Bret Wood is an

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-based film director and

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Film career

Wood was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended the

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. After living in

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, where he was hired by

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, he moved to Atlanta, with wife Felicia Feaster. Wood's most recent film is ''

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,'' a supernatural revenge drama inspired by the novella '' The Avenger'' by Thomas De Quincey. His 2016 film ''

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'' was based on Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire tale ''Carmilla''. His previous films include ''The Little Death'' (2010), ''

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'' (2006), and ''Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films''(2002), released by Kino International. His shorts include ''Judgement'' (2005), ''Rapture'' (2006), ''Security'' (2007), and ''The Other Half'' (2009). In February 2007, his feature-length screenplay ''The Seventh Daughter'' was developed as part of

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's Brave New Works festival of plays. It was later named one of the winners of the first annual

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Screenplay Competition. In 2020, ''The Seventh Daughter'' was adapted as a ten-episode podcast from iHeart Radio. In 2018, Wood wrote and directed the scripted podcast "

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for Stuff Media. As SVP and Producer of Archival Restorations for Kino Lorber, Wood's projects include ''

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'' (2016), which won the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics and '' Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers'' (2018, Kino Lorber), which won a Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle.

Writings

Wood is the author of the biography ''Tod Browning: une vie avec les freaks''. He also co-authored the book ''Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film'' with his wife, Felicia Feaster. He edited the books ''Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay'' by Erich von Stroheim and ''Marihuana, Motherhood and Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper''. In 2013, Wood wrote the introduction to

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's edition of William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley, and edited an anthology of Gresham's selected works entitled ''Grindshow''.

References

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