Jeremy Dyson
Author, screenwriter, playwright, and the least visible member of ‘The League Of Gentlemen’, Jeremy Dyson is also the author of ‘Bright Darkness: The Lost Art Of The Supernatural Horror Film’. His short story collection ‘The Cranes That Built The Cranes’ won the 2010 Edge Hill Award, while his play ‘Ghost Stories’ (written with Andy Nyman) broke box office records at the Everyman Liverpool and the Lyric Hammersmith. Currently writing and script editing for TV he can also be seen playing keyboards for the band, Rudolph Rocker.
Jim Harper
JIM HARPER is a writer and film critic specializing in cult cinema from around the globe. He is the author of Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies (Headpress, 2004) and Flowers from Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film (Noir, 2008). His work has appeared in many publications and websites, including Midnight Eye, MYM, Electric Sheep, Necronomicon, V-Cinema, Deranged, Alternative and Scream, and he has contributed to Intellect’s ground-breaking Directory of World Cinema series, writing for the Spanish and Japanese volumes. Currently Harper is working on a revised and updated edition of Flowers from Hell, and preparing the first English-language book about the German Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s.
Jimmy McDonough
Jimmy McDonough is a biographer and journalist. He has written definitive books on Al Green, Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan. TIME magazine declared his Milligan biography The Ghastly One “a masterpiece” and John Waters repeatedly names it one of his all-time favorites. Jimmy first started writing The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family From Music City, USA – The Ormonds! in 1986. Currently he is finishing another years-in-the-making project, a biography of honky-tonk singer Gary Stewart. Jimmy is Editor-In-Chief of byNWR.com.
Jimmy McDonough and Kier-La Janisse
Jimmy McDonough is a biographer and journalist. He has written definitive books on Al Green, Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan. TIME magazine declared his Milligan biography The Ghastly One “a masterpiece” and John Waters repeatedly names it one of his all-time favorites. Jimmy first started writing The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family From Music City, USA – The Ormonds! in 1986. Currently he is finishing another years-in-the-making project, a biography of honky-tonk singer Gary Stewart. Jimmy is Editor-In-Chief of byNWR.com.
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, former programmer, and founder of horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and contributed to Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015), We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (2017) and Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published (via her imprint Spectacular Optical) the anthology books Kid Power! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror was released by Severin Films in 2021.
Joana Rita Ramalho
Joana Rita Ramalho is Lecturer (Teaching) in Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and Portuguese at University College London, where she teaches modules on Gothic film and literature, musical satire, and Portuguese language and culture. She has published in journals and collections on topics as varied as sexsationalist feminism in postmillennial gothic musicals; haptic motifs and sensory contagion in terror cinema; thing theory and dolls in gothic and horror films; portraits in 1940s Romantic-Gothic films; intermediality and radical humour in the work of British punk cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies; and the queer failure and mock heroism of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Joe Coleman
Joe Coleman is a world-renowned painter, writer and performer who has exhibited for four decades in major museums throughout the world including one-man exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Barbican Centre in London, Tilton Gallery and Dickinson Gallery in New York. He was recently featured in the ground-breaking “Unrealism” show in Miami presented by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian.
His performance work from the 1980’s was some of the most radical of its time, and can be seen in the films Mondo New York (1988) and Captured (2008). The new book on extreme performance, Avant Garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and G.G. Allin by Clemens Marschall, explores Coleman’s influence during this pivotal period.
An avid and passionate collector, Coleman’s “Odditorium” is a private museum where sideshow objects, wax figures, crime artifacts and works of religious devotion live together to form a dark mirror that reflects the alternative side of the American psyche. His work has been published in numerous books, prints and records.
Joe Coleman was the subject of an award-winning feature length documentary, Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman (1997). He has appeared in acting roles in films such as Asia Argento’s Scarlet Diva (2000) and The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man (2015). He lives with his wife Whitney Ward in Brooklyn, New York.
Joe Dante
Joe Dante began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with Hollywood Boulevard (co-directed with Allan Arkush), and his solo debut as a director with Piranha in 1977. During his tenure at New World, Dante edited Ron Howard’s directorial debut Grand Theft Auto and co-wrote the original story for Rock n Roll High School.
For Avco-Embassy Dante next directed the seminal werewolf thriller The Howling (1981), followed by the It’s a Good Life segment of the episodic Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Having worked with Steven Spielberg on the latter, Dante was chosen to helm the first Amblin Production for Warner Bros., Gremlins (1984). Dante followed up with Explorers, Innerspace (1987), The ‘Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), and Matinee (1993) featuring John Goodman as a huckster showman premiering his new horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dreamworks/Universal’s Small Soldiers was released in 1998, followed in 2003 by Warner Bros. Looney Tunes: Back in Action featuring one of Dante’s favorite actors, Bugs Bunny. Along the way Dante contributed several comedy segments to the multi-part Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) spoof produced by John Landis, and directed various episodes of the tv series Amazing Stories, Twilight Zone, Police Squad!, Eerie, Indiana and more. Dante’s Homecoming, an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series, debuted in December 2005 to rave reviews; The New Yorker called it the best political film of 2005.
In 2007, Dante began producing the innovative new media series Trailers from Hell, which features contemporary filmmakers providing commentaries about films that influenced them, and the site has blossomed into a popular podcast, The Movies That Made Me. He has been honored with many retrospectives and career achievement awards by film festivals, cinematheques and museums in the US and internationally.
Joe Lipsett
Joe Lipsett is a Toronto-based film critic and podcaster. He has written for Bloody Disgusting, Pajiba, Consequence, The Spool, That Shelf, Anatomy of a Scream, as well as his own site QueerHorrorMovies. Once upon a time he was a sessional film instructor at Carleton University where he taught courses on Dystopias, Cyberpunk, Animation, Superheroes and Slashers. Nowadays Joe is the co-host of several podcasts, including YA adaptation podcast Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, Erotic Thriller podcast White Ladies in Crisis (on the Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad Network) and Bloody FM’s Horror Queers, which has been profiled in The AV Club, Variety, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.
Joe Rubin
Joe Rubin is a film collector, programmer and preservationist who founded Vinegar Syndrome with Ryan Emerson in 2012.
John Cussans
John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher based in London. Since 2009 he has been involved with the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, often working with the Haitian video collective Tele Geto. He is the author of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie-Complex (Strange Attractor).