Author and screenwriter Joshua Hull joins the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 209 on February 5, 2025. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled seven books and films by Hull you should read or watch.
Hull is an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker based out of Indiana. He’s the co-screenwriter of Glorious, a 2022 Lovecraftian horror film starring Ryan Kwanten and the Academy Award winning J.K. Simmons. He is a past winner of the Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award for his contributions to Indiana film by the Indiana Film Journalists Association. His debut novella Mouth was published by Tenebrous Press in March 2024. His novel debut, 8114, hits shelves everywhere on August 26, 2025.
Mouth
After a stranger leaves him a secluded property, drifter Rusty finds himself the caretaker of a massive, tooth-filled mouth in the ground…and it’s hungry.
His situation is complicated by Abigail, a wannabe filmmaker who stumbles on the secret. Together, the odd pair set out to discover the origins of Mouth and the hidden history of its former owner, setting in motion an outlandish scheme that could endanger them all.
Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made!
For most films, it’s a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, screenwriter and filmmaker Joshua Hull guides readers through development hell. With humor and reverence, Hull details the speed bumps and roadblocks that kept these films from ever reaching the silver screen. From the misguided and rejected, like Stanley Kubrick’s Lord of the Rings starring the Beatles; to films that changed hands and pulled a U-turn in development, like Steven Spielberg‘s planned Oldboy adaptation starring Will Smith; to would-be masterpieces that might still see the light of day, like Guillermo del Toro‘s In the Mountains of Madness, Hull discusses plotlines, rumored casting, and more.
To help bring these lost projects to life, 50 artists from around the world, in association with the online art collective PosterSpy, have contributed original posters that accompany each essay and give a glimpse of what might have been.
Glorious
Spiraling out after a bad breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop miles away from civilization. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As Wes tries to escape, he finds himself an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could possibly imagine…
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8114
8114 is a terrifying horror novel investigating the mysterious death of a high school friend through an embattled podcast and hallucinatory hauntings at the abandoned house of his childhood.
After returning to his hometown, Paul, the beleaguered host of a small-time podcast, discovers a longtime friend committed suicide in the dilapidated ruins of Paul’s childhood home. Desperate to find answers, Paul interviews friends and locals hoping to find closure. He finds himself in a chilling downward spiral of his memories and the land he grew up on. Has his past caught up with him or is there something far more sinister at play?
Joshua Hull, screenwriter of Glorious, brings an edge of horror film expertise to this story of small-town haunting, trauma, and grief that just won’t let go. 8114 roots out the rot of a small town’s past and unravels the memories we must face to survive the present.
BIG F*%K (Killer VHS)
Author of Mouth and screenwriter of Glorious Joshua Hull‘s BIG F*%K, a comedy novella in the Killer VHS series, in which a foul-mouthed teen hires a professional Bigfoot hunter to track Bigfoot down after the beast massacres his entire family. Coming Spring 2026 from Shortwave Publishing.
Chopping Block
Chopping Block follows a group of corporate losers who get laid off. Desperate times call for desperate measures. They decide to kidnap their ex-boss’s daughter for ransom. Things take a bloody turn, when the boss’s daughter just happens to be the only survivor of a masked psychopath. A masked psychopath still at large, and out for blood. Hilarity & bloodshed ensue in this independent dark comedy.
