Christopher Winterbauer's guest appearances

Christopher Winterbauer

Horror Movie Night

Right on Cue

Daniel Goldhaber

Jim Gaffigan

Jim Cummings

Josh Ruben

Owen Egerton

Jack Frost

Kevin Kiner

Amanda Kramer

Emma Tammi

Miranda Bailey

Paul Leonard-Morgan

David Newman

Danny Tamberelli

John Mulaney

John Grillo

OwlTail

Navigating the muddy waters of teenage emotions and sexuality is hard enough: your body is growing and doing weird stuff, you can't figure out what you're turning into and forgetting who you were, and you're just so horny all the time. But what if the awkwardness of teen sexuality was codified and bureaucratized, and what if that was just the start of your emotional problems?   That's the essential gist of Wyrm, Christopher Winterbauer's retrofuturistic dramedy that posits a school policy called "No Child Left Alone" in which kids are fitted with a signal collar that only unlocks after you have your first kiss. For Wyrm (Theo Taplitz), the last kid in his class to still have his collar, his journey to "pop his collar" turns out to be way more complicated than expected.  Doused in the bright, garish aesthetics of the late '80s and early '90s (imagine Lisa Frank meets 1984), Wyrm is a dry, droll coming-of-age comedy that hearkens back to the deadpan quirkiness of Napoleon Dynamite and Rushmore. Adapted from Winterbauer's short film of the same name, Wyrm expands its characters' story from an isolated tale of arrested sexual development to a dysfunctional family tale about a clan processing the loss of one of their own in their own entertainingly distinct ways.   During its run at Fantastic Fest a couple of weeks back, I got the chance to talk to Christopher Winterbauer over the phone about his adoration for the analog aesthetics of '80s and '90s ephemera, the complex emotions of grief, and the long, winding road he took to transform Wyrm from underdog short film to fully formed feature. (More of a Comment, Really… is a proud member of the Chicago Podcast Coop. Thanks to Overcast for sponsoring this episode!)

Navigating the muddy waters of teenage emotions and sexuality is hard enough: your body is growing and doing weird stuff, you can't figure out what you're turning into and forgetting who you were, and you're just so horny all the time. But what if the awkwardness of teen sexuality was codified and bureaucratized, and what if that was just the start of your emotional problems? That's the essential gist of Wyrm, Christopher Winterbauer's retrofuturistic dramedy that posits a school policy called "No Child Left Alone" in which kids are fitted with a signal collar that only unlocks after you have your first kiss. For Wyrm (Theo Taplitz), the last kid in his class to still have his collar, his journey to "pop his collar" turns out to be way more complicated than expected. Doused in the bright, garish aesthetics of the late '80s and early '90s (imagine Lisa Frank meets 1984), Wyrm is a dry, droll coming-of-age comedy that hearkens back to the deadpan quirkiness of Napoleon Dynamite and Rushmore. Adapted from Winterbauer's short film of the same name, Wyrm expands its characters' story from an isolated tale of arrested sexual development to a dysfunctional family tale about a clan processing the loss of one of their own in their own entertainingly distinct ways.   During its run at Fantastic Fest a couple of weeks back, I got the chance to talk to Christopher Winterbauer over the phone about his adoration for the analog aesthetics of '80s and '90s ephemera, the complex emotions of grief, and the long, winding road he took to transform Wyrm from underdog short film to fully formed feature. (More of a Comment, Really… is a proud member of the <a href="http://www.chicagopodcastcoop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chicago Podcast Coop</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://overcast.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Overcast</a> for sponsoring this episode!)

Fantastic Fest: Christopher Winterbauer (Wyrm)

One of the highlights of Matt's Fantastic Fest has been the weird coming-of-age-sci-fi film Wyrm. Matt was able to sit down with the writer/director for a few minutes and talk about their love of audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the highlights of Matt's Fantastic Fest has been the weird coming-of-age-sci-fi film Wyrm. Matt was able to sit down with the writer/director for a few minutes and talk about their love of audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Talking Wyrm with Director Christopher Winterbauer (Live at Fantastic Fest 2019)