Please nominate Sandwich of Terror for the 2010 Streamy Awards! Thank you.

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Escape Pod Films has won 3 Channy Awards at last night's ceremony.

• Best Production Design - Sandwich of Terror
• Best Actor - Chris Prine
• Best Director - Jeremy Westphal

Our pal, Rob Lathan, hosted this great night, which was full of singing, dancing, and yuks galore! Congrats to all the other winners and losers nominees!

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Here's a crapload of pictures from Sandwich of Terror Episode 4! For the first time, every shoot was photo-documented. Even though we were ingloriously cancelled at Channel 101: NY, we're all really proud of this one. It was a fun and challenging episode to make!

I appeared multiple times at the same time on screen in "The Life And Time Travel of Dr. Barnabus Perriwinkle." How'd we do it? Well, after watching "Multiplicity" a dozen times...we decided to use numerous split screens (or "halfsies" as they're called in the biz). Both Chris and Jeremy acted as my stand-ins so I could react to myselves (goddamn prima donnas!).

In this bottom picture, Chris is playing "TOM2." Later on, we'll overlay myself as "TOM2" but remove half of the--uhhh, this is really boring to explain...we used magic! We got ourselves a "production wizard" named Hank and he waved his arms and exclaimed "Wizardly Wiz Ta-zam!" and the effect was achieved. (I love that fucking wizard.)

Here's ace DP Josh Wolitzky and our director Jeremy Westphal either A) framing a shot or B) silently mulling dinner options. (UPDATED!! Jeremy was actually consuming his own hand to get Josh's attention...It didn't work.)

Mr. Greg Erskine whipped up these awesome "Important President" prop beers. They're so regal looking! And chock full of barley, hops, and Van Buren!
We had a large cast and crew for "Any Witch Way You Can" (FUN FACT!! If you look closely you can spot "Clyde the Orangutan" in the background of this story). This was our first big night shoot and you'd never believe how we did it...lights! After blindly fumbling and groping around in the dark for a few hours, we decided to try using lights while shooting. And boy, did they ever work! Yup. They really shed some light on the subject! (FUN FACT!! This is an inside production joke because movie lights are commonly stored in sheds.)

In this bottom picture Phil Pinto is holding something rectangular, Autumn Clark has her hand up for some reason, and Christopher Ford and I are looking up. This is how movies are made.

Here's Autumn in her awesome witch make-up that she put on herself. She played both "Sharon" and the witch to best illustrate the introspective duality that one encounters in life. Also, the other lady actress (or "lactress" as they're called in the biz) never showed up, so Autumn had to do both parts.

Eric Stoltz from "Mask" and Bill Clinton made a surprise set visit.

Rob Lathan (aka "Hard Hat" from Mister Glasses) was nice enough to help us in starring in our 1980s set PSAs. In writing the episode, we wanted to come up with some really lame and ill-conceived PSAs geared towards kids. And we've always enjoyed writing characters that love sports, but don't understand them at all, so that's why the "messages" make little to no sense.

It was a super hot day when we shot in McCarron Park. That's why I'm so disoriented and trying to get audio from a Twix wrapper (off-screen) instead of Rob.

(FUN FACT!! Jeremy is using a "camera tripod" in this picture. Scientists and film historians still have no idea what it's precisely used for, but they've theorized that one possible use is drying on-set laundry).

He took my water.

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A tale of time travel and a story of a very rational fear!

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Sandwich of Terror episode 4 premieres tonight at Channel 101 NY! A bunch of other awesome shows will screen as well!

It's all going down at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.) Doors at 8pm.

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NewTeeVee's Liz Shannon Miller reviews Sandwich of Terror!

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Sandwich of Terror episode 3 is now online and in your face! It placed first in last night's Channel 101 NY screening! Go us!

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Hello, Sandwich Enthusiasts! Just wanted to post a few behind the scenes pictures.

Sandwich of Terror began as an idea Chris and I had sometime around the second episode of Scissor Cop. We both loved the cheesiness of "Tales from the Darkside" and wanted to do something that was easy to shoot, as well as being a bit more geared towards our sketch comedy background. It's also a nice challenge to create two completely different "stories" in the span of five minutes...and have weird little WXZT station promos in between.







Yours in Sandwiches,
Tom

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Mark your calendars and set your watches! The 3rd episode of Sandwich of Terror premieres on Wednesday, April 1st (this ain't no joke). Once again it's a part of the monthly Channel 101 NY screening at the fabulous 92YTribeca.

Wed, April 1, 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.) 8:30pm, $5

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The second episode of Sandwich of Terror debuted at Channel 101 NY last night! It took second place with 111 votes. This very special episode stars Jon Golbe, Jess Lane, Shek Baker, Caitlin Norton, Josh Hartsoe, Autumn Clark, Will Hines, Chris Prine, and Tom Silvestro. Quit reading about it and watch it!

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The second episode of Sandwich of Terror will debut next week at the Channel 101 NY screening at 92YTribeca! If you're in the area, go watch and vote for us! This episode has 2 all new stories, with some great special guests! The web premiere will follow shortly thereafter.

Wed., Mar 4 at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.) 8:30pm, $5

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BROOKLYN, NY -- February 11, 2009 -- Hot off the heals of their hugely popular web series Scissor Cop, Escape Pod Films is set to debut a new web series, Sandwich of Terror. The show is a parody of horror anthology programs that skewers the usual sci-fi/horror subjects. It was picked up by Channel 101 NY and aired as part of the February screening at 92YTribeca in New York.

Sandwich of Terror is a love letter to all the wonderfully cheesy horror anthology shows the Escape Pod Films team grew up on, including Tales from the Darkside, The Twilight Zone, and Tales from the Crypt. The show will subvert classic horror/sci-fi tropes such as aliens, time travel, ghosts, vampires, and the devil to create a twisty and fast paced web comedy series. How fast paced? Each five minute episode will contain one or two horror stories in addition to brief local TV commercial parodies. This is all designed to give it the feel of watching early syndication television.

The first episode begins with a story about a ham radio user who learns something surprising from his fellow ham radio enthusiast in "The Frequency of Fear." In the second story, two roommates search for the source of a mysterious odor in "The Stinkening." Sandwich of Terror is now available at Escape Pod Films (http://escapepodfilms.com/video.asp?videoid=427&title=sandwich-of-terror-episode-1) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGz2CjaV_mw).

Escape Pod Films is a Brooklyn based filmmaking organization that launched in the fall of 2007. In addition to web series, the group has produced a number of high quality short films and sketches. All seven episodes of our web series Scissor Cop can be found at http://escapepodfilms.com as well as http://www.youtube.com/EscapePodFilms.

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Tomorrow night, Wednesday, February 4th at Channel 101 NY: the finale of Scissor Cop, and the debut of our new show, Sandwich of Terror. We have a few other surprises in store. Also, our buddies at the Big Honkin' have been working hard on the finale of Defenders of Stan! Rory and Craig will have a pilot debuting as well! It's gonna be a jam packed evening! 10 great shows!

In Manhattan. 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St.) Only $5!

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