David grew up just outside the Lake District in rural northwest England, where he and his three brothers thrived on an upbringing of film watching and storytelling. Upon graduating from University College London he entered the film industry working for Revolution Films and has since worked on many productions in a number of roles, learning from top directors and producers from the British and American industries along the way.
Vincent Price has long been a beloved actor in the horror genre, and starred in several very Lovecraftian films, including Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace(based on HPL's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward), Diary of a Madman (based on Guy De Maupassant's "The Horla"), and even portrayed the sorcerer John Carnby in Night Gallery's adaptation of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of The Sorcerer." This year, we welcome his daughter Victoria Price as our guest of honor.
OG Lurker, Filmmaker
Christian Matzke is an author, prop builder and filmmaker from Maine (just south of the Chesuncook Shoggoth Pit). He founded the website Propping Up the Mythos in the mid-Nineties after a high fever compelled him to sculpt his first Cthulhu statue.
After spending his first decade of adult life alternately working and bumming around the world, from Phnom Penh to Ouagadougou, Jesse Keller decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. He got his MFA at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and then made his first feature film, Blood Will Have Blood, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. His short films have also played at festivals around the USA. When not shooting, he teaches filmmaking at San Diego Mesa College.
Named by the AV Club as one of 10 female horror directors Blumhouse should hire, Izzy Lee is a writer and twice-nominated Rondo Award filmmaker. She has written for several fiction anthologies, as well as Birth.Movies.Death., Rue Morgue, Fangoria, Dread Central, and Diabolique, and is an editor for ScreenAnarchy.
Jon Dearnley is a Maine native, Philadelphia-based Director of Photography who has worked on everything from short films to network TV, music videos and features. He and Christian Matzke have collaborated for over 20 years on Lovecraftian and sci-fi short film projects.
Michael Shlain knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he is a writer-director and partner at Butcher Bird Studios, an award-winning creative media company in Los Angeles. Trained as an actor, he began his career as a literary agent before heeding the persistent cries of his soul and returning to his roots as a filmmaker. Recently, Shlain’s multi-format TV horror anthology IN A FOREIGN TOWN was an official selection at the 2019 MIPTV “In Development" forum at the Canneseries festival.
Henrik Möller is a Swedish underground filmmaker with over a hundred satirical short films to his credit. In the world of horror films he is mostly known for the Philip K Dick film festival winner "Inviting the Demon" and the H.P. Lovecraft film festival best feature winner "Feed the Light".
Malcolm Mills is a NYC-based filmmaker, actor, and songwriter. "You were really creepy!" is the most common compliment he received from years of theater. He plays a necromancer opposite Betty Gabriel (Get Out) in an upcoming feature, The Spine of Night, directed by the screenwriter of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots, Phil Gelatt.
After having studied cinema in Paris, Matthias Couquet has dedicated himself to the craft of filmmaking, while teaching screenwriting in workshops. He released his first non-student short film in 2018 with "The Summoned," a macabre tale which draws both from his strong leaning towards the fantastic genre and his interest in modern history and historical fiction. He is working on several movie projects and writing scripts for others, while continuing his own directorial plans. Matthias aims to pursue what he started with "The Summoned" and to keep bringing "weird fiction" to the screen.