Ed Polgardy

Production

Ed Polgardy

Born

1960-12-25 (65)

Place of birth

Easton, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

15 titles

Ed Polgardy, president of Black Hat Magic Productions, is an acclaimed comic book creator-writer-editor, an Emmy-Award-winning television producer-director, and a successful feature film writer-producer-director. Polgardy co-created the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series “From The Darkness” and “From The Darkness: Blood Vows”, and wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's “From Dusk 'Til Dawn”. As Senior Editor at Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics, he developed, wrote, and edited several hit titles, including “The Good Guys” and “Dark Dominion” (penciled by “Spider-Man” co-creator Steve Ditko). Polgardy also held the Editor-in-Chief position at BIG Entertainment wher…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

The Wretched poster
6.0

A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.

The Wretched

2019

Dark Desire poster
4.8

A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire

Dark Desire

2012

Feed Me poster
5.1

Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.

Feed Me

2022

The Ghostmaker poster
5.2

A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

The Ghostmaker

2011

Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas poster
7.3

Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.

Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

2023

Megachurch Murder poster
5.5

After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.

Megachurch Murder

2015

Masked Mutilator poster
4.2

After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.

Masked Mutilator

2019

Masked Mutilator poster
4.2

After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.

Masked Mutilator

2019

The Halfway House poster
4.2

Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls.

The Halfway House

2004

Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts poster
7.0

Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts was a documentary focused on horror hosts; screened on the horror channel Monsters HD in 2004.

Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts

2004

No artwork available
NR

A small-town deputy is pulled into a rash of missing children’s cases only to discover that the skin-changing Wretch is back and has been preying upon the families of his community for a century.

The Wretched Devours

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