Lethal Voice Podcast is from indie filmmaker and writer Robert Christopher Smith. The show provides a deep dive into grindhouse storytelling, genre filmmaking, indie comic books, and dangerous ideas.
đ§ New listeners: Start with Episode Zero â âWhy Lethal Voice?â
Films include Vengeance Turns, SPREAD: Pigs to Slaughter, Karma Mechanic, and more.
Malibu Ranch & Big Bear (Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions Finale)
When you set sail to make an indie film, youâre the captain â and not everyone aboard makes it back. In this longest and most explosive chapter yet, I take you inside the final, brutal stretch of Vengeance Turns production â from the stunning exteriors of a Malibu horse ranch to the chaos of the last days in Big Bear. Horses, heat, exhaustion, broken rules, creative mutiny, and one unforgettable showdown that threatened to sink the ship⌠all before the ultimate wrap. Itâs the end of Chapter 3...
1 Oct 2025
KTown to Backyards in Gardena (Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions)
Directing a film requires vision â and then it requires managing an entire network of actors, crew, locations, animals, and much, much more in order to see that vision come to life. Iâm Robert Christopher Smith, and this is The Lethal Voice Podcast â my confessional where I dig deep and hold nothing back, revealing exactly what it took to bring Vengeance Turns from the page to the screen. Season One is called Turning to Vengeance, and tonightâs episode is âFrom KTown to Backyards in Gardena,â...
20 Sept 2025
Production HQ & The Greenscreen Room
Iâve been asked more than once â if anything can go wrong at any time when making a movie, why even make a plan? My answer is simple: I make the plan because anything can go wrong at any time. In this episode of the Lethal Voice Podcast, I take you inside the third installment of Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions â where our Gardena apartment doubled as headquarters, accommodations, and even a greenscreen studio for some of the wildest sequences in Vengeance Turns: Volume Two. Youâll hear me ta...
4 Sept 2025
48 Hour Telethon & The First Day (Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions)
A candid, high-stakes look at how a 48-hour livestream "telethon" jump-started Vengeance Turns during lockdown. ALSO -- casting wins, crowdfunding stress, day-one chaos, and the line between compromise and collapse. One of the most magicalâand painfulâtruths of filmmaking is that it only happens when a lot of artists pull together -- in the same direction. In this extra-long chapter of Turning to Vengeance, I am going deep on the lockdown era that pushed Vengeance Turns from...
25 Aug 2025
Cabin Fever Radio (Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions)
When the pandemic hit, filmmakers, actors, and dreamers everywhere faced the same question: would lockdown be wasted time, or could it be transformed into something new? For me, Robert Christopher Smith, the lockdown became a personal and professional crucible. From recovering after a brutal case of COVID to finding myself stalled on Vengeance Turns, I chose to use isolation as fuel. In this episode of The Lethal Voice Podcast, we open Chapter 3: Lockdown Productions with the story of Cabin F...
17 Aug 2025
Vengeance Turns: Volume Two Director's Commentary
Ready for revenge? This week, I continue taking you through the experience of shooting Vengeance Turns: Volume Two scene by scene as the story turns darker and Mia Falcone finally gets her revenge! You'll hear about how we executed out own stunts and the real-life horror of spending 19 hours on location. You'll also hear about the amazing child actors we worked with and if you want more information about that, check out this edition of the Lethal Voice Newsletter: https://lethal-voice.beehiiv...
11 Aug 2025
Vengeance Turns: Volume One Director's Commentary
Ever wonder what really goes on while filming an indie production? This week, I take you through Vengeance Turns: Volume One scene by scene, sharing the raw, unfiltered truth about what it took to make my first featureâfrom on-the-spot rewrites to on-the-set chaos, compromises to keep things on track, and the moments that made it all worth it! If youâve seen the movie, this is your chance to pull back the curtain. If you havenât⌠maybe watch first, then come back and hear the whole messy, gl...
2 Aug 2025
Pandemic Locks Down the World (Chapter 2: Everything Falls Apart)
What if the sacrifice youâre making isnât noble... just unnecessary? In this raw and deeply personal episode, I share what it really looked like to chase my dream of filmmaking while living out of a rental car for four months in Los Angeles. From long nights folded into a pretzel in the backseat to the self-funded short film (Maddest Love) that helped me reclaim my purpose, this is the story of how desperation became strategy... and how one close-up on Perry Mason meant more than anyone could...
24 Jul 2025
Living In a Rented Car (Chapter 2: Everything Falls Apart)
How far would you go for a dream? In this brutally honest chapter of The Lethal Voice Podcast, I continues my journey through hell and back in pursuit of my single vision: making Vengeance Turns. From a bug-infested shithouse and a repo'd car to four surreal months living in a rented car for rideshare, you'll hear the darkly comic, (hopefully) deeply human, and sometimes terrifying realities of chasing art to the edge of sanity. Meet Gummyâthe worst-smelling nightmare roommate with a heart of...
14 Jul 2025
Slick Talking (Chapter 2: Everything Falls Apart)
Chapter 2: Everything Falls Apart begins! What do you do when your first feature film dies, your car gets repossessed, and your âproducerâ vanishes with your last $2,500? You keep keep pressing forward. At least that's what I did... In this raw, unfiltered episode of The Lethal Voice Podcast, I share the unraveling that followed The End of Fun â a project that started with a bang on Kickstarter and ended in the void. Now broke, half-homeless, and inhaling bug spray in a North Hollywood flop h...
7 Jul 2025
Facial Hair Barometer (Chapter 1: Putting the Cart Before the Horse)
Whatâs your barometer for knowing if youâre winning â or failing? Deadlines? Bank account? Me? Once upon a time... I used my facial hair. In the final episode of Chapter One: Putting the Cart Before the Horse, I'm going to take you from a shady âproducerâ promising cash in Malibu to squatting in a borrowed guest house under security cameras â and explain how a half-wild beard became the unofficial countdown clock for my first feature film, Vengeance Turns: The Motion Picture. Youâll hear what...
1 Jul 2025
Writing What We Know -- and Who We Are (Chapter 1: Putting the Cart Before the Horse)
What does âWrite what you knowâ really mean when youâre making a revenge Western from scratch? For me â Robert Christopher Smith â it meant cracking open my family secrets, pride in my mutt roots, and my need to flip the table on every tired idea about the Wild West. In Episode 4 of the Lethal Voice Podcast, I get raw about Vengeance Turns... How pieces of my past â Native blood, shut doors, a band called Wild Love Rebellion â became the bones of Rebecca and Mia. How my co-writer Amandaâ...
22 Jun 2025
Why Lethal Voice?
This isnât Episode 1. This is Episode Zero. The Ethos of Lethal Voice. The manifesto. The warning shot. And maybe some quiet subversion. If you find any of it stings... maybe it should... Hit play. Find out how Lethal Voice one voice can be. Labeled Episode 100 for timeline clarity. But make no mistakeâthis is Episode Zero. Vengeance Turns: Volume One and Two streaming FREE now on Tubi Grab the free comic + see exclusive content from Vengeance Turns and ALL my projects: Procrastagram.com ...
16 Jun 2025
Cart Before the Horse (Chapter 1: Putting the Cart Before the Horse)
Before the screenplay was finished, before the cast was in place, before the bugs stopped bitingâI was already building Vengeance Turns. In this episode, I rewind to the wild early days: a busted-up North Hollywood rental, a dying landlord as the foundation of a dream that wouldnât quit. Featuring my first meeting with actor Jamald Gardner (who became Jefferson Coletrain), a Malibu horse ranch with no script in hand, and the exact moment I realized that building a cult horror-western was goin...
10 Jun 2025
Bang! Bang! Serendipity! (Chapter 1: Putting the Cart Before the Horse)
What if...? What if casting wasnât just part of the process⌠but the actual writing of the final movie itself? In this episode, Robert Christopher Smith dives deep into the emotional chaos, creative evolution, and gut-level decisions that shaped and reshaped Vengeance Turns â from its first lead Amanda Walsmith and a ranch in Texas, to unexpected magic with Kelsey Jaffer and ultimately the soul of the film: Paola Luelmo. Youâll hear rare audition footage, behind-the-scenes memories, and the s...
8 Jun 2025
The End of Fun/The Beginning of Vengeance (Chapter 1: Putting the Cart Before the Horse)
In this debut episode, we just begin to unravel the chaotic origin of Vengeance Turns: The Motion Picture -- From a fake Brazilian "producer" to the moment the real madness began. It's not just the birth of a film... It's the end of fun... and the beginning of creative vengeance! Vengeance Turns: Volume One and Two streaming FREE now on Tubi Grab the free comic + see exclusive content from Vengeance Turns and ALL my projects: Procrastagram.com Rate, share, and share your lethal voice.
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