Do The Hanky Panky with Nick and Lindsey

Good Morning Mayberry

WELCOME, one and all, to the long-awaited premiere of season 4! Today, your good ol' host, Shift Orion, is joined by Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun. Shift and Nick met while wandering around in the howling abyss of social media. Nick was looking for podcasts to talk about his new movie, Hanky Panky, and Shift was looking for inspiration to reboot this show.

So Nick hailed Lindsey to join Shift for a chat about this fantastic, whacky, elevated, innovative film made with love under crazy conditions.

And they also talk about other things like Nick and Lindsey's kids, Nick's upcoming haunted dreidel film, Lindsey's dark and vague works in progress, and Shift's upcoming sci-fi about an average white American man who gets knocked up by an alien parasite just after landing his dream job and has flashbacks to that one time he tried to convince his teenage girlfriend to not have an abortion.

We hope you enjoy this episode and then go watch Hanky Panky on Tubi!

Nick & Lindsey, Co-Directors:

Hanky Panky marks the feature debut of frequent collaborators and future Hollywood power couple Nick and Lindsey.

Lindsey is a gold-record winning singer/songwriter, an actor and horror icon (Village of the Damned, Trueblood, Shrooms, Color of Friendship), and a director of several award-winning short films and music videos. She is repped by Bohemia Group.

Nick is a former middle-school substitute Latin teacher, current pun factory, and film and television writer who most recently wrote on ABC sitcom American Housewife. He is repped by Zero Gravity.

About HANKY PANKY

Logline: A man and his talking handkerchief save the world from an evil top-hat, and also learn to love.

Genre: Puppets and Blood.

Runtime: 86 minutes, 4 of which is a fight scene between a napkin and a hat.

Full Synopsis: When sweet and quirky ayahuasca marriage counselor Diane mistakenly invites the wrong “Sam” to a retreat she’s co-hosting with friends and family at an isolated snowy mountain cabin, instead of her best friend’s sister Samantha showing up, she gets Sam, a socially anxious oddball who has brought his best friend, Woody, a foul-mouthed talking handkerchief Sam believes only he can hear, and who is sexually aroused by cleaning up messes. Diane is Sam’s opposite, but it’s love at first sight. The only thing that stands between them is that right away everyone in the cabin starts being mysteriously murdered, and the whole vacation quickly descends into a zany pandemonium of cults, psychedelics, aliens, and, as Woody himself puts it, delicious chaos.

Short Synopsis: A socially anxious oddball and his best friend, a foul-mouthed talking handkerchief who is sexually aroused by cleaning up messes, must confront an inter-dimensional evil in order to save the world and find true love.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKFZm04ViM

Official Website: https://hankypankythemovie.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/hankypankymovie

FB: https://www.facebook.com/HankyPankyMovie

X: https://www.twitter.com/HankyPankyMovie

TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@hankypankymovie

YT: https://m.youtube.com/@HankyPankyTheMovie

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hankypankythemovie/

FEATURED REVIEWS

"A perfect pick for 420... gleefully absurd... No matter how deeply you've dived into horror comedies, I can assure you that you've never seen anything quite like this... the comedy equivalent of a Jackson Pollock... sensational... an absolute avalanche of silliness... “

—Kristy Puchko, Mashable https://mashable.com/article/hanky-panky-movie-2024-review

"Hanky Panky is a delightfully unserious horror movie crammed with comedy."

––Becca James, Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/film/review-hanky-panky/

"Hanky Panky is a genre-bending rollercoaster that seamlessly blends elements of comedy and horror, all while descending to a new level of insanity… A surreal success in ambitious independent filmmaking."

––Smrithika Majukar, Film Ireland https://filmireland.net/2024/04/08/review-hanky-panky/

"Cheap, Dumb, Delightful... Joyous. It’s a silly movie that just wants to make its audience smile, and it succeeds."

––Kyle Logan, Screen Anarchy https://screenanarchy.com/2024/04/hanky-panky-review-cheap-dumb-delightful.html

"Hanky Panky is the stupidly funny horror-comedy of the year... wacky, wonderful, and at times completely bonkers."

––Romey Norton, Film Focus Online https://www.filmfocusonline.com/post/hanky-panky-review

"It may be a little too strange and outlandish for some, but those who are willing to embrace its unashamed weirdness and its brazen nonconformity are in for a great time."

––David Gelmini, Dread Central https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/494104/hanky-panky-review-seth-green-voicesan-evil-hat-in-absurd-new-comedy/?amp

"It’s silly, it’s wild, and it’s filthy in all the right ways, made by a team with a clear love of film... No one should deprive themselves of an opportunity to see a napkin learn about the power of friendship."

––Jules Caldeira, Film Inquiry https://www.filminquiry.com/hanky-panky-2023-review/?amp=1

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS & AWARDS

LA Comedy Film Festival Official Selection

Int’l Independent Film Awards Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Supporting Actor (Seth Green) Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Supporting Actress (Clare Grant) Best Casting Best Directing Best Narrative Feature

World Premiere Film Awards Best First Time Filmmaker Best Comedic Script Best Comedy Feature Best Production Design Judges' Choice

Central Coast Int’l Film Festival Official Selection Beast Feature Film

Athens Int’l Monthly Art Film Festival Best Debut Feature Film

Golden State Film Festival Official Selection Best Supporting Actor (Seth Green)

Robinson Film Awards Best Comedy Feature

Golden Lion Int’l Film Festival Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Comedy Feature Best International Feature Film

Los Angeles Film Awards Best Indie Feature Best New Director

Italian Comedy Festival International Comedy Prize

Five Continents Int’l Film Festival Official Selection Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Art Direction Best Team Performance

The IndieFEST Film Awards Best Feature Film Best Ensemble Cast Best Special Effects

Cinema Cappuccino Best Feature Film

Gothamite Monthly Film Awards Best Feature Film

Indie Vegas Film Festival Official Selection Best Supporting Actress (Clare Grant)

LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood Official Selection Best Narrative Feature Best Director Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn)

Kalakari Film Festival Official Selection

Fortean Film Festival Official Selection

MegaFlix Film Awards Official Selection

Silver Wing Int’l Film Festival Best Narrative Feature

Dreamz Catcher Int’l Film Festival Best Feature Film

Independent Horror Movie Awards Best Feature Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Humor Best Kill

Top Indie Film Awards Best Humor Best Original Idea

Kalakari Film Festival Certificate of Achievement

Directors’ Statement: Hanky Panky was inspired by the way certain zany comedies like Wet Hot American Summer and Caddyshack seemed to capture the energy of locking their whole cast and crew together in, say, a summer camp, or a coke-orgy fueled hotel in the middle of a Florida hurricane with Chevy Chase -- and then somehow get that energy on screen. We shot Hanky Panky in Lindsey's dad's cabin in the mountains above Heber, Utah, where the entire cast and crew crammed together, at 8,000ft of elevation, during the most intense blizzard ever recorded there. It was a true anarcho-communist-guerilla production: literally no budget, nobody got paid, everyone chipped in for food and drugs, and we all cooperatively own the film now. We shot it on a camera our team won with a short film at Slamdance in 2015. A friend who shoots porn let us borrow his lights. By far our biggest expense was that Lindsey backed her car into Nick's in the blizzard and knocked out a headlight, so that did cost us like $900 to fix. It was crazy. Everyone went a little bit crazy. Some of us went a lot a bit crazy. It's our hope that a bunch of that fun, contagious craziness has ended up on the screen.

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