Welcome back to the shadows.
In Episode 4 of ETCH CAST, it’s just Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King — two friends, two filmmakers, and one long conversation about the strange, exhausting, and occasionally transcendent act of animating dark fantasy.
This time, Morgan moves from co-host to guest as we trace the decade-long creation of The Spine of Night, unpack the beauty and brutality of rotoscoping, and explore how animation gives horror and fantasy a shared, living language.
In this episode:
The stubborn road to The Spine of Night — and what kept it alive.
Why every hand-drawn frame is a little spell.
How horror and fantasy feed each other when done right.
The toll and joy of living inside a world you’re still drawing.
Plus… a little Rob Zombie.
We close, as always, with What Lurks in Our Queue — the films, books, and oddities inspiring us to keep our own queues strange and overflowing.
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