Shriekfest radio Guest: Joe Randazzo

Joe Randazzo is an award-winning independent screenwriter and producer, having won over a dozen screen writing awards in festivals such as Shriekfest, The Terror Film Festival, Fright Night Film Festival, and was the inaugural winner of the Best Unproduced Screenplay award at the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival (now the Tulsa International Film Festival). His 2010 screenplay Ripper, won seven awards in 2010 and was optioned by Vistar Pictures in January of 2011. Joe is also the co-writer on two comedies with Dave Campfield, the short "Caesar & Otto meet Dracula's Lawyer," featuring horror favorites Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rochon, and the upcoming feature "Deadly XMas," a parody of the 1980s "Santa Slasher" sub-genre featuring CKY front man Deron Miller, Felissa Rose (of Sleepaway Camp fame), Lloyd Kaufman, as well as popular scream queens Linnea Quigley, Debbie Rochon, and Brinke Stevens.

Joe is also an associate producer on the well-received indie feature "Shadowboxing," featuring David Zayas (Dexter) and Kenny Simmons (Kick Ass). The film has received two Best Feature nominations (Swansea Bay Film Festival and Heart of England Film Festival) and was the 2nd Place Latino Film at the 2010 Indie Gathering. Joe is also featured in Lloyd Kaufman's upcoming documentary "Produce Your Own Damn Movie!," an executive producer on Troma's upcoming "Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical." His latest screenplay, the haunted house thriller "The Resurrection of Blake House," (with co-writer Steven C. Gladstone) has already made an impact on the horror festival circuit winning Best Screenplay at the 2011 Fright Night Film Festival.