Graham Reznick
Graham Reznick is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. In 2009 he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed experimental horror feature film I CAN SEE YOU (“heralds a splendid new filmmaker” – The New York Times) and the award winning microbudget stereoscopic 3D sci-fi short THE VIEWER (featuring Lena Dunham). With Larry Fessenden, he is the co-writer of the BAFTA award winning Playstation 4 video game UNTIL DAWN (featuring Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere, for Sony / Supermassive Games) and its best-selling PSVR tie-ins RUSH OF BLOOD and THE INPATIENT, and several more. Fessenden and Reznick hold a 2015 Guinness World Record for their work on the UNTIL DAWN screenplay.
In 2015 he wrote and directed the iTunes chart topping audio drama THE CHAMBERS TAPE (featuring SUPERNATURAL’s Misha Collins), and in 2016, Graham co-wrote the Sundance premiere BUSHWICK, an action/thriller starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow. In 2017 he wrote and directed RAPID EYE, a live action, interactive sci-fi horror thriller pilot for Sony / Olive Bridge / Eko. Most recently, Graham created, directed, and executive produced the thriller/sci-fi/horror television series DEADWAX for AMC’s Shudder.
As a sound designer and musician, Graham has designed audio, mixed, and/or composed additional music for over 20 feature films, including Ti West’s IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and THE INNKEEPERS, Jon Watts’ CLOWN, Larry Fessenden’s BENEATH, and Jim Mickle’s STAKELAND, as well as the 2013 Academy Award winning short CURFEW and the 2016 Academy Award nominated short documentary WITHIN THE WALLS. He has also edited music videos for numerous bands including LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, THE JUAN MACLEAN, and JIMMY EAT WORLD. In 2018, Graham’s debut electronic music album GLASS ANGLES was released on vinyl by Death Waltz / Mondo and the follow-up ROBOPHASIA was released on Burning Witches Records. (Image credit: Tina Thorpe)
Graham Skipper
Graham Skipper is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Herbert West in Re-Animator: The Musical, Seth Hampton in Almost Human, Zack Connors in The Mind’s Eye, Gordon Hardesty in Beyond the Gates and for writing and directing the horror film Sequence Break.
Heather Buckley
Heather Buckley worked as a graphic designer and creative lead for thirteen years in the New York advertising world before transitioning to live her life-long dream of a career in the Film World. She has worked for years as a journalist for Dread Central, Diabolique, Fangoria and Vulture.
She worked in the makeup department on Billy Pon’s CIRCUS OF THE DEAD, and then as Makeup FX Shop Supervisor on The Booth Brothers’ DEAD STILL (and, under prosthetics, played a featured ghoul—film soon to be released by Sony Pictures) and Ted Geoghegan’s WE ARE STILL HERE (MPI).
She is currently a Blu-Ray Special Features Producer for Red Shirt Pictures, Severin Films, Kino Lorber and Liongate (Vestron) working on documentaries (over 100 and counting), which include THE THING, 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, BARTON FINK, THE LONG RIDERS, SAW 10th Anniversary reissue, and ARMY OF DARKNESS. She is also one of the Producers on Jen Wexler’s The Ranger for Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment a punk rock horror film coming to a pit near you.
Howard David Ingham
Howard David Ingham is a writer and educator. He lives in Swansea. Between 2005 and 2012 his work appeared in more than forty publications for White Wolf Games Studio. He writes games, fiction and books, and keeps a regular blog about film and culture at Room207Press.com. His book We Don’t Go Back: a Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror is due for release in 2018.
Twitter: @HowtheWoodMoves
Facebook: Room207Press
Howard S. Berger
Howard S. Berger is a screenwriter, editor, director,documentarian, historian and educator on all things cinema. He’s half creator (alongside Kevin Marr) of the “Destructible Man” blog – where individual films with dummy-deaths undergo close examination and deconstruction. Howard has also contributed to dozens of audio commentaries for Kino Lorber, Image, Synapse, Arrow and 101 Films as well as many interviews and articles to such magazines as Fangoria and European Trash Cinema. He was co-director of the cult feature, ORIGINAL SINS and the documentary A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK. DESTRUCTIBLE MAN is currently being prepared as a feature documentary and video essay series.
Iain Robert Smith
Iain Robert Smith is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. He has published extensively on cult and horror cinema, with a particular emphasis on international remakes. He is author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema (EUP, 2016) and co-editor of the collections Transnational Film Remakes (with Constantine Verevis, EUP, 2017) and Media Across Borders (with Andrea Esser and Miguel Bernal-Merino, Routledge, 2016). He is also the co-founder of the Remakesploitation Film Club and he is currently working on a book about global cult cinema.
Ian Cooper
Ian Cooper is an author and screenwriter. His books include Devil´s Advocates: Witchfinder General (Auteur 2011), Cultographies: Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Wallflower Press 2012) and Frightmares: A History of British Horror (2016). He has also written for edited collections on subjects including early 70s vampire films and the cult appeal of Klaus Kinski. His books, Devil´s Advocates: Frenzy (Auteur) and Family Values: The Manson Family on Film and TV (McFarland) will be published in 2018.
He also has a number of screenplays in various stages of development in the UK and US.
He lives in Germany.
Icy Sedgwick
Icy Sedgwick is a podcaster, author, lecturer and researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast, investigating European folklore, weird tales, and legends, with a view to examining their links to documented history and their appearances in popular culture. She is also working on a PhD in Film Studies, examining the representation of the haunted house in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Icy is the co-author of Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts alongside Ian Conrich. In case she tires of research, former ghost hunter Icy also writes Gothic horror fiction inspired by ghost stories and folklore.
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J. Shea
J. Shea teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College in Montreal. Years before becoming a Shakespearean and receiving a PhD in English from McGill University, J. was weaned on low-budget horror films broadcast on local Chicago television.