The Lights Went Out on Her Ouija Night | Sophia Louisa, The Wrecker
From The Séance · 01:35:25
Show by HorrorMeet
Sophia Louisa was nine when three girls, a brand-new Ouija board and a dark house changed how she felt about the thing for good: "all of a sudden everything got really quiet, and the lights went out." So when she sat down at The Séance she would not touch the board, and we did not ask her to. This one is different in another way too: the whole episode is animated, the three of us drawn at the table, lip-synced to the real conversation. New Séance every Tuesday at noon PT. Follow the show so you never miss one.The Séance, Episode 4: writer, producer and actress Sophia Louisa (@sophialouisalee), co-writer of The Wrecker (Tyrese Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Mena Suvari, Danny Trejo), sits down with Landon Brittain and Danny Alamary. Her new short, Much Too Vulgar, shot the day before and set on the Georgetown campus (and the word parabiosis). The night the lights went out. How The Wrecker got written and what survived to the screen. Ed Wood's pitch, Bela Lugosi's last footage and Vampira, fact-checked. Cannes and Yes She Cannes. The Exorcist and Eileen Dietz. Who really made The Terminator (Danny was right). The Matrix Reloaded's digital Neo (Danny was right again). Ghostbusters, Street Fighter and Raúl Juliá. From Dusk Till Dawn and the clerk who turned out to be John Hawkes. Curry Barker's Obsession and why the win is winning the people. A lightning round answered out loud, no board. And one piece of advice for anyone who wants to write their first horror script: just do it.Find your haunted places and horror filming locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4EVERY TUESDAY AT NOON PTWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUD4hbTDPgcUQE52_nzHCLAEp. 1 Jasmine Davis and Julio C. Martinez Valle (Killer Revenge): https://youtu.be/yf8ItD7DU5wEp. 2 Chris R. Notarile (Blinky Productions, Krueger: Tales from Elm Street): https://youtu.be/rjTOuRaV4o4Ep. 3 Manta Mystic (channeling an Egyptian goddess, live): https://youtu.be/a7JVRKuj65EApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-s%C3%A9ance/id6820220743Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7a5aa287-bb98-488c-b59d-2fe610a52942SOPHIA LOUISAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophialouisaleeThe Wrecker (2025, Quiver Distribution): on Fandango at Home and the usual rentalsSofi Stories: Off the Page, her showMENTIONED IN THE EPISODEThe Wrecker (2025), dir. Art Camacho, written by Sophia Louisa, Niko Foster and James Dean SimingtonPlan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Bride of the Monster (1955), Edward D. Wood Jr.Obsession (2025), written, directed and edited by Curry Barker (Focus Features)Street Fighter (2026), dir. Kitao Sakurai; Street Fighter (1994) with Raúl JuliáFrom Dusk Till Dawn (1996); King Straggler (John Hawkes, Rodney Eastman, Brentley Gore)Screamfest LA: https://screamfestla.comHORRORMEETJoin free: https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4The Atlas (haunted places and filming locations): https://horrormeet.com/?ref=seance4The Estate Sale (buy, sell, trade the macabre): https://horrormeet.com/market.htmlInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrormeetappHosts: Landon Brittain @landonxxl · Danny Alamary @ohidannyCHAPTERS0:00 Cold open: the Ouija night0:39 Welcome to The Séance10:17 The Ouija night17:32 The Wrecker22:40 Austin Powers, briefly26:02 Make your own stuff31:32 Ninety credits34:20 Ed Wood's pitch38:10 Festivals and Cannes41:44 The Exorcist43:35 The Other Tenant45:55 The Devil's Heist and a first lead50:14 Stunts52:54 AI on set60:44 The Asset: the motorcycle hit63:52 CGI, Rick Baker, Stan Winston67:02 Billion-dollar movies70:42 Reading scripts73:27 Street Fighter76:37 Lightning round79:55 Who pays for indie films84:15 Obsession89:14 Advice: just do it90:07 The Atlas and the sign-offThe picture is animated; the audio is the real recording. Fact checks on screen are sourced. Opinions about films and studios are the speakers' own.
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