Kurtzman began his career in 1984 when he moved from his hometown of Crestline,Ohio, to Hollywood, California, to pursue his interest in special effects. After establishing himself in the special effects arena, Kurtzman turned to directing and producing. His first project was From Dusk till Dawn for which he wrote the original story, served as co-producer, and created the special effects. In 2002, Kurtzman left K.N.B. EFX Group and started, along with his wife, their own production company,Precinct 13 Entertainment. Kurtzman was the first person to pay Quentin Tarintino to write a screenplay. For $1,500, Tarintino penned the screenplay for "From Dusk 'Til Dawn based on a short story Kurtzman had written about an action movie with the vampire element

Herschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore" (a title also given to Italian director Lucio Fulci [3]) though his film career included works in a range of exploitation film genres including juvenile delinquent films, nudie-cuties, two children's films and at least one rural comedy. In 2010, Lewis is releasing his first film in nearly 30 years titled The Uh-Oh Show about a television game show where the contestants are dismembered for each wrong answer. The first screening of this movie was 8 November 2009 at the Abertoir Horror Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales and concluded with Lewis' questions and answers about the film.

Lloyd Kaufman is many things: producer, director, screenwriter, editor, composer, actor, and, above all, a renegade fighting against the further conglomeration and homogenization of Hollywood. Kaufman is president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, one of the last bastions of independent, low-budget exploitation films. He and long-time business partner Michael Herz launched Troma as a distribution company in the late '70s. One of Kaufman's best-known and best-loved cult films is Toxic Avenger (1986) and Tromeo and Juliette (1996). His last film, Poultrygeist : Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) is still running in differents festival and specials events.

Tony Timpone is the longtime editor of both Fangoria Magazine and its website, Fangoria.com, having been with the publication since 1985.In fall 2004, he served as a producer on Bravo’s five-hour documentary series The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In the early ’90s, Timpone helped guide the first three Fangoria movies for Columbia TriStar Home Video: Mindwarp, Children of the Night, and Severed Ties. He currently serves as an acquisitions chief for Fangoria’s various video labels. In addition, he is consulting producer/recurring guest on Fangoria Radio (Sirius Satellite Radio channel 108 / XM Satellite Radio channel 139) with Dee Snider and Debbie Rochon. Since 1993, Timpone has helped program international horror/fantasy festivals in Milan, Italy and Montreal, Canada.He has been a frequent media spokesman for the horror industry,appearing on MTV, Nightline, Geraldo, Entertainment Tonight, Showbiz Today, CBS Evening News, and numerous documentaries.

Debbie Rochon grew up in British Columbia, Canada. She was a child of the streets and victim of much abuse until she accidentally ended up in a featured extra role in Paramount's Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)!
 Since then Debbie has starred in dozens of horror movies and has gained cult stardom worldwide. Since 1994, she has acted in various roles in Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Productions, most notably Tromeo and Juliet (1996) and Terror Firmer (1999), as well as many other low-budget independent made-for-video horror flicks in lead, supporting, minor and bit parts. Although she is mostly associated with creepy features and thrillers because of her evenly-shaped, dark-haired appearance on and off camera, she has garnered acclaim for her turns in comedy and drama. She has also co-hosted a number of radio shows in New York City that focused on film and pop culture.

Sv Bell, Quebec champion of the horror film in all it’s forms, a director who, rather than complain about lack of funds, takes action and offers each year an eccentric gem made with minimal means. His passion and resourcefulness more than make up for the low production costs and he always end up with something far more entertaining than many big-budget films. Bell doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but he knows the conventions of the horror film and applies them with a competence that is equaled by his love of the genre. He always inserts the right dose of twisted situations, supernatural and grotesque, giving the public what it wants without resorting to cliché d’exaggerations.

Amy Lynn Best is a trained dancer and actress who started in the business by co-producing the independent feature horror film, The Resurrection Game, and co-stars as the pop psychologist turned zombie exterminator, Sister Mary Bliss. Like many independent film producers, Amy learned the film business from the ground up. On the short haunted house film Tenants, for instance, Amy studied cinematographer from that film's director of photography, Bill Fuller. Out of necessity, she learned the basics of grip work, camera operation, and the fine art of line producing. In addition to acting in and producing The Resurrection Game, Born in Topeka, Kansas but raised as a Pittsburgh native, Amy studied acting and dancing since she was three years old. She has acted or worked on many films and made her feature directorial debut on Happy Cloud Pictures' Severe Injuries. Amy's most notable cameo is in Paul Scrabo's Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots, a funny parody of the b-movie industry starring Debbie Rochon. An outspoken advocate for women in the horror industry, Amy co-created the Women in Horror Website Pretty-Scary.net

Jimmy O, has co-written and composed various musicals, he is a gifted cartoonist and he is currently a medical illustrator at Johns Hopkins University.  And all of that experience has led him to go that one step further and direct horror movies. Jimmy's third film, The Good Sister have been preceded by a horror musical titled SILVER SCREAM and the cult classic CHAINSAW SALLY. Jimmyo is currently writing, directing, editing, and putting out a web sitcom, sequel of sorts, to Chainsaw Sally titled The Chainsaw Sally Show.

Pete Chiarella practically grew up in front of a movie screen, having seen every major and minor genre film in a grindhouse or drive in. He write's under the name 42nd Street Pete. « I spent the bulk of the 70's and 80's hanging out on that fabled block. I'm involved in writing, narrating, producing, and performimg all things weird and wonderful. » He's now on staff at The Cinema Wasteland Show , held twice a year in Strongville ,Ohio. It is THE show for Drive In & Grindhouse Fans.

Maurice Devereaux (pronounced Morris Devro) was born in Montreal, Canada, and showed an interest in movies at an early age. He writes, produces, directs and edits his own films ever since he studied cinema at Ahuntsic College. After his self-financed first effort, Blood Symbol (1994), his second feature, Lady of the Lake (1998) and his follow-up, $LA$HER$ (2001), were distributed in the U.S.A. under the "Fangoria presents" label, and in the U.K., Canada, France, and Germany. He then wrote and directed PMS: Survival Tips (2003), a short film shot over a week-end, winner of the most popular film at SPASM film festival, and a YouTube hit (Dec 2006) with well over 2 million viewers in just a month. Devereaux's latest film, End of the Line (2006) was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and has won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Dead by Dawn film festival in Scotland (2007) and the Silver Audience Award at Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal (2007). It has also appeared at many other prestigious film festivals (San Sebastien Horror and Fantasy Film Festival in Spain, Boston Underground Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film).

Edward is the founder of the recording act, Midnight Syndicate. He also founded Entity Productions which (as Midnight Syndicate's distributor) has become one of the largest suppliers of original Halloween music in the world. In 2007, he returned to his filmmaking roots by forming Midnight Syndicate Films and beginning production on a remake of his 1996, horror film, "The Dead Matter."

Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and actor. He has been the managing editor of Fangoria Magazine since 1990.[1]His writing credits include reviews for The Motion Picture Guide, The Blockbuster Video Guide, and Movies on TV and Videocassette. For nine years, he wrote and self-published the horror review fanzine Scareaphanalia.Gingold's credits as a screenwriter include Leeches, Halloween Night, Shadow: Dead Riot and Ring of Darkness. He also has several credits as an actor, mostly bit parts, in films such as, The Suckling, The Blood Shed, A Return to Salem's Lot, Troma's War, The Toxic Avenger Parts II and III, and Sweatshop.

Born in San Diego California, raised in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico; later in Mississauga, Canada. Graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literary Studies and Philosophy and did a three year stint as music and news editor of RPM Weekly, once the Canadian equivalent of Billboard. Later still, became bored with themusic industry and in 1997 launched RUE MORGUE, an independent magazine focusing on “horror in culture and entertainment.” n 2004, Gudiño expanded the RUE MORGUE brand to the country’s largest horror convention, the RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR which has brought guests as diverse as Clive Barker, George Romero, Crispin Glover, Alice Cooper, Elvira, Linda Blair, Tom Savini and many more to Toronto. That same year, he produced NIGHTMARE PICTURE THEATRE, a multimedia stage show starring James Fisher that became a full-length album of the same name.Currently Rodrigo is working on several feature film projects along with overseeing all things RUE MORGUE.

Trent Haaga is an actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who has been involved in over 40 feature films, including Deadgirl, Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!, Living & Dying, and Gimme Skelter. He is also the co-author of the St. Martin's Press book Make Your Own Damn Movie, with Troma President Lloyd Kaufman. Trent is now filming, Chop, is first feature film as a director

Gary Jones - As a director, producer and effects artist, Michigan-born Gary Jones has been working in the film industry for over twenty years starting with Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness. The television shows hes' directed include Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules. He's also produced several films including Boogeyman 3, and the ScyFy Channel features, Lightning Strikes and Ghouls. Most recently he was producer on Midnight Syndicate Films classic dark fantasy thriller, The Dead Matter.

Suzi Lorraine grew up on the East Coast, spending time in New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina... .Suzi has worked extensively as a model with dozens of photo shoots behind her as well numerous product promos, commercials, music videos and now even boasts her very own Terror Card celebrating her terrific acting career in the horror genre. In recent years Suzi has worked with some of the greats of the genre including, Tom Savini, Gunnar Hansen, Debbie Rochon and Sybil Danning while she recently completed scenes for a movie called "Sea of Dust" starring legendary English Hammer Queen Ingrid Pitt. She’s also a columnist for the Italian-based magazine, Horror Mania as well as writing a monthly "Diary of a Scream Queen" for the UK magazine Gorezone. And recently, Suzi received her first production credit for Won Ton Baby!

Native New Yorker model-actress-entrepreneur Rachael Robbins majored in film production at Hunter College before launching a modeling career that took her to South Beach and eventually Australia before returning back to New York. Now she is putting that film knowledge to work first hand. The petite blonde has been acting in films for the past years appearing in such movies as Troma’s ‘Terror Firmer’, ‘Little Shop of Erotica’ with Marilyn Chambers, ‘Four Deadly Reasons’, ‘Deadly Memories’ (as Amy) with Robert Z’dar and Tina Krause, ‘Sexual Intrigue’, and ‘Body Shop’. She had multiple roles in the Brinke Stevens’ penned homage to horror ‘Dr. Horror’s Erotic House of Idiots’ alongside such genre names as Debbie Rochon, Tina Krause, and Conrad Brooks. She’s been seen as heroine Maura Holloway in Shock-o-Rama’s ‘Screaming Dead’ with Misty Mundae, and also has a starring role as Raven Lavine in ‘Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers’. Rachael is also a favorite with the folks at Playboy -- appearing in several of their videos.

Courtney Solomon is a Canadian film producer. Solomon produced, wrote and directed the 2000 film Dungeons & Dragons His latest film, An American Haunting, is based on the Bell Witch legend in Tennessee.He is the founder and present head of After Dark Films, a film production and distribution company specializing in horror films, and organizer of the annual horror film festival Horrorfest featuring 8 Films to Die For."I think everybody likes to be scared. Horror movies are an exciting alternative to action movies. It's a great date movie type thing. It's a perfect movie to go to if you are a teenager with your boyfriend or girlfriend - same thing for college kids."

Brinke Stevens is an American actress, model and writer.As of 2008, Stevens has appeared in over 100 movies, primarily in the horror, sci-fi and fantasy film genres. From her long list of acting credits she has gained notoriety as a scream queen, In addition to acting Stevens has co-written a number of screenplays, co-produced two documentaries. Brinke Stevens appeared on the 2009 cover of the popular pulp movie magazine Mondo Cult which featured an article about her role in The Tingler.

Award-winning Canadian editor/director Christian Viel began his career at the age of 20 by writing, producing, directing and editing Lignes de Vie, an ambitious feature length police action drama. He kept himself busy by producing, directing and editing about 50 shorts films, most of them action oriented. In 1992, he directed a ten minute demo reel for BlackWatch Communications The Hunter which got him the nickname of Montreal’s John Woo by the press. In 2003, he wrote, produced, directed and edited RECON 2020 an ambitious militaryscience-fiction film that follows a bunch of space marines on a suicide mission on a deserted colony. The film won numerous awards, most notably Best Sci-Fi/Action Film at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival in England in 2005 and the Best Science-Fiction Film award at the Wreck-Beach Film Festival. The film was also an official selection of the Fantasia Film Festival as well as a special presentation at the Indie Meet Las Vegas. Christian is currently hard at work finishing off Heroes of the North, his latest web series and in the early stages of planning the last chapter of the RECON saga, RECON 2024: Rise of Merc as well as the shooting of his zombie film, Death Row.

Mike Watt is an award-winning filmmaker, author and journalist. He is perhaps best-known for his work as an entertainment writer for such magazines as Cinefantastique, Femme Fatales, Film Threat, Pretty/Scary, The Dark Side, Draculina and is the editor of Sirens of Cinema Magazine. He is an outspoken advocate for the horror genre and has made it the focus of his career. In 1997, he co-founded Happy Cloud Pictures with his partners, Amy Lynn Best and Bill Homan, in order to produce the feature film, The Resurrection game. He has written four novels, including the novelization to the aforementioned film. Recently, he wrote, edited and directed Demon Divas and the Lanes od Damnation starring Debbie Rochon, Brinke Stevens, Amy Lynn Best, Lilith Stabs and Robyn Gribbs.