Greg Lamberson


Greg Lamberson is a multiple award winning novelist and filmmaker based in Buffalo. His first novel, Johnny Gruesome, set in a fictionalized version of Fredonia, where he grew up, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and won the IPPY Gold Medal for Horror; his instructional filmmaking book, "Cheap Scares: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets", was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award that same year.


His second novel, Personal Demons, the first book in The Jake Helman Files series, won the Anubis Award for Horror and the 2010 IPPY Gold Medal for Horror, and is nominated for a Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Cover
Design. His new werewolf novel The Frenzy Way has received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly and /Rue Morgue magazine and is now available in bookstores.



Lamberson is also a cult filmmaker, dating back to his 1988 midnightmovie Slime City. He worked as the production manager on "I Was a Teenage Zombie and as Frank Henenlotter's assistant director on Brain Damage. His subsequent films, Undying Love and /Naked Fear, were recently released in the 2-disc DVD Greg Lamberson's Slime City Grindhouse Collection, along with the short film /Gruesome, which he shot in Buffalo with scream queen Misty Mundae. Last year, he directed lime City Massacre in Buffalo; the film stars local actress Jennifer Bihl and icon Debbie Rochon,with a cameo by Lloyd Kaufman. The film had its premiere at the Beloit International Film Festival and so far has won Best Film and Best Actor (for Kealan Patrick Burke) at the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas, and the B Movie Celebration's Best Scream Queen Award for Brooke Lewis.

SCM was shot by Buffalo cinematographer Chris Santucci, and other local actors appearing in it include Michael O'Hear, John Renna, Sandra Roland, Alexander Sloan McBryde, Robet Bozek, Micah Rose, and Dan Loughery.

SCM will screen at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear in Toronto in August and at the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, Pa. in October.

Lamberson has served the editor of the popular horror entertainment website FearZone.com for three years, and this fall he launches the Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival with fellow filmmaker Emil Novak, who worked as the production designer on /SCM/.

His website is www.slimeguy.com.

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