DEAD MEDIA

(US, 114 min, 2025)

A troubled young woman wants to relax by streaming an old horror movie. Her lonely Gen X uncle demands they watch it on DVD. But the disc is haunted, plunging them into a movie night that won’t die.

Director: Joseph Scrimshaw

Director Biography - Joseph Scrimshaw

Joseph Scrimshaw (originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, currently based in Los Angeles) is a filmmaker with experience in multiple mediums. His experimental comedy film, The Narrator starring Phil LaMarr, won the Silver Award for Best Experimental Short at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology. His 22 minute cosmic horror film, The Nightmare Adorable, has played 20 festivals, winning Best Short at the Bloody Mirror Festival. Joseph's written for Adult Swim’s fantasy comedy TV show, Tigtone, the movie-riffing group, RiffTrax, the scripted podcast, Getting On With James Urbaniak, and more. Joseph also co-hosts the hit Star Wars podcast, ForceCenter. As a comedian and actor, Joseph’s done the SF SketchFest, Jonathan Coulton’s JoCoCruise, multiple Fringe Festivals, pop culture conventions, and a commercial with the monkey from Friends. A true highlight of his varied career. In 2022, Joseph formed Strange Path Productions. The production company's name celebrates the long journey that led him to focus on filmmaking--an art form that incorporates many of the skills Joseph has honed as a producer, a theater artist, an actor, a comedian, and even that very expensive visual art degree that everyone said was a bad idea.