In this episode, Matt sits down with director Bruce Wemple to break down his new haunted-house horror CAPTURE (2026), out now on VOD from Uncork'd Entertainment. They dig into the on-set glitch that inspired the film, the year-long hunt for a 1995 Sony mini-DV camcorder, and the early-2000s J-horror DNA buried in every frame.
FILM DISCUSSED:
Capture (2026), directed by Bruce Wemple, starring Kaitlyn Lunardi, Cedric Gegel, and Chris Cimperman. A lifelong orphan inherits her parents' abandoned house and finds a cursed camcorder and a box of mini-DV tapes hiding the gruesome truth about her family's past.
CRAFT & GEAR COVERED:
Outline-first writing process, locking down the perfect upstate New York location, casting Kaitlyn Lunardi in dual roles, run-and-gun shooting at the empty train station, the cursed 1995 Sony camcorder (and burning it at wrap), Red Komodo at full-frame 6K with the Metabones speed booster, DZO Vespid primes, Canon FD vintage glass, Aperture 300D/600D lighting, Quasar tubes, killing the exposition scene in the edit
INFLUENCES & COMPARISONS:
Sinister, The Ring, Dark Water, Pulse, The Beyond, The Blair Witch Project, The Conjuring, The Innocents, The Haunting (1963), The Woman in Black (2012), 13 Ghosts, Annabelle: Creation, Evil Dead 2, Halloween, Psycho
BRUCE WEMPLE'S OTHER FILMS:
Lake Artifact, Monstrous, Wendigo, Dawn of the Beast, The Hangman, The North Witch, The Retreat
WATCH CAPTURE (2026):
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Capture-Bruce-Wemple/dp/B0GK9TK1X2
- Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/capture/umc.cmc.659i765lhv23nzk4hvb804v3t
- Roku: https://www.roku.com/whats-on/movies/capture?id=7271e4325a9512d7706b31940099b03b
Distributed by Uncork'd Entertainment.
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