Amanda Reyes
AMANDA REYES is a freelance writer and podcaster who focuses on the made for television movie genre, with her blog Made for TV Mayhem and its companion podcast. She currently lives in Austin, TX.
Chris Mikul
CHRIS MIKUL is a Sydney-based writer and publisher of the long-running zine Bizarrism, which is devoted to all manner of real-life strangeness.
Dan Budnik
DANIEL BUDNIK’s book, Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, was published by Headpress. His second book covers 1980s action films. He co-hosts a podcast on made for TV movies with Amanda Reyes. 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.
David Kerekes
DAVID KEREKES is co-founder of the publishing house Headpress. He has given talks and written extensively on film and media, including the books Killing for Culture (1994; expanded and revised in 2015), See No Evil and Sex Murder Art. His novella Mezzogiorno is rooted in the impoverished Italian South, touching on themes of family, community, place, and deep-rooted occult and folkloric beliefs. He has contributed to zines and books, most recently the foreword to Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
David Ray Carter
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.
DF Dresden
Jean-Paul Coillard
Jennifer Wallis
JENNIFER WALLIS is a historian of science, medicine, and technology, also distracted by British film and television of the 1970s, Canuxploitation cinema, and power electronics.
John Harrison
JOHN HARRISON is a freelance writer based in Melbourne, whose interests include collecting vintage 8 & 16mm sexploitation loops and educational shorts, which he hopes to eventually archive and release on video and DVD. In his spare time, he runs a small mail-order business called The Graveyard Tramp, which specialises in off-beat items of pop culture memorabilia. In 2003 he curated an exhibition of vintage adult paperback cover art at The Basement Cafe in Melbourne.
Julian Upton
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.
Kevin Hilton
Kier-La Janisse
Lance Vaughan
Lee Gambin
Martyn Bamber
Paul Freitag-Fey
Rich Flannagan
Thomas Scalzo
Todd Garbarini
Tom Crites
CRITES lived and worked back and forth across the U.S., fulfilling capacities from Zamboni driver to Trust Officer. He was been actively involved in independent publishing for over twenty years and contributed much artwork to zines in that time.
Virginie Sélavy