József Gallai

After watching Lady in the Water 2006 József Gallai decided to deal with filmmaking and started writing screenplays and short stories Between 2009 and 2012 he was mainly involved in amateur films in various genres In 2014 he wrote and codirected Hungarys first feature length found footage horror Bodom 2014 In this year the movie opened the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby UK as well as collected numerous nominations on film festivals including 30 Dies Festival in Andorra Golden Rake Award for Indie Horror and New York Scary Film Awards in the US and Amazon Horror Awards in Brazil In 2015 Bodom was in the final competition at the Full Moon Horror Fantasy Film Festival in Romania competing with award winning films such as Welp 2014 Horsehead 2014 and Réalité 2014 In the beginning of 2016 his next horror movie Moth 2016 was completed and finished 4th Best Feature Film at the International Horror Hotel in Cleveland Ohio The movie has been called a thoughtprovoking and chilling film by Found Footage Fiction and a front running for a new horror niche by Horror Habit According to Horror Asylum Moth is an unusual experience with some moment reminding the author of David Lynchs Inland Empire 2006 In the end of 2016 Gallai finished his fourth found footage feature A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex 2016 being described as an enjoyably sinister movie with a delightfully unhinged central performance by UK Film Review and collecting further positive reviews from Found Footage Critic Top Found Footage Films and Warped Perspective as well as three nominations including Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film on the International Filmmaker Festival World Cinema in Nice in 2017 In 2018 he completed his next short film Echoes 2018 which will be part of a horror anthology titled Blood Tales He also directed two internationally acknowledged films in 2019 Spirits in the Dark The Whispering Man that are set to be released worldwide in 2020 by Wild Eye Releasing Presently Gallai is working on his next paranormal thriller The Poltergeist Diaries featuring Oscar nominated Eric Roberts