Split Tooth Media is an independent publication based in Portland, Oregon, that still believes in long-form journalism and in-depth podcasts about music and film. Home of "Split Picks," a head-to-head showdown series about the career trajectories of filmmakers and musicians, created by Craig Wright; Jim Hickcox and Jason Michelitch's film criticism series "Cinesthesia;" and Rob Delany and 'T' Trimble's guide to exploring the world of art cinema with "Arthouse Drive-In."
Make More Movies: The M. Sisters on 'Divine Hammer' (Ep. 12)
The first thing we see in the M. Sisters’ Divine Hammer is Hollie (Hazel M.) through the POV of a doorbell camera. She has been set up for a blind date, but rather than ringing the bell and facing companionship, she dodges the camera and throws up on the sidewalk in front of her potential match’s house. When she returns to her Seattle home, a package is waiting for her. It is an old digital camera she ordered online. She takes a test photo and realizes that it is the 238th photo on the camera. Her imagination gets the better of her, and she pictures the plethora of gory images that could be on the device. In reality, she is underwhelmed to discover mundane images of a cat. This gut feeling brought on by what the camera could have held sends her down a rabbit hole into the darkest corners of the internet.
The 72-minute film speedruns a set-up, relaying all of this information in the first two minutes of screentime. Prompted by her false intuition, Hollie turns to Reddit threads and Discord servers, searching for others online who have actually found horrific images on devices they bought secondhand. There is no doubt this rush has titillated her in some way. She finds herself in a chatroom entitled the Gore Preservation Society, where the users mostly bellyache about the lack of real gore on the internet nowadays. Everything is fake and the predominantly male server is tired of the phonies. Once the chat goes quiet, Hollie is left alone with Rose (Mae M.), the only other woman in the chat. The two begin to strategize a way to contribute some authentic videos of real violence to the GPS. They ultimately arrive at the perfect workaround: they are to meet up and kill each other on camera, leaving the footage behind for someone to find. They would themselves become the found footage that revitalizes the online gore community.
This fictional introduction of our two protagonists is not far removed from how the film’s creators actually met. Hazel and Mae M. became acquainted on a Discord server dedicated to a YouTuber of which they were both fans. The two hit it off right away and began speaking outside of the server, fostering a collaborative relationship through streaming and working on videos together. They worked virtually alongside one another on their own various YouTube projects, but the desire to make a true feature film was always on the duo’s mind. This alliance led to the development of Divine Hammer and the pair becoming sisters.
Check out more of my conversation with the M. Sisters on our final Make More Movies episode of October Horror. We discuss their various internet projects, the corporate biopic they would make if given the chance, and the things that make them perfect collaborators. Give it a listen.
19 Oct 2026
CINESTHESIA - Breaking Martinis with Rob Christopher
Jason and Jim have broken their vows of silence to break some news that'll break your brain. Don't worry, they're holding tight to their vows of poverty.
BREAKING CINESTHESIA BREAKING NEWS BREAKING FURIOUS
The Cinesthesia boys have checked their egos and donned their checkered suits to check back in with Rob Christopher, who they last spoke to on a very cinesthesic episode of Split Picks comparing David Lynch's Lost Highway and Wild at Heart
This time the cinesthetes speak with Rob about his new film, My Last Martini, which will play (alongside his feature Roy's World) at Portland's Hollywood Theatre on October 25. That's the breaking news. So I guess you know now. We still recommend listening to the episode, because everyone worked really hard on it and they'll all be sad if you, personally, don't listen. Also there's at least one pretty solid joke in there.
18 Oct 2026
Make More Movies: Rose Trimboli on 'You Know What You Are (Ep. 11)
Rose Trimboli’s You Know What You Are is remarkably ambitious for a microbudget debut feature, even if it isn’t obvious from the offset. The film’s initial setup is one that feels familiar to many a post-collegiate mumblecore classic, that of the lonely young Faith (Eloise Lola Gordon) trying to start over in a small beachside town where she doesn’t know anyone. If the inherent alienation of such a major shift in life wasn’t enough, Faith is also a vampire. She doesn’t evaporate in sunlight or walk around with obvious fangs protruding, but she still struggles with bloody cravings and intense bouts of emotional and physical isolation. Even as she finds a group of friendly locals to hang out with and a relationship burgeons between her and artist Josie (Jenna Brando), the weight of her traumatic past and current struggle to keep her vampiric nature a secret begin to challenge her newfound balance in life.
Listen to Aaron Bartuska's conversation with Trimboli and head to Split Tooth Media to read Brooks Wieszczek's interview about You Know What You Are.
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