{"id":46763,"date":"2025-03-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2025-03-17T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:55:11","slug":"actress-and-filmmaker-toby-poser-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/actress-and-filmmaker-toby-poser-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress and Filmmaker Toby Poser Interview [Women in Horror Month 2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actress and filmmaker Toby Poser:<\/p>\n

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To start, please introduce yourself:<\/strong>
\nHey, I\u2019m\u00a0Toby<\/span>\u00a0Poser<\/span>.\u00a0 Thanks for including me in this celebration of Women in Horror Month!\u00a0 I make films with my family – we\u2019re collectively known as The Adams Family – and three of us are women.\u00a0 So shout-out to my daughters, Lulu and Zelda.\u00a0 Some of our features are The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams, Hell Hole, and the upcoming Mother of Flies.\u00a0 We also have a band called H6LLB6ND6R.<\/p>\n

What is horror to you, what makes a work of art one in the horror genre?<\/strong>
\nHorror is the great manipulator.\u00a0 It corrupts or spotlights reality.\u00a0 It fiddles with what we know and twists it to uncomfortable, new norms, or it forces us to confront truths we may not want to see, forcing us to open eyes – or bang them shut.\u00a0 Horror also makes a god of un-reality, of whatever doesn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 It is a playground for all our fears – those on the surface and subliminal, personal.\u00a0 Horror\u2019s circuitry is directly connected to our heart, its current pumped and personified by our pulse.\u00a0 I love that.<\/p>\n

For me, what makes a work of art in the horror genre is risk.\u00a0 How has a story subverted what I thought I knew; how has it gone to original and daring lengths to challenge my perceptions – and even more so, how has it challenged me to both love and hate a character?\u00a0 I love when a film uses horror as a clever device to reveal something about our world that is even\u00a0more\u00a0<\/i>terrifying than the film itself.<\/p>\n

What made you want to work in horror?<\/strong>
\nI love the safe playing field to explore through horror, in the way that nightmares are crucial templates to draft all our human, horrible possibilities in waking life – but we can wake up and go on living, perhaps having learned something essential.\u00a0 Also, horror is just FUN.\u00a0 Watching horror and making horror.\u00a0 Both fun.\u00a0 I honestly feel like horror through art is incredibly healthy.\u00a0 I feel lucky to say that I\u2019m a pretty happy human, and conjuring horrific stories and working with fake blood and devising brutal fictional scenarios offers welcome balance in my happy life.\u00a0 Fortunately, ny partner and kids feel the same way.\u00a0 We find a lot of glee in thinking very dark thoughts – and laugh a lot while doing so.<\/p>\n

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Where do you get your inspiration?<\/strong>
\nThere is usually an autobiographical current flowing through our films, so lots of familial issues or experiences inform our narratives.\u00a0 We are also very influenced by Nature.\u00a0 We live in the woods, and Nature is so generous when it comes to her brutality and her beauty.\u00a0 Thematically, we are always looking to the wilderness – floral and faunal – for cues.<\/p>\n

What would you like your legacy to be in the genre (or elsewhere)?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d like for my daughters and me to be recognized as members of a vast pool of creative women who made independent horror movies on their own terms, in cool, moving, and original ways.<\/p>\n

What is Women in Horror Month to you and why is it still important this many years later?<\/strong>
\nThe horror family is big and bodacious, and this month we acknowledge and celebrate all the hard working, imaginative, visionary, powerful women out there making killer films, books, mags, art, music, special effects, songs they howl at the moon and spells written in blood and buried in the dirt\u2026 all of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to continue and to escalate awareness of women\u2019s work in horror, because we are riding on each others\u2019 tailwinds.\u00a0 Acknowledgement (often overdue) of former work by women honors not only them but all of us as we hustle and generate art and claim our place in all creative spaces.<\/p>\n

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Who are some of the Women in Horror who you look up to and who do you want to bring attention to in your field or others?<\/strong>
\nThere are so many filmmakers and writers and artists I admire and learn from, but I\u2019d like to spew some love to the women\u00a0who love horror\u00a0<\/i>and support in other ways.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about the young women I\u2019ve met at cons who\u2019ve painted their own stark images on tees and said hello and asked questions about making their first film; the women who volunteer at film fests and make everything fun and smooth; the women (hello, Cinema Crazed) who keep the horror fires burning by writing about the medium and by asking all the good questions; the women podcasters; the women whose love for the genre is contagious, sharing their thoughts and opening their hearts on social media and whose generous confidence and enthusiasm in our work injects the same in our sometimes-doubtful hearts.\u00a0 I learn from them all – they\u2019re who we make movies for, and they remind us to keep chasing the hard work and the hard fun.<\/p>\n

What are you currently working on that you can tell us about?<\/strong>
\nMother of Flies is our new feature.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a dying young woman who seeks the help of a witchdoctor in the woods – a woman with a \u201cthorny\u201d past.<\/p>\n

Where can readers keep up with you?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nwww.wonderWheelProductions.com
\nInstagram:\u00a0 @adams.family.films
\nBlueSky:\u00a0 @AdamsFamFilms.bsky.social<\/p>\n

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