American filmmaker journalist and author Most of his film work is based in the horror genre Made his featurelength film debut with 1995s MARK OF THE DEVIL 666 THE MORALIST released by Moore Video He made two more films for Moore the cult classic 5 DARK SOULS 1996 and 5 DARK SOULS PART II ROOTS OF EVIL 1998 before moving to Los Angeles CA He began working for David DeCoteaus Rapid Heart Pictures on films like VOODOO ACADEMY 1999 ANCIENT EVIL 2000 THE BROTHERHOOD 2000 THE BROTHERHOOD II YOUNG WARLOCKS 2001 FINAL STAB 2001 and THE FRIGHTENING 2002 He also worked on commercials for SEGA OFF Bug Spray and the horror flicks HELL ASYLUM 2002 MEGA SCORPIONS 2003 and the BAD MOVIE POLICE comedy series 3episodes Based on the success of his 2000 short film JULIA WEPT Collum found backing for his next directorial feature SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT The release of the documentary about the working lives of actresses in the bmovie industry drew the largest signing event at the Virgin MegaStore on Sunset Boulevard in 2004 It aired on Showtime from 20042007 This success led to the funding for Collums OCTOBER MOON 2005 one of the first gaythemed horror films Its 2008 sequel OCTOBER MOON 2 NOVEMBER SON created the first gay horror film franchise in history He went to direct SLEEPLESS NIGHTS REVISITING THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRES 2010 for Roger Cormans slasher franchsie through ShoutFactory then the comedy SHY OF NORMAL 2011 Perhaps his greatest financial and critical success was SCREAMING IN HIGH HEELS THE RISE amp FALL OF THE SCREAM QUEEN ERA 2011 licensed to NBCUniversal and aired on SyFy and Chiller from 20122015 The documentary told of the careers of Linnea Quigley Brinke Stevens and Michele Bauer the three original scream queens of the 1980s bmovie industry As a journalist and author Collum published over 60 articles between 1999 2003 In 2002 Collum relocated to Chicago to work as an editor and graphic designer for Femme Fatales and Cinefantastique magazines In 2004 he published the book Assault of the Killer Bs McFarland and contributed to the books Dreams Alive St Marys Press 1991 Creating a Christian Lifestyle St Marys Press 1996 and Attack of the B Queens Luminary 2003 In 2016 he published BASEMENTS his first book of fiction based on a story hed written for a college course in 1994 The AprilMay 2013 issue of THE ADVOCATE magazine named Collum as one of their 40 Under 40 Artists To Watch He is also one of the subjects of the book OUT OF THE DARK by Sean Abley and is discussed in Beverly Grays book ROGER CORMAN BLOODSUCKING VAMPIRES FLESHEATING COCKROACHES AND DRILLER KILLERS
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