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Back to Episodes"Horror with a Heartbeat: The Adams Family on MOTHER OF FLIES, Shudder, and Surviving Cancer"
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In this deeply moving episode of The Fixate & Binge Podcast, Joe Curdy sits down with filmmakers Toby Poser, John Adams — the creative force collectively known as the Adams Family — to discuss their haunting folk-horror film MOTHER OF FLIES, streaming on Shudder (via AMC+).
Filmed in the misty isolation of New York’s Catskill Mountains, MOTHER OF FLIES evokes an ancient, folk-horror sensibility rooted in landscape, ritual, and psychological unease. But what emerges in conversation is something even more powerful. Toby and John speak candidly about surviving cancer — and how that battle with mortality has shaped not only this film, but their body of work as a whole.
The film’s meditation on death, resilience, and transformation isn’t abstract — it’s personal. Joe and the Adams Family explore how horror can serve as both confrontation and catharsis, how independent filmmaking becomes an act of survival, and why facing darkness on screen can illuminate what matters most in life.
A conversation about art, family, fear — and the heartbeat that continues beneath it all.
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