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SinCast - INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR STEVEN KOSTANSKI!!!

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CinemaSins | Chris Atkinson & Jeremy Scott

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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SinCast sits down with director Steven Kostanski to chat about his new film, Psycho Goreman. Psycho Goreman, PG for short, is an insanely fun throwback to cinema of the past few decades. Steven explains his influences, fantasy world building on a small budget and so much more on a brand new SinCast! Psycho Goreman is in theaters, On Demand and Digital on January 22! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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bonus videos, merch discounts, and even monthly bonus podcasts.

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0:16.0

I want to know what's up with that guy that's just a big trash can full of body parts.

0:21.0

Like I want people asking those questions after the movie.

0:25.0

Welcome to Sincast, presented by CinemaSins. cinema sins. All right, everybody. All right, everybody.

0:34.0

Welcome to the Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSins, joined by Jonathan Watkins.

0:49.0

Hello, hello. And today we have a very special guest. It is writer director Stephen Kostanski.

0:55.0

He has directed a movie called Psycho Gorman.

0:59.0

It comes out January 22nd, Believe Theaters on Demand and Digital. Stephen, welcome.

1:06.0

Thanks for having me guys. Great to be on the cast. Yeah, thank you. I, the thing that I love about this movie Thank you

1:15.0

had some sort of philosophy while writing this thing.

1:19.0

It seems like you went through sort of a Seinfeld kind of thing where you were like no learning, no drama, no learning basically is what, I don't know if that's what you went through on this, but is is is a straight up comedy I mean

1:36.8

there's like no moments in here where people are stopping to sort of assess anything or try to learn anything.

1:46.3

So, definitely.

1:48.0

What was your philosophy on this?

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I haven't seen a movie like this in some time if ever I mean my philosophy was I love all

1:57.6

the tropes of like like movies from my childhood movies from the 80s and 90s specifically.

2:05.0

I love the dramatic arcs of those types of movies.

2:09.0

I feel like there are arcs like that are riddled with cliches that people have tried to steer away from in more modern stuff

2:17.6

which personally I think is a bad move because I think there's like something to be said for that familiarity and like kind of the

2:27.2

emotional resonance of that. So I wanted this movie to have like the classic tropes of like a family adventure movie where

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