Sasquatch, Slashers, And A Signed Skull

The best horror conversations start with a prop on the table. Ours begins with a skull covered in signatures and spirals into a fast, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt ride through Abominable, Victor Crowley, and the moments that turn midnight movies into lifelong obsessions. With Tiffany Shepis at Round Con 2025, we unpack the creature‑feature charm of Abominable, why its stacked cameos keep blindsiding us, and how a “Friday night sci‑fi” label hid a sharp, crowd‑pleasing thriller in plain sight.

From there, we head straight into the Hatchet universe. Tiffany shares what it felt like to get the secret Victor Crowley script and discover her scenes would carry real dramatic heft inside a franchise famous for gleeful gore. We revisit a Halloween pre‑screening that welded shock and nostalgia into a perfect theater memory, then step back to ask a bigger question: why does horror still default to female nudity while dodging male bodies? The answers aren’t tidy, but the conversation is honest, and it points to how the genre keeps evolving when filmmakers challenge the gaze and let character guide the heat.

Because no horror chat is complete without mythbusting, we get nerdy about scene logic—specifically, how water displacement might have saved a character from drowning—and spin that fix into a fearless sequel pitch. Imagine Victor Crowley as an accidental caretaker, raising a child born of tragedy, turning a slasher into a twisted study of grief, legacy, and survival. It’s part love letter, part thought experiment, and a reminder that cult films live on when fans and creators dream out loud together.

If creature features, practical effects, and franchise lore make your heart race, you’ll feel right at home. Hit play, trade us your favorite Abominable cameo, and tell us where you’d take the Hatchet saga next. Subscribe, share with a horror‑loving friend, and leave a review so we can keep digging up the cult gems you care about.

Chapters

• 0:00 Hello From Round Con 2025
• 0:24 Abominable Love And Cameos
• 0:56 Blu‑Ray Shoutouts And Influences
• 1:36 Victor Crowley Memories And Signatures
• 2:02 Graphic Scenes And The Nudity Debate
• 2:57 Tiffany’s Dramatic Hatchet Storyline
• 3:34 Logic Of The Drowning Scene
• 4:00 Pitching The Mutant Baby Sequel
• 4:35 Sign‑Off And Thanks

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:00

Awesome. Samfish the fist roll here for round con 2025 with Tiffany Sheffis. Hi from all the things Victor Crowley. Victory and Picard.

SPEAKER_00: 0:17

And Picard and about a hundred other movies.

SPEAKER_01: 0:20

Right, Tromeo and Juliet. Yeah, Abominable Film. Now Abominable is one of my I think it's totally underrated. It is a hundred percent sash watch movies.

SPEAKER_00: 0:31

Yes, yes. I agree.

SPEAKER_01: 0:33

Especially with all the cameos from everyone that's in it.

SPEAKER_00: 0:37

I actually forget how many people are using that movie until somebody brings it up again, and I'm like, oh my god, I forgot about Dean Wallace. Like, oh my god, I forgot about Rex Lindley.

SPEAKER_01: 0:46

Jeffrey Combs Emerson.

SPEAKER_00: 0:49

You really need to watch Abominable. It was a Friday night like sci-fi channel special. To date. My best guess.

SPEAKER_01: 0:58

Oh, yeah, one night switch and shit. Yes, and you combine on a special edition of Blu-ray. I'll just uh plug uh real quick um I I that was one of the main films that I would watch. And I was writing my own uh bottle of Snowbridge script. That Congo um and uh a couple other the big like Morphe Grey uh Bravo Ryan Shiffrin, the director, bravo good job classic film.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31

I promise we were not sponsored by Abominable to do this.

SPEAKER_01: 1:36

Or were we? Or with Victor Crowley, have to talk about that since I have the spawn of Victor. Check that out.

SPEAKER_00: 1:47

Right here.

SPEAKER_01: 1:48

Autographed by Tiffany, Kane Hotter, somebody else. Somebody else. Adam's Reen. Oh my you forgot the director, yeah. The writer-director, who I met and uh saw the pre-screening on a Halloween at the Thormont Hollywood Theater, several good couple Halloween shows, but uh I saw the original. Now what a came to to be that everyone sees exactly, and uh I would just say that Melissa Rose's guest scene is a lot more graphic.

SPEAKER_00: 2:23

How could that be?

SPEAKER_01: 2:25

Yeah, and uh, and then there's also the the big debate of how come we can see naked women but not naked men.

SPEAKER_00: 2:31

Something to think about. Something to think about. Why not more male names?

SPEAKER_01: 2:36

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00: 2:38

I mean, besides the fact that dudes are gross.

SPEAKER_01: 2:42

Uh debatable. Yeah, but it's yeah, yeah, it's true. It's true. We're gross. We're gross.

SPEAKER_00: 2:49

Uh but no, I'm really happy that we we were able to reconnect over this awesome skull signed by so many awesome people, Victor Crowley. Victor Crowley was such a fun movie made. I was so excited when Adam asked me to be a part of the Super Secret project. And I was like, oh my gosh, what is it? Please tell me it's a Victor Crowley. Please tell me, or please tell me it's a Hatchet movie. And then I got the script and said Victor Crowley. I'm like, what? And he was like, oh yeah, you're gonna be really surprised by your scenes because they're the most dramatic of any scene or death scene. Which they were in a hatchet franchise, and they definitely were, they were very sad, but I'll tell you, I don't think my character Casey's why when we're in the water, right? I drown, and then everybody runs to the other side because Victor Crowley's at the window. The water would have shifted away from my face. Yes, yes, I would have been able to breathe, but then they're outside later. I think Victor would have taken Casey, raised the baby.

SPEAKER_01: 3:53

There you go. There's a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of Daniel Harris hopefully will be back. Spoiler alert, she shows up at the very end, uh, ready to take on Victor Crowley again.

SPEAKER_00: 4:07

And maybe the mutant baby of Casey, because clearly it'll be mutant because you know, had a lot of problems in the water in the womb. Right, right. Victor will raise it as his own. And uh, I don't know, Casey she'll be there.

SPEAKER_01: 4:23

Very hell-tivised part two. Yeah, we might we've rewritten this, right? Yes, there you go. So Adam, Adam, there you go. There you go. Uh copyright uh fish pool and Tiffany Shepard. Yeah, there you go. You're welcome. You're welcome. Awesome. Tiffany, thank you so much for taking the time to swim in the bowl with me. Yes, went swimming. Now we're out. We need to swim. Talk to you next time. Both attack sharing just.