Etch
@etchfilm.bsky.social
We are Etch. An independent finance, production and distribution house putting the dark magic back in to moving images.
🎬 NOW STREAMING: #FirstWordOnHorror
🎬 NOW STREAMING: #FirstWordOnHorror
The world ending is scary.
The world ending when you have kids? Terrifying.
@paultremblay.bsky.social opens up about how becoming a parent changed the way he writes fear — because now, the stakes are real.
The world ending when you have kids? Terrifying.
@paultremblay.bsky.social opens up about how becoming a parent changed the way he writes fear — because now, the stakes are real.
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The world ending is scary.
The world ending when you have kids? Terrifying.
@paultremblay.bsky.social opens up about how becoming a parent changed the way he writes fear — because now, the stakes are real.
The world ending when you have kids? Terrifying.
@paultremblay.bsky.social opens up about how becoming a parent changed the way he writes fear — because now, the stakes are real.
What does fear sound like?
Composer Peter Scartabello takes us behind the score of FIRST WORD ON HORROR — the strange instruments, warped strings, and unsettling beauty that pull you into the dark.
Composer Peter Scartabello takes us behind the score of FIRST WORD ON HORROR — the strange instruments, warped strings, and unsettling beauty that pull you into the dark.
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What does fear sound like?
Composer Peter Scartabello takes us behind the score of FIRST WORD ON HORROR — the strange instruments, warped strings, and unsettling beauty that pull you into the dark.
Composer Peter Scartabello takes us behind the score of FIRST WORD ON HORROR — the strange instruments, warped strings, and unsettling beauty that pull you into the dark.
Part 2 of our @sgj.bsky.social episodes have officially arrived — free on YouTube.
More fear. More craft. More SGJ doing what only he can do. A little something to go with your leftovers.
More fear. More craft. More SGJ doing what only he can do. A little something to go with your leftovers.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Part 2 of our @sgj.bsky.social episodes have officially arrived — free on YouTube.
More fear. More craft. More SGJ doing what only he can do. A little something to go with your leftovers.
More fear. More craft. More SGJ doing what only he can do. A little something to go with your leftovers.
Set the table, sharpen the knives, pass the mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving at Etch looks a little different.
One horror author. One villain. One final girl.
And you, clutching a casserole like your life depends on it.
👉 Drop your picks in the comments — bonus points for unhinged pairings.
One horror author. One villain. One final girl.
And you, clutching a casserole like your life depends on it.
👉 Drop your picks in the comments — bonus points for unhinged pairings.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Set the table, sharpen the knives, pass the mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving at Etch looks a little different.
One horror author. One villain. One final girl.
And you, clutching a casserole like your life depends on it.
👉 Drop your picks in the comments — bonus points for unhinged pairings.
One horror author. One villain. One final girl.
And you, clutching a casserole like your life depends on it.
👉 Drop your picks in the comments — bonus points for unhinged pairings.
Fear has a frequency.
In this week’s Etch Cast, composer Peter Scartabello breaks down how he creates the unsettling soundscapes behind The Spine of Night and First Word On Horror.
In this week’s Etch Cast, composer Peter Scartabello breaks down how he creates the unsettling soundscapes behind The Spine of Night and First Word On Horror.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Fear has a frequency.
In this week’s Etch Cast, composer Peter Scartabello breaks down how he creates the unsettling soundscapes behind The Spine of Night and First Word On Horror.
In this week’s Etch Cast, composer Peter Scartabello breaks down how he creates the unsettling soundscapes behind The Spine of Night and First Word On Horror.
ICYMI! This week on the ETCH CAST — Philip, Morgan, and special guest Joe Dwyer recap their favorite watches of the year — including the unhinged masterpiece known as THE GREASY STRANGLER.
A cult classic. A wild look. An experience you don’t forget.
A cult classic. A wild look. An experience you don’t forget.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
ICYMI! This week on the ETCH CAST — Philip, Morgan, and special guest Joe Dwyer recap their favorite watches of the year — including the unhinged masterpiece known as THE GREASY STRANGLER.
A cult classic. A wild look. An experience you don’t forget.
A cult classic. A wild look. An experience you don’t forget.
This is where the magic starts — before the edit, before the polish, in the moment a story takes its first breath.
Behind the camera, Mariana Enriquez is telling the kind of truths that slip under the skin and refuse to leave.
Behind the camera, Mariana Enriquez is telling the kind of truths that slip under the skin and refuse to leave.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is where the magic starts — before the edit, before the polish, in the moment a story takes its first breath.
Behind the camera, Mariana Enriquez is telling the kind of truths that slip under the skin and refuse to leave.
Behind the camera, Mariana Enriquez is telling the kind of truths that slip under the skin and refuse to leave.
Guilty pleasures? We’ve got ’em.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Guilty pleasures? We’ve got ’em.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Cheers to International Witches Day — a celebration of the powerful, the peculiar, and the ones who look great under moody lighting.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Cheers to International Witches Day — a celebration of the powerful, the peculiar, and the ones who look great under moody lighting.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
Dexter. The Godfather. A soundtrack of Volare and the faint hum of a meat slicer. Death is in the air. So is the smell of prosciutto and poor decisions.
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dexter. The Godfather. A soundtrack of Volare and the faint hum of a meat slicer. Death is in the air. So is the smell of prosciutto and poor decisions.
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
Europa Report doesn’t ask if we should explore — only what it’ll cost.
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Europa Report doesn’t ask if we should explore — only what it’ll cost.
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
Mariana Enriquez didn’t just write intense stories… she lived them. 😈
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Mariana Enriquez didn’t just write intense stories… she lived them. 😈
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
He’s back from the dead.
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
He’s back from the dead.
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Smart horror > dumb decisions.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Smart horror > dumb decisions.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
There’s something out there — waiting for the bus, watching the road, screaming back. 😱
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There’s something out there — waiting for the bus, watching the road, screaming back. 😱
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Ancient sorcery. Blood-soaked myth. Handcrafted rotoscope madness.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ancient sorcery. Blood-soaked myth. Handcrafted rotoscope madness.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
Every horror origin story has teeth.
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
October 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every horror origin story has teeth.
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
September 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.
ICYMI! This is the final chapter.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
September 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICYMI! This is the final chapter.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Think of this as your reading break.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Think of this as your reading break.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.