{"id":46889,"date":"2025-03-23T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46889"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:09:54","slug":"horror-creative-johnna-hodge-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/23\/horror-creative-johnna-hodge-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Creative Johnna Hodge Interview [Women in Horror Month 2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet horror creative Johnna Hodge:<\/p>\n

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To start, please introduce yourself:
\n<\/b>Hello Emilie\u00a0thank you so much for the interview.\u00a0My name is Johnna Hodge and I am an award winning actress, director, producer and filmmaker. My husband Sam Hodge and I own Cinesavage Films and we love making horror art with our films and want people to enjoy practical effects we present.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0love to go to the extremes and push the boundaries of violence\u00a0for our movies.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

What is horror to you, what makes a work of art one in the horror genre?<\/b><\/div>\n
I\u00a0have loved horror movies since I was a small child in the early eighties and grew up on having a passion for horror all my life.\u00a0I feel like horror is a true work of art where you have a vision for a\u00a0unique story and bring it to life with unique elements to make it terrifying and have\u00a0characters that come to life to the point where you\u00a0feel what the characters are going through as you see each scene. You have lots of work put into your effects and make blood so that it looks so terrifying with what is created. My husband, Sam Hodge, is a 4\u00a0time award winning effects maker and makes our own blood recipe\u00a0for our movies.\u00a0I think everything that you have a vision for and bring to life is an amazing art.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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What made you want to work in horror?<\/b><\/div>\n
I have loved Horror since a small child and I had a terrible past.\u00a0I love using my love for horror and using my past trauma to make my characters come to life.<\/div>\n
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Where do you get your inspiration?<\/b><\/div>\n
I feel my inspiration is all the wonderful horror movies I grew up with\u00a0and love and also my past life experiences have made me want to bring characters to life for the love of acting and making movies. It makes me happy to work and I hope to entertain people that love horror\u00a0so much.<\/div>\n
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What would you like your legacy to be in the genre (or elsewhere)?<\/b><\/div>\n
I have been in other features and short films in the past but Redhead is the creation we both\u00a0made together. Redhead\u00a0was the one that was so hard and challenging\u00a0because\u00a0I lost my pug, Puggles.\u00a0She was my daughter of\u00a014 years and passed away between filming scenes. Additionally,\u00a0I almost died from an intestinal rupture but survived and 2 weeks later went back to work. At that point,\u00a0I was driven\u00a0to not let anyone down that was in our film. We went on a festival run after the films big premiere in October of 2023. We won 10 awards\u00a0and received\u00a025 additional\u00a0nominations\u00a0for Redhead including 4 nominations for Best Actress.\u00a0I won Best Actress at Chicago Horror Film Festival May of 2024. We won Best Actress, Best Feature several times, and Best Effects several times. Redhead was our baby and now we have been filming Redhead 2: Deadhead and we are half finished. We take our time making our films so that we get our vision to what we imagined.<\/div>\n
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What is Women in Horror Month to you and why is it still important this many years later?<\/b><\/div>\n
I feel Women in Horror is a month to celebrate the achievements, accomplishments , successes and hard work that women put into making and acting in horror movies and all the love and energy with every effort they put into making legendary work for horror. Additionally female villains are something to celebrate as\u00a0there has been a growing\u00a0impact for them along with the fantastic final girls also.<\/div>\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?<\/b><\/div>\n
Marilyn Burns from Texas Chainsaw is a huge inspiration and wish she was still with us ,\u00a0Carolyne Williams from Texas Chainsaw 2 ,\u00a0Linnea Quigley from Return of the Living Dead , The whole cast of The Decent , Milla\u00a0Jovovich from The Fifth Element and Resident Evil movies, Sigourney Weaver from Alien movies, Shelley Duvall from The Shining , Linda Hamilton from The Terminator movies, Claire Higgins from Hellraiser movies and Elvira. \u00a0For attention to our field or others I feel I would like other female directors, actresses and filmmakers to see what we have done with our Redhead movies. Female directors are becoming far more common and bring something entirely fresh to the genre.<\/div>\n
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What are you currently working on that you can tell us about?<\/b><\/div>\n
Redhead is gradually hitting streaming platforms as we are working heavily on Redhead 2. Redhead II: Deadhead is, technically, far more involved with effects and the way shots are set up so we are taking our time.<\/div>\n
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Where can readers keep up with you?<\/b><\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1AQooG6nGh\/?mibextid=wwXIfr<\/a>
\nInstagram\u00a0@actressjohnnahodge<\/p>\n

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