The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast · A L Katz

S4E1: How NOT To Make A Movie

January 14, 2025·42 min·3 clips
How did a Tales from the Crypt fan group's email lead to this podcast about Hollywood failures?
Alan Katz kicks off Season 4 by reflecting on the podcast's origins from a Tales from the Crypt fan group and delves into the making of Bordello of Blood as a case study in filmmaking failures. He interviews his former creative partner Gil Adler, sharing stories of their work on Tales from the Crypt, Hollywood politics, and the personal fallout from the movie.

As heard by us

A movie-making cautionary tale told with rueful, first-hand precision.

Season 4 starts by using Alan Katz's return to Bordello of Blood as a blunt lesson in how not to make a movie, while also threading in the podcast's own origin story from March 2022 and the pandemic-era Faitheism Project.

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Why you'd press play

You want the movie where the meter never stopped running and formal prep still started three weeks out.

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