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Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece

For Halloween, we’re reposting our 2024 episode The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece.Today’s horror movies owe a debt to the Ancient Greeks, whose vengeful wraiths, protective spirits, and restless dead summoned to serve the living influenced art, literature, music and our fear of things that go bump in the night.

Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Pamela Diotes Wood
Hephaestus: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Hephaestos: Mighty lord of fire and metalwork, inventor and metal-smith of the gods. Cheated on, rejected, and ridiculed, like a country music anti-hero, he keeps looking for love in all the wrong places.

Hephaestus: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Pamela Diotes Wood
When Things Get Phríke: The Furies

When the Underworld goddesses of vengeance are invoked, nothing will stop them. Then things get Phríke: Tales and terrors of the Erinyes, hounding heroes to their doom.

When Things Get Phríke: The Furies
Pamela Diotes Wood
Greek Gods & Filmmaking with Laurie Criego

Independent filmmaker Laurie Criego talks about her first feature length film, screenwriting, Greek gods, the environment and having hope in difficult times.

Beach Entertainment Productions

Mother Nature & the Doomsday Prepper trailer

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Greek Gods & Filmmaking with Laurie Criego
Pamela Diotes Wood
Orpheus and Eurydice

A tragic tale of a love lost, and one man’s heroic effort to use the only weapon he has to persuade the Lord of Death to give her back: his music.

Orpheus and Eurydice
Pamela Diotes Wood