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MATTHEW JASON WALSH began working in the film industry at age seventeen, as an extra and production assistant on an as-yet-unreleased low-budget drama called STAGE FRIGHT, which was shot in his home state of Maryland. He then went on to work as production assistant, script continuity and slate on several other local productions, including ON THE BLOCK, which starred Howard Rollins, learning everything he could about the technical side of filmmaking while on the job. After receiving his first big break as a screenwriter at nineteen, for the horror feature THE SANDMAN, Walsh eventually journeyed to Los Angeles, where he worked on several documentaries and commercials as both writer and music composer. |
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| At age twenty, he was hired by legendary film producer/director David DeCoteau to write the original screenplay for DRESSED FOR DARK, a horror-action film that was to be financed and distributed by Academy Entertainment for 1.5 million dollars. Though the project was never made at Academy, DeCoteau eventually had other writers tone down the screenplay's more expensive scenes and had the film produced by Full Moon Pictures/Torchlight Entertainment under the title BLONDE HEAVEN, originally intended for distribution by Paramount Home Video (it was later released on DVD as "MORGANA"). This led to Walsh being hired to script another film for DeCoteau and Full Moon: the erotic science fiction-comedy PETTICOAT PLANET, which was filmed on an old West film set Full Moon Pictures' head Charles Band had constructed in Romania. | ||||||||||||
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| In the intervening years, Walsh had also helped design the marketing campaigns for several home video releases, including NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD co-writer John A. Russo's films HEARTSTOPPER and THE MAJORETTES, has had feature or lead roles in seven films, served as second-unit director on the surreal genre films OZONE and POLYMORPH, and helped develop CGI effects for the film version of THE SANDMAN. Under the production title "Digital Armageddon" (an offshoot of his production company), Walsh also served a brief stint as visual effects supervisor on such films as POLYMORPH, CURSE OF THE PUPPETMASTER, SHRIEKER, WEREWOLF REBORN and CLOCKMAKER. | ||||||||||||
| In 1997, he wrote, produced and directed the critically-praised horror feature BLOODLETTING, which is currently available everywhere as a special edition DVD. During his career, he also composed the scores and/or original songs for over nine feature films and countless commercials and documentaries, inevitably leading to the formation of Armageddon Music, his personal music production and distribution company, which released a limited-edition CD of his concept-rock album, "Love's Young Nightmare", in the fall of 2004. | ||||||||||||
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Currently, at age 37, Walsh works full-time as a freelance screenwriter, boasting writing duties on such movies as Full Moon Picture's horror hits WITCHOUSE and PRISON OF THE DEAD, as well as Blockbuster Video's exclusive home video releases THE BROTHERHOOD and RING OF DARKNESS, for Academy Award-winning production company Regent Entertainment. | |||||||||||
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Photos by Jennifer Leigh Trice, Pete Jacelone and Margaret Denise Seah. All site contents copyright © 2008 Matthew Jason Walsh & Armageddon Productions. |
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