Andrew Syers
ANDREW SYERS is author of the novel Long Distance Sleepwalker (2010) and the play You’ve Been a Wonderful Audience (2008). longdistancesleepwalker.blogspot.com
Darrell Buxton
DARRELL BUXTON is the editor of The Shrieking Sixties: British Horror Films 1960–1969 (2010). He is also a freelance lecturer, resident ‘cult movie historian’ at Derby’s Quad arts centre, and was a frequent contributor to the UK fanzines Samhain, Giallo Pages and We Belong Dead.
David Hyman
DAVID HYMAN was born in London. He has enjoyed watching films from an early age and often thinks some short films are more memorable than the main features they supported. He is currently employed as an Examiner at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification).
David Kerekes
DAVID KEREKES co-founded Headpress and its imprint Oil On Water Press. He is author of Mezzogiorno (2012) and Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit (1994), co-author of Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (1994 & 2012) and See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy (2001) and has written extensively on popular culture.
David Slater
DAVID SLATER co-founded Headpress. He has worked as a technician in the electronics and engineering industries, co-authored Killing for Culture (1994 & 2016) and See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy (2000) and has written several articles. His interests include movies, books, open country and forteana.
David Sutton
DAVID SUTTON is editor of Fortean Times magazine, and has written on film for numerous publications. He has a PhD in Film Studies, has lectured on British cinema history and is the author of A Chorus of Raspberries: British Comedy Films 1929–39 (2000). He divides his time between London and the Kent coast.
Gary Ramsay
GARY RAMSAY is a freelance journalist and editor. He has contributed to numerous film and music publications including Creeping Flesh, interviewed cult figures such as Tura Satana and Mike Mignola and is currently writing the book Sonic Celluloid — film and music soundtracks.
Graeme Hobbs
GRAEME HOBBS lives in the Welsh borders, where he writes and podcasts on film for MovieMail and makes eclectic chapbooks in his Colva Books series. A regular correspondent for Vertigo and Artesian, a collection of his writing entitled Let Yourself Be Broken, and which is far happier than it sounds, is currently in preparation.
James Oliver
JAMES OLIVER has written for Sight & Sound, Total Film, The Idler and many other less acclaimed (and, indeed, less salubrious) publications.
Jennifer Wallis
JENNIFER WALLIS is a historian and lecturer based in the UK. Her recent publications include the edited volume Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture (Headpress, 2016) and ‘Small screen shockers: Rape-revenge narratives in the made-for-TV movie’ in Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik (eds), Shocking Cinema of the 70s (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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.
Kim Newman
KIM NEWMAN is a critic, author and broadcaster. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines. His books about film include Nightmare Movies and Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon. His fiction includes the Anno Dracula series, The Hound of the D’Urbervilles and An English Ghost Story. He has written for television (Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema), radio (Afternoon Theatre: Cry-Babies), comics (Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland) and the theatre (The Hallowe’en Sessions), and directed a tiny film (Missing Girl). His latest novel is Something More Than Night (Titan Books). His web-site is at www.johnnyalucard.com. He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula.
Mark Goodall
MARK GOODALL is an academic who teaches and writes about film and music. He is also a musician and composer, filmmaker and has worked as a journalist, bookseller, community artist, printer and cheesemonger.
Martin Jones
MARTIN JONES is the editor of Bedabbled! British Horror and Cult Cinema. He is also the author of Psychedelic Decadence: Sex Drugs Low-art in Sixties and Seventies Britain (Headpress, 2001) and editor of Lovers Buggers & Thieves (Headpress, 2005).
Phil Tonge
PHIL TONGE is a cartoonist, writer and painter born and raised in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. His work has meandered through a multitude of so-called ‘outsider’ publications from the 1980s to the present day. He currently lives in Nottingham and has ‘plans’ but no money or internet presence.
Sam Dunn
SAM DUNN is head of video publishing at the British Film Institute (BFI), and was previously general manager at Tartan Video. A champion of little-seen and under-appreciated British films, he has contributed writings to Sight & Sound and is responsible for shaping the cultural direction of the BFI’s internationally acclaimed DVD and Blu-ray label.
Sarah Morgan
SARAH MORGAN is a TV Editorial Writer at PA Media’s northern HQ in East Yorkshire. She’s also a film and book reviewer for the On Yorkshire website and has penned articles for Bedabbled! British Horror and Cult Cinema. She has a degree in Fine Art and has completed a postgraduate course in Film Journalism at the BFI. When not watching obscure movies, she can usually be found supporting Sheffield Wednesday.
