
Jason Paul Collum
Directing
Biography
American filmmaker, journalist and author. Most of his film work is based in the horror genre. Made his feature-length film debut with 1995's 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 DeCoteau's 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 (3-episodes). 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 b-movie industry - drew the largest signing event at the Virgin MegaStore on Sunset Boulevard in 2004. It aired on Showtime from 2004-2007. This success led to the funding for Collum's OCTOBER MOON (2005), one of the first gay-themed horror films. It's 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 Corman's slasher franchsie through Shout!Factory, then the comedy SHY OF NORMAL (2011). Perhaps his greatest financial and critical success was SCREAMING IN HIGH HEELS: THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCREAM QUEEN ERA (2011), licensed to NBCUniversal and aired on SyFy and Chiller from 2012-2015. The documentary told of the careers of Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Michele Bauer, the three original "scream queens" of the 1980s b-movie 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 B's (McFarland) and contributed to the books Dreams Alive (St. Mary's Press, 1991), Creating a Christian Lifestyle (St. Mary's Press, 1996), and Attack of the B Queens (Luminary, 2003). In 2016 he published BASEMENTS, his first book of fiction, based on a story he'd written for a college course in 1994. The April/May 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 Gray's book ROGER CORMAN: BLOODSUCKING VAMPIRES, FLESHEATING COCKROACHES AND DRILLER KILLERS.
Known For

A group of college friends get together for a murder mystery weekend, but what starts as a little friendly game gets dark and bloody when they start actually being murdered.
Final Stab

Actresses best known for the power of their lungs in horror classics and cult favorites discuss what it's like to work within the B-movie industry and have a career based in horror.
Something to Scream About

Fifty lesser-known horror flicks hailed by critics and genre fans as "absolute must-sees" are given the spotlight with fun, engaging commentary from journalists, directors, actors and critics in a countdown like no other. Stalkers, monsters, slashers, evil dolls, terrorized babysitters, holiday maniacs, mannequins, eerie motels, even giant rats... they're ALL featured in "The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen!"
The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen

30 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, cast & crew revisit the scene of the crime and its sequels.
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

Residents of a half-way house are bombarded by 6 foot long killer scorpions. A horror/comedy homage to the giant mutant bug films of the 1950's. The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but has yet to see release on DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD.
Mega Scorpions

Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
Hell Asylum

A man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the recent death of his mother begins to believe another entity is living within the walls of his home.
Safe Inside

Follow the adventures of Sgt. Elke Mantooth, Lt. Drucilla Dread and The BMP Task Force as they seek out the worst "cine-terrorists" in movie history and bring their crimes to justice for your entertainment! The first BAD MOVIE POLICE case is a little gem from 1992 called GALAXY OF THE DINOSAURS.
Bad Movie Police: Case #1: Galaxy Of The Dinosaurs

Two years after their loved ones were murdered in obsessive rage, the survivors are dragged into a horrific psychological breakdown - and blood soaked plan for revenge.
October Moon 2: November Son
DOZERS is a scifi/horror comedy about a stress-relieving drug patch called Solace. Ashley and Buddy, a pair of Internet reporters, discover that the patches are making users go mad and erupt into violence.
Dozers

Jeb and Amber Wayne embark on a murderous road trip as they hunt for the man that witnessed their gruesome ministry.
Incest Death Squad 2

Two women's lives merge at the point of a fatal car accident. Immediately thereafter, one of the women awakens to find her world is no longer normal...
Julia Wept

A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
October Moon

Twenty-five years after she first encountered evil, reporter Meredith O'Brien (Karen Dilloo) again finds herself in danger, only now her daughter and other victims who survived near death assaults years ago are on the hit list of a bumbling Satanic Cult.
Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2

Is it possible to be possessed by Satan & God at the same time? This is the question Detective Mark Hastings (Wynhoff) and reporter Meredith O'Brien (Dilloo) are trying to answer as they search for an unknown killer who selects victims for dark, twisted reasons, then violently gores them to death and leaves them to be easily discovered. They must work quickly to uncover the truth before another mutilated body is strung up for public display. But whatcan they do when they learn the answer might be too close to home?
Mark of the Devil 666: The Moralist

Four years after the original massacre, a professor researches the teenage killers' personal lives for her dissertation on youth crimes. She soon discovers the teens friends and family members she interviews are being murdered days later, and she's next on the new killers' blood-soaked list.
5 Dark Souls, Part II: Roots of Evil

Go deeper and darker into the world of micro-budget horror as some of the genre's leading underground creators discuss their craft.
Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground

Seven years after the slaughter of a group of misfits, the sole surviving killer teen finds her own life, and those of her family, now in peri
5 Dark Souls, Part III: Retribution

In the summer of 2017, three people died in this house. This summer there will be more. New tenant Gibbs and former resident Alex must figure out why the walls creak, bugs infest the property - and who's next. Newly separated from his wife, Gibbs (Determan) rents a home where, in the summer of 2017, JJ Tyler (Harder) seemingly lost his mind after the death of this mother, Crystal Lake (O'Dea). By the time police arrived several bodies had piled up and rumors the house was haunted began circulating among the neighborhood children. Now, as noises within the walls increase nightly, and bugs infest the property inside and out, Gibbs reaches out to former resident Alex (Vanderhoef) to reveal why the house may have a "life" of its own.