Drew Daywalt

Ever since his childhood in one of Ohio’s most haunted houses, writer director Drew Daywalt has been writing escapist fantasy and horror.

With a degree in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston Daywalt set off to Hollywood where he spent years writing for Disney and Universal on such beloved shows as Timon & Pumba, Buzz Lightyear, and Woody Woodpecker, and where his animated series The Wacky World of Tex Avery garnered an Emmy nomination.

His first trip into live action landed him studio screenwriting and film directing work with such Hollywood luminaries as Quentin Tarrantino, Lawrence Bender, Tony Scott, Brett Ratner and Jerry Bruckheimer.

With an eye toward horror, Daywalt’s first online horror short BEDFELLOWS garnered 2 million hits within a week of its launch and is currently the most viewed horror short in the world.

Daywalt quickly rose to the top of the horror cinema community as the world’s leading short horror film creator, enjoying millions of hits to his work online as well as taking awards at festivals worldwide for his short form horror content. Daywalt is also one of the leading bloggers at FEARnet with his weekly blog “School of Fear” and he’s enjoyed millions of hits to his 2010 horror web series CAMERA OBSCURA.

Daywalt directed 3 episodes of MTV’s new horror comedy TV series DEATH VALLEY, as well as wrote the screenplay for the remake of CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS for George Romero & Tom Savini, now set up at Anchor Bay.

Daywalt just finished directing the $2.3 million horror feature RED CLOVER (AKA Leprechaun’s Revenge) for After Dark Entertainment and the Syfy Channel, which aired to some of the highest ratings and reviews for a Syfy original in the last 10 years.

Most recently, Daywalt set up his horror feature script THE HURTING MAN with ELB Productions and Larry Fessenden of Glass Eye Pix producing.

Currently, Daywalt is directing and producing the independent horror feature THE PASSENGERS, scheduled for release in 2014.