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Box
art by Dead Alive Productions.
Apparently, they thought this guy looked scarier than our
leading man, Don Wood. What do you think?
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JAMES
FELIX MCKENNEY
was born in Connecticut and raised in Southern Maine. He spent
much of the 1990's working in Boston underground theatre with
the House of Borax and Acme
Theatr groups as well as with their various offshoots,
in many capacities: actor, stagehand, playwright, director and
doorman.
In 1995, he
founded MonsterPants, then the publisher of underground comic
books. Three issues of COW were published,
for which McKenney was co-editor and publisher, contributing writer
and occasional artist. Also from MonsterPants Comics was a special
edition of PSYCHONAUT by Serbian
artist, Aleksandar Zograf.
McKenney lived
in Los Angeles from 1996 - 2000 where he performed writing chores
on numerous projects, including: comic books, music videos, internet
magazines and feature films. After a number of motion picture
projects fell through at crucial points in their development,
McKenney decided to take matters into his own hands and make his
own film, the tongue-in-cheek bloodfest: CANNIBALLISTIC!
After returning
to the East Coast, McKenney continued to work on independent films
until he began working with Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix in 2002. McKenney has been a collaborator
on several Glass Eye projects, including THE
LAST WINTER and THE
WENDIGO animated series.
He is the
Associate Producer on the ScareFlix
film series which includes THE
ROOST and TRIGGER
MAN. McKenney is responsible for writing and directing the
first film in the line, the quirky supernatural drama THE
OFF SEASON, as well as the retro-styled AUTOMATONS,
available on DVD January 29, 2008.
His next feature-length
project is SATAN
HATES YOU, which the MonsterPants crew have been shooting
in small segments since 2005 during the production of other projects.
The final and largest segment of SATAN HATES YOU will be shot
in June of 2008.
McKenney currently
lives in New York with his partner in crime, Lisa, their cats
Oscar & Oliver, and their dogs Chumley and Doomsday.
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