william hendricks, director & producer...
Chris’s love for film started at a young age in Crestline, Southern California. He would go to the local theater, which resembled an old airplane hanger, every week to watch the new releases. Chris would take his father’s Old Super 8mm camera into the woods and make short films with his old G.I. Joe action figures. When Chris went to High School he and his friends would make short films with the schools VHS cameras which were popular with his classmates.
Chris studied Theatre and Film in college, but ended up getting his Bachelors degree in Business Management. In 2005, with his childhood filmmaking friends Geoff Hamby and Jon Sorensen, Chris played the title character and produced the Internationally popular short film Zombie Hunter. In 2006, he played the lead role of Virgil the Romanian strong man and produced the feature film Carnies, with horror icons Doug Jones and Reggie Bannister.
In 2010, Chris appeared on screen with Reggie Bannister in the cult classic Bloody Bloody Bible Camp. It was on this film he met Director Vito Trabucco, Lance Polland - Director of exploitation comedies Crackwhore and Werewolves in Heat, and iconic horror film Director Tim Sullivan. Chris can be seen in Tim’s portion of Chillerama called I was a Teenage Werebear as Werebear Ricky.
In 2015, Chris is slated to appear in the Horror/Comedy Retail, directed by Cult Movies Magazine’s Editor In Chief Schroeder. Chris will be Directing segments of the upcoming Superhero comedy Squadron of Heroes with Pain is Beautiful’s Writer/Producer Lee Woodford.
Outside of filmmaking Chris spends time with his wife of eleven years Saima, and his Siberian Husky Chinook, who was the inspiration behind the name of Chris’s Production company, Chinook Productions.
elissa
dowling...
mia welsh...
The desire to perform came early for Elissa Dowling, by age 8 she was dancing in the NYC Ballet Company's the Nutcracker. At age 11 she was invited to tour with an improv troop where she gained valuable experience in the art of ad lib. By 13 she had already starred in stage productions including Little Shop of Horrors and had her television debut as the notorious lips singing the opening theme song from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The transition from stage to screen has worked well for Elissa whose expansive acting range has already landed her unique and diverse movie roles such as a transvestite bartender, an attorney, a serial killer, even a gothic dominatrix from New York.
Her skills as a character actress have afforded her film performances so intense that she is almost completely unrecognizable. Several of the films she has starred in have been lined up with Lions Gate distribution and she has also achieved a recognized body of work within the independent movie circuit.
tim
sullivan...
alex
christopher...
Writer/Director/Producer known for a wide variety of modern horror films, most significantly cult favorite 2001 Maniacs and its popular follow-up, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. Beginning his career as a New Jersey teenager pumping fake blood for 80's splatter classic The Deadly Spawn, Sullivan moved to Los Angeles where he worked in development at New Line Cinema, co-producing Detroit Rock City.
With a directing style ranging from the 'splatstick' nature of the Maniacs franchise to the serious bent of teen thriller Driftwood, Sullivan gained additional notoriety as celebrity director of Vh1's hit series Scream Queens, as well as creator and host of "Shock N Roll", his weekly talk and video blog on leading web network Fearnet.
Recently re-joining forces with Detroit Rock City director Adam Rifkin for the comedy/horror anthology Chillerama, Sullivan contributed the musical segment I Was a Teenage Werebear, embracing his passion for camp and rock and roll.
Set to follow Chillerama, a variety of projects produced through Sullivan's production entity, New Rebellion Entertainment; teen comedy Battle of the Bands, anthology Triptych, and The Poet in Exile, a stirring drama based on The Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek's bestselling novel about his life with Jim Morrison.
ivet
corvea...
lydia
dominique...
Ivet Corvea was born and raised in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. As a young girl, Ivet showed a desire to entertain, performing plays for her family, friends and schoolmates. At the age of 9, Ivet and her family were able to relocate to the United States, moving to Miami, Florida. After graduation, Ivet followed her dreams to Hollywood where she balances her time gracing the stage in theatre productions, honing her craft on television shows and staring in feature films.
From appearances in television shows including Raising The Bar, Prime Suspect, The Usual Suspects, and a recurring role in They Live Among Us, to her work in independent films Run! Bitch Run!, Nude Nuns With Big Guns, Bloody Wedding, and Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, Ivet has shown great range and bravery in her performances.
mike
pfaff...
detective jim
hunt...
Mike is on CBS’s hit sitcom 2 Broke Girls as Brian, the 'friendly' neighbor from across the hall. You can also catch him on TNT’s The Librarians opposite Noah Wyle and Rebecca Romijn. He recently gave the acceptance speech for Best Drama at the prestigious Imagen Awards, which aired on PBS, on behalf of the cast of Caribe Road.
Mike also has a series regular role, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the cable TV series Fields of Valor, which is currently running on Netflix, Military, Velocity and 3Net channels and won the Lumiere Award for outstanding achievement in 3D Television. Before that, he wrapped in the lead role in the feature film Lazarus Rising as Michael Fitzpatrick, a hit man with a history of violence who ends up falling in love with a mark.
Pfaff recently appeared opposite Katey Sagal and Charlie Hunnam as a tough Irish Guard on Sons of Anarchy. He has a guest leading role as a normal guy turned killer in Vantage Point (Discovery TV), a guest starring role on Deadliest Warrior (Spike TV) and also played a lead role, as an escaped convict, in the Science Fiction thriller feature Painkiller.
Mike is a senior member of SFI Stunt Team, is an accomplished boxer, Krav Maga practitioner, swordsman, certified in firearms, and was an NCAA Div. 1 Scholarship track athlete and captain.
lynn
ayala...
detective traci
johnson...
2014 Starship: ApocalypseMarta
2014 Starship: RisingMarta
2010 Carnies (Video)Zoe Kroistakas
2010 Beautysleep SymphonyDarla Jean
2005 Zombie Hunter (Short)Survivor
2005 Skeletons in the Closet (Video)Maria Torres
jessica
sonneborn...
samantha
raymond...
Jessica Sonneborn grew up in Connecticut and earned a BA in Anthropology from Wheaton College and a graduate teaching degree from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. After teaching in Boston for a couple of years she turned her attention to acting in Independent movies, eventually deciding to make a serious try in the film industry by moving to Los Angeles in 2005.
Jessica has had leads in a variety of genres from thrillers: Lure, which she also wrote and produced, Sci-Fi: The Witches of Oz (Christopher Lloyd, Billy Boyd, Sean Astin), comedy: Kevin Smith’s Movie Club presents: Money Shot (Jason Mewes), which she also wrote and produced, Horror: Alice D. (Kane Hodder, Al Snow), which she also wrote and directed, Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (Reggie Bannister and Tim Sullivan) and just released: Piranha Sharks (Kevin Sorbo).
She is in numerous other independent productions including: American Girls (Bai Ling), Rabid Love, Pain is Beautiful, Alpha House, Never Open the Door, Red Sleep, Love Squared and also had guest stars on Stephen Merchants' Hello Ladies, Diablo Cody's United States of Tara, and Charles Shyers, Him and Us"(pilot).
Most recently she plays the lead in dramatic thrillers, Silence, and The House Across the Street, surrounded by Eric Roberts, Alex Rocco, Ethan Embry, and Courtney Gains, directed by Arthur Luhn, and just wrapped Leigh Scott comedy, Extra Curricular Activities.
Jessica has several movies lined up for 2014 and early 2015, including the horror remake: Psycho a Go Go, mutant horror, Contaminated, One Night Of Fear shooting in Florida, and was just cast in the military drama, based on a true story: Light Wounds (with Tommy Flanagan).
michael
bates...
producer &
director of photography...
Pain Is Beautiful – Producer/DOP
Never Open The Door – Camera Operator
Chillerama: House of Psycho Charger (Video short) – Producer/DOP
Chillerama – Camera Operator
Crack Whore – DOP
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp – Photographer/DOP
One for the Road – Producer/DOP
schroeder...
associate producer, prop master, special fx makeup, set photographer, &
wardrobe....
Schroeder is a Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, and Special FX Artist, and is also the Publisher & owner of Cult Movies Magazine. In the 80's and 90's, he was a well known DJ on the Los Angeles club scene, going by then name DJ WACK "O".
In 2012, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most kills in a slasher/horror film for his movie The Summer Of Massacre.
Schroeder is currently working on a new horror movie, RETAIL (Where Murder Is Convenient). He had many roles on the production of Pain Is Beautiful, including Associate Producer, Prop Master, Special FX Makeup Artist, Set Photographer, and Wardrobe.
In Schroeder's own words, he's been making movies for over 20 years and will continue to do so until he dies.
lee
woodford...
writer &
producer...
Born and raised in the Western suburbs of Sydney, Lee has spent most of his life studying every aspect of film making. Inspired by the likes of Star Wars and the classic comedies of Abbott & Costello and The Marx Brothers, Lee developed a great love of films from a very young age.
Unable to afford formal education, he utilized whatever resource he could find, from books to DVD behind the scenes extras. In 2004, Lee wrote, produced, directed and acted in his first film, Dark Dreaming for $5,000. Whilst it was never distributed, this project served as his film school and taught Lee many lessons about the film making process. Taking the advice from one of his writing idols, Neil Gaiman, Lee took a long break from film making to focus on improving his writing and has developed a large number of scripts and stories that can be quickly and easily developed.
During the pre-production on another film and a documentary, Lee was presented with the story of Pain Is Beautiful and set to work writing the script, which was completed in 11 days.
Lee is currently writing a horror feature called Blood Tales, with the intention to producing and directing, as well as writing, producing and directing segments of superhero comedy, Squadron of Heroes.
