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OMINOUS THRILL

OMINOUS THRILL

By: Jeff Schmidt
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A genre-bending audio drama of character-driven adult dark fiction, thrillers, horror & suspense. Each story is fully dramatized with exceptional actors and sound so vivid, you’ll feel like a witness.


Listeners call it "horrifying, disorienting, fiendishly thrilling, erotic and heartbreaking."


What will you call it? Listen for yourself. Grab those headphones or earbuds and vanish inside Ominous Thrill.


Ominous Thrill is a multi-award-winning, twice Ambie Award-nominated anthology created by the acclaimed sound designer and director Jeff Schmidt, the creative force behind the vivid, immersive sounds of fiction-podcast thrillers Blood Ties and Aftershock, and the true-crime mega-hit Dr. Death.


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Learn more about OMINOUS THRILL at https://ominousthrill.com/

EMAIL: ominousthrill@gmal.com


Ominous Thrill Cover Design: Jeff Schmidt

Ominous Thrill Title Design: GlassVoid

Photography: Mircea Bezergheanu



© Jeff Schmidt Productions, LLC 2026 Drama & Plays
Episodes
  • MOTHER LINE - Part 4 of 4

    MOTHER LINE - Part 4 of 4
    Jul 16 2026

    What began as a nightmare on a dark road ends here, in the place where Brooklyn's Mother Line was born, where it has always known how to finish what men start.

    Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.


    Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

    ominousthrill@gmail.com


    Staring:

    EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

    TOBY MEULI as ZANE

    MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

    ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

    ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

    EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

    KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

    CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

    MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

    OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

    DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

    ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

    REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

    LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER


    The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

    Tanya Ruby

    Rotem Fenichel

    Rachel Kern

    Olivia Rokicianski

    Melissa Carrington

    Maganda Marie

    LaKira Porter

    Jessie D

    Ivy Moody

    ADK Egall


    Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night



    SUPPORT OMINOUS THRILL for ad-free listening and other perks


    JOIN OUR PATREON

    ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OMINOUSTHRILL⁠⁠⁠⁠

    SUBSCRIBE directly on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY

    Make a one-time donation:

    Ko-Fi - ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/ominousthrill⁠⁠

    Supercast - ⁠⁠https://ominousthrill.supercast.com/gifts/new⁠⁠

    Thank you!

    All funds raised go toward the making of Ominous Thrill

    Visit ⁠⁠OMINOUS THRILL⁠⁠ Website

    Follow Jeff Schmidt on ⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠

    Message Jeff at ⁠⁠OMINOUSTHRILL@GMAIL.COM⁠⁠


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    21 mins
  • MOTHER LINE - Part 3 of 4

    MOTHER LINE - Part 3 of 4
    Jul 2 2026

    With Brooklyn bound and pushed to her limit, Alex escalates, pulling Zane across lines he never thought he'd cross. But the land this house sits on remembers who Brooklyn is, even when she's forgotten. And in the forest, someone else hears the truth, too.


    Part THREE of FOUR

    E4 release: July 16

    Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.


    Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

    ominousthrill@gmail.com


    Staring:

    EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

    TOBY MEULI as ZANE

    MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

    ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

    ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

    EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

    KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

    CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

    MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

    OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

    DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

    ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

    REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

    LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER


    The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

    Tanya Ruby

    Rotem Fenichel

    Rachel Kern

    Olivia Rokicianski

    Melissa Carrington

    Maganda Marie

    LaKira Porter

    Jessie D

    Ivy Moody

    ADK Egall


    Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night



    SUPPORT OMINOUS THRILL for ad-free listening and other perks


    JOIN OUR PATREON

    ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OMINOUSTHRILL⁠⁠⁠⁠

    SUBSCRIBE directly on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY

    Make a one-time donation:

    Ko-Fi - ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/ominousthrill⁠⁠

    Supercast - ⁠⁠https://ominousthrill.supercast.com/gifts/new⁠⁠

    Thank you!

    All funds raised go toward the making of Ominous Thrill

    Visit ⁠⁠OMINOUS THRILL⁠⁠ Website

    Follow Jeff Schmidt on ⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠

    Message Jeff at ⁠⁠OMINOUSTHRILL@GMAIL.COM⁠⁠


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    30 mins
  • MOTHER LINE - Part 2 of 4

    MOTHER LINE - Part 2 of 4
    Jun 18 2026

    As the party rages and the drinks keep flowing, Zane turns conflict with Brooklyn into a performance for the room. Brooklyn flips the script and leaves the group shaken with the weight of her history. But the ride home is about to put their relationship and that history to the ultimate test.


    Part TWO of FOUR

    Ep 3 release: July 2

    Ep 4 release: July 16

    Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.


    Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

    ominousthrill@gmail.com


    Staring:

    EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BROOKLYN

    TOBY MEULI as ZANE

    MASON HEIDGER as ALEX

    ANN SONNEVILLE as ISADORA

    ALLISON COSSITT as SYBIL

    EDMUND SHORT as MAGISTRATE

    KRYSTAL GONZALEZ as JENNA

    CHIRS ELSENBROEK as SCOTT

    MAGANDA MARIE as GRACE

    OWEN MC CUEN as ELIOT

    DAYEANNE HUTTON as OLIVIA

    ROMY EVANS - TYRYN

    REAGAN BEATRIX - SYD

    LIAM GREGORY - FLETCHER


    The MOTHER LINE COVEN CHOIR:

    Tanya Ruby

    Rotem Fenichel

    Rachel Kern

    Olivia Rokicianski

    Melissa Carrington

    Maganda Marie

    LaKira Porter

    Jessie D

    Ivy Moody

    ADK Egall


    Episode Cover Design: Andrea M. Night


    SUPPORT OMINOUS THRILL for ad-free listening and other perks


    JOIN OUR PATREON

    ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OMINOUSTHRILL⁠⁠⁠⁠

    SUBSCRIBE directly on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY

    Make a one-time donation:

    Ko-Fi - ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/ominousthrill⁠⁠

    Supercast - ⁠⁠https://ominousthrill.supercast.com/gifts/new⁠⁠

    Thank you!

    All funds raised go toward the making of Ominous Thrill

    Visit ⁠⁠OMINOUS THRILL⁠⁠ Website

    Follow Jeff Schmidt on ⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠

    Message Jeff at ⁠⁠OMINOUSTHRILL@GMAIL.COM⁠⁠


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    26 mins
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with diffent thrilling story each episode, im left begging for more. A different kind of treacherous plot like American horror stories.

Ominous indeed

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