The "B" Movie Celebration 2009

Jim O'Rear has been involved in the entertainment industry for over twenty five years, beginning his career on tour as The Youngest Professional Magician with David Copperfield, Harry Blackstone Jr., and The Great Tomsoni and opening for acts like Cheap Trick and John Anderson. With his "magical" background and having been trained in New York at The American Academy Of Dramatic Arts, it was only natural that Jim move into the realm of film, television, and theater where he has worked steadily as an actor, stuntman, and special make-up effects artist on such projects as Day Of The Dead, Star Trek 4, The Vampire Wars, Lethal Weapon 3, Creature Feature, Hayride Slaughter, Cop & A Half, Psycho Beach Party, Evita, Little Shop Of Horrors, No Retreat No Surrender 3, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, and many more with actors including Martin Sheen, Burt Reynolds, Mel Gibson, Amanda Plummer, Maximillian Schell, Robert Englund, Jon Voight, Chris Sarandon, and others. Wanting to get some of his own ideas onto the screen, Jim successfully moved into the area of screen writing. Although competition is tough, he has written and sold a number of horror-related screenplays, including The House Of Pain (in development with Robert "Freddy" Englund, Gunnar "Leatherface" Hansen, Tom "Friday The 13th" Savini, Bill "ChopTop" Moseley, and Debbie "Scream Queen" Rochon), Hayride Slaughter, Hayride Slaughter 2, The Deadly Obligation, Vampyre Tales, and (currently in production) Wolfsbayne. Jim also placed third in 2003 for Best Screenplay in TSA's screen writing competition and is a current finalist for Best Screenplay in the Fade In Screenplay contest and Writer's Network competition. Pre-production has just begun in Los Angeles on his new screenplay, The Demons 5, featuring an all-star horror cast. Jim's horror writing has not stopped there. He has also contributed many articles to national publications, such as Scary Monsters Magazine, Haunted Attraction Magazine, Comics Interview, and Underground Entertainment, and has been recognized in Fangoria Magazine, Alternative Cinema, Fright Times, and Femme Fatale Magazine. Jim was also "immortalized" as a comic book character opposite Thor in an issue of MARVEL Comic's "What The?" Being fascinated by Disney's Haunted Mansion since kindergarten, Jim was inspired to create his first commercial haunted attraction, The Gallery Of Terror, at the age of fifteen. The success of this attraction lasted several years, spawning other attractions designed and operated by Jim, such as The Slaughterhouse, The Slaughterhouse 2, and House Of Death. Jim later took on the position of Executive Director and Actor Manager of Terror On The Square, in Nashville, TN, and gained the status of being an "expert" in the field of haunting. Currently, Jim continues to work as an actor and stuntman on several films per year, recently acting in a new Manson-based movie with Linnea Quigley titled Miss Maniac, making a cameo in the upcoming horror film Skarecrow, playing a zombie slayer in Dead End, portraying an alien bounty hunter in It Came From Trafalgar (with Butch Patrick and Gunnar Hansen), pulling double duty as the star and martial arts stunt coordinator on The Corruptors, starring with Lynn Lowry in a follow-up to the cult classic I Drink Your Blood called It Feeds, appearing in Day Of The Axe with Tom Savini, and is in development deals for three more of his screenplays. Jim's production company, Underground Entertainment, is turning out Haunted Industry magazines and how-to books as well as a new haunted house how-to video and DVD series. As if that isn't enough, Jim continues to write for horror publications all over the world and consult for horror-related projects internationally.