Halloween brings guest, Joe Castro, who is a Director, Producer, Special Effects Artist, and holds the Guinness Book of World Record’s for the “Highest body count in a Slasher film” (155 kills) for the film “The Summer of Massacre,”(2011), which won multiple awards. He started his career at the age of 15, creating special effects make-up that lead him down the road to win a national special effects make-up contest in “Monsterland Magazine.” The first feature film was shot on a 35 mm Panavision. Notably, it won a “Silver Award,” and was an apocalyptic horror feature film he produced and directed called, “Ceremony.” Using his parent’s ranch, he produced“Legend of the Chupacabra. This was his second internationally distributed feature film, followed by “Terror Toon.” In this film Joe produced, directed, and created the special effects so enthralling that four sequels followed. Later, Joe launched “The Jackhammer Massacre,” making it his 7th feature film and this film was distributed by “Lionsgate.” Joe has partnered with Steven Escobar and thus has brought his total of feature films to 18. He has personally won over 46 awards in the areas of producing, directing, and special effects. His 37 years of experience mentioned here is not exhaustive, plus there is more, much more to come.
In this episode, Rebecca and Joe talk about how Joe came to become so talented in the area of special effects and what he is doing now. He shows, in detail, some of his creations and talks about what it takes to make them come to life on screen. He also gives the audience an insight into his personal studio on camera. You just have to listen to the show because he is going to conduct a special effect for Halloween in Hollywood, California, whereby he will be naked. Yep, you read it right! Naked! There is also another appearance he will be making that you might want to be a part of! To find out more about that and where and when these events will be taking place you have to tune-in!
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