Jonathan Penner has written for movies, television, magazines, and blogs, and has worked extensively as an actor, screenwriter, and producer. His film credits include the cult classic The Last Supper, the Hamlet-inspired Let the Devil Wear Black and the short film for which he was Oscar-nominated, Down on the Waterfront. He is co-author with Steven J. Schneider of Horror Cinema (Taschen, 2008).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg
A lot of filmmaking in America is nostalgia filmmaking, trying to recapture what you loved as a kid. I'm not a nostalgia freak....
The Horror
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home....
Ball of Fire: An Interview with Jimmy McDonough
It’s hard to talk about this stuff without it sounding like “The Steam From My Blowhole, Part 47.”...
