TRAILERS FROM HELL is the brainchild of film director Joe Dante, new media entrepreneur Jonas Hudson, graphic artist Charlie Largent and producer Elizabeth Stanley. The series was born out of their mutual love of classic films of all types, but particularly horror and exploitation films. JOE DANTE JOE DANTE is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD (co-directed with Allan Arkush), a thinly disguised spoof of New World exploitation pictures, shot in ten days for $60,000. In 1977 Dante made his solo debut as a film director with PIRANHA, which went on to become one of the company's biggest hits and was distributed throughout the rest of the world by United Artists. During his tenure at New World, Dante edited Ron Howard's directorial debut GRAND THEFT AUTO and co-wrote the original story for ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. For Avco-Embassy Dante next directed the highly praised werewolf thriller THE HOWLING (1981), followed by the IT'S A GOOD LIFE segment of the episodic TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE (1983). Having worked with Steven Spielberg on TWILIGHT ZONE, Dante was chosen to helm one of the first Amblin Productions for Warner Bros., GREMLINS (1984), which became a runaway hit and grossed more than $200 million worldwide. Dante followed up with EXPLORERS (1985) for Paramount, a sci fi fantasy about three kids who build their own spaceship, and then INNERSPACE (1987) for Guber/Peters, Amblin and Warner Bros., an action comedy in which miniaturized test pilot Dennis Quaid is injected into the body of supermarket clerk Martin Short. Tom Hanks starred in Dante's next film for Imagine/Universal, THE 'BURBS (1989), which was followed by GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH for Warner Bros. in 1990. MATINEE (1993), featuring John Goodman as a huckster showman premiering his new horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a production of Dante and partner Mike Finnell's Renfield Productions for Universal in 1993. Dreamworks/Universal's SMALL SOLDIERS was released in 1998, followed in 2003 by Warner Bros. LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION featuring one of Dante's favorite actors, Bugs Bunny. Dante’s HOMECOMING, an episode of Showtime’s MASTERS OF HORROR series, debuted in December 2005 to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike and was named to numerous "Top 10" critics lists. The Sitges and Brussels International Film Festivals both honored HOMECOMING with Special Jury Recognition Awards, and The New Yorker called it the best political film of 2005. His most recent work is THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION, also an episode of MASTERS OF HORROR. Along the way Dante contributed several comedy segments to the multi-part AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON (1987) spoof produced by John Landis, and directed various episodes of the tv series AMAZING STORIES, TWILIGHT ZONE, POLICE SQUAD!, NIGHT VISIONS, PICTURE WINDOWS and EERIE, INDIANA, on which he was also creative consultant throughout its run. In 1995 he directed the pilot for Caleb Carr's space show THE OSIRIS CHRONICLES for Paramount Television. Dante received Cable Ace nominations for his direction of Showtime's RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS (1994) and HBO's THE SECOND CIVIL WAR (1997). One of the creators of Trailers from Hell, Joe is producing the series through his company, Metaluna Productions and is also one of its hosts and commentators. TOM EDGAR TOM EDGAR is a filmmaker and web developer who has been bulding film-related websites for more than a decade. You can find out more than you ever wanted to know about him at tomedgar.com. JONAS HUDSON AND THE NICKELS GROUP With more than a decade in the film and music business, JONAS HUDSON has worked and collaborated with some of the most influential studios and talent in the entertainment industry. In 2004, he co-founded The Nickels Group (TNG) - A traditional and new media company focused on mobile distribution. The Nickels Group distributes mobile content to over 2 billion cell phones worldwide and has created the mobile brands; Reggaeton Nation and Nexxt Mobile which can be downloaded on five continents. TNG productions include the first Reggaeton feature film entitled SPIN which is distributed by the Universal Music Group. In January of 2007 Hudson co-produced THE GRAVEDANCERS, which had a theatrical release in November, 2006 and a Lions Gate Home Entertainment release in March of 2007. Prior to forming The Nickels Group, Hudson worked in marketing and distribution at Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. At Warner Bros., he planned and executed marketing and promotional strategies for the launch of the patented, new DVD technology. While there, he also created and implemented promotional partnerships with numerous Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, Coca-Cola, and Nestle. After leaving Warner Bros., he produced both traditional and new media content for independent production companies and major Hollywood Studios. In 2002, he produced a feature film entitled HIGH VOLTAGE in association with singer-songwriter, Michael Bolton. In 2001, Hudson produced the documentary CORRECTIONS, an official selection of the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival and the 2001 Milan Film Festival. His first film as a producer was BELL AIR, a 1999 digital feature film, in association with Plaster City and Nicholas Cage's Saturn Films. In August 2006, Hudson sold The Nickels Group to Mobile Streams, LTD a public company. Mobile Streams is also the mobile arm of Liberty Media, a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate. Hudson received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Irvine and has a MBA from the USIU. CHARLIE LARGENT Indiana native CHARLIE LARGENT received his BFA at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and his MFA at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. After graduation, he created commercial illustrations for advertisers and publishers while also developing his fine art. He began a series of one man and group shows (in New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and Los Angeles) that continue to this day. In the seventies he worked as an art director at the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis which led to an interest in video and film production. In the early eighties, Largent directed and produced several corporate videos including the official music video for the city of Indianapolis, INDIANAPOLIS INDEED. In 1985, Largent served as production designer for the theatrical film, THE ESCAPIST. In 1997, Largent developed CHARLIE HILL ILLUSTRATION which provides digital illustration to the advertising and editorial world and includes Coca-Cola, Microsoft and A&E Network among his clients. In 2000 Largent moved to California, beginning a stint as film reviewer (for Video Watchdog) and writing screenplays. He sold an original story, TAGGED, to UPN for the most recent incarnation of THE TWILIGHT ZONE hosted by Forest Whitaker and co-wrote the original screenplay THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES, which will be directed by Joe Dante. In addition to his illustration and design for Trailers From Hell, Charlie is currently working on another original screenplay, as well as a book about the films of Roger Corman. Charlie is represented by Judy Coppage of The Coppage Company. DAVID MOORE David Moore is a second generation Hollywood kid who has spent most of his life in and around stages and post houses.  By 18, he was already an accomplished sitcom editor, and was able to put himself through UC Irvine with weekend trips to LA to cut commercials.  After five years of onlining everything from music videos to documentaries, he opened his own post house, Media Island, in 1999.  With his own slate of productions growing, he branched out into the studio business in 2006, and opened Arizona Film Studios.  Today, he continues to own post facilities and a production company in Hollywood. ELIZABETH STANLEY After seven years as Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America, ELIZABETH STANLEY left the DGA in late 2004 to establish Elizabeth Stanley Pictures, her independent production company, and Next Stop Management, her literary management shingle. Trailers from Hell is Ms. Stanley's first producing foray into the world of new media. In 2006, Ms. Stanley produced the feature-length MotoGP documentary THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO AND THE KENTUCKY KID written and directed by Mark Neale. The doc is being distributed in the United States, the UK, Australia and Japan. She currently has a number of feature film and television projects in various stages of preproduction and development in the US and abroad through Elizabeth Stanley Pictures, including THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES to be directed by Joe Dante and WHEN STARS CRASH to be directed by Michael Almereyda. Ms. Stanley's slate also includes PRICE OF PEACE which she will produce with Marge Piane through their Mayday Pictures banner together with Julia Palau and Matthew Paine of Tusk Pictures; and EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER, an adaptation of Tom Holt's cult fantasy novel of the same name, which will also be produced via Mayday Pictures together with Mia Bays' Missing in Action Films. From 1997 to September 2004, Ms. Stanley served as the Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America. From 1987 to 1997, she was the chief executive for the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan, the pre-eminent US entertainment industry joint labor management training plan. THE TRAILERS FROM HELL PRODUCTION TEAM Jay Smith is a writer/director/videographer with extensive credits in the field of New Media. While attending UCLA's Graduate School of Film & Television MFA Directing Program, Jay earned a Director's Guild Award for his first narrative short film UPRIGHT and also served as a Director for MTV's critically acclaimed documentary series TRUE LIFE. Subsequently Jay has directed several other projects including the first ever mobile video series SUGE KNIGHT'S WEST COAST: OUT OF THE PENITENTIARY. The series is produced and distributed globally by Mobilestreams-- one of the world's largest mobile video content aggregators. Trailers From Hell is his latest foray into the vast world of New Media short form entertainment. Jeff MacIntyre has been producing reality-based/news-formatted television content and documentaries since 1988. He's garnered nine Emmy nominations and won one for a documentary profiling the lives of five survivors of 9/11. Currently, he's producing a bio-doc on a child survivor of the Holocaust. In addition, Jeff is a freelance producer/shooter/editor for ABC News with assignments taking him to the Middle East, Central and South America However, Jeff's true love is radio and hosts a nationally syndicated show for Westwood One Entertainment.