Writer-director Mickey Keating is back with his second feature film, Pod. It stars Dean Cates and Lauren Ashley Carter as Ed and Lyla, two siblings who get a disturbingly cryptic message from their brother Martin (Brian Morvant). Concerned about Martin’s well-being, they’ve got no choice but to drive out to their secluded family lake house to find out what’s going on. When they arrive, they’re shocked to find the home an unrecognizable mess. However, a disgusting kitchen and bizarre drawings all over the walls are nothing compared to what Martin insists is in their basement. While in Austin for the Pod world premiere at SXSW, I got to sit down with Keating, Cates, Morvant and composer Giona Ostinelli to talk about locking a location first and then building a story around it, Cates and Morvant’s first impression of the script and their especially intense characters,...