Michael Gingold

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Michael Gingold
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Occupation(s) Journalist, screenwriter, film actor

Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and former editor-in-chief of Fangoria magazine.

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In his teen years, young horror fan Michael Gingold wrote and self-published the photocopied horror-review fanzine Scareaphanalia [1] and made Super8 short films. His longest was the 40-minute Deadly Exchange, about a slasher killing foreign-exchange students. [2] From 1985 to 1989, he attended New York University's film school. During this time he made the 19-minute horror short Hands Off, inspired by writer Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic." [2]

In 1988, [3] during his junior year, he began writing freelance for the horror-film magazine Fangoria . Two years later, [2] he joined the staff as associate editor and eventually becoming managing editor. [4] In October 2015 he became editor-in-chief, [5] Eight months later, he was replaced in that position by former managing editor Ken Hanley. [6] Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, a Gingold support, took to social media to voice his disappointment with the decision. [7] Fangoria ceased print publication with its October 2015 issue, releasing four additional issues online only. [8] Gingold went on to become head online writer of the horror magazine Rue Morgue . [9] In February 2018, the Texas-based entertainment company Cinestate, which had bought Fangoria, announced the magazine would be revived as a quarterly print publication, and that Gingold would return as a columnist. [10] As of 2021, he continues to write for Fangoria. [11]

Gingold's other writing credits include features and reviews for The Motion Picture Guide , [12] the Blockbuster Video Guide , [13] [14] Movies on TV and Videocassette,[ citation needed ] IndieWire, [15] and Birth. Movies. Death. [1]

As a screenwriter, Gingold's credits include Leeches, [16] [4] Halloween Night , Shadow: Dead Riot, [4] and Ring of Darkness . [16] He has also appeared as an actor in The Suckling , The Blood Shed, A Return to Salem's Lot , Troma's War, The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie , Sweatshop and has had a recurring role in the Light & Dark Productions' series of movies including Fear of the Dark, [16] The Tenement, [16] Sins of the Father, and Fairview Falls. As of 2017, he had completed a script titled The Doll for Italian filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, and the two were seeking financing. [17]

He has published two books containing vintage horror-movie advertisements: Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s (2018) and Ad Nauseam II: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s (2019). [18] An expanded edition of the first book, with 125 more pages and a slight retitling, was published in 2021 with a foreword by genre filmmaker Joe Dante. As a filmmaker, he completed the Super8 movie Mindstalker by 1998, [2] but it does not seem to have been distributed.

Other

On December 8, 2016, Gingold lectured at Brooklyn's Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies on horror film and television shot in New York City. [3] With writer Chris Poggiali, he presented the lecture "Horror on the Hudson: Westchester County in Horror Cinema" at the First Annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, held in October 2019 in Tarrytown, New York. [19]

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  16. 1 2 3 4 "Michael Gingold at Home in 'The Tenement'". Film Threat . December 17, 2004. Retrieved December 17, 2021. Gingold plays a virtually-irredeemable filmmaker named 'Winston Korman', who, sadly, pisses off the wrong guy in the movie's opening tale. ... For Gingold, 'The Tenement' is the second outing on a Glen Baisley production. His first role was in Baisley's 2001 self-distributed 'Fear of the Dark', [in which] Gingold played the unnamed coroner of Baisley's fictional town, Fairview Falls. ... For Gingold, who does work on the side as a screenwriter ('Leeches', 'Ring of Darkness') ...[r]oles in such films as 'The Tenement' and Kevin Lindenmuth's 'Alien Agenda' series, were done for fun and for favors.
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