Special Report: The Cramps - A Period Piece (2025)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Filmmaker Brooke H. Cellars sits down with Mike to discuss her audacious feature debut The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025). This blood-soaked, campy horror-comedy transforms menstruation into a monstrous force of nature, gleefully smashing taboos and splattering stigma with buckets of style. The film leans into outrageous gore, wicked humor, and a feminist bite. Mike and Brooke dig into the film’s conception, production challenges, and its place in the tradition of body horror that finds power in the grotesque.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Chris Haskell from They Live by Film.
0:04.0	For those that don't know us, Adam, Zach and I, we built a podcast over the last two years that's a combination of film discussion from three very different perspectives,
0:13.0	as well as industry interviews with the leaders in Boutique Blu-ray and 4K community.
0:18.0	We started with Dev Crocodile, but over time we've been lucky enough to speak
0:21.8	with Aero Video, Severin, Mando Maccabro, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance Indicator, most of the OCEN
0:28.1	partner labels, it's been a blast. You can find us wherever you podcast, and also actually
0:34.0	recently as part of someone's favorite production podcast network. We hope to see you online.
0:40.8	If you're looking for more horror outside of the mainstream,
0:44.1	look no further than Unsung Horrors, a podcast about underseen horror movies.
0:49.7	I'm Lance.
0:50.8	And I'm Erica.
0:51.9	Every other week, we'll cover a horror movie with fewer than 1,000 views on Letterbox.
0:57.0	We'll even give you double feature recommendations to pair with the movies we discuss.
1:01.0	From Gothic to shot on video, from slasher's to comedies, from Gialo to J-Hore.
1:06.0	We'll cover all the subgenres.
1:08.0	So join us as we unearth these hidden gems of horror.
1:11.8	Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, all at Unsung Horrors, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:18.7	And part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network.
1:23.9	Hello and welcome to Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys. My name is Hunter. In this podcast, I'll be joined by a different guest each week to discuss a classic western movie or TV show. I've been a fan of classic westerns for as long as I can remember, and in recent years, they've become very nostalgic for me. I love the aesthetic, the tropes, and I love seeing different filmmakers' takes on them. At their best, they're
1:44.6	incredibly entertaining, rewatchable, and some of my all-time favorite movies are westerns.
1:49.4	We'll mostly focus on Western movies made in Hollywood, but we'll also be covering spaghetti
1:53.1	westerns, and one thing I'm very excited to get into are Western TV shows. I've got some
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