Hello, movie heads.

Hessa and I are back with a special Christmas treat for you, a surprise episode of movie mindset.

It is a doubly fun occasion because we are privileged to be talking to the person who was the subject of one of our recent

episodes. You'll remember from our recent Halloween horror season, we did an episode on

society and from beyond. So it is our privilege to be joined now by the man behind two of those

great films. Brian Usenah, Brian, thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure. Brian, I'd like to start with HP Lovecraft, because with your

films like From Beyond, reanimator, and Necronomicon, you along with your, your collaborators,

Dennis Paoli and Stuart Gordon, are among, I would say, the most prominent Lovecraftians working in movies.

So I just want to ask, what is it about H.P. Lovecraft's work that you connect with?

And what are some of the challenges that come with adopting his work into film?

Well, I think that Lovecraft seemed to have been

in the forefront of

kind of horror

that wasn't religious

or where I'm referring to Poh now

about sort of

very mortal love you know love of the dead, let's say.

So Lovecraft, he sort of began the, you know, he had things from outer space.

And, you know, I always like the thing on the doorstep where they were taking the sensory organs of people

and putting them in a metal canister and shooting them out to space.

So he would, I think he, he was secular.

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