Oct 13, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
Something ancient is awakening beneath the badlands.Nasty Neal interviews Split Rock writer and director Ryan Glover on Without Your Head horror podcast about his new Canadian horror film starring…
Ryan GloverGuestNasty NealHost
I'm always interested in finding, like, kinda different ways into the types of stories that I like.
So I like possession movies, I like supernatural movies, but I like finding more, like, natural and, like, less, say, religious and, like, ways of into s- to get into stories.
And then I spent a while, like, thinking about what would be an interesting discipline of science for these people to be doing and encounter something.
And I really like the, like, nitty-gritty, day-to-day work of, like, these geologists out in the sun.
I like that because, um, you know, when you think possession, you do think, like, religion, and then science is y- you know, the antithesis of that in some ways.
But, um, if you're outside in nature and stuff, there's, like, a, a magic quality to that.
in possession movies, there's always the point where, uh, people are trying to, you know, fight with the idea that supernatural exists or not.
And I think as they go along, they kinda try these bigger and bigger experiments.
And, like, sort of what their job entails on a day-to-day basis kind of mirrors what they need to learn about this thing that they're encountering anyway.
Um, so yeah, like, kind of instead of the sorta, like, paranormal investigation you see in a lotta movies, we were able to, like, have these set pieces that are, like, based on the science that geologists actually do, um, like leveling surveys and refraction surveys, um, and things like that.
Now, did you have, like, this area in mind when you were writing it? Did you know, like, you'd have, um, access, you know, to, to, to, like, uh, the landscape?
I'm always interested in finding, like, kinda different ways into the types of stories that I like.
So I like possession movies, I like supernatural movies, but I like finding more, like, natural and, like, less, say, religious and, like, ways of into s- to get into stories.
And then I spent a while, like, thinking about what would be an interesting discipline of science for these people to be doing and encounter something.
And I really like the, like, nitty-gritty, day-to-day work of, like, these geologists out in the sun.
I like that because, um, you know, when you think possession, you do think, like, religion, and then science is y- you know, the antithesis of that in some ways.
But, um, if you're outside in nature and stuff, there's, like, a, a magic quality to that.
in possession movies, there's always the point where, uh, people are trying to, you know, fight with the idea that supernatural exists or not.
And I think as they go along, they kinda try these bigger and bigger experiments.
And, like, sort of what their job entails on a day-to-day basis kind of mirrors what they need to learn about this thing that they're encountering anyway.
Um, so yeah, like, kind of instead of the sorta, like, paranormal investigation you see in a lotta movies, we were able to, like, have these set pieces that are, like, based on the science that geologists actually do, um, like leveling surveys and refraction surveys, um, and things like that.
Now, did you have, like, this area in mind when you were writing it? Did you know, like, you'd have, um, access, you know, to, to, to, like, uh, the landscape?
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