We chat with John Reign and Joe Sabatino about their upcoming indie horror vampire film “Vampire Penance” which sounds unique and ambitious.
Enter THE CHAMBER for the first time in 2024 to meet award-winning filmmaker John Reign and producer/writer/actor Joe Sabatino to talk about Vampire Penance: The Atonement of John Wolf. We discuss vampire mythos, the new era of independent filmmaking and fundraising, making miniatures and models, serving as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s henchman in Batman & Robin, and other adventures from over 30 years of filmmaking each!
Vampire Penance is an upcoming film written and directed by John Reign. In the film, a tormented vampire’s quest for salvation challenges the boundaries of love, morality, and evil. It will be crowdfunding soon on Indiegogo, so make sure you go here to sign up for updates and the chance to get in on some incredible perks, like a part in the film or a free family adventure! Vampire Penance is being produced by Polestar Pictures, the production company Reign founded.
Joe Sabatino is a respected character actor with a huge body of work, and you definitely know his face. He’s done a ton of great television, some video game voiceover work, and been featured in some horror films, like The Ring, Hellborn, and Hellbent. He’s also a business leader, a television producer, a writer, and a successful public speaking and executive leadership coach. Learn more at https://www.joesabatino.com/.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Morbidly Beautiful presents a horror interview podcast hosted by Brodie Hubbard. You have entered The Chamber. A former video store clerk with a rabid love of horror, Hubbard is a writer living beneath the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. He is a scholar of cult faves, weird pop culture, and horror. In addition to hosting his interview podcast on the Morbidly Beautiful network, he also hosts the movie review and travelogue series VIDEO OF THE DAMNED on the Morbidly Beautiful YouTube channel.
Morbidly Beautiful presents a horror interview podcast hosted by Brodie Hubbard. You have entered The Chamber.
It’s The Chamber! It’s Video of the Damned! It’s Chamber of the Damned! A special two-for-one episode with your host Brodie Hubbard and extra special guest co-host Kolleen Carney Hoepfner from FANGORIA. It is also the final Chamber, as far as we know for now, but the first of a few 2025 Video of the Damned review specials at the mighty Morbidly Beautiful network. Let’s look back at the year in horror with this end of year / new year special review show of the Best and the Rest of horror in 2024. Thanks as always to Lil Boodang for contributing our theme song, “Itchin’ 4 The Blood.”




















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