S20 Ep75: Smile For The Cameras: Murder On A Movie Set w/Miranda Smith!
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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Summary
Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind.
Since her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has an express ticket back into Hollywood’s good graces. Weighed down by the secret she’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set—a cabin in rural Tennessee—to reunite with her castmates for the first time in more than a decade. But when the actors begin to meet the same gruesome fates as the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it’s clear their secret is out.
Now, the question is: Can the final girl survive one last nightmare?
On Today's TCT, Miranda Smith joins the show to talk about why we crave sequels from Hollywood so badly, Why certain things about "Behind The Scenes" grab our curious natures so hard and fast, we talk about the rich characters in the book and what makes the click, in the face of everything being so uncomfortable, and we get down and dirty with ho and why this
slasher flick" on the page could easily translate to the silver screen, and how it was achieved!Â
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.4 | Got a good show today, folks. Dumb Crime, Stupid Criminals coming up in just a bit. But first, |
| 0:32.8 | I want to tell you a little bit about a book that I read over the weekend. Now, we're a true crime |
| 0:37.7 | show, but occasionally we like to venture off into fiction because there are some really, |
| 0:41.4 | really good fiction books out there. I read one over the weekend called Smile for the Cameras. |
| 0:46.1 | Our guest today is Miranda Smith. And this book, folks, I think you're going to enjoy. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, there's those books out there that get people together |
| 0:56.0 | into a scenario where everyone is trapped, right? In the same house, it's one of those thrillers, |
| 1:03.4 | one of those classic horror thrillers that I know you guys like that you tell me, especially |
| 1:08.3 | on Darkness Radio, you tell me about you love to read, |
| 1:11.5 | the whodunits, the ones that you love to jump into, that you just can't figure out who did it |
| 1:16.0 | at the end. This is one of those. And I want to talk to Miranda Smith today about Smile for the |
| 1:21.2 | cameras, because Smile for the Cameras, a novel, is one of those great books indeed. And I want you to get into it and get it because it's available today. |
| 1:29.0 | Today is the launch date. |
| 1:30.2 | So we're going to get into it right away. |
| 1:32.5 | Let me tell you a little bit about Miranda. |
| 1:33.8 | Before we get into it today, our guest, Miranda Smith, writes psychological and domestic |
| 1:40.3 | suspense novels. |
| 1:41.3 | Her work often focuses on complicated women, dark impulses, and southern |
| 1:44.8 | settings. Sounds good to me. She is drawn to stories about ordinary people and extraordinary |
| 1:50.7 | situations. Let's bring her in for the first time to Darkness Radio. Miranda Smith. Hi, Miranda. How are you? |
| 1:56.6 | I'm great. How are you? Absolutely wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. And I tell you, from having read this book from cover to cover, I'm great. How are you? Absolutely wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. And I tell you from having read |
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