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#406: Oh, The Horror! (Zac Amico)

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Ari Shaffir

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4.66.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Zac Amico told me some amazing stories about producing low budget horror movies. Zac is a hilarious comic and podcaster and he's also a producer of films for Troma, one of the greatest pulp horror makers of all time. We talked about the history of this kind of campy, low budget horror. Why they always seem to have ditzy bimbos. Where the ridiculous titles come from. All of it. Plus I did the intro from an abandoned cemetery for maximum effect.

Watch Zac's horror podcast, Zac Amico's Midnight Spookshow,. catch him hosting Catalyst Wrestling or follow him on instagram at @ZacIsNotFunny. I'd tell you to go watch his movie that he made, Shakespeare's Shitstorm, but the last screening happened on Friday so unless it becomes a cult classic, you're gonna have trouble watching it. But I heard it was really good.

You can watch the entire podcast at YouTube.com/AriShaffir if you want to see what monsters Zac and I actually look like.

And please subscribe to my Patreon.com/AriShaffir for bonus content, a way longer introduction to this episode, and really just o support me so I can keep doing the outsider stuff I like doing sometimes without having to worry about the financial impact it'll have on my life every time I lose all my sponsors just because I love crossing the line 3 times a year or so.

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The Music

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street

Ramones - Pet Semetery

The J Geils Band - Fright Night

Rudy Ray Moore - The Player

Transcript

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0:00.0

We do focus groups that I think is and to read the anonymous opinions of you

0:06.0

For people no, it'll just be like they'll go to like well

0:10.6

We'll go to like NYU or UCLA and show it to film classes and get their notes and one time and one of the questions is like

0:19.0

Favorite character least favorite character and they couldn't remember my name

0:23.0

For least favorite character so they just put the fat food man

0:53.0

I can't believe there's a nightmare on my street

1:05.0

Good evening ladies and gurus and welcome to a very scary episode of our

1:11.6

Rishapira Skeptic Tech Podcast

1:16.5

Hello everyone welcome back to the podcast sorry for the time off

1:20.7

There was an assassination attempt made in my life an allegiance gang's tape. I narrowly escaped I had to leave the country had to flee

1:28.7

to safer environments

1:32.5

Anyway welcome to our research episode 406

1:36.6

Right for some I don't know I got a couple of the title

1:40.2

It's all about horror movies Zach Amico was I found out in the in the

1:46.8

During the break from the COVID break that Zach put on a hard show

1:51.8

Almost a festival to drive in we talked about in the podcast and he's an expert on fucking horror movies

1:56.4

I gotta stop cursing I'm gonna fucking graveyard if you're watching on YouTube YouTube comm slash ari

2:01.4

Shafir you will see

2:04.4

You will see all this I'm gonna graveyard in a small small town

2:08.6

But I can't really curse here. I'm afraid anyways. I'm gonna look over the border and see me

2:12.4

So Zach just kind of told me about horror movies trying to put on my yeah

2:20.7

It's good. Okay, and

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