{"id":1620,"date":"2021-01-29T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:42:38","slug":"a-chat-with-paranormal-farm-director-carl-medland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"A Chat with Paranormal Farm Director Carl Medland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I spoke to Carl Medland, writer and director of <em>The Spiritualist<\/em>, and the<em> Paranormal Farm<\/em> movies. Carl took time to chat with me about his films, about filmmaking, about his horror inspirations, and about the future of found footage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Carl, please follow him on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carlmedland\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carlmedland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlmedland\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlmedland\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. Watch his films, <em>The Spiritualist<\/em>, and <em>Paranormal Farm<\/em>, on Amazon Prime. For the full unedited version of this interview, please go to my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcSu1TqdcQBoUeyKREgsh9A\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcSu1TqdcQBoUeyKREgsh9A\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> page! 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