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469. Interview with P.J. Starks/Eric Huskisson, New Fear's Eve

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PJ says the doctor had to feel like a real threat, even with comedy around him, because the killer carries the film’s tension.

1. Don't Go Out There Horror Movie Review Podcast talks with PJ Starks and Eric Huskisson about New Fear’s Eve and how it moved from an anthology concept into a streaming feature. 2. PJ Starks is the writer, producer, and co-director of New Fear’s Eve, and Eric Huskisson is his co-director and longtime collaborator at Blood Moon Pictures. 3. The interview asks what inspired their filmmaking, how they balance horror and comedy, and what made New Fear’s Eve different from their earlier work. 4. PJ says he wanted to be a writer first, then got an RCA camcorder when he was about 12 and shifted toward visual storytelling. 5. Eric says special effects pulled him into horror, along with B-horror movies, Fangoria Magazine, theater makeup, and an early interest in acting and comedy. 6. PJ says horror is the most malleable genre because it can absorb other genres and still remain horror. 7. Eric names Ghostbusters, The Monster Squad, The Gate, Night of the Creeps, Phantasm, and Halloween as early favorites that shaped his taste. 8. PJ says his grandmother was a horror fan who watched scary movies with him until she passed away at the end of 2020 from dementia. 9. PJ says one of their last lucid movie nights was Slugs, which he remembers as a ridiculous but memorable watch with her. 10. Eric describes meeting PJ through an Unscripted event at Davis County Public Library and later working together on zombie makeup, Scarefest in Lexington, and Volumes of Blood. 11. PJ says the partnership led to Blood Moon Pictures in December 2015 and later projects including Volumes of Blood Horror Stories and 13 Slays Till Christmas. 12. PJ says New Fear’s Eve started as a horror anthology but became a single narrative feature after they decided not to be pigeonholed as anthology filmmakers. 13. PJ says the film also became a way to try horror-comedy while keeping the slasher doctor serious and threatening. 14. PJ says the script contains personal material tied to his mother’s double lung cancer, his grandmother’s death, a messy divorce, and reconnecting with his wife Leslie. 15. PJ says he named the lead after Leslie and kept the personal material because it made the characters feel more real and the drama more effective. 16. Eric says the practical effects team, including Stephen Hopkey, Issa Morales, Blaze Bolden, Rob Collins, and Joshua Siegel, pulled off the kills on tight weekend schedules. 17. Eric says only one CGI effect appears in the film, and he prefers practical effects over digital replacements. 18. PJ says Frank Domani’s score was shaped by references to I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, and Brian Tyler’s Darkness Falls. 19. The interview is informal and conversational, with back-and-forth joking, self-correction, and detailed talk about filmmaking, distribution, and fan reactions. 20. Fans of practical-effects horror and indie genre production will get the most from this discussion, while viewers who want spoiler-free plot details may skip it.

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