A clear, candid discussion of how leadership and hiring shape a film set's atmosphere.
The Boo Crew frames Mason Novick and Diablo Cody's produced film Forbidden Fruits around a grounded production question: who really sets the tone?

Horror craft, fandom, and backstage stories.
The Boo Crew treats horror like a living culture, not just a release calendar. Its conversations move from films and conventions to visual language, performance, practical effects, audience reaction, and the strange objects fans remember forever.
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The Boo Crew is a horror-culture interview show with a fan’s pulse and a maker’s curiosity. It is not content to ask only what a movie is about. It wants to know how the room worked, who set the tone, why a visual idea mattered, and what a choice felt like before the finished cut made it obvious. Recent episodes circle around people connected to projects like Forbidden Fruits, Undertone, Whistle, The Strangers: Chapter 3, and Primate. The conversations often start with big genre excitement, then settle into practical questions. That rhythm suits the show. A guest can talk about leadership on set, the role of a director’s vision, or the way a film uses negative space, mirrors, color, and tilted frames to train an audience’s eye. The show also makes room for the emotional weight inside horror. A discussion of Whistle turns from gore and thrills toward death, denial, acceptance, and the human ache beneath the roller-coaster ride. Just as naturally, another conversation can land on horror marketing, theatrical release pressure, and the way fans arrive hoping to be rewarded. The Boo Crew’s collector streak is part of its identity. Creep I.E. Con, Spooky World, horror celebrities signing autographs, Propstore’s Spring 2025 Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, and Tom Sullivan all fit comfortably in its world. That gives the show texture beyond reviews and news. It understands horror as movies, craft, community, objects, memories, and rituals. The pacing is brisk, but the best moments have space to breathe. Guests are encouraged to tell the story behind the story. The hosts bring enthusiasm without sanding off the genre’s rough edges. For listeners who know the difference between a good scare and a well-built scare, The Boo Crew offers a warm, informed seat close to the workbench.
Made for: The Boo Crew suits horror fans who want more than quick reactions: craft talk, convention memory, genre history, and interviews with people working in horror entertainment. It is especially friendly to collectors, practical-effects devotees, and listeners who follow horror releases closely.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the mix of warm fan fluency and concrete production curiosity. Films, props, haunted attractions, conventions, marketing campaigns, and scene-level craft all belong to the same conversation.
Join your hosts Leone D'Antonio, Trevor Shand, and Lauren Shand as they bring you discussions and interviews covering all things horror! Our guests are not only icons from your favorite horror and genre films from in front of and behind the lens, but also artists, actors, musicians, authors and personalities inspired by horror and dark entertainment. A truly unique experience that has something for everyone.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Boo Crew makes horror filmmaking legible through guest conversations about performance, visual design, production culture and practical effects.
The Boo Crew turns horror film interviews into practical conversations about how scares are built, performed and sold. Lauren Shand, Trevor Shand and Leone D'Antonio ask questions that move past plot promotion toward production choices: who sets the tone on a film set, how…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear, candid discussion of how leadership and hiring shape a film set's atmosphere.
The Boo Crew frames Mason Novick and Diablo Cody's produced film Forbidden Fruits around a grounded production question: who really sets the tone?
A focused horror craft talk on role reversal, tilted frames, and the spaces fear leaves open.
Undertone comes to The Boo Crew through the lens of a mother-daughter horror story built around inversion, both literal and emotional. The writer-director and producer talk through the title's rotated U and N, a small visual idea that points back to two characters who stay bound…
A horror-con origin story that connects haunted-attraction memories with the practical value of experienced convention partners.
This episode frames horror fandom as the root of a convention dream, starting with the pull of growing up near Spooky World. The memory of a haunted hayride leading into autograph tables gives the story a clear sense of place, and the later nod to Rock and Shock in Worcester…
A horror interview that follows outrageous deaths into grief, mortality, and the choice to keep living.
The Boo Crew lands on its clearest thread when the talk treats the film's horror premise as more than a delivery system for gore, thrills, scares, and inventive deaths.
A focused horror conversation about audience trust, marketing pressure, and the awkward business of selling art.
Madelaine Petsch's conversation with The Boo Crew centers on horror's strange pact with its audience: if viewers agree to meet a story on its own terms, the genre can push further and take bigger swings.
Tom Sullivan makes horror makeup feel painful, ingenious, and sharply physical.
The Boo Crew's return to special-effects mastermind Tom Sullivan works best when it stays close to the physical grind behind horror production.
A killer-clown discussion gets its bite from a strange Winnipeg river memory.
The Boo Crew's 446th episode works best where horror fandom meets the messier texture of set memory. The hosts set the Friendo mythos against killer-clown touchstones like Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Terrifier, using that comparison to ask what actually separates this…



Baseball-card conviction, clubhouse-style.

Sports-card market heat, risk, and receipts.
The Boo Crew hosts a live interview with special effects artist Tom Sullivan at Propstore's Spring 2025 auction preview.
The Boo Crew hosts interview actress Katie Douglas about her role in the horror film 'Clown in a Cornfield', set for theatrical release on May 9th.
This episode features trailers for two upcoming horror movies, Over Your Dead Body and The Yeti.
The Boo Crew Podcast interviews Olivia Holt about her new horror film Heart Eyes, a Valentine's Day slasher.
The Boo Crew Podcast episode 411 is a year-end wrap-up show that begins with sponsor ads for horror movies The Yeti and Over Your Dead Body.
This episode promotes upcoming horror films The Yeti and Over Your Dead Body, along with a Binge streaming deal, on the Boo Crew Podcast.
On the Boo Crew Podcast, host Trevor interviews producer Mason Novick and Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody about their long creative partnership, from Juno to their new horror-comedy Forbidden Fruits.
The Boo Crew's Ian Twassen and Cody Callahan episode centers on Undertone, a horror film built around a paranormal podcast and 10 mysterious recordings.
Spencer Charnas says he owns one of the original Scream knives and a Scream 4 bedpan prop, and he explains how Radio Silence turned a fake Abe Snake show into the Abe Snake Bodega in Scream 6.
Interview with filmmaker Johannes Roberts about his new film Primate, with sponsor ads for The Yeti and Over Your Dead Body.
An interview with director Darren Lynn Bousman and actress Lauren LaVera about their work in modern horror.
Corin Hardy and Sophie Nélisse discuss Whistle, a horror film built around an "ancient Aztec death whistle" and the idea that "dying is not a choice, it's inevitable." Hardy connects the film to his teenage years, his love of high-school horror, and a playlist called "Death Lives" that he sent to the cast and crew.
Madelaine Petsch and The Boo Crew focus on The Strangers: Chapter 3, which she filmed across 52 days in Slovakia with two later enhancement shoots.
Live from Propstore's Spring 2025 auction, Tom Sullivan discusses horror memorabilia and his career.