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Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts

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Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts is a horror culture podcast featuring influential and up-and-coming talent in the genre. You're the fly on the wall to the most wide-ranging and entertaining conversations between horror culture’s recognized titans of terror and genre expert and film director, Kevin Lane

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 1 hr 31 min
Latest: 31 Oct 2025
Language: English

Latest episode

31 Oct 2025 · 2 hr 21 min

Ep 76 Annual Halloween Special 2025

The fog is thick, the pumpkins grin, and the veil between worlds is whisper-thin… Gather close, creatures of the night — it’s time for Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts Annual Halloween Special! This isn’t your usual campfire chat. Tonight, we summon dark tales and dreadful whispers from some of horror’s greatest minds — authors, actors, and legends of the macabre — each story crafted to chill your spine and haunt your dreams. So light the bonfires. Carve your pumpkins. And chant with us to the elder gods as we celebrate All Hallow’s Eve… together. 🔥 👻 Hosted by your harbinger for Samhain, Kevin…

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S5 · E75 · 21 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 29 min
Ep 75 Actor William Sadler ("Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight" "Disturbing Behavior" "The Mist")
🎃 William Sadler - The Range and Legacy of a Horror Icon Halloween is here, and Spill Your Guts is kicking things off early before our MASSIVE Annual Halloween Special! We begin with some fresh horror recommendations—from Josh Malerman’s terrifying Incidents Around the House to video game Little Nightmares 3 and new 4K horror releases—before welcoming an icon of the genre: William Sadler (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight , The Mist , The Shawshank Redemption ). Together they dig into the craft of performance in horror—how minimalism breeds menace, why truth sells the supernatural, and what…
S5 · E74 · 8 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 48 min
Ep 74 Author Philip Fracassi ("Boys in the Valley" "The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre")
Horror fiction is thriving like never before, and one of the genre’s most exciting voices right now is Philip Fracassi. A best-selling author and Bram Stoker Award nominee, Fracassi has earned a reputation for creating stories that feel timeless, primal, and downright unsettling. His breakout novel Boys in the Valley —often described as “ Lord of the Flies meets The Exorcist ”—is a brutal, unforgettable journey that shows just how far he’s willing to push horror while still keeping readers glued to the page. Now he’s back with The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre , a book that…
S5 · E73 · 23 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep 73 Filmmaker George Mihalka ("My Bloody Valentine")
As most of us are preparing for the most wonderful time of the year (the Jack-o'-lantern one…not the Bells and Holly one), Spill Your Guts is taking this episode to the day of romance and cupid and dead flowers wrapped up nicely. And there is no horror film more associated with Valentine’s Day than “My Bloody Valentine”. This 1981 classic has become seminal title in the pantheon of horror and did for Valentine’s Day what John Carpenter’s enduring masterpiece “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th” did for the respective dates. My Bloody Valentine has endured the test of time and become regular…
S5 · E72 · 9 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 29 min
E72 Best Selling Author Christopher Golden ("Road of Bones" "All Hallows" "The End of the World as we know it"
Welcome back to Spill Your Guts! I’m your host, Kevin Lane. We took some time over the summer to recalibrate and get ahead of creating a hell of a lineup for all our listeners. We've been doing Spill Your Guts for over 80 episodes now, and I can safely say that this is going to be some of our best. We are also doing a literary series with the biggest authors in horror fiction. It's a very exciting time for horror readers, as there are so many brilliant and diverse authors out there, creating stories that are reshaping the genre and what we've come to expect. This episode features one such…
S4 · E11 · 28 May 2025 · 1 hr 43 min
S4E11 Resident Evil with the stars of the games Nicole Tompkins, Jeff Schine & Nick Apostolides
In 1996, the world of video gaming was forever changed by the release of Capcom’s “survival horror” masterwork “Resident Evil” on the Sony PlayStation. In fact, the term “survival horror”, now a common-place name for a subgenre of horror gaming, was originated by “Resident Evil”. Survival horror itself can be defined as a genre of video games with a focus on surviving in a threatening, often supernatural or disturbing environment, with an emphasis on a more vulnerable central character, tension, limited resources and combat as a last resort. Sound like a vast number of great horror games…
S4 · E10 · 6 May 2025 · 1 hr 57 min
S4E10 "It Feeds" Writer/Director Chad Archibald, stars Ashley Greene & Shawn Ashmore
In this episode we’re spotlighting a particular film rather than an individual guest. A film I think is so far, one of 2025's best horror offerings. I’m going to get a little Cryptkeeper here kiddies and tell you that this demonic offering is about a clairvoyant therapist who soon discovers there may be more to her most recent client than she bargained for when horrific happenings begin haunting her and her daughter. It’s a nerve frying, reality shattering yarn titled “It Feeds” and is available now on streaming after a limited theatrical release. Joining me to discuss the film are…
S4 · E9 · 23 Apr 2025 · 2 hr 7 min
S4E9 Writer/Director David Prior ("The Empty Man")
Well, we’ve been gone for a lot longer than anticipated listeners and I’ve missed you! Thankfully it’s been for a good reason. I’ve been off making some movies. There will be more news on that to come but let’s just say that for fans of this podcast, these projects are right up your alley. We have a whole slew of horror masters and soon to be stars of the genre lined up for you as well as a few changes to the show including new segments with guest appearances putting a spotlight on new releases of movies, books, comics, video games and more so we’re going to be gutsier than ever before. I…
S4 · E8 · 23 Dec 2024 · 3 hr 4 min
S4E8 Christmas Special ("Silent Night, Deadly Night" "Silent Night, Deadly Night 2)
Santa’s watching, Santa’s Waiting Christmas Eve is slowly fading Can you hear him in the night? Close the door, turn off the light Welcome to the Spill your guts Christmas Special! In this episode we are taking the deepest of dives into two iconic Christmas horror classics, "Silent Night, Deadly Night" 1 & 2. Joining me in this episode as my co-host is the esteemed Mr. Justin Beahm, as we explore the making-of and the legacy of these two holiday horror mainstays. I also sat down for in-depth one on one discussions with the stars of the two films, Robert Brain Wilson ("Billy") of "Silent…
S4 · E7 · 10 Dec 2024 · 45 min
S4E7 Steven C. Miller ( Director "Silent Night" "Werewolves")
In this episode we will be kicking off the first of two episodes celebrating Santa and the darkest evening of the year. This episode looking at the kick ass remake of a beloved Christmas horror classic and our next episode being our Christmas special where we have something very special under the tree for you. But I mustn’t say more than that right now. On to the show! My guest today makes lean, mean, kick ass horror films that get your blood pumping almost as much as it does on screen. His films often lean into the action side of the genre and are a ride from the the get-go. He’s one of the…
S4 · E6 · 6 Dec 2024 · 1 hr 15 min
S4E6 André Øvredal (Director "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" "The Last Voyage of the Demeter")
Apologies we’ve been out of commission for a couple weeks. Along with the cheer and merriment of the season comes flues, colds and coughs and basically our whole team was bed bound for a bit. If I still sound a bit scratchy, well hopefully it just adds to the shows creepy vibe. And having your voice drop an octave sounds good anyway right? Well let’s get right into it shall we? Our guest in this episode is one of the great visionary directors currently working in horror. His work bares the signature of a director who is not only a master of his craft but also someone has has never lost touch…
S4 · E5 · 12 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 35 min
S4E5 Michael Leavy (Producer of "The Terrifier" series, Director of "Stream")
Another Halloween has come and gone, and I hope you all had sufficiently spooky time. Lots of candy and fake blood and sexy costumes…why can’t it be officially Halloween week? Soon it will be that most festive of holidays and I have to say, I love that one as much (full disclosure maybe more) because the sinister side of Christmas is masked by the most wholesome of veneers. We’ll have lots of Christmas episodes for you unwrap but that’s still a couple weeks out so in the meantime, we return you to our regularly scheduled programming. In this episode we are joined by one of the busiest guys…
S4 · E4 · 30 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 24 min
S4E4 Halloween Special 2024
Happy Halloween!!! Welcome to the annual Spill your guts Halloween special. I will be guiding you through this dark maze of tales filled with the ghastly and ghoulish. To celebrate this most fiendish of holidays we step away from our usual format to bring you tales of terror from various beloved writers and performers that we think make for a fun episode of the macabre and spooky that truly embraces the spirt of All Hallows’ Eve. Before we get to our spine-tingling tales, I want to take a moment to talk with you about an important charity that we are working with, The Gatehouse. The…
S4 · E3 · 29 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 54 min
S4E3 Actor/Director Josh Stewart ("The Collector" "The Collection" "The Hunted")
The horror genre, particularly the slasher part of it, has a long-standing history of “final girls”. Many of them brilliant and iconic and for good reason. My guest today has had the rare privilege of becoming one of the few great final guys in a series that has established its place in the horror hall of fame. He has also starred in many other horror films, most fiercely independent ones, and even directed one. He’s been in plenty of non-horror films as well including working with auteurs such as David Fincher and Christopher Nolan (with whom he has worked with several times). He has evaded…
S4 · E2 · 16 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 59 min
S4E2 Supermassive Games ("Until Dawn" "The Quarry" " The Casting of Frank Stone")
As we continue the countdown to All Hallows’ Eve, we have more in-depth chats with horrors best to keep you sated while binge-watching your favorite horror films (Great Pumpkin better be one of them). In this episode, we are taking a step away from the world of cinema to look at one of the most effective and captivating mediums for scaring the pants off you. The world of video games. One of the studios responsible for giving us some of the best, including “Until Dawn”, “The Quarry” and the Dark Pictures series, is Supermassive Games. And in this episode we are joined by Supermassive Games…
S4 · E1 · 1 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 8 min
Writer/Director Steven Kostanski is back! ("Psycho Goreman" "Frankie Freako")
Our first guest of season 4 has been on the show once before to discuss his work and the then recently released, now a genre favourite, “Psycho Goreman”. His work continues to be both a love letter to the 80’s genre films that inspired him but also a voice that is distinctly his own. His newest film, “Frankie Freako”, about Connor, who bored with life, decides to shake things up by inviting some mischievous goblins into his home, has already become a hit on the festival circuit and hits theatres October 4th. I love the film and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who has a place in…
S3 · E16 · 13 Sep 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
Bonus from the Archives - Friday the 13th with Thom Mathews ("Friday the 13th 6: Jason Lives" "Return of the living dead"
Hello Spill your guts listeners! This is your host Kevin Lane wishing you a happy Friday the 13th! The show will be returning with our season 4 premiere on October 1 but in the mean time, we thought it might be fun to celebrate this most unlucky of days by revisiting our season 1 episode with Jason Vorhees arch nemesis, Tommy Jarvis. In Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives, Tommy Jarvis and Jason have the ultimate showdown and though Tommy had been played by two other actors prior to Jason Lives, Thom Mathews has become synonymous with character. Now, I’m going to go ahead and guess if you’re…
S3 · E15 · 10 Sep 2024 · 1 hr 52 min
EP#315 Actor Julie Benz ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", "Dexter")
We’ll be taking a couple weeks to get things ready for a very VERY big season 4. Just wait until you see what we have in store for every horror fans favourite month of year. I’m so excited I could just burst! Like that guy in “Scanners”. What are some other movies where someone just bursts? Anyway, thank you to our amazing team and our sponsors, Audio Process and Cinema 1, for another season of sitting down with horrors best and brightest and spilling guts. Now, let’s get into it. For any actor, playing a major character on a tv series that not only garners tons of adoring fans but also…
S3 · E15 · 22 Aug 2024 · 51 min
EP#314 Charles Band Returns! ("The Puppet Master" series, "Subspecies" series, "Trancers" series
Getting any film finished and released is truly a minor miracle. There are so many stages of film production where projects fall apart. From financiers backing out at the last minute to a star quitting 2 days before production is set to begin. Most films take approximately 3 years from inception to completion when they do survive the Squid Games like survival test of getting a movie done. Our guest take has just completed his 400th film. To put it plainly, he’s unstoppable. The Godfather of B movies, the Puppet Master and a true master at reinventing himself time and time again… in this…
S3 · E14 · 6 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 19 min
EP#313 Director Marcus Dunstan ("The Collector" series, "#AMFAD All my friends are dead")
There’s a reason we love to see our favourite monsters return time and time agin but recently its been a period of transition. Shy of the original master slasher Michael Myers, who’s reign of terror thankfully continues, many favourites have been benched or transitioned into the world of television like everyone’s favourite good guy doll. So, the time was ripe to unleash some new ones. Our guest today has been a part of crafting the way forward for two iconic horror heavies. In one as the writer of several of the franchises most adored entries and the other, a work of his own creation. In…
S3 · E13 · 1 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 26 min
EP Bonus "45 Years Later: Dawn of the Dead" with special guest Chris Alexander
In 1978, horror legend George A. Romero created one of the most iconic films in the horror genre and a classic that defied genres altogether. His follow up to his mighty 1968 masterpiece “Night of the Living Dead”. The film, about a small band of survivors who take shelter in a shopping mall, while the outside world falls apart at the clawing hands of the living dead, was not only an audience and critical hit, it redefined the genre and its influence cannot be underestimated. In this special episode of Spill your guts, we celebrate the 45th anniversary of George A. Romero’s seminal…
S3 · E12 · 23 Jul 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
EP#312 The Cast of Deer Camp 86'
Rising to the height of its popularity in the 80’s with franchises like “Friday the 13th”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Halloween” and many others, the slasher genre has proven itself to be one of the most enduring sub-genres of horror. Its popularity has of course ebbed and flowed with a resurgence in the 90’s thanks to the success of films like “Scream” and “I know what you did last summer” but the slasher genre has also seen more than its share of duds with filmmakers mistakingly believing that all that an audience expects from a slasher film is a killer in a mask and nubile flesh for…
S3 · E11 · 16 Jul 2024 · 2 hr 19 min
EP#311 Lee Gambin (author, film historian, genre icon)
We’re back! And we sure missed you. We took some time to retool the show and are bigger and better than ever. We are now working on all our editing and post sound with powerhouse studio, Audio Process. We’ve put a fresh coat of paint on the show with a new logo and more diverse kinds of content that will be coming soon. It’s sure good to be with you all again so strap in for a upgraded Spill your guts. Our guest today is someone very special to me. A friend, an endless source of information on all things horror, endlessly funny and quirky and an inspiration. Sadly, in May, he tragically…
S3 · E10 · 19 Apr 2024 · 1 hr 31 min
EP#310 Filmmaker Ray Sager ( "Prom Night" 2-4, "My Bloody Valentine", "Terror Train")
Our guest today is a virtuoso of the genre having worked as either the producer, star, production manager, second unit director, or assistant director (sometimes a combination of a few of these roles) on a panoply of iconic films including several movies with the “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis, “American Nightmare”, “Terror Train”, “My Bloody Valentine”, “Humongous” and the cult classic sequels to “Prom Night” that turned Mary Lou into a horror anti-hero. These and many, MANY more. We are joined by the “Wizard of Gore” himself, Ray Sager. Ray is a master storyteller on the making…
S3 · E9 · 26 Mar 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
EP#309 Writer/Director Travis Bible ("#ChadGetsTheAxe")
This episode continues our series of overlooked and underseen films. Last episode we spoke with Michael Bonini, one of the stars of the 2022 influencer-skewering (yep, that’s a pun) “#ChadGetsTheAxe" and in this episode we are joined by the films writer and director, Travis Bible. Travis explains how a short film version of the feature length film closed the movies financing, how to plot out a well executed jump scare and believe me, this film has some great ones, finding a fair and balanced approach to commenting on influencers and why the film has a title that gives away a rather…
S3 · E8 · 12 Mar 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
EP#308 Actor Michael Bonini ("#ChadGetsTheAxe" "Bad CGI Gator" )
In our continuing series of under-seen or overlooked genre films, the next two episodes will be looking at the 2022 social media slasher “#ChadGetsTheAxe”. Written by Travis Bible and Kemerton Hargrove and directed by Bible, #ChadGetsTheAxe is a razor-sharp, edge of your seat slasher that not only avoids the pratfalls of the overdone “influencer horror” sub-sub-genre but actually has a fresh perspective on those tropes while always remembering to honour the horror genre first with carefully constructed scares. It’s a funny, surprising, biting movie that you might have missed. In this episode…
S3 · E7 · 27 Feb 2024 · 1 hr 34 min
EP#307 Writer/Director Shawn Linden ("Hunter Hunter")
This episode is a continuation of our last episode with actor Devon Sawa as we continue to discuss overlooked or under-seen genre films. As a quick recap, Devon is one of the stars of the 2020 hinterland horror “Hunter Hunter”. When the film came out the pandemic cost it the opportunity to play festivals or have a premiere and sadly, the movie didn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. It’s a smart, taught, shocking film and one hopes in time more people will discover it. In this episode we are joined by the films writer and director, Shawn Linden. Shawn and I discuss the major influence…
S3 · E6 · 13 Feb 2024 · 59 min
EP#306 Actor Devon Sawa ("Final Destination", "Hunter Hunter", "Chucky" series)
The holidays have come and gone and it’s a new year and we’re back at it, bringing you intimate one on one sit downs with the most exciting voices in horror. 2023 was a fantastic year for horror and 2024 doesn’t look to be slowing down so though the New Year is often a time for looking forward at what’s to come, it’s also a time for reflection. This season we will be spotlighting some of the genres great entires that you may have missed or that for a number of reasons (a global pandemic for example) didn’t get attention they so deserved. The first film we’re going to delve into is the…
S3 · E5 · 19 Dec 2023 · 1 hr 43 min
EP#305 Director Tyler MacIntyre ("It's a Wonderful Knife", "Tragedy Girls")
Happy holidays from all of us here at SYG! The winter solstice is upon and it’s one of the darkest times of the year. So as you're enjoying the lights on your Christmas tree and lighting your Christmas candles, just remember that though the holidays are a time for joy and cheer, it has a much darker history than that. This, our annual Christmas special, will be our final episode for the holidays but we’ll be back in a few weeks with more discussions with some of the luminaries of darkness. Everyone has their favorite Christmas movie classics but perhaps the gold standard is Frank Capra’s…
S3 · E4 · 12 Dec 2023 · 1 hr 35 min
EP#304 Director Jenn Wexler ("The Ranger" "The Sacrifice Game")
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Santa is checking lists twice and all us horror fans are revisiting our favorite Christmas horror films. Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, Gremlins, Rare Exports, Krampus… the list goes on and on. Here at Spill Your Guts, our Christmas gift to you is two back to back episodes with the filmmakers of what are sure to become new Christmas horror classics. In this episode, we are sitting down with director Jenn Wexler to talk about her new film “The Sacrifice Game”. Set in the 70’s, the film is a love letter to not just classic…

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