
Directing
Jason Paul Collum
Born 1973-07-15 · Racine, Wisconsin, USA
American filmmaker, journalist and author. Most of his film work is based in the horror genre. Made his feature-length film debut with 1995's MARK OF THE DEVIL 666: THE MORALIST, released by Moore Video. He made two more films for Moore, the cult classic 5 DARK SOULS (1996) and 5 DARK SOULS, PART II: ROOTS OF EVIL (1998) before moving to Los Angeles, CA. He began working for David DeCoteau's Rapid Heart Pictures on films like VOODOO ACADEMY (1999), ANCIENT EVIL (2000), THE BROTHERHOOD (2000), THE BROTHERHOOD II: YOUNG WARLOCKS (2001), FINAL STAB (2001) and THE FRIGHTENING (2002). He also worked on commercials for SEGA, OFF! Bug Spray, and the horror flicks HELL ASYLUM (2002), MEGA SCORPIONS (2003) and the BAD MOVIE POLICE comedy series (3-episodes). Based on the success of his 2000 short film JULIA WEPT, Collum found backing for his next directorial feature, SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT. The release of the documentary - about the working lives of actresses in the b-movie industry - drew the largest signing event at the Virgin MegaStore on Sunset Boulevard in 2004. It aired on Showtime from 2004-2007. This success led to the funding for Collum's OCTOBER MOON (2005), one of the first gay-themed horror films. It's 2008 sequel, OCTOBER MOON 2: NOVEMBER SON, created the first gay horror film franchise in history. He went to direct SLEEPLESS NIGHTS: REVISITING THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRES (2010) for Roger Corman's slasher franchsie through Shout!Factory, then the comedy SHY OF NORMAL (2011). Perhaps his greatest financial and critical success was SCREAMING IN HIGH HEELS: THE RISE & FALL OF THE SCREAM QUEEN ERA (2011), licensed to NBCUniversal and aired on SyFy and Chiller from 2012-2015. The documentary told of the careers of Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Michele Bauer, the three original "scream queens" of the 1980s b-movie industry. As a journalist and author Collum published over 60 articles between 1999 - 2003. In 2002 Collum relocated to Chicago to work as an editor and graphic designer for Femme Fatales and Cinefantastique magazines. In 2004 he published the book Assault of the Killer B's (McFarland) and contributed to the books Dreams Alive (St. Mary's Press, 1991), Creating a Christian Lifestyle (St. Mary's Press, 1996), and Attack of the B Queens (Luminary, 2003). In 2016 he published BASEMENTS, his first book of fiction, based on a story he'd written for a college course in 1994. The April/May 2013 issue of THE ADVOCATE magazine named Collum as one of their "40 Under 40 Artists To Watch." He is also one of the subjects of the book OUT OF THE DARK by Sean Abley, and is discussed in Beverly Gray's book ROGER CORMAN: BLOODSUCKING VAMPIRES, FLESHEATING COCKROACHES AND DRILLER KILLERS.
Acting credits
A teenage slumber party becomes a bloodbath as one-by-one each teen is attacked by a mysterious madman...or is it a woman?
Eternal Slumber
1991
4.8Residents of a half-way house are bombarded by 6 foot long killer scorpions. A horror/comedy homage to the giant mutant bug films of the 1950's. The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but has yet to see release on DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD.
Mega Scorpions
2003
NRWhen she puts on a murdered woman's shoes, a teenager's body is used as a vessel for revenge.
Dead Women Don't Wear Shoes
1990
6.2Fifty lesser-known horror flicks hailed by critics and genre fans as "absolute must-sees" are given the spotlight with fun, engaging commentary from journalists, directors, actors and critics in a countdown like no other. Stalkers, monsters, slashers, evil dolls, terrorized babysitters, holiday maniacs, mannequins, eerie motels, even giant rats... they're ALL featured in "The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen!"
The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
2014
5.0Ozzie Gray video documents her investigation into the traumatic events from her early childhood, which involved her late grandmother, Dorothy Bell.
What Happened to Dorothy Bell?
2024
3.730 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, cast & crew revisit the scene of the crime and its sequels.
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
5.0A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
October Moon
2005
4.1A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
Hell Asylum
2002
1.0DOZERS is a scifi/horror comedy about a stress-relieving drug patch called Solace. Ashley and Buddy, a pair of Internet reporters, discover that the patches are making users go mad and erupt into violence.
Dozers
2010
NRGo deeper and darker into the world of micro-budget horror as some of the genre's leading underground creators discuss their craft.
Penny Pinchers 2: Scenes from the Underground
2018
NRA man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the recent death of his mother begins to believe another entity is living within the walls of his home.
Safe Inside
2017
4.0Twenty-five years after she first encountered evil, reporter Meredith O'Brien (Karen Dilloo) again finds herself in danger, only now her daughter and other victims who survived near death assaults years ago are on the hit list of a bumbling Satanic Cult.
Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2
2022
9.0A local legend turns into a horrifying reality for a group of young grad students seeking to debunk a Wisconsin haunted house.
The Legend Trip
2006
3.0Two years after their loved ones were murdered in obsessive rage, the survivors are dragged into a horrific psychological breakdown - and blood soaked plan for revenge.
October Moon 2: November Son
2008
1.0Jeb and Amber Wayne embark on a murderous road trip as they hunt for the man that witnessed their gruesome ministry.
Incest Death Squad 2
2010
6.0Follow the adventures of Sgt. Elke Mantooth, Lt. Drucilla Dread and The BMP Task Force as they seek out the worst "cine-terrorists" in movie history and bring their crimes to justice for your entertainment! The first BAD MOVIE POLICE case is a little gem from 1992 called GALAXY OF THE DINOSAURS.
Bad Movie Police: Case #1: Galaxy Of The Dinosaurs
2003
NRSeven years after the slaughter of a group of misfits, the sole surviving killer teen finds her own life, and those of her family, now in peri
5 Dark Souls, Part III: Retribution
2003
NRWhen you mention "The Letter People" to a 50-year-old who experienced them as a child, their eyes widen with excitement. Here's why... Pre-dating "Sesame Street," teacher Elayne Reiss-Weimann devised a way for her severely struggling students to learn the basic elements of reading. The result, with aid from her co-teacher Rita Friedman, was The Letter People - a national phenomenon throughout the 1970s and 80s in kindergarten & first grade classrooms. Kids fell madly in love with the inflatable characters — The Huggables — whom they believed were alive. It invented techniques that are used by other reading programs to this day! Watch this amazing story told by Elayne, original publisher Dr. Bernard Kauderer, and others who brought the program to life & turned it into a pop culture sensation.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from The Letter People
2025
Behind the camera
10.0Two women's lives merge at the point of a fatal car accident. Immediately thereafter, one of the women awakens to find her world is no longer normal...
Julia Wept
2000
A teenage slumber party becomes a bloodbath as one-by-one each teen is attacked by a mysterious madman...or is it a woman?
Eternal Slumber
1991
A teenage slumber party becomes a bloodbath as one-by-one each teen is attacked by a mysterious madman...or is it a woman?
Eternal Slumber
1991
4.6A group of popular teenagers trick three unsuspecting classmates into the woods to see what it's like to kill someone.
5 Dark Souls
1996
4.6A group of popular teenagers trick three unsuspecting classmates into the woods to see what it's like to kill someone.
5 Dark Souls
1996
NRWhen she puts on a murdered woman's shoes, a teenager's body is used as a vessel for revenge.
Dead Women Don't Wear Shoes
1990
NRWhen she puts on a murdered woman's shoes, a teenager's body is used as a vessel for revenge.
Dead Women Don't Wear Shoes
1990
6.7Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era
2011
6.7Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era
2011
6.7Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era
2011
3.730 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, cast & crew revisit the scene of the crime and its sequels.
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
3.730 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, cast & crew revisit the scene of the crime and its sequels.
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
3.730 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, cast & crew revisit the scene of the crime and its sequels.
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
5.0A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
October Moon
2005
5.0A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
October Moon
2005
5.0A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
October Moon
2005
1.0An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences
2011
1.0An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences
2011
NRA man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the recent death of his mother begins to believe another entity is living within the walls of his home.
Safe Inside
2017
NRA man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the recent death of his mother begins to believe another entity is living within the walls of his home.
Safe Inside
2017
4.0Twenty-five years after she first encountered evil, reporter Meredith O'Brien (Karen Dilloo) again finds herself in danger, only now her daughter and other victims who survived near death assaults years ago are on the hit list of a bumbling Satanic Cult.
Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2
2022
4.0Twenty-five years after she first encountered evil, reporter Meredith O'Brien (Karen Dilloo) again finds herself in danger, only now her daughter and other victims who survived near death assaults years ago are on the hit list of a bumbling Satanic Cult.
Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2
2022
4.0Twenty-five years after she first encountered evil, reporter Meredith O'Brien (Karen Dilloo) again finds herself in danger, only now her daughter and other victims who survived near death assaults years ago are on the hit list of a bumbling Satanic Cult.
Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2
2022
4.7Actresses best known for the power of their lungs in horror classics and cult favorites discuss what it's like to work within the B-movie industry and have a career based in horror.
Something to Scream About
2003