Episode 99: ‘The Witch’ with ‘The Long Walk’ Director Mattie Do and ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Director Issa López (LIVE AT FANTASTIC FEST)

Episode notes

Recorded LIVE at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, this show has a little bit of everything – special guests, witchcraft, and a stuffed animal version of Black Phillip. Mattie Do, Laos’s first, and only, female film director, is our special guest. And she’s on the show to talk about 2015’s The Witch. She details her own personal connection to magic and witchcraft, and how this film influenced the look and feel of her own horror-folk film, The Long Walk. She and April are also joined by Tigers Are Not Afraid director Issa López to help decide which member of the audience gets to sell their soul to the devil.

You can see Mattie’s film The Long Walk on the film festival circuit.

You can see Issa’s film Tigers Are Not Afraid on Shudder.

And if you haven’t seen The Witch, you simply must!

With April Wolfe, Mattie Do, and Issa López .

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Produced by Casey O’Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

In this episode...

April Wolfe

Host

Casey O’Brien

Producer

Guests

Mattie Do

About the show

Switchblade Sisters is a podcast providing deep cuts on genre flicks from a female perspective. Every week, screenwriter and former film critic April Wolfe sits down with a phenomenal female film-maker to slice-and-dice a classic genre movie – horror, exploitation, sci-fi and many others! Along the way, they cover craft, the state of the industry, how films get made, and more. Mothers, lock up your sons, the Switchblade Sisters are coming!

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