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WHAT'S NEW
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New Insight Slideshow: Wicked Pixel Cinema in pre-production for SEIZURE!
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Horror Commentary interviews Eric Stanze.
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Joshua Samford for Rogue Cinema reviews DEADWOOD PARK.
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Joshua Samford for Rogue Cinema reviews ICE FROM THE SUN.
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST by Joshua Samford for Rogue Cinema.
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST 2: OCTOBER BLOOD by Joshua Samford for Rogue Cinema.
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New Insight Slideshow: Wicked Pixel Cinema at Monster Mania in New Jersey!
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New Insight Slideshow: Wicked Pixel Cinema at Texas Frightmare Weekend!
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New review for SCRAPBOOK by Russ Rutter for BloodType Online.
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New Insight Slideshow: The next Wicked Pixel Cinema movie begins pre-production!
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST by F.Y. for fatally-yours.com.
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST by Jayson Champion for EvilDread.com.
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST 2: OCTOBER BLOOD by F.Y. for fatally-yours.com.
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New review for SAVAGE HARVEST 2: OCTOBER BLOOD by Jayson Champion for EvilDread.com.
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Eric Stanze is the Top Dog of leading independent motion picture production company Wicked Pixel Cinema. Stanze is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed producer, director, writer, and editor of multiple feature length independent movies, all currently in world-wide home video release.
Stanze has also shot, produced, and/or edited educational videos, short films, documentaries, and music videos. He has been a special effects creator for various independent films. He is also an actor in various indie features. Stanze’s still photography has been seen in publications such as Gothic Beauty Magazine, Bizarre Magazine, and Ultraviolent Magazine.
Eric Stanze began producing/directing low budget movies for the direct-to-video market in 1990 (he was only 18 years old at that time). Despite his "Roger Corman" attitudes and techniques, Stanze slowly started becoming a standout name in the indie/horror arena. Stanze’s last two student films, THE SCARE GAME and THE FINE ART, were his first movies to see worldwide distribution. Next came the gory and hallucinogenic SAVAGE HARVEST, directed by a 21 year old Eric Stanze. These titles set the foundation that Wicked Pixel Cinema would be built upon.
Late last millennium, Stanze released ICE FROM THE SUN (the first official Wicked Pixel Cinema project), and the public perception of him began to change. ICE FROM THE SUN was a challenging, complex, visually chaotic feature length experimental film. Critics ready for a change of pace in the horror genre raved about ICE FROM THE SUN’s originality. Stanze had moved from "b-movie horror" to more ambitious levels of filmmaking. As a result, ICE FROM THE SUN was his best selling, best reviewed, and first award-winning movie of his career.
Buried.com, a leading horror movie website, responded to ICE FROM THE SUN by stating: "Eric Stanze is the future of indie horror!" ICE FROM THE SUN was listed by Film Threat Magazine in their best films of the year 2000 list. ICE FROM THE SUN was an official selection at the 2003 New York International Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Horror/Experimental Feature. ICE FROM THE SUN was released in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and other countries around the world.
Following ICE FROM THE SUN, Stanze directed SCRAPBOOK, an excruciatingly intense drama. SCRAPBOOK took Stanze's already-crackling fan base and put fuel to the fire.
SCRAPBOOK has received a landslide of fervent reviews, in addition to notable film festival awards. Rue Morgue Magazine, one of the world’s leading genre entertainment magazines, named SCRAPBOOK The Best Independent Film Of The Year in their 2001 year-end list. SCRAPBOOK became notorious around the globe in a very short period of time. SCRAPBOOK is now selling in the U.S., the U.K. (cut), France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, and other countries around the globe.
As a result of SCRAPBOOK's success, Stanze entered into a business relationship with Sub Rosa Studios in New York, and with other production companies in the U.K. and France. For these companies, Stanze began producing a series of side projects; horror, exploitation, and adult comedy feature films (released under the banner “Sub Rosa Extreme”).
When his stint working for Sub Rosa Studios began, Stanze was producing five movies a year for the company. During this time, Stanze was also executive producer on (and actor in) the Wicked Pixel Cinema project SAVAGE HARVEST 2: OCTOBER BLOOD (a sequel to Stanze's own campy horror hit). Exhausted by the Sub Rosa Extreme workload (which emphasized quantity over quality), Stanze stopped Sub Rosa Extreme production and refocused his energies, making his own company Wicked Pixel Cinema his top priority again.
Jeremy Wallace works alongside Stanze at Wicked Pixel Cinema. Wallace coordinates the marketing and distribution for the company. He is also a producer on the majority of Wicked Pixel Cinema's motion pictures.
Also a big-wig at Wicked Pixel Cinema, Jason Christ is in charge of creative development as well as being a producer, writer, director, and editor.
Wicked Pixel Cinema HQ is in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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