Interviews With "Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story" Filmmakers & Stars

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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"Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story" is a gothic horror drama written and directed by Natasha Kermani, adapted from Joe Hill's short story of the same name, starring Titus Welliver, Brady Hepner, Judah Mackey & Jocelin Donahue. Set in 1915 rural California, years after the events of "Dracula," the film follows Abraham Van Helsing (Welliver) as he relocates his family, including his wife, Mina (Donahue), and their sons, Max (Hepner) and Rudy (Mackey), to escape their traumatic past. Kermani, Hill, and stars Titus Welliver, Brady Hepner & Jocelin Donahue were all kind enough to speak with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Shudder. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.6	and these are Cody Derricks's interviews with the director and writer for
0:22.4	Abraham's Boys, A Dracula Story, Natasha Kermani. The film stars Titus Welliver, Brady Hepner,
0:30.6	and Jocelyn Donahue, and the film's original offer, Joe Hill.
0:36.2	I have made a disturbing discovery.
0:39.2	Perhaps it was foolish of me to think that we could hide away forever.
0:44.8	I have known for a long time that it might come.
0:47.7	Natasha, how are we doing today?
0:49.2	I'm good. How are you?
0:50.9	Great. Thanks so much for talking about Abraham's boys.
0:53.9	You know, I have some questions about the storyline, the inspiration for it, but I want to start
1:01.4	with what stood out to me the most about your film, which is just how gorgeously shot it is.
1:06.6	I mean, you really created a thing of beauty here.
1:09.8	I wanted to know what conversations you had with your
1:12.4	cinematographer, Julia Swain, about how you wanted the film to look. Yeah, so Julia is my collaborator.
1:19.0	We do everything together. And I think we always approach each new project with sort of the same
1:24.4	question, which is what's our palette, right? Like, what are the big sort of pillars of the look? And technically that comes down to, you know, what's our aspect
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