Phil McLaughlin
@philmclaughlin
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Husband, Father, Editor of Television (@FearTWD), Director of Television and Film, Director of Media for @Dark_Matter_Mag. He/Him.
Los Angeles, CA // Munster, IN
Joined January 2009
When your kids are selling popcorn with the cub scouts, you’re supposed to make a @StephenKing inspired video to help get the word out, right? Garner favor (and flavor) from He Who Walks Behind the Rows and support these horror-loving scouts!
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I made a shorrort film about siblings and bullying and occult surgery and as of today it's available to everyone. Watch TOAD BOY on YouTube via @WatchALTER!
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All right for @NicholasMoreano one of the good ones 1 lucky 🍀 winner 🏆 for a signed Tillman jersey #DaBears 🐻⬇️ To Enter: 1. Like & RT 2. Subscribe - https://t.co/0Gdeuyk5Bf 3. Winner Announced - Halftime 12/26
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Celebrating CARRIE’s 50th anniversary with a giveaway! Just Follow and RT to be eligible. I’ll pick one random winner this Sunday night.
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In Filmmaker Phillip J. McLaughlin’s (@philmclaughlin) simultaneously affecting & horrific TOAD BOY, Todd is different & the other kids at school have noticed. After an upsetting incident with several bullies the principal (Cliff Chamberlain(@ClffChmbrln)) discovers a disturbing
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Gotta cover The Guess Who @thecarm @GBraggsJr23 “This Flus, is smilin”
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What happens when you build a subdivision on an old cub scout campground?
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Just a little over a week away from Toad Boy’s world premiere at @ANightOfHorror in Sydney, Australia! It’s going to be a busy fall with even more announcements coming soon…
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#Abertoir2023 Short Film Competition The Hounds of Annwn - Beth B Hughes & Bryony Evans, UK The Old Young Crow - Liam LoPinto, Japan/Iran To the Marrow - Van Poynton, Ireland Toad Boy - Phillip J McLaughlin, USA 6/8
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Sometimes you move back to the midwest during a pandemic and make an absurdist horror film about misguided siblings and amphibian apochrypha. Sometimes. #toadboyfilm
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LINGHUN’s audiobook is now available on Audible!! 😭 If y’all are keen to listen to the amazing work that @NanWuReadsAloud and @youseethehat put in to bringing the book to life… 👀🫶🏼
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Thrilled to announce our shorrort film TOAD BOY is part of this year’s @ANightOfHorror program!
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I'm an editor and have been fortunate to work with some amazing people over the years. I also have a pun email address. Let's make something. https://t.co/4NQvOx2LyD
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Submitting to film festivals is a distillation of too many of my vices… spending money, gambling, and filmmaking. So naturally it’s my new favorite thing. #toadboyfilm
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.@flanaganfilm, the filmmaker behind some of the best horror of the last decade—especially the extraordinary Midnight Mass—tells @TalkScaredPod it would be a dream to adapt Michael McDowell’s Blackwater saga. I’d give up my career to PA on that project.
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Some friends and I made a short horror film called ‘Toad Boy.’ If you’d like to follow along as we submit to festivals and tease confusing images of midwestern schools and occult amphibian apocrypha, please do so on insta/gram, user: shorrorts.
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Buckle up! Here comes a long one! Don’t know who wrote, but it was passed along to me. This is the clearest rundown on why the DGA's deal regarding AI isn't even close to truly protecting us, particularly anyone who isn't at the very top of the food chain.
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📖 Don't miss a star-studded book launch event for @dark_matter_mag's #HauntedReels, an incredible anthology written by genre filmmakers, at #Fantasia2023! We will be presenting a live-read with many of the authors in attendance. More details to come. 👀
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Let's start with the wages and benefits. 5% increase in the 1st year, 4% 2nd year, 3.5% 3rd year. Sounds pretty good until you realize that according to multiple sources the US inflation rate will be approx. between 2.5 and 3% per year.
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