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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 13d

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

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Stephen Graham Jones | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 15d

@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!

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 19d

🎧 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.

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 19d

“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 · 24d

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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The shadows have a new voice.

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 24d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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!

Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 26d

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).

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.

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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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Aug 26

@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”

We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.

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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you John!! 🙌