2010
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Kenneth J. Hall
Kenneth J. Hall has spent the last twenty-five years honing his skills as both a filmmaker and special effects artist on a succession of low budget fantasy movies such as Evil Spawn and Carnosaur. An alumni of John Carl Buechler’s Magical Media Industries and Charles Band’s Empire Pictures, Hall contributed effects for The Terminator and [...]
John Michael Elfers
Having first cut his teeth on short films, director John Michael Elfers made his feature debut with last year’s Finale, a low budget thriller in which a woman searches for the truth behind her teenage son’s apparent suicide. Taking inspiration from the likes of Dario Argento, Elfers attempted to capture the mood of seventies horrors, [...]
Barbie Wilde
To horror fans, Barbie Wilde is most known as the Female Cenobite from Tony Randel’s Hellbound: Hellraiser II, the sequel to Clive Barker’s S&M classic Hellraiser. With a background as a successful mime artist, Wilde began acting in the mid-eighties, with small roles in Death Wish 3 and the Indian hit Janbaaz.
Tom DeSimone
For over forty years, Tom DeSimone has carved a career our of the B-movie and exploitation film industry. Having first gained acclaim whilst still at UCLA for his student short Wooden Lullaby, DeSimone began in the industry as a post-production supervisor during the late sixties. His first feature film as a director, Terror in the [...]
Reform School Girls
Dr. Gore’s Funhouse recently spoke to cult B-movie director Tom DeSimone about his 1986 women-in-prison classic Reform School Girls, which featured exploitation regulars Sybil Danning (Chained Heat) and and Tiffany Helm (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning). Ostensibly a spoof of the genre, which DeSimone had previously explored with Prison Girls and The [...]
Johannes Roberts
Johannes Roberts is amongst several directors who have been responsible for the revival of horror in the British film industry. Having self-funded his first feature, Sanitarium, through credit cards, he enjoyed acclaim for his ambitious project When Evil Calls, a series which was initially shot for mobile phones.
William Winckler
William Winckler is a man of many talents; director, producer, writer and all-around filmmaker.
David Cass
Over recent years, thanks to the internet, DVD and genre magazines, countless long-lost movies have been rediscovered and introduced to a new generation of fans, eager to look back on a time before they were born when the world was a very different place. Whilst the likes of Anchor Bay, Blue Underground and Code Red [...]
Todd Farmer
He sent Jason Voorhees into space and brought B-movie veteran Tom Atkins back to the big screen and now he is set to turn Nicolas Cage 3D. Over the last decade, writer Todd Farmer has worked on a variety of horror projects that have included Jason X, The Messengers and My Bloody Valentine 3D, whilst [...]
Eliot Rockett
One of the best horror movies in years was Ti West’s The House of the Devil. Capturing an authentic look and feel of the early 1980s, the film managed to build a sense of dread without little bloodshed or nudity. His other successful horror, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, was the sequel to Eli Roth’s [...]
Courtney Gains
Throughout the 1980s Courtney Gains became something of a veteran of fantasy and horror. Following his creepy debut as the evil Malachai in the 1984 Stephen King adaptation Children of the Corn, Courtney appeared in such cult classics as Back to the Future and The ‘burbs. More recently he has provided memorable roles in Sweet [...]
Keith Coogan
Of all the movies that would be inspired by the success of Die Hard (which would include the Wesley Snipe’s flick Passenger 57), without a doubt the most enjoyable was Daniel Petrie Jr.’s high school thriller Toy Soldiers. Released in 1991 and co-written by David Koepp (who would later be responsible for Jurassic Park and [...]