Reel Talks with Chris Alexander

Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.

Chris Alexander, Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema

Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, Film Connoisseur

Chris Alexander is a Canadian author, editor, teacher, composer and filmmaker. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous horror and dark fantasy films like Blood for Irina, Queen of Blood, Female Werewolf, Scream of the Blind Dead, Space Vampire, and Parasite Lady. He is the composer and producer of the full length electronic music albums Music for Murder, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Body Double, and the upcoming Drakulon (from the UK label "Library of the Occult"). He is also the author of the bestselling book Corman/Poe, which chronicles the making of director Roger Corman's "Poe Cycle" of horror movies and the new book Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema, both available from Britain's Headpress Publishing.

Scott Adlerberg is the author of the novels Spiders and Flies, Jungle Horses, Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads, Mystery Tribune, and Criminal Element.  Every summer, he hosts the Reel Talks film commentary series in Bryant Park in Manhattan.  He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.