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True Crime Tuesday presents: Smile For The Cameras: Murder On A Movie Set w/Miranda Smith! Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night . But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind. Since her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has an express ticket back into Hollywood’s good graces. Weighed down by the secret she’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set—a cabin in rural Tennessee—to reunite with her castmates for the first time in more than a decade. But when the actors begin to meet the same gruesome fates as the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it’s clear their secret is out. Now, the question is: Can the final girl survive one last nightmare? On Today's TCT, Miranda Smith joins the show to talk about why we crave sequels from Hollywood so badly, Why certain things about "Behind The Scenes" grab our curious natures so hard and fast, we talk about the rich characters in the book and what makes the click, in the face of everything being so uncomfortable, and we get down and dirty with ho and why this slasher flick" on the page could easily translate to the silver screen, and how it was achieved! Get your copy of "Smile For The Cameras... " here: https://bit.ly/4egic3b PLUS DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/JESSICA FREEBURG! Watch the video of this lawyer having his worst day ever in front of a judge as he mistakenly calls her "honey"... https://bit.ly/3TJ8Jrv Check out Jessica Freeburg's website and order her new books: https://jessicafreeburg.com/books/ There are new and different (and really cool) items all the time in the Darkness Radio Online store at our website! . check out the Darkness Radio Store! https://www.darknessradioshow.com/store/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #mirandasmith #smileforthecameras #Anovel #gradnight #crimefiction #thriller #slashermovie #aries #leo #riley #cole #surpriseendings #kidnapping #assault #murder #Petra #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis #jessicafreeburg #paranormalauthor #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes #airplanecrimes #sexcrimes #honeylawyer