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Inside Shudder: An Interview with Craig Engler

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.653.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ben 'n' Henry are joined by screenwriter and general manager of Shudder - Craig Engler to talk about what goes on behind the scenes at everyone's favorite Horror-focused streaming service, the genius of Phil Tippett, Horror at Home vs. Horror In-Theater, Craig's pick for the most recent "Scariest Film", the cathartic effect of Horror in general, and much more.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everyone? How you doing? Ben here with Henry. Thank you all so much for

0:07.6

giving to our Patreon without you were absolutely nothing. Today's guest, my God, the reason

0:14.2

that you love every single thing on shutter is because of this man. We are speaking with

0:20.1

Craig Angler, the general manager at shutter. And just thank God for what you do. Thanks

0:26.0

for being here.

0:27.0

Thanks for having me and you got to give a shout out to Sam Zimmerman and Emily Gatto

0:30.5

who also help acquire everything and Nick Lazio. It's a whole team over there. So while I

0:35.8

can take credit for it, there's a great team and Sam is at the forefront.

0:40.2

And that's the proper power of the CEO is spreading it around because honestly, you're the

0:45.7

only CEO I can imagine having on our show that I don't want to immediately like dress

0:50.8

down. You are incorrect, sir, where it's like it seems at shutter. You guys run a

0:56.7

really good ship. Thank you. Thank you. It's great team. I love working there. I love

1:01.0

the content and I love the team and the team kind of loves what we do in sharing it with

1:05.8

people. So there's a lot of love and shutter for a horror streaming service.

1:10.0

Well, this isn't a zoom meeting where you're speaking with potential people that do finance.

1:15.9

So we don't have no money. We want to talk about blood and guts and streaming. So what

1:21.8

when you're searching for the great horror movie that's going to stand out on shutter,

1:26.9

there's so many horror options paranormal. Gore, what UFO, what are you looking for? What's

1:33.6

the thing that stands out that you want to see in a horror film?

1:36.8

I am going to give you two answers to that question. The first answer is that everybody

1:41.7

always loves a legit scary movie. So we are always on the lookout for something that

1:46.8

is scary. And it doesn't have to be jump scary scary, but it can be dread scary.

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