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Miguel Martinez

@macabremartinez.bsky.social
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Filmmaker丨Screenwriter丨 Horror Reviewer 丨 Husband丨 Friendly Neighborhood Epilepsy Advocate 丨Co-Creator of Quetzalcoatl丨 #blm #translivesmatter popl.co/card/P55ehvzM/1/s

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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My goal for the rest of the year is to submit the 3 issues we have so far of Quetzalcoatl to indie publishers. Does anybody have recommendations?
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
New on Substack: I wrote about the journey of making Lechuza and trying to bring this Latin American folklore horror film to life for 100K. I get into the look book, the Fantastic Pitch process, the proof of concept short, and why this project means so much to me.
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I Am Trying to Make A Feature Film Based on Lechuza for 100K
How a folk horror film became my way back to filmmaking, and why I am being more public about this process than I ever have before
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Filmography flex!
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This past weekend I had the privilege to direct Hunters! A werewolf short! We had such an amazing crew full of great vibes and extraordinary talent! I absolutely loved working with these amazing people! Hire them for everything! #supportindiefilm #indiehorror
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My pitch for Migrant Spirits is a Top 50 Finalist pitch for the ISA/Script Pipeline Pitch contest! Winners announced on Feb 12th! www.instagram.com/p/DT07PzACOZ...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
REMINDER! We only have 10 Days to go on our Kickstarter! For HUNTERS! The Werewolf short I am directing! Please support us! Share or pledge! Please and thank you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/168...
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HUNTERS: A Werewolf Short Horror Film
A horror short about werewolves stalking the Bronx
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I went down this rabbit hole recently of script readers and even working writers brag on socials about a “hack”: upload someone else’s screenplay to ChatGPT open.substack.com/pub/freakish...
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Stop Feeding Other People’s Scripts to ChatGPT
It’s lazy, it’s unethical, and it puts someone else’s livelihood at risk
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A new 2026 goal is to do a segment for the next VHS! Going to push my own connections in that direction. Do I know anybody else with some kind of connection to that team?
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Writers/Actors/Directors of Bluesky! We’re going Tabletop Reads! Find out how to be a part of it below! DM me for specific questions! #scriptsky open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Attention Writers/Directors/Actors! We Are Doing Table Reads!
While talking to all of you guys, I realized a lot of you are also actors and filmmakers as well as great writers!
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Writers/Actors/Directors of Bluesky! We’re going Tabletop Reads! Find out how to be a part of it below! DM me for specific questions! #scriptsky open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Attention Writers/Directors/Actors! We Are Doing Table Reads!
While talking to all of you guys, I realized a lot of you are also actors and filmmakers as well as great writers!
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Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Page 1 from NO GHOSTS TONIGHT, my tale of a young woman who embarks on a desperate Channel crossing among strangers in a bid to get home. A Nicholl finalist, it didn't get me an agent or manager (hint, hint), but it did open various other more productiony doors. #Scriptsky #FirstPageFriday
EXT. WINDSWEPT BEACH - DUSK
Waves roll in. They don’t stop.
Wet sand reflects a sullen sky. Foam skitters up the beach.
Beyond, rain-hazed open sea. Grey on grey.

SUPER: France, Plage Dunes de la Slack, November 2023

A sweep of beach rises, meets wind-scarred dunes.
Bleak. Apparently deserted.

SHELTERED GULLY IN THE DUNES

SETAREH (20, looks Iranian, hyped and hyper-vigilant) hunkers
down, near invisible in the long grass and shadows.

Voices MURMUR (O.S.). Setareh listens but the words are
drowned by the waves.

She scans the dunes - where are they coming from? Pulls her
dark hoodie tight, adjusts her backpack. Ready to run.

Grass rustles. Setareh focuses...

There.

A MAN (20, Eritrean) emerges from a nearby gully. Wary, he
scans the sweep of dunes behind him. Looks straight at
Setareh, screened only by long grass in the dusk.

She freezes - holds her breath.

He steps onto the sand, an unwieldy fuel container strapped
to his back. Beckons into the dunes.

Another MAN (20s, Eritrean) emerges, lugging an outboard
motor. Together they SPRINT seaward.

Behind them FOUR MEN (20s-30s, Eritrean, Nigerian), race from
the dunes, a large inflated dinghy slung between them.

Setareh launches herself out of hiding - chases them onto...

THE BEACH

She POUNDS across rock and sand towards the dinghy.A rocky beach at dusk - grey sky, grey sea. Rollers break over boulders.
Text: No GHOSTS TONIGHT / How far will you go to get back home?
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It’s time for a #firstpagefriday today I’m showing off my feature TO HELL WITH LOVE “When a grieving teenager descends into Hell to rescue his lost love, he must navigate a nightmarish underworld filled with grotesque horrors and deceptive allies in one day or else he is stuck there forever.”
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Our proof-of-concept short horror film WITH YOUR LIFE is out now! This is a slasher about generational trauma by way of domestic violence. The story follows Luisa as she risks everything to escape her husband’s family farm with her baby daughter. youtu.be/nCLYjtPsIVg?... #horror #halloween #film
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"With Your Life" | Horror Short Film
YouTube video by Freakish Films
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Hey everyone! I’m directing this WEREWOLF horror short for Keeshan Giles (Grey’s Anatomy, New Girl, The Office) called HUNTERS! It’s on Kickstarter right now! Pledge and share! Please and thank you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/168...
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HUNTERS: A Werewolf Short Horror Film
A horror short about werewolves stalking the Bronx
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy #firstpagefriday! HUNGER MOON: After her father is bitten and begins transforming into a werewolf, a determined young daughter battles to keep their family afloat, running the food cart by day and chaining the monster in their basement by night.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
First Page Friday! WHAT REMAINS Logline: After the sudden death of her husband, a grieving woman retreats to his childhood home, where she begins communicating with what she believes is his ghost, only to spiral into obsession. It’s The Babadook meets The Hunger with some Under the Skin.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I had to share my Air Bud Returns pitch! substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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My Pitch For AIR BUD RETURNS
Four paws. One goal. No mercy.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
QUETZALCOATL #3 is out now! The storm hits, Herminia fights back, & a golden luchador conjures a sacred wrestling ring in a soup kitchen. No big deal. Digital is live. Physical copies available for preorder now. This is our most WILD issue yet. www.quetzalcoatlcomic.com #indiecomicsc #COMICS
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Quetzalcoatl Digital Bundle Sale! Issues 1, 2, 3
Included in this sale: Issue #1 Digital Issue #2 Digital! Issue #3 Digital All 3 for $5!
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Do I know any filmmakers who need a pitch deck made? I make pitch decks for producers/financiers covering a variety of genres! Hit me up! #screenwriting #filmmmaking #writing
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
First Trailer in 7 days…
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Ever wanted to write comics? Let me break it down for you using my comic Quetzalcoatl as an example. open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Mastering the Five-Issue Comic Arc
Structuring Your Comic Series for Maximum Impact
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Baby’s first Deadline?! Announcement time! I’ve been chosen as part of an amazing group of people for the Disability Belongs Entertainment Lab! It’s an honor! I can’t wait to see what the future of this lab! Included in the announcement is my first mention in Deadline!! deadline.com/2025/05/disa...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Baby’s first Deadline?! Announcement time! I’ve been chosen as part of an amazing group of people for the Disability Belongs Entertainment Lab! It’s an honor! I can’t wait to see what the future of this lab! Included in the announcement is my first mention in Deadline!! deadline.com/2025/05/disa...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The only thing I love more than horror are Horror VHS Covers! What are your favorite? open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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A Love Letter to Horror VHS Covers
I was maybe eight, walking through Hollywood Video with my dad, trailing my fingers along the plastic cases like I was summoning something.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The only thing I love more than horror are Horror VHS Covers! What are your favorite? open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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A Love Letter to Horror VHS Covers
I was maybe eight, walking through Hollywood Video with my dad, trailing my fingers along the plastic cases like I was summoning something.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Was pretty vulnerable with this one about my insecurities regarding filmmaking and my disability. So let me know what you think and if it helped! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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The Set That Saved Me
On making horror, living with epilepsy, and finding my way back
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Horror has always been like that. macabremartinez.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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There Is No Such Thing as “Prestige Horror”: The Genre Has Always Been Elevated
a rant.
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Phoenix Black @phoenixblack.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#specscriptshoutout for MIGRANT SPIRITS by @macabremartinez.bsky.social that brings the horror of child detention centres to the horror genre. Hope it finds a place with the Neon and A24s of the industry
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Announcing our next project! We will be in production on a feature film starting in May called CITY OF ANGELS starring Amy Cassandra Martinez and Daniele Quinn.
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Part 2 of my ABBOTT ELEMENTARY Spec Script is out! I got a huge response for the last Part! Excited to continue the story with everyone! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Abbott Elementary Spec Script Part 2
I wrote an Abbott spec script titled "YOUNG AUTHORS' CONFERENCE"
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So happy to finally share my Abbott Elementary spec script with y’all!! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Scary or Gross?
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What Makes a Horror Movie Feel Scary vs. Just Being Gross?
Or Why I Don't Like The Terrifier Series
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fear, Misconceptions, and horror done right! I need to know what everyone thinks of Freaks! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Let's Talk About Tod Browning's FREAKS
And Why It Matters
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s Mad Monsters Mondays! This is a short story about Mummies! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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SUBJECT
A story from my book Mad Monsters
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What happens when ghosts are a form of resistance? Magical realism in Latin American cinema is more powerful than you think. open.substack.com/pub/macabrem... #LatinxStorytelling #FilmMagic
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Magical Realism in Latin American Cinema
How It Took Over and Where It's Headed Next
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I am honored to be a part of the Latino Indie Comic Community! It’s an important space and I wanted to write about it as well as put a spotlight on some of the creators! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Latinidad in Indie Comics: More Than Just Representation
In the evolving landscape of independent comics, Latinx creators are not only advocating for representation but are also redefining genres, diversifying narratives, and enriching the cultural tapestry...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tell me this Val Kilmer thing is a bad joke
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A two-part poem about loneliness, love and the dangers changing for other people open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Shape / Shifter
2-Part Horror Poem
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Indie authors/comic creators of Bluesky! Who wants to trade Amazon reviews? Let’s SUPPORT each other!
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We’ve got reviews! Check out our issues on Amazon and drop us a review! Issue #1: a.co/d/3qemQFC Issue #2: a.co/d/5JximqN #comics #latino
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Let’s talk about Men Writing Women. But make it ✨cinema✨ open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Can Men Write Good Female Characters?
A Deep Dive into Empathy, Authenticity, and the Craft of Storytelling
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We’ve got reviews! Check out our issues on Amazon and drop us a review! Issue #1: a.co/d/3qemQFC Issue #2: a.co/d/5JximqN #comics #latino
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We didn’t have a publisher. We had a dream, a script, a phenomenal artist, and a community. Crowdfunding gave us the power to bring that story to life. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Crowdfunding Is the New Gatekeeper—and That’s Not a Bad Thing
Using my Indie Comic Quetzalcoatl as a Case Study
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Poetry about monsters mixed with social issues?! Let’s go! open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Cabra
8th Mad Monsters Poem
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Sundays we post pur comics! Working on a comic? Post it below! www.quetzalcoatlcomic.com
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Filmmakers/Writers/Artists of Los Angeles chime in! How do you feel about this? open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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Why Are So Many Los Angeles Meetups at Bars? And What We Can Do Differently
Thanks for reading!
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Calling all disabled writers/creators/artists/directors/authors who want to join and meet other creatives in the entertainment industry! The Disabled Artists Collective is having its March Meeting today! Sign up to our group for a meeting link! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Calling all disabled writers/creators/artists/directors/authors who want to join and meet other creatives in the entertainment industry! The Disabled Artists Collective is having its March Meeting today! Sign up to our group for a meeting link! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Disabled Artist Group Sign Up Sheet
Disabled Artists Group | Entertainment Industry Building a community for disabled artists to collaborate, share resources, & amplify each other's voices. Join us in celebrating talent and creativity! ...
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Miguel Martinez @macabremartinez.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Ever heard of a cursed film set? When I made Lechuza, I wasn’t taking any chances. From salt jars to protection bracelets, here’s how I kept my cast and crew safe while filming the supernatural, and how you can too. open.substack.com/pub/macabrem...
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