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TRAVIS STEVENS (Director/Co-Writer)
Since 2010, Travis Stevens has produced a wide range of award-winning genre films that have played the Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes Director’s Fortnight, Sundance, SXSW, Telluride, Tribeca, Fantastic Fest, AFI, and other prestigious festivals.
Working with actors such as Rami Malek, Alisha Boe, Cleopatra Coleman, Kaniehtiio Horn, Alex Essoe, Lin Shaye, Matthew Gray Gubler, Kate Lyn Sheil, Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, David Koechner, DJ Qualls, Sheila Vand, and Beth Grant, each of these projects sought to expand the artistic potential of the modern genre film.
In 2019, his writing and directing debut
Girl On The Third Floor premiered at SXSW to great reviews (“The best of the (Midnighters) program” RogerEbert.Com) and then traveled the world. Acclaimed for its visual design, practical effects and wicked sense of humor, it won both a Fangoria Chainsaw Award (“Best First Feature”) and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
The Vampire is one of, if not,
the most well-known monsters in all of horror cinema. From Nosferatu in 1922 to Universal’s Dracula series in the ‘30s and ‘40s, and from Hammer Horror’s cycle in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, all the way up to BBC’s 2020 mini-series, Irishman Bram Stoker’s seminal novel
Dracula has had nearly a century of influence on cinematic horror. But what influenced Stoker? One theory is that Stoker was inspired by the irish legend of the Abhratch, an old Irish bloodsucker in the tradition of the Dearg Due or the Néamh Mairbh.