Steven Kostanski

And especially... you know, when it's people whose work that you admire.

So a couple of weeks ago, uh, you would have heard our episode with Steve Kostanski, which was the dancers four and five super cut episode.

And you know, to, to be talking to Steven Kostanski about, um, uh being a video store kid and about the stuff that led to him being someone who followed through in his dream of that thing i'm sure we all had when we were young which was like i love these puppets i love these monsters i love these makeup effects and i i wanna That's what I want to do when I get older.

That was definitely the feeling I had when I first got into horror.

Yeah.

Steven Kostanski is a filmmaker in, um, in Toronto, Winnipeg based filmmaker.

Um, yeah.

Who crazy VFX of crazy, uh, physical effects artists, like, uh, unbelievable stuff.

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when you're gonna get a Lovecraft adaptation, it's like there's times when, you know, some of the practicality of this to, you know, shout out to a recent, uh, guest and friend of the show, Stephen Kostanski, for something like The Void.

Yeah.

You know? Like, that's-

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Steven Kostanski does some of the puppet work here.

Uh, Mason Newton DeRushy is the guy who wrote and directed this thing and also did a lot of the puppetry kind of creation.

Um, This is basically like a Conan meets Team America type of situation where a group of warriors gets sucked into an underworld and they have to fight their way out.

No one's gonna be able to do what he did.

The closest thing anyone's ever done to Lucio Fulci has been Steven fucking Kostanski in that last scene in The Void, which I still stand by.

I don't know, I have to go back and listen to our, our episode with him 'cause I don't know if I asked him about that, if he got that from The Beyond because that's like the, a scene from The Beyond.

But I tell you, I, I hit him up on Instagram-

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... 'cause he posted about, he posted basically like, "Why the fuck are they remaking this movie?" Um, because he's Steven Kostanski, and he might be my spirit animal.

And, uh, I responded to him.

I told him, I said, "Hey," like I told my friend, "that the only thing that I'd be okay with is if Steven Kostans- Kostanski is the one to actually, um, is to actually direct it." And, and Kostanski responded to me and he goes, "I'd rather just make an original movie that carries on the Fulci spirit."

Then the cherry on the top of this collection is the new Deathstalker film from 2025, and that is spine number 665.

After a lengthy hiatus, Deathstalker returned to the big screen in 2025 with a brand new take on the classic franchise from writer-director Steven Kostanski, who also directed The Void.

It stars Daniel Bernhardt, uh, who was in John Wick, Cristina O- Oyaro, Paul Lazenby, who was in Deadpool, and Patton Oswalt, who was in Magnolia.

A powerful swordsman known as Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield.

Marked by dark magic and haunted by monstrous assassins, he must face the rising evil and break the curse.

Special features and technical specs include disc five, which is the 4K UHD 2160P ultra high definition presentation on 4K UHD, Dolby Vision.

Uh, an audio commentary by writer-director Steven Kostanski and actor Daniel Bernhardt.

We have an- another audio commentary by writer-director Steven Kostanski and the director of photography Andrew Appell, and editor Robert Highland.

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Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, friend of the show.

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So, um-

Um, I, I have been excited to see this movie for a while.

I, I saw it for the first time just the other day, but I've been wanting to see it since I first heard it came out because, uh, this is a production by Steven Kostanski, who is one of the guys known from Astron-6, who put out one of my favorite, uh, independent movies ever, Father's Day.

Uh, Jordan, did I ever make you watch Father's Day?

Thankfully, no.

The first film, uh, was one of the worst things I've ever seen, and then I loved the second fim- film, uh, Father's Day, so much that I bought a full, uh, Blu- Blu-ray release of it well before I even owned a Blu-ray player.

[laughs] Um, so what...

The, the father in this film, that is actually Steven Kostanski.

He was the lead character in Father's Day as well.