RZA, Ernest Dickerson, David Moreau, and Renee Zhan on V/H/S Mixtape, Killer Puppets, and Sampling Death Itself: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms The V/H/S franchise has spent years finding increasingly inventive ways to make audiences regret pressing play, but V/H/S/Mixtape takes the concept somewhere particularly twisted: What if the soundtrack itself could kill you? The latest installment in the found-footage horror series, streaming on Shudder, recruits four filmmakers with wildly different backgrounds to explore the uglier possibilities of music and sound. Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA, Ernest Dickerson (Juice, Bones), French filmmaker David Moreau (Them, Seuls), and animator Renee Zhan (O Black Hole!, Soft Animals) spoke with Kyle Meredith about their contributions to the anthology, which range from murderous puppets and extraterrestrial musical warfare to a recording studio where the ultimate sample requires an actual body count. With GWAR providing the connective tissue between segments in a demented approximation of late-night MTV, the whole thing plays like a particularly disturbed video-store discovery. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. For RZA, whose segment “Deaf Tone” follows a young sound engineer attempting to create the ultim...