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e.l.katz.

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About Me


"AUTOPSY", the gory hospital horror flick that I co-wrote with the writers of "The Toolbox Murders" remake, stars Jessica Lowndes, Robert Patrick, Michael Bowen, has wrapped and is currently in post-production.


"Pop Skull", an indie psychological horror film that I co-wrote and produced has recently wrapped and will make festival rounds soon.


Three years ago I wrote and produced a bizzaro splatterpunk film called "HOME SICK" . It stars Bill Moseley, Tom Towles, and Tiffany Shepis. Synapse Films will be releasing it on special edition dvd sometime around Halloween.

My Interests

diners, graphic novels, serial killers, insomnia, cooking, whiskey, smoking

I'd like to meet:

Crispin Glover.

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

Music:

the cranes, nick cave, babyland, hocico, the handsome family, the thermals, naked raygun, pegboy, my dying bride, bonnie prince billy, slayer, joy division, the smiths, the damned, the adverts, screeching weasel, lifetime, hip hop, everything everything everything

Movies:

film noirs, neo-noirs, post-apocalyptics, cult, horror, and splatter films.

Television:

True Crime and Cartoons.

Books:

Jim Thompson, Phillip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Grant Morrison, Richard K. Morgan, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons

Heroes:

Mostly fictional characters.

My Blog

Fangoria "HOME SICK" review

Straight from Fantasia Fest... http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php It's in the middle of the article.  ...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

Population 1280 Films Website

After five years of this shit, and we finally have a functional website... it has short films, music videos, news and trailers for both our features. www.population1280films.com...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:03:00 PST

new short film

Check out "1000 Year Sleep", the short film I wrote and Adam Wingard (Pop Skull, Home Sick) directed. It's one of the SXSW CLICK contest finalists, so if it wins it can play at the official fest. http...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:10:00 PST

AUTOPSY

I got to visit the set of Autopsy last week, which was surreal for a variety of reasons. For one, the shoot took place at a functioning mental hospital that housed only extremely violent psychopa...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:12:00 PST

Pop Skull

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/1600
Posted by e.l.katz. on Fri, 04 May 2007 07:55:00 PST

tiny movie reviews .2

"THE NUMBER 23" - A suspicious dog with an accusing glare. A slumming Danny Huston. Virginia Madsen's chest. A comedy actor way out of his depth and range. If any of these things interest you, then I ...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

tiny movie reviews #1

"CULT" - Ever thought that watching twenty models gouge out their left eyes in the name of some strange Japanese mystical entity could be completely dull and tedious? I sure did! But watching Cult onl...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

updates

Pop Skull has a website! http://www.popskullthemovie.com It's being sent out to festivals and sales reps... Autopsy shoots soon... next month actually, in a run down hospital in Baton Rouge. ...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:20:00 PST

Pop Skull teaser

Here is the youtube link for "Pop Skull", a flick that I co-wrote, and produced last year.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYYOsU5W6XQ...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:37:00 PST

horror short story .1

I'm going to be occasionally posting some horror short stories that I write up here. This one is the first. It has nothing to do with my room-mate, because he actually rocks, so Elan, you have nothing...
Posted by e.l.katz. on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:24:00 PST