Writing
Grady Hendrix
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which was adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Hendrix also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. He is a co-founder of the New York Asian Film Festival.
Acting credits
6.8The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
NRMatthew Polly analyzes the film and its impact
Matthew Polly On "Game Of Death"
2017
5.7A profile on martial artist John Liu and the making of his "lost" U.S. directorial debut, 'New York Ninja'.
Re-Enter the 'New York Ninja'
2021
A video essay by film historian and author Grady Hendrix
Hong Kong's Greatest Comedian
—
6.0In 1984, a massive fire destroyed the entire 17-year output of an exploitation movie studio. But the recent discovery of eleven lost trailers sheds a light on this disrespected, long-forgotten B-movie factory, and the mogul at its center.
Lost & Found: The True Hollywood Story of Silver Screen Cinema Pictures International
2017
Behind the camera
5.3A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.
Satanic Panic
2019
6.8The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
NRWhen Marcus was a child his mother was murdered. His father blamed the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the boogeyman will get you. As an adult, Marcus still heeds the superstition. But is he really haunted by a creature or has he just inherited his father’s murderous delusions? The night will tell.
Ankle Snatcher
—
5.1A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
Mohawk
2018