Terrifier (2016) and Longlegs (2024)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Terrifier movie franchise has now led to a number one box office hit - but the story behind the first film involves short films, a crowdfunding campaign that missed its target, a shoot that went on longer than originally planned and financiers dropping out. And then there was the battle to get the film noticed in the first place. Plus, how a tiny team gave the impression of a crew of 100. Writer/direcotr Osgood Perkins meanwhile had been mulling about a possibe character who would become Longlegs long before he embarked on an unusual serial killer film. Made on a budget of around $10m, and marketed for roughly the same amount - so how did Longlegs become the box office surprise of 2024? Stories of both are told in this episode... ---- Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.0	to the Film stories podcast.
0:38.3	I'd like to particularly thank the people who've gone out of their way this week
0:42.3	to just tell me if my intros go on a little too long.
0:46.7	It goes on like that for a while.
0:49.3	For how long?
0:51.7	24 minutes.
0:53.0	Come with me.
0:58.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories that the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning
1:05.0	we would be honored if you would join us.
1:13.1	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always.
1:18.5	That's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The end of the podcast though,
1:22.5	well, it's given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to
1:26.5	talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go
1:32.6	towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know
1:37.1	and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lean more towards the
1:42.0	mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try really hard not to do snark. I try really hard
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