stream
0:54.7	on Hulu. Justin, who directed Carved, in addition to co-writing, is a multi-award-winning filmmaker
1:00.6	whose body of work in the horror space includes numerous acclaimed short films that have
1:04.6	collectively won over 100 awards at major festivals worldwide. He's also worked on several TV
1:09.8	series, including The Haunted
1:11.1	Museum and Urban Legend, both produced by Eli Roth. Cheryl has worked on several family
1:16.0	TV dramas, including Amazon Primes Beyond Black Beauty. She also sold her YA crime pilot
1:21.8	normal girls to Wild Brain. Her dystopian thriller feature, All the Lost Ones, has been acquired
1:26.2	by Paramount Plus Canada, and the last mark, her crime thriller feature was honored with the 2021 TIF Industry Select and landed a home on Super Channel.
1:35.6	Cheryl is thrilled to be an advocate for the community of creatives with its abilities as an early advisor for the Disability Screen Office and a community advisor for Real Abilities Accessible Writers Lab.
1:44.9	Justin and Cheryl, welcome to the show and happy Halloween.
1:48.3	Happy Halloween. Thanks for having us.
1:49.8	Happy Halloween, yes.
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