Night of the Living Dead, It Came From Trafalgar, "Manos" The Hands Of Fate, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Clerks, anything by Robert Rodriguez, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, Carnival of Souls, Nosferatu, Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolfman, I Was A Teenage Werewolf, American International Pictures, Hammer Films, old Universal, Lon Chaney, William Castle, George A. Romero, Ed Wood, Roger Corman, Todd Browning, Tim Burton, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Robert Weine, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Solomon Mortamur, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Directors
Daniel Lee, April Perea
Awards
Best Student Film 2007- Magnolia Independent Film Festival (for "The Picture")Best Short Documentary 2008 - Magnolia Indepdenent Film Festival (for "Memphis Zombie Attack")
Best Music Video - Tupelo Film Festival 2008 (for "Trainwreck" by The Mangled Fairy - directed by April Perea)
Festivals
"The Picture" featured in The Magnolia Film Festival, Keokuk Film Festival "Six Feet Underground" featured in Tupelo Film Festival "Memphis Zombie Attack" featured in Indie Memphis, First Night Saratoga Independent Film Festival, Magnolia Independent Film Festival "Never Give Up Hope" featured in Tupelo Film Festival and Keokuk Film Festival "Faithful Departed" feautred in Rocket City Short Film Festival and Oxford Film Festival
Daniel Lee - SuicideKingFilms's Interests
General
Music, history, militaria, cinema, silent films, german expressionism, the 80s, the 50s, video games, WWII, conspiracy theories, subcultures, rockabilly, Johnny Cash, Trek, Star Wars, b-movies, kaiju, giant monsters, anime, classic literature, art in general.
Music
Johnny Cash, The Misfits, The Ramones, The Cure, The Clash, Tchaikovsky, punk, rockabilly, bluegrass, folk, celtic, new-wave, nerdcore rap, etc etc etc
Movies
I'm only gonna list the biggest influences I suppose cause there just aint enough room....
Star Wars, Metropolis, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Night of the Living Dead, Godzilla, All the classic Universal horror, and any old bollocks with robots in it!
Television
Mythbusters, The Wonder Years, Rubik The Amazing Cube, Tranzor Z, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Superhost, The Electric Company, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O Brien, Who Wants To Be a Superhero?, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (but only with Joel Hodgeson), Starblazers, Transformers, Voltron, Alf, The Simpsons, The Cosby Show, Matlock (WHY did EVERY OLD PERSON watch THAT SHOW!? That and Wheel of Fortune, omg! wtf!?), Mystery on PBS (but only the Edward Gorey animated opening. It could never hold my attention after that!), The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Amazing Stories, WWF/WWE, WCW, TNA wrestling, WAAY Too Late, Quincy. One might note the majority of this is stuff from the 80s. That's when I watched the most tv, when tv was the most influential to me, and thus is the most relevant to this profile. I still watch a ton of TV, but I don't feel like listing stuff like I'm With Busey here. Suffice to say "My eyeballs absorb only blue-filtered light."
Books
Heroes
Johnny Cash, George A. Romero, Elvis, Robert Rodriguez, the whole Strickland clan, my brother, my folks.
Daniel Lee - SuicideKingFilms's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Not Sure
Hometown:
I consider about 3 towns to be my hometown.
Body type:
6' 0" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity:
Black / African descent
Zodiac Sign:
Libra
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Children:
I don't want kids
Education:
Some college
Daniel Lee - SuicideKingFilms's Companies
Just To Watch Him Die Records Tupelo, MS US Proprietor
"He's the Edgar Allan Poe of filmmaking." - Melanie Addington
"I just love him. His creativity is so unique." - Kat Phillips
"That man is a fu@!ng genius." - Ken Calloway/Cockfight Club
"Daniel is an amazing guy and an interesting filmmaker." - Edward St. Pe'
"One cool guy and filmmaker." - Elizabeth Pasieczny
"Who is this guy?" - George A. Romero
"..." - John Sayles
"He looks like Marilyn Manson." - Some random drunk guy
Daniel Lee is a southern-based indie auteur who specializes in producing cinema with little-to-no budget and limited resources. 'The Doctor' as he's often called has acquired a devoted cult following and base of support. He has earned the respect and friendship of many more prominent figures in the film industry. Despite having only consumer grade equipment largely available at your local electronics store and hardware retailer, Daniel Lee has beaten out literally hundreds of competing films for selection in multiple film festivals and won two film awards.
The Doctor eschews the outdated Hollywood division-of-labor habits by writing, designing, photographing, and scoring his own projects - often also composing the music and creating sound design himself. He has been known to even sew costuming and fabricate props from scratch. These habits have earned him nicknames such as 'The-One-Man-Band' and 'The Wizard'.
Daniel Lee's other hobbies include playing and performing music in his band - Dr. Daniel & The Rockabilly Vampires, collecting antiques, writing, and political activism.
The following is a partial biography in his own words:
I am a mad scientist of the cinematic arts. I have a great love for old film styles. I have been in love with science fiction and horror since my earliest memory of seeing The Empire Strikes Back (at a drive-in no less) in 1980.
My brother and I used to live in Ohio when we were children. We watched b-movies, old Universal classics, Ray Harryhausen flicks, Godzilla movies, Star Trek, anime (anyone remember Tranzor Z?), and more on a UHF station - Channel 43. Most of the movies were hosted by a local horror host named Superhost. He was supposed to be a sort of W.C. Fields-in-a-Superman-costume character. That was a bygone era. Gone are the unique localized UHF stations from the days of yore. I should mention we didn't have cable or a VCR back then. Those were still commodities of a minority of the population at that point. Come to think of it, MTV hadn't even launched when we started watching all that TV. If it wasn't on Channel 43, PBS, or one of the three networks (Fox wasn't even around back then!), we didn't see it.
We also used our imaginations a lot and played make-believe whenever there was nothing interesting on TV (which was pretty often).
This localized viewing habit provided myself and my talented brother (an amateur filmmaker in his on right) with a pretty unique set of influences which we still draw from today. The result is pretty one-of-a-kind. Even my brother's films bear very little stylistic resemblance to my own.
Some years later, myself and my brother were constantly experimenting with our grandparents' Zenith brand camcorder. We figured out a light-refraction could look an awful lot like a transporter beam. Kung fu movies were really funny if you used the built-in mic and dubbing feature. And you can do a lot of crazy stuff with GI Joes and Ninja Turtles when you start getting wicked with the stop-motion feature. Come to think of it, that was a pretty kickass camcorder. My brother still has it. It still kinda works.
So years later, as an adult, it was pretty inevitable that I would delve into filmmaking. My first attempt at film was a music video for "Graveyard Road". A song I wrote in one of my musical projects. I had a Kodak digital camera and two 16mb memory cards. This still camera had a video capture feature and I figured "Hey... If I could feed video into my computer, I can probably figure out a way to edit it. Whatever editing is."
So I set out to shoot a music video. I quickly found that this Kodak camera would only record for 30 second bursts. Moreover, only two 30 second clips would fit on a 16mb memory card! So I had to shoot 2 mins worth of footage, and drive back home from the cemetery I was shooting in, upload the footage, clear the memory card, drive BACK to the cemetery, and get 2 mintues more. This went on all day.
Did I mention I didn't have a tripod? And there was nobody to run the camera for me? And that I had to bring a portable cd player with tiny mini speakers I could barely hear so I'd know what to lip-synch to? And that I had to operate the cd player and the camera at the same time and still find enough time to 'act'?
The end result to this one-day shooting experiment was surprising. I put together a half-way decent looking music video which incorporated footage from some of my favorite horror flicks. Although I had intended to just shoot this stupid thing for the purpose of learning and didn't really intend for anybody to see it, the end result was good enough that I wouldn't be totally embarassed for people to watch it. It has since aired on multiple tv shows.
The very next day, I shot a second music video which was twice as long and way way way better than the first. "Six Feet Underground" which you can see on my youtube channel or on my band's myspace. It would eventually go on to screen in the Tupelo Film Festival.
I swore off any more filmmaking of my own until I got a proper camera and got some film ideas. That took about another two years. But now here I am, making films again!
In the interim, I have "acted" (horribly no doubt) in my friend Solomon Mortamur's epic ode to b-movies - It Came From Trafalgar! and several other indie films, donated money to film festivals, donated songs to movie soundtracks, encouraged other aspiring filmmakers, and done whatever I could to help out with my brother's projects.
I know my movies won't appeal to everyone and that everybody's a critic, but for those of you who decide you DO like my style, I hope you enjoy the ride. I know I will!
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lol....its hard to find you when one is looking for Daniel PEREA! lol...You found me on Hi5 and when I finally did log back in, you were gone! Its so funny cause last night I was at home with my bf and we had nothing to watch now that dtv took over and we are unprepared...so I'm going through movies in my cuppord and i find OCHO and i'm like "what the hell is ths?" So i told my bf lets watch it...casue we're both scientists and all.....the name daniel lee still hadn't clicked.....So when I see you sitting in a chair, i was like "WHAT THE F! i think that's my cousin.....and we keep watching and then I put the name together and I'm like.....OH.....then i asked my mom and she told me your dad had brought it by for me becasue I was trying to locate you! HA.....that's funny....then i got your myspace off the vid.
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