Episode 20: Amanda Reyes

Bill speaks with writer/podcaster Amanda Reyes about her many experiences that shape her work, from discovering Scandinavian films on Bravo as a teenager to the professional satisfactions of becoming as an archivist.  They discuss the origins of her many film cultural endeavors, including the Made For TV Mayhem blog and its companion podcast, as well as the new book Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999. Other topics include frustrating screenwriting experiences, BAD RONALD, Kindertrauma, Wes Craven, nostalgia, female-driven horror movies, The Strange And Deadly Show, and a surprise revelation about being quoted on the back cover of a DVD.

 

 

Read Made For TV Mayhem:

Made for TV Mayhem

 

Hear the Made For TV Mayhem Podcast:
Made for TV Mayhem Podcast

 

Hear Amanda Reyes on The Kolchak Tapes:
The Kolchak Tapes

 

Buy the special hardback edition of ARE YOU ALONE IN THE HOUSE? from Headspress: 

http://www.headpress.com/ShowProduct.aspx?ID=163

 

Or buy the softcover edition from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Are-You-House-Alone-Compendium/dp/1909394440

 

Read the Birth. Movies. Death review of the Monster Fest ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? Book launch event.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/12/04/monster-fest-2016-are-you-in-the-house-alone-is-a-mighty-tv-movie-tome

Learn about Amanda Reyes' upcoming London appearance at The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies:
Tele-terrors: The Real and Imagined Horrors Inside the Made for Television Movie : The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies