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From Bullying to Blood: Crafting a Modern Slasher Icon

Step into a late-night conversation where two friends-turned-filmmakers unpack how a quiet, bullied teenager became the centerpiece of a fiercely original horror film. On this episode, Cinema Yugen welcomes back Quinton “Q” Macari and his co-director and writer Nat Brehmer to tell the story of Julie: a movie born from a decade of obsession, shot in just eleven relentless days, and polished into something both beautiful and terrifying. We follow the narrative like one of the film’s campfire bookends—opening with the sparks of an idea developed over years of pre-production, moving through the…

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