Emir Skalonja
Directing
Biography
Emir Skalonja was born on august 30th, 1987, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia). He moved to United States in 2002. His first film was in 1992, titled Psalm where he played the main character, named Slavko. It was a short film based on a short story by Mikhaila Bulgakova, about a boy's relationship to his neighbor at the start of a war. He started producing his own short films in 2012 and completed his first horror feature, Veronika, in 2014. He followed that with a short horror titled Man That You Fear. He lives in Buffalo, New York, with his wife Nicole and their two dogs and two cats. He attended University at Buffalo.
Known For

Exploitation anthology from the twisted minds of established and up and coming directors from across the globe.
Grindsploitation

Six people find themselves trapped in Love Canal, Niagara Falls, an old toxic waste site, and witness the first hours of the plague that brings the dead back to life.
The Plague

Lilith continues her string of murders and takes her friend Eve under her wing. Soon they find out that they are both being hunted by a ruthless sadist, Jackson, who will stop at nothing to kill them both.
Confessions Of A Homicidal Prostitute: Demonatrix

Plagued with constant warfare, disease and political, social and religious turmoil, the world as we know it ended in 2019. Many turned to cannibalism to survive in the world dying off due to famine. One man treks the wastelands to track down the group of cannibals who took everything from him. With dangers lurking at every turn, his character and will to survive is tested beyond limits.
Savage

What happens when an uncontrollable virus turns the living into the living dead?
Virus of the Dead

A modern western/noir action film about an ex hitman, Jericho, on a killing spree after witnessing his wife's brutal murder.
Jericho

In 1998, three film students, obsessed with true crime stories, and porn, set out to make a porno documentary about the murdered porn stars and along the way, make their own version of the casting couch.
Casting Couch Slaughter 2: The Second Coming

Caring for a mysterious root she discovered, Jude begins to suffer horrid hallucinations and has to fight for her life, and sanity, as lines between reality and sheer madness begin to blur
Gravis Terrae

Claire, a lone girl treks the new, dangerous wasteland, ravaged by famine and a virus, in search of food and clean water.
Anthropocene

Becky is pregnant. Miranda is her only companion. Together, they trek the winter wasteland, knee deep in snow, to find a house in the middle of nowhere. But with the dead lurking around every corner, staying in one place might be harder than it looks.
The Plague 3: The Road's End

A widowed woman, Lori, attempts to get back into the dating scene; But her happiness is short lived when she falls victim to a man who calls himself The Butcher, and his fetish for dismembering women.
The Butcher

A horror film about an urban legend that comes to life; a masked manic, dubbed Pigman, stalks a pair of unlikely strangers in a bloody game of cat and mouse that can only end in brutal bloodshed.
Holland Road Massacre: The Legend of Pigman

Lea, a disturbed teenager, copes with depression and bullying as best as she can. Constantly butting heads with her single, struggling mother, she is driven into a bad group of so called friends. When she witness a murder, she finds herself cornered and fiercly fighting for her own life that she had tried to take so many times.
Dying Embers

Veronika is a thriller about an abused young woman, Veronika, who after getting her life back on track, once again succumbs to a dark downward spiral of violence, torture and psychological torment.
Veronika

After Tom's and Jack's death, Becky and Jill continue their journey in the zombie apocalypse. Their goal is only to survive, until they see the mysterious signs for a sanctuary.
The Plague 2: Biohazard Blood

Boris, from Joe Sherlock's chapter of Dark Zone Thirteen, is summoned back to present a new collection of thrills, chills, spooks, and scares.
Tales of the Forgotten

Two porn directors set out to make, what they call, the greatest porno ever made...all from their casting couch. Over the course of their auditions, they meet a score of bizarre, horny, violent and religious characters. But everything comes to a bloody pause once they encounter a savage, power drill wielding maniac, who brutalizes his victims with a rusty drill bit.
Casting Couch Slaughter

A prostitute who is being interviewed by a man talks about her life, and how she went from a stripper to a murderous woman of the night.
Confessions of a Homicidal Prostitute

Teenage girl finds out, through her dreams and hallucinations, that she has a rather violent and morbid past. She sets out to right the wrong but her journey will take her to hell and back.
Flesh of My Flesh

Eight masked serial killers are dropped deep in the woods and pitted against each other in a bloody battle royale contest.