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Dave Campfield is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. His productions include the comedy-horror film series Caesar and Otto (2009-2015). Several of his films are considered cult films.

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Campfield is the director of several cult comedy horror films, [1] [2] including Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre [3] and Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween (featuring Deron Miller, Felissa Rose, Tiffany Shepis, Vernon Wells, Sean Whalen, Andre Gower, and Brinke Stevens) and of horror thrillers, like Dark Chamber. [4]

Campfield has won various awards at indie film festivals including the Outstanding Horror Comedy award at the 2015 Zed Fest Film Festival, [5] Best Actor for Caesar and Otto's Deadly Christmas at the Horrific Film Festival of San Antonio, TX and Best Screenplay at the Macabre Faire Film Festival of New York.[ citation needed ] He also hosted inravio.com's online program Nerdgasm from 2013–14. Since 2019, and has been a regular contributor to Destinies-The Voice of Science Fiction's Film Review Team on WUSB (FM).[ citation needed ]

He is the director, writer and producer [6] of Awaken the Reaper, [7] which is co-produced by cinematographer Justin Paul [8] for Fourth Horizon Cinema and Impact Media Productions and was filmed at Design Weapons Studios in New York. [9]

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As writer only

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  2. ↑ "ESR | October 30, 2023 | Caesar & Otto's Paranormal Halloween: Silly fun for troubled times". www.enterstageright.com. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
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  4. 1 2 Brandon (2018-04-28). "Dark Chamber (2006): A Classic Murder Mystery Homage". PopHorror. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
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