Sep 25, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
https://linktr.ee/_red_river_podcast This week I got to talk to producer, musician, and now movie director Jesse Korman. His new movie "Yellow Eyes" is available now on https://explore.screambox.com/…
Jesse KormanGuestSamHostWhat are some movies that influenced you? Yeah.
on like their direction side or things that just kind of like made you, you know, made you kind of want to step into this universe.
Um, I mean, I, I, I feel just because of how many interviews I've been sort of doing about this, it's just funny to like to think back on it because I don't think I really gave much appreciation to the side of things, but you know, I just remember some of my earliest memories of, um, being like, uh, 11 years old in Jersey city and me and my cousin, we would go to the to the video store, and we would rent Faces of Death, every single volume that they had.
Let me just cut you off one second.
Here's the funniest thing, right? I feel like we're just going back, maybe because we're both in bands.
My band has only made two t-shirts, well, maybe three, in our whole existence.
And one of them is, well, they're both obscure movies.
One's a movie called Midnight Madness, which no one remembers.
That's what we made.
But Faces of Death was a big one and Stephen King's It and a lot of early Cronenberg stuff.
For me, and then as I got a little bit Just a couple years older, I really just got into all the other kinds of Tim Burton-style movies, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, stuff like that, and saw a bit more of a fantastical side, which made me see how...
i guess all the art elements married together whereas like i feel like the movies i was just talking about they're very specific to like a horror they're very specific to what that like aggressive that more um uh i guess more um just abrasive side is you know um i mean even the fly you know it's just very it's like very shocking but i feel like the early, some of the, like the Edward Scissorhands, stuff like that.
To me, what that brought was imagination and they sort of had all these characters and color palettes and music and they had Danny Elfman and they had all these things sort of just get married together.
So, so to me, the marriage of all of that was really like, The truest inspiration, I mean, Pee Wee Herman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
It may not be the most fucked up Faces of Death movie, but it truly – the definition of inspired me.
What are some movies that influenced you? Yeah.
on like their direction side or things that just kind of like made you, you know, made you kind of want to step into this universe.
Um, I mean, I, I, I feel just because of how many interviews I've been sort of doing about this, it's just funny to like to think back on it because I don't think I really gave much appreciation to the side of things, but you know, I just remember some of my earliest memories of, um, being like, uh, 11 years old in Jersey city and me and my cousin, we would go to the to the video store, and we would rent Faces of Death, every single volume that they had.
Let me just cut you off one second.
Here's the funniest thing, right? I feel like we're just going back, maybe because we're both in bands.
My band has only made two t-shirts, well, maybe three, in our whole existence.
And one of them is, well, they're both obscure movies.
One's a movie called Midnight Madness, which no one remembers.
That's what we made.
But Faces of Death was a big one and Stephen King's It and a lot of early Cronenberg stuff.
For me, and then as I got a little bit Just a couple years older, I really just got into all the other kinds of Tim Burton-style movies, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, stuff like that, and saw a bit more of a fantastical side, which made me see how...
i guess all the art elements married together whereas like i feel like the movies i was just talking about they're very specific to like a horror they're very specific to what that like aggressive that more um uh i guess more um just abrasive side is you know um i mean even the fly you know it's just very it's like very shocking but i feel like the early, some of the, like the Edward Scissorhands, stuff like that.
To me, what that brought was imagination and they sort of had all these characters and color palettes and music and they had Danny Elfman and they had all these things sort of just get married together.
So, so to me, the marriage of all of that was really like, The truest inspiration, I mean, Pee Wee Herman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
It may not be the most fucked up Faces of Death movie, but it truly – the definition of inspired me.
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