CONTRIBUTOR NOTES

Martyn Bamber holds a BA (Hons) in Film and Television from the University of Westminster, London, and an MA in History of Film and Visual Media from Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked in film and television subtitling and translation for over ten years, and has written on film for various websites including Close-Up Film and Senses of Cinema.

Daniel Budnik’s book, Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, was published by Headpress. His second book, due out soon, covers 1980s action films. He co-hosts a podcast on made for TV movies with this book’s editor. His writing can be found on the blog Some Polish American Guy Reviews Things. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife and many animals.

Jeff Burr is a noted filmmaker and made for television movie lover. He has directed Vincent Price (From a Whisper to a Scream) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre III), and he thinks Bad Ronald is a good time.

David Ray Carter is the author of Conspiracy Cinema: Propaganda, politics and paranoia from Headpress. He began writing about film in 2000. In addition to reviewing several thousand films, he has contributed essays to anthologies on topics as varied as comic books and professional wrestling. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Jean-Paul Coillard is a long-time music, cinema and books fanatic who lives and works in Paris. Former journalist in the rock, metal and industrial press (Rage Magazine, Elegy, Feardrop), he has written books of fiction and biography (NIN, Rob Zombie, Slayer) and one book dedicated to the cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky, written alongside the creator of Santa Sangre and Holy Mountain.

Tom Crites lived and worked back and forth across the US. He was actively involved in independent publishing for over twenty years and contributed much artwork and writing to zines until his untimely death in 2013.

DF Dresden is the owner of many fine Sharkskin suits. Currently residing in Dublin, Ireland, in a house made entirely out of guitars and VHS tapes.

Rich Flannagan has been a writer for several years now, and spends much of his time trying to reconcile his love for the films of Powell and Pressburger with his obsession with Rudy Ray Moore’s no-budget Blaxploitation extravaganzas. He is the editor at Videotape Swapshop, a site devoted to the crappier side of film.

Paul Freitag-Fey is a freelance film writer whose work has appeared in Cashiers du Cinemart, VideoScope and Shock Cinema, and online at Daily Grindhouse and Bright Lights Film Journal. When not indulging in cinematic curiosities, he does computer stuff. He lives in a Chicago suburb with his husband, Sid, their dog-like cat Laszlo and their dog-like dog Roscoe.

Lee Gambin is a writer, author and film historian. He writes for Fangoria, Shock Till You Drop, Delirium, Warner Bros. and Scream Magazine. He has written the books Massacred By Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film, We Can Be Who We Are: Movie Musicals of the 1970s and the soon-to-be released The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film. He runs Melbourne based film society Cinemaniacs and lectures on cinema studies, currently working on a lecture series called “Can You Dig It?: Tortured Young Men in Film from 1976–1986.”

Todd Garbarini’s love affair with horror began after catching a rerun of an NBC airing of Dan Curtis’s Burnt Offerings in the summer of 1981. A writer for CinemaRetro.com and HorrorNews.net, he thrives on spooky made for TV movies from the 1970s, in addition to meeting in person those responsible for the on-screen fright fests that have fuelled his dreams for years.

John Harrison is a freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His book on vintage adult paperbacks, Hip Pocket Sleaze, was published by Headpress in 2011. In 2013, he self-published Blood on the Windscreen, a booklet which examined the violent and notorious Driver’s Education films produced in America between 1959-1975. He is currently working on several fiction and nonfiction projects, including a compendium of his late-90’s fanzine Reel Wild Cinema!

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, Editor-in-Chief of Spectacular Optical Publications, founding director of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films and co-edited the books KID POWER! and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s.

Kevin Hilton has been a lifelong fan of film and television. He has a BA Combined Honors degree in Film and Communication and has been a regular guest panelist on Cambridge radio’s film review show. He currently lives in Cambridge, England.

David Kerekes is a founder of Headpress. He is co-author of the books Killing for Culture (revised and expanded in 2016) and See No Evil. He is the author of Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit, and has written extensively on popular culture. His meditation on family and the Italian Diaspora, Mezzogiorno, was published in 2012.

Chris Mikul is a Sydney-based writer and collector of curiosities. His books include Bizarrism, a compilation of articles from his long running zine of the same name, TV Poems, Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary, The Cult Files and The Eccentropedia. A second Bizarrism book will be published by Headpress in 2016.

Amanda Reyes is a writer who specializes in the beloved made for television movie. Her blog and companion podcast, Made for TV Mayhem covers everything from the Movie of the Week to Lifetime. Her other work has appeared on Film Threat, Retro Slashers, in Butcher Knives and Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights and Fun of the Slasher Film, and in the magazine Sirens of Cinema.

Thomas Scalzo has written extensively for the film review website notcoming.com, focusing primarily on horror and cult films. He is also a co-author of ShockOctober, the latest in the ongoing ShockMarathons series of film review books dedicated to horror offerings from the 1970s and 1980s. A selection of reviews from this series can be found on shockmarathons.com.

Virginie Sélavy is the founder and editor of Electric Sheep, the online magazine for transgressive cinema. She has edited the collection of essays The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology and has contributed to World Directory Cinema: Eastern Europe and Film Locations: Cities of the Imagination—London. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Sight&Sound, the Guardian and Frieze.

Julian Upton has written on US and British film for publications such as Filmfax, Bright Lights and the Journal of British Cinema and Television. He is the author/editor of the Headpress books Fallen Stars and Offbeat: British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems. He lives in Leicestershire, UK.

Lance Vaughan is a lifelong horror fan living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is cocreator of the website Kindertrauma, which focuses on exploring the films, books, and TV shows that scared us as children. His writing can be found in Butcher Knives & Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights & Fun of the Slasher Film and Mad Monster Magazine and he has been interviewed by The New York Times. His hobbies include cat wrangling and reminding people of the things they’ve tried so very hard to forget.

Jennifer Wallis is a historian of medicine and science at the University of Oxford. She has previously contributed to Headpress titles Offbeat: British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities, and Forgotten Gems and Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation.