Oct 8, 2026 · 2 hr 40 min · 17 segments
Writer/director Mike Lombardo and assistant director/producer Pat Dougherty joins Without Your Head to talk DEAD FORMAT, VHS horror, video store nostalgia, and bringing his indie horror film to life.
Mike LombardoGuestNasty NealHostPat DoughertyGuest
Tara HutchisonHostTerrible TroyHostAnd so how far, uh, along are you? Like, uh, did you film, like, the majority of the movie?
Pat, you would know better than I. Um, what, like, 34 days somewhere like that?
So we ended up, because, because we did so well on our, on our initial Indiegogo, we went way, we went over our goal, which was awesome because what I did not anticipate was the, again, the scale of this project was so fucking enormous.
Like, who could have thought reading the script, like, the other producers were like, "You're absolutely insane.
Like, actually our, Samantha Koliasnik, one of our other producers, she said to me, she's, after we finished shooting, she said, "Literally, if anybody else would've given me this script, I would've said you're fucking insane.
But you're the only person I think who could ever pull this off." And at per- great personal expense [laughs] and mental health, it did.
But the, because we went over on the crowdfunder, that gave us the money to shoot the extra days we needed, so we were able to...
It actually breaks my heart because it was such a heartfelt, wonderful scene where the main character goes to...
Throughout the movie, you were gonna, originally gonna see all of these, like, in his house, so just Chinese food boxes everywhere-
And so how far, uh, along are you? Like, uh, did you film, like, the majority of the movie?
Pat, you would know better than I. Um, what, like, 34 days somewhere like that?
So we ended up, because, because we did so well on our, on our initial Indiegogo, we went way, we went over our goal, which was awesome because what I did not anticipate was the, again, the scale of this project was so fucking enormous.
Like, who could have thought reading the script, like, the other producers were like, "You're absolutely insane.
Like, actually our, Samantha Koliasnik, one of our other producers, she said to me, she's, after we finished shooting, she said, "Literally, if anybody else would've given me this script, I would've said you're fucking insane.
But you're the only person I think who could ever pull this off." And at per- great personal expense [laughs] and mental health, it did.
But the, because we went over on the crowdfunder, that gave us the money to shoot the extra days we needed, so we were able to...
It actually breaks my heart because it was such a heartfelt, wonderful scene where the main character goes to...
Throughout the movie, you were gonna, originally gonna see all of these, like, in his house, so just Chinese food boxes everywhere-
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