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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 1d

👉 Step into the battle — and get your tickets here: bit.ly/Spine-Revue

#etch #etchfilm #thespineofnight #morgangalenking #revuecinema #animation #screening #filmmaking

Toon Holiday After Dark: THE SPINE OF THE NIGHT (2021) – Toronto Theatrical Premiere with Co-Director In Attendance!

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient sorcery. Blood-soaked myth. Handcrafted rotoscope madness.

THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.

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Randy @ydnar024.bsky.social · 7d

My family used to watch The Wizard of Oz. I think it was Thanksgiving. It scared the hell out of me. When I was a kid I would dream about looking out the window where The Wicked Witch riding a bike. It was horrible.

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 7d

Every horror origin story has teeth.

For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 7d

👉 Come see the fear that keeps circling back. Part 1 of FIRST WORD ON HORROR with Paul Tremblay is now on YouTube: youtu.be/bgVEcEMCyUw?...

#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #PaulTremblay #JAWS #horror #horrorfiction #youtube #scary #nightmare #indiefilm #indiehorror

Paul Tremblay | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 7d

Every horror origin story has teeth.

For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 17d

👉 Subscribe to our Substack to stay up to date on our projects and productions — and to support independent film: etchstudio.substack.com

#etch #etchfilm #horror #filmmaking #behindthescenes #comingsoon #newjersey #atlanticcity

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 17d

Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.

📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 19d

@etchfilm.bsky.social just made the episode #1 of FIRST WORD IN HORROR available for free on Youtube and it's @sgj.bsky.social talking about the evolutionary origins of our love of horror! Watch this first ep, then subscribe to Etch to see the whole series because it's excellent!

Stephen Graham Jones | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 26d

Whoah, cool. Such an honor:

Book Club: Read ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,’ by Stephen Graham Jones, with the Book Review

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 23d

🎧 Listen now, free on Spotify.
🎥 Watch the full video version on Substack: etchstudio.substack.com/p/etch-cast-...

Stay curious. Stay weird. ETCH CAST is live.

#etch #etchfilm #etchcast #stephengrahamjones #horror #horrorfiction #writing #podcast

ETCH CAST - Episode 2 - From Hell’s Heart, I Film at Thee

Welcome back to the shadows.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 23d

“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚

ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 28d

Their novels stalk your shelves. Their stories live on your screens.

👉 Stream the full series now — and support indie horror projects like this one: etchstudio.substack.com

#etchfilm #etch #FirstWordOnHorror #HorrorCommunity #IndieFilm #horror #horrorfiction #shelfie #bookshelf

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 28d

A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚

Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.

The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · Sep 22

Every fantasy head should watch SPINE OF NIGHT. It's really an incredible accomplishment.

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Before the rotoscope, before the blood — there was cardboard armor, yoga mats, and a warehouse full of nerds armed with nothing but imagination.

Part IV of The Making of The Spine of Night takes you inside the live-action shoot that became the bones of our fantasy epic.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hear the full story in the premiere episode of ETCH CAST. Now streaming on Spotify with a video version exclusive to our Substack: etchstudio.substack.com/p/etch-cast-...

#etch #etchcast #podcast #etchfilm #thesopranos #sopranos #bobbybacala

ETCH CAST is LIVE!

The shadows have a new voice.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 22

Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.

Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.

Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 17

ETCH CAST is LIVE! @swordcandlebell.bsky.social recalls how Gremlins delivered his first cinematic terror. We dig into the films and books that scarred us young — and why genre isn’t a cage but a toolkit.

🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fo7...

#etchcast #gremlins #horror #podcast

Call Me Etch

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 16

So here’s your mission: when the episode drops, listen, leave us a review that confuses the algorithms in our favor, and follow us wherever you find your podcasts. And if you’re really one of us, spread the word — the dark always has room for more.

Stay curious. Stay weird. See you Wednesday.

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 16

🎥 Video version: exclusive for Substack subscribers.

🎧 Audio version: free everywhere you haunt your podcasts (Spotify, Apple, and beyond).

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 16

The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

➡️ Subscribe to support Etch and keep independent filmmaking proudly strange: etchstudio.substack.com

#etchfilm #TheSpineOfNight #morgangalenking #animation #indiefilm

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

ICYMI! This is the final chapter.

Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.

Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 4

His episodes of FIRST WORD ON HORROR are streaming now on our Substack.

👉 Subscribe today and support strange, independent filmmaking: etchstudio.substack.com

#etchfilm #etch #FirstWordOnHorror #LairdBarron #behindthescenes #filmmaking #reading #horrorfiction

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Think of this as your reading break.

@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Aug 26

👉 Read his interview in the new issue of Heavy Metal and subscribe to ETCH on Substack to follow our projects + support independent filmmaking: etchstudio.substack.com

#etch #etchfilm #philipgelatt #heavymetalmagazine #behindthescenes #thespineofnight #FirstWordOnHorror

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We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

etchstudio.substack.com

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