In this episode, Matt sits down with Director Bruce Wempleto break down his new haunted house horror film Capture, out now on VOD from Uncork’d Entertainment. They dig into the on-set glitch that inspired the film, the year-long hunt for a 1995 Sony mini-DV camcorder, and the early 2000’s J-horror DNA buried in every frame.
FILM DISCUSSED:
Capture (2026), directed by Bruce Wemple, starring Kaitlyn Lunardi, Cedric Gegel, and Chris Cimperman. a lifelong orphan inherits her parents’ abandoned house and finds a cursed camcorder and a box of Mini DV tapes hiding the gruesome truth about her family’s past.
CRAFT & GEAR COVERED:
Outline-first writing process, locking down the perfect upstate New York location, casting Kaitlyn Lunardi in dual roles, run-and-gun shooting at the empty train station, using a cursed 1995 Sony camcorder (and burning it at wrap), shooting on a Red Komodo at full-frame 6K with a Metabones speed booster, using DZO Vespid primes and Canon FD vintage glass, lighting with Aputure 300D/600D units and Quasar tubes, and removing the exposition scene in the edit.
INFLUENCES & COMPARISONS:
Sinister, The Ring, Dark Water, Pulse, The Beyond, The Blair Witch Project, The Conjuring, The Innocents, The Haunting (1963), The Woman in Black (2012), 13 Ghosts, Annabelle: Creation, Evil Dead 2, Halloween, Psycho.
BRUCE WEMPLE'S OTHER FILMS:
Lake Artifact, Monstrous, Wendigo, Dawn of the Beast, The Hangman, The North Witch, The Retreat.
WATCH CAPTURE (2026):
- Amazon
- Apple TV
- Roku
Episode captioned on YouTube - https://youtu.be/e2FMJsaHdl0
Distributed by Uncork'd Entertainment.
Follow Bruce Wemple: https://www.instagram.com/brucewemple/
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