On May 6, 2013 the very first episode of THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast with Adam Green & Joe Lynch premiered on the GeekNation network. At the time, the plan was for the podcast to simply be a companion piece to HOLLISTON and run only while Season 2 of the sitcom was airing on television. 10 years later… the rest is history.

Over the last decade Green, Lynch, and co-host/mascot Arwen have never missed a single Monday without releasing a new episode of the extremely popular podcast. Even if a Monday falls on Christmas or New Years Day there has always been a brand new episode of the podcast for fans to listen to. Throughout the 518 weeks/episodes so far THE MOVIE CRYPT has only featured repeat guests a small handful of times and only when it had been several years since the guest’s first appearance and because they had something new and exciting to share. For the first 4 years THE MOVIE CRYPT could be found in iTunes Top 25 “WHAT’S HOT” for TV and Film Podcasts every day of the week and the podcast even made Entertainment Weekly’s “Top 20 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To” in issue #1345 (January 9, 2015).

CULVER CITY, CA – JUNE 18: (L-R) Joe Lynch, Arwen the Dog, and Adam Green attend “The Movie Crypt” Podcast during 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at Arclight Cinemas Culver City on June 18, 2017 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

Since nothing is ever easy, when GeekNation suddenly dissolved in 2018, they took THE MOVIE CRYPT’s first 4 years worth of episodes off-line overnight without so much as a warning. Green and Lynch had to continue the weekly podcast independently – now without their back catalogue available. It was like starting all over again.

After remaining independent for about a year, in 2019 THE MOVIE CRYPT joined the Fangoria Podcast Network. Sadly, in 2020 Fangoria’s parent company (Cinestate) found themselves caught up in a controversy that left Green and Lynch with no choice but to leave the network in solidarity with those effected. Once again, THE MOVIE CRYPT was independent and starting over… this time right as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting the world down and episodes had to start being recorded over the internet rather than in person. To make matters worse, every time the podcast was let down by a home network and had to move home servers, listeners would have to resubscribe all over again. For those keeping track, that’s 4 TIMES that the podcast lost all metadata/listens and had to virtually start all over again from scratch.

Not wanting to be beholden to an outside corporation ever again, THE MOVIE CRYPT made the decision to remain completely independent. By launching a Patreon, the program could be fully fan-supported and Green and Lynch could specifically cater their brand of weekly “film therapy” and candid discussions about the real Hollywood experience to their dedicated listeners and not to a home network’s ambitions of trying to reach as broad of an audience as possible. Starting that day, only the first hour of THE MOVIE CRYPT was released for free on all podcast platforms while the full versions of new episodes were reserved for Patrons who donated a mere $1 a month. Special monthly live events, access to the podcast’s full backlog of classic episodes, and other special perks were offered to Patrons at higher tiers, but in going independent and asking for only $1 a month THE MOVIE CRYPT truly hit its greatest stride yet. Deeper, more impactful stories were reserved for the second half of episodes, live events brought Green and Lynch much closer to their audience, and they could finally feel that their efforts producing the podcast every week were warranted. Lesson learned: While the bragging rights of having one of the biggest free entertainment podcasts might be nice to have for awhile… having a much more appreciative audience, full control, and the ability to speak 100% freely was quite literally priceless. It was the Patreon community that truly saved THE MOVIE CRYPT and renewed Green and Lynch’s love for producing the podcast week after week.

THE MOVIE CRYPT has found a perfect balance. Passive listeners can enjoy a full hour of the podcast for free every week… while those who are more invested in the conversations (other filmmakers, aspiring artists, or more serious fans) can get the full versions and hear everything that was discussed for a mere $1 a month.

Over the last few years THE MOVIE CRYPT has been at its absolute best. Green, Lynch, and Arwen have raised about a quarter million dollars with their annual YORKIETHONS and helped their friends at Save A Yorkie Rescue do their incredible work providing abandoned and abused dogs with a second chance. By remaining independent, THE MOVIE CRYPT has been able to tackle difficult and controversial topics from stalking and cancel culture to the potential ramifications of violence in cinema and artificial intelligence through a series of special “roundtable” episodes. Both hosts and guests have been able to speak even more candidly than ever before and the connection with the audience has never been stronger. “I’ve literally laughed until I can’t breathe during some of our monthly live events,” says Green. “It makes a huge difference in how much fun you can have when you’re among friends and not catering to a broader audience of anonymous listeners who are only there because you’re giving yourself away for free.”

While it certainly hasn’t been easy producing THE MOVIE CRYPT while simultaneously making their various films, TV series, and other entertainment creations, Green and Lynch have pulled it off for a decade now. Who can ever say just how long the podcast will go for but one thing is for sure… the audience has made every step of the way worth it.

Listen to THE MOVIE CRYPT’s special 10th anniversary episode with FX legend Todd Masters wherever you get your podcasts. Hear the full 2 hour and 15 minute version on Patreon.com/TheMovieCrypt.

After failing to reach an acceptable agreement with Hollywood’s studios and streaming platforms, the Writers Guild of America is on strike starting today. Since the advent of streaming, writers have seen their compensation and residuals slashed and their working conditions undermined. Until the AMPTP (Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers) comes to the table with a fair contract for writers, all development and production has been shut down in Hollywood.

As a proud WGA union member for 20 years, every film and television show that Adam Green has created has been produced under a WGA signatory agreement starting with the original HATCHET. Now that audiences have embraced streaming platforms as their preferred method for entertainment consumption, writers have been marginalized by the AMPTP and talent all across the industry on both sides of the camera have found it harder and harder to make a living. For more information about the WGA strike click HERE.

While we of course support the WGA in the fight for a fair contract, unfortunately the timing of this strike couldn’t be worse for so many artists just like us who watched their projects and livelihood evaporate during the COVID-19 pandemic and who were just starting to ramp back up again. This strike is a major one that has the potential to go on a long, long time. That means that the various new projects we were hoping to create for you soon have been thrown back into production purgatory once again. Even worse, this disruption could spell a tragic end to several of our beloved projects while still in their infancy.

This sure isn’t how we hoped to be celebrating our 25th anniversary year.

However, in our effort to always find (or create) a bright side, we’re hoping to seize whatever opportunities these unfortunate circumstances will make room for. As a writer/director/showrunner, normally Adam is only able to appear at conventions when the dates happen to coincide with the promotional period in support of a new film’s release. In preparation for the strike, Adam has been in talks to appear at a number of conventions while our various productions are going to be indefinitely delayed. Given that most conventions set their celebrity rosters at least 6 months (in some cases almost a full year) in advance… and given that the strike could potentially end at any point… arranging convention appearances for the coming months is a lot easier said than done. Still, we plan to have some dates to announce soon! Adam is thrilled that he may be able to get out to a convention near you this year!

As always, ArieScope will produce our 25th annual Halloween short film for October and the weekly MOVIE CRYPT podcast will continue to release a new episode every single Monday just as Adam Green, Joe Lynch, and Arwen have done without fail for the last 10 years. With the podcast’s 10th anniversary coming up this week, THE MOVIE CRYPT will release a very special 10th anniversary episode on Monday! Of course, the program’s “Movie Crypt Live” and “Slumber Party Massacre” live events will continue on as scheduled every month for Patreon members. You can also expect to see some new merch hitting the BUY STUFF store here on ArieScope.com in just a few more months!

Speaking of merch… want to help ArieScope avoid having to shut down our studio for good during the strike? Now would seriously be a great time to buy something in our store or feed Arwen a treat/make a donation! Just saying.

The last few years have certainly been brutal on all of us at ArieScope. No one could have possibly predicted the back to back beat downs of a global pandemic and an industry wide strike. However, if there is one thing we’ve proven again and again over our 25 years as a production company it’s that we always manage to find a light at the end of every dark tunnel life throws at us.

This too shall pass, friends. Hang in there.

Happy Halloween, Trick or Treaters! ArieScope’s 24th annual Halloween short film is here! Watch HALLOWEEN COSTUME CRUELTY in our SHORTS section –> HERE<– !

Are you new to the ArieScope Halloween short films? First, catch up on all 24 years of shorts (plus a whole bunch of other short form content) FREE in the SHORTS section of this website. then, go behind the scenes of our first two decades of Halloween short films and learn the whole story behind our annual tradition of making a new short every October with the self-imposed rule of “one night, no budget, just for fun” by watching our 2018 feature-length documentary FOR THE LOVE OF HALLOWEEN! Stream it FREE –> HERE <–!

The annual HATCHET anthology comic from American Mythology has arrived in FOUR different variant covers! Featuring three new stories narrated by ghosts of Honey Island Swamp’s past, this year’s blood-soaked anthology is the biggest yet!  32 gory pages with no ads! Every copy sold here on ArieScope.com comes autographed by HATCHET’s creator Adam Green and ships bagged and boarded.

Order your copies NOW in our “Buy Stuff” store HERE!

*THIS EVENT IS NOW OVER. WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE SHOW!*

THIS Sunday (10/9) it’s the annual FREE “Movie Crypt Live” episode! Normally the monthly LIVE show is reserved for the podcast’s beloved Patreon supporters but once a year the LIVE event is made FREE for everyone to enjoy!

At 8am PST / 11am EST join Adam Green and Arwen for their special 2-hour Halloween celebration: “It’s The Great Halloween Pre-Show, Arwen!” Featuring classic Halloween cartoons, vintage holiday commercials, spooky music videos, Halloween lore, a tribute to musicians who have passed away this year (“Arwen’s Ghosts of 2022”) and MORE!

Then at 10am PST / 1pm EST Adam Green and Joe Lynch will be on LIVE for their monthly episode of “Movie Crypt Live” featuring some of their favorite audience-interactive games like “What Won’t Shaq Sell?”, “Ruin an Activity,” and “Disgusting Statement or Cannibal Corpse Song?”! 

Come play with the guys (and Arwen) this Sunday and have some Halloween fun!

Production wrapped last night on ArieScope’s 24th annual Halloween short film. As always, we won’t be providing any details about the short until it is released later in October. Stay tuned, Trick or Treaters!

“That’s a wrap on #24!”

On September 7, 2007 Adam Green’s HATCHET was released in US theaters and a new slasher franchise was born.  Over the last 15 years “Victor Crowley” has become a bona fide icon of the genre with 4 films, multiple action figures, Halloween masks, a continuing comic book series, and more!

To celebrate 15 years of “Victor Crowley” ArieScope is excited to announce new HATCHET T-shirts & hoodies (available exclusively from Terror Threads), the 4th annual VICTOR CROWLEY TALES OF HALLOWEEN comic book, and a brand new “Victor Crowley” action figure from MEGO!

The new shirts and hoodies are already available from our friends at Terror Threads! Order yours now at TerrorThreads.com HERE.

Victor Crowley’s 4th annual TALES OF HALLOWEEN comic is coming soon!

ArieScope.com will begin taking pre-orders for autographed MEGO action figures (images coming soon) and Tales of Halloween #4 comics wicked soon so keep checking our BUY STUFF store HERE!

DID YOU KNOW: Most streaming platforms carry the R-rated, much tamer, MPAA approved versions of the four HATCHET films. Do you want to see the full versions of each film in all of their gory glory?? We proudly sell the UNRATED director’s cuts of each film on Blu-Ray! Each copy comes uncensored, loaded with special features, and autographed by writer/director Adam Green! Get yours in the BUY STUFF store HERE on ArieScope.com!

Our “BUY STUFF” store has been re-stocked! Including recently uncovered and extremely rare art prints from Adam Green’s previous live tours, more of the increasingly hard to find 8″ and 6″ NECA Victor Crowley action figures, and autographed Blu-Rays of all of the films you love… ArieScope’s on-line store has what you’re looking for! Click here and start shopping!

Earlier this year Adam Green, Joe Lynch, and Arwen introduced a new series of special roundtable episodes of THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast. As opposed to the usual weekly episodes where the focus is on a specific artist’s career journey, these special roundtable episodes bring together a panel of guests to discuss a specific subject that would be too big of a topic to possibly tackle thoroughly within the average episode.

This week THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast has released their third roundtable episode: “Violence in Cinema.” In this special episode Adam Green (HATCHET, FROZEN) sits down with filmmakers Mick Garris (THE STAND, MASTERS OF HORROR), Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW 2-4, REPO! THE GENETIC ROCK OPERA) and Tom Six (THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 1-3, THE ONANIA CLUB) to explore the controversial subject of whether or not excessively violent entertainment bares any responsibility for the epidemic of real world violence and where they personally draw the line in regards to the gory atrocities that they depict on-screen in their films.

Episode 470 “Violence in Cinema” is now playing on all podcast platforms.

The first two special roundtable episodes – Episode 454 “Topic Fandom / Cancel Culture” (released on February 14, 2022) and Episode 459 “Gun Violence” (released on March 21, 2022) both received incredible responses and are currently available to hear on whatever platform you listen to podcasts on. Roundtable episodes are released in their entirety to the general public.

Happy 9th anniversary to The Movie Crypt Podcast which premiered on May 6, 2013! 465 episodes, 6 Yorkiethons (over $150,000.00 raised for SAVE A YORKIE RESCUE which is a ton of wheel barrows of dogs saved), countless LIVE events, never a week without a new episode, and still going strong today!

To all who have supported us over the years- we love you! – AG, JL, & A