John Gray(XLV)
- Writer
Born April 9th, 1976 in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Texarkana, Texas.
John Gray cut his teeth on horror films of the 70s and 80s, and first
used his grandfather's 8mm camera at age 9. Gray spent the 1980s
idolizing his favorite directors John Carpenter, Lucio Fulci, Dario
Argento, Tobe Hooper, and Wes Craven and working on films as an amateur
director. By the time Gray turned 13, he had shot over 60 short and
feature length films with his brother Spencer in the backwoods of
Texarkana, TX. Their first film, (a knock of the Texas Chainsaw
Massacre) featured a chainsaw wielding family, in which John played the
father and cook (as well as co-director). All but one of the films were
horror themed, the other a post-apocalyptic feature starring John's
brother Spencer as "Daremo", the lone swordsman of a distant future
overrun with zombies, cannibals, Ninja's, and a hockey masked leader
very similar to The Road Warrior. Gray then decided to take his love of
horror and apply it to the digital age. In 1997, he joined forces with
Rich Carlin and Petch Lucas on the horror web-site www.pitofhorror.com
and www.gutsandgory.com. The sites (a labor of love) went from a few
hundred thousand hits per year to over 4 million a month by 2004. In
2000 Gray co-wrote the upcoming slasher film "Job", again with his
brother Spencer. They wrote the feature together at work and traded
script ideas via email. Shopping the film around the convention circuit
for almost 6 years, they finally landed a production deal and the dream
became a reality. The film (scheduled to be released in 2008), is a
brutal slasher film about a detective (Michael Pare) that unearths some
dark secrets while investigating the disappearance of several priests
who run a remote summer camp for boys. John Gray's intention has always
been to become a working feature film director... and now, after many
years of hard work... that dream is finally coming true.