Grab your fake blood and your free hotel soap, because Hard to Watch went LIVE on the Blood Red Carpet at the very first Sinister Sundial Film Festival at the Riverfront Playhouse in Redding, CA! 🩸🔪
Host Alex Parker (in a questionable hospital gown) and Coffee with Colleen’s Colleen De Silva took over the carpet to interview costumed guests, filmmakers, artists, and festival creators. They asked the questions that really matter: Are you Fred, Daphne, Velma, or Shaggy? And in a horror movie, would you be the final girl or the first to die?
On the carpet:
🎬 Tyler Lockamy, the mastermind behind Sinister Sundial, on bringing a true genre film festival to Redding
🏆 Mike Morgan of Morgan Designs, who 3D resin-printed the festival’s blood-red film canister and knife trophies (40 hours each!)
🔪 Matt Briner, the designer behind the festival logo, on butcher knives and Terminator 2 inspiration
🎥 Filmmakers, behind-the-scenes shooters, and local creators, including director Taunya Gren and Redding Creators
🧛 Costumed attendees, a prom king, a wounded alien, and plenty of Shaggys
🧼 Door prizes: Ivory hotel soap and, for the final guest, nasal spray that expired in 2024
Plus horror fun facts, favorite scary movies (Get Out, Nope, Basket Case, and Backrooms), movie-festival hot takes, and a sneak peek at a horror-comedy about a multi-level marketing cabin getaway gone very wrong.
Hard to Watch is the movie podcast about films so bad they’re hard to watch. Every other Tuesday, Alex and a guest each pick a movie and break down just how rough it is.
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