Feature2024
The Once and Future Smash
Director · Writer · Producer
A horror mockumentary exploring the legacy of a supposed cult slasher and the two men who played its masked killer.
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Film & moving images
Features, shorts, acting, and documentary collaborations.
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End Zone 2
Creator · Filmmaker
A deliberately faux-lost slasher that connects to the world of The Once and Future Smash.
View project ↗Anthology2026
Final Transmissions: You Were Never Alone
Writer · Director
An analog found-footage horror story, made with Sophia Cacciola for the Final Transmissions anthology.
View project ↗Anthology2023
Fat Fleshy Fingers
Writer · Producer · Editor · Actor (segment)
Body-horror comedy anthology featuring “The King of Carrot Flowers,” a segment directed by Sophia Cacciola.
View project ↗Feature2019
Clickbait
Writer · Director · Producer
Social-media satire and horror from the Launch Over filmmaking team.
View project ↗Feature2017
Blood of the Tribades
Writer · Director · Producer
A visually stylized vampire feature inspired by 1970s European genre cinema.
View project ↗Feature2016
Magnetic
Writer · Director · Producer
An experimental science-fiction feature built around a strange and unstable reality.
View project ↗Feature2015
TEN
Writer · Director · Producer
An ensemble mystery-thriller in which ten women find themselves caught in a deadly puzzle.
View project ↗Feature2021
The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins
Creator · Filmmaker
A collaborative experimental feature made through inventive filmmaking processes.
View project ↗Acting2026
The Ringing
Actor (Jack)
Body-horror short by Brandon Scullion, featuring Michael as a man driven to extremes by a mysterious ringing.
View project ↗Acting2024
Hacking at Leaves
On-screen appearance with Sophia Cacciola
Documentary by Johannes Grenzfurthner exploring history, technology, and the politics of making art.
View project ↗Short2025
Bart & Bobbi Kill Each Other
Producer · Re-recording mixer
Two long-time roommates turn resentment into mayhem in a short by Aaron Barrocas. Michael produced and handled re-recording mixing.
View project ↗Short2022
STILL
Producer
Rakefet Abergel’s short horror film, produced by Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola, with cinematography by Sophia.
View project ↗Short2020
Bloodhound
Editor · Sound
A chihuahua has a dark secret in this short vampire comedy directed and photographed by Sophia Cacciola, with editing and sound by Michael J. Epstein.
View project ↗Short2022
Reel Trouble
Producer
A short about friends discovering a lost animated film. Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola helped produce.
View project ↗Short2021
Sitting Duck
Producer
Aaron Barrocas’s horror-comedy short, produced with Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola.
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Short2020
Shiny Diamonds
Producer
A short directed by Seth Chatfield and Toni Nagy. Michael was among its producers; Sophia Cacciola handled cinematography.
View project ↗Short2019
Half-Cocked
Producer
Horror-comedy short directed by Aaron Barrocas and produced with Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola.
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Umbilicus Desidero
Director · Editor
A four-minute satirical documentary photographed by Sophia Cacciola, directed and edited by Michael J. Epstein.
View project ↗Short2019
Anthology2025
Mother Goose’s Scary Tales
Segments: Half-Cocked and Sitting Duck
Anthology featuring two shorts from the Launch Over filmography.
View project ↗Anthology2019
I Am An Addict: Pyromania
Director · Writer · Editor · Composer · Actor
The Pyromania segment of the horror anthology I Am an Addict. Michael wrote, directed, edited, scored, and appeared in the short; cinematography by Sophia Cacciola.
View project ↗Anthology2018
A Taste of Phobia: Somniphobia
Segment: Somniphobia
An anthology segment listed in the Launch Over filmography.
View project ↗Anthology2018
2 Die For: With Whip
Segment: With Whip
An anthology segment listed in the Launch Over filmography.
View project ↗Anthology2018
Conspiracy X: Operation: Fist of God
Segment: Operation: Fist of God
An anthology segment listed in the Launch Over filmography.
View project ↗Anthology2018
Anthology2017
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