Savage House: “The more truthful we made it, the more honest it was — the more grotesque, sure, but also the funnier it was and the more timely it became.”

vHopeful Conversations Podcast · Jul 17, 2026 · 30m

In this episode of vHopeful Conversations, I sit down with writer-director Peter Glanz to talk about his bold new period satire Savage House, a 1715-set black comedy that uses wigs, corsets, and a pox-ridden elite household to mirror the madness of our own political moment. We dig into how January 6th and QAnon-era unrest pushed Peter toward a story of social climbers trapped at an opulent dinner, why he and his team pursued “beauty in the rot” through tactile production design and candlelit, Barry Lyndon-esque cinematography, and how paintings by Hogarth, gossip rags like Tatler and The…