We take a hard look at all things pop-culture, searching for awesome in this Craptaculus world!
The Cinema Craptaculus Crew
Stephanie Coggins
HOST (Cinema Craptaculus & Terror Tunnel)
Stephanie is a Daytime Emmy® Award-winning writer with a jones for wacky movies and other nonsense. A longtime fan of The Friday The 13th series, EC Horror Comics, and Mystery Science Theater 3000, Stephanie is a real weirdo who was lucky to meet Dave & John if only to save her from a life of ignominy and isolation. With them, she created Cinema Craptaculus, and now the entire world gets to experience her whole... “thing.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ She also hosts Terror Tunnel!
Mario “Doc” Diaz
HOST (Expanded Universe)
Having years of experience as an entertainment industry insider, Mario has been a producer for FOX, Disney and various other entertainment companies.
He's also a comic book geek, movie lover, convention goer, theme park enthusiast, keeper of random pop culture facts, and doggy dad. He is a co-host of the Expanded Universe.
John H.H. Ford
HOST (Cinema Craptaculus & Expanded Universe)
Podcast producer and co-host John H.H. Ford is a voice-over actor working in commercials, animation, and narration with credits including Disney’s Meet the Robinsons and over 100 audio tour projects in Italy where he’s the official English voice for both the Giorgio Armani and Ferragamo Museums. He also has a background in promo and marketing for studios including The Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. He has performed in regional Shakespeare companies and studied sketch comedy in Los Angeles. His first gig in broadcasting was as an intern for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He is a native of Portland, OR but has not glued a bird on anything.
Dave Humphreys
Host (Cinema Craptaculus & B-Sides)
Dave first found his love for b-movies on WPGH Sunday afternoon monster flicks. Pursuing a career at either Full Moon Features or Troma, he moved to Los Angeles where he quickly found a new career – Marketing and Promotions. His love for b-movies, campy sci-fi and schlocky horror led him to Cinema Craptaculus. Now while promoting such brands as ABC Family, NBC, Netflix and more, he gets to watch some awesome movies along the way.
He’s an OG geek for Star Wars, a published poet and seller of a screenplay.
Tara O’Brien
HOST (B-Sides)
Tara has been an actor, improviser, standup, and writer for nearly 800 years. When not co-hosting B-sides, she also hosts an online series about California’s ballot propositions called Prop-ular!, which California voters really should have watched.
She’s a former headline writer for The Onion and her spec pilot, The Nest, placed in the Page Awards, the InRoads fellowship, and Coverfly’s pitch week. Continuing her inability to be employed at just one job, Tara also works as location manager in film and television. She’s worked on shows like Key and Peele and Playing House. She is on a first name basis with some of the angriest neighbors in Los Angeles.
Film and television appearances include: Conan O’Brien, Tosh.0, Teachers, General Hospital, and the cult horror hit, Rubber... which is NOT a porn.
Adam Slemon
HOST (B-Sides)
Adam’s first major gig was as Papa Bear of the Bernstein Bears…the musical. Yup. So there is that.
Adam has toured nationally with various musical theatre productions, performed on the Main Stage of IO West on five different sketch and improv teams, and has even been in a National Geico commercial. His day job is in Post Production for live television for shows such as the Emmys, the Democratic National Convention, and Amazon’s Yearly Departed. He co-hosts B-Sides with Tara and Dave, his greatest accomplishment to date.
Smoore
HOST (Expanded Universe)
A Los Angeles native, Smoore is a lover, a fighter and practitioner of pop culture artistry! He’s also been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet a pawn and a king. Being a designer, writer and a producer has also taught young Smoore a thing or two about creativity in Hollywood. As one of the members of Cinema Craptaculus and a co-host of the “Expanded Universe” team, Smoore’s mission is to drop knowledge on suckas, further the cause of geekdom across the world and, most importantly, entertain the masses.
Smoore’s goal in life is to keep you geeky!