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Michael Gingold

Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and former editor-in-chief of Fangoria magazine.

Michael Gingold
Born
United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Journalist, screenwriter, film actor

Career

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In his teen years, young horror fan Michael Gingold wrote and self-published the photocopied horror-review fanzine Scareaphanalia[1] and made Super8 short films. His longest was the 40-minute Deadly Exchange, about a slasher killing foreign-exchange students.[2] From 1985 to 1989, he attended New York University's film school. During this time he made the 19-minute horror short Hands Off, inspired by writer Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic."[2]

In 1988,[3] during his junior year, he began writing freelance for the horror-film magazine Fangoria. Two years later,[2] he joined the staff as associate editor and eventually becoming managing editor.[4] In October 2015 he became editor-in-chief,[5] Eight months later, he was replaced in that position by former managing editor Ken Hanley.[6] Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, a Gingold support, took to social media to voice his disappointment with the decision.[7] Fangoria ceased print publication with its October 2015 issue, releasing four additional issues online only.[8] Gingold went on to become head online writer of the horror magazine Rue Morgue.[9] In February 2018, the Texas-based entertainment company Cinestate, which had bought Fangoria, announced the magazine would be revived as a quarterly print publication, and that Gingold would return as a columnist.[10] As of 2021, he continues to write for Fangoria.[11]

Gingold's other writing credits include features and reviews for The Motion Picture Guide,[12] the Blockbuster Video Guide,[13][14] Movies on TV and Videocassette,[citation needed] IndieWire,[15] and Birth. Movies. Death.[1]

As a screenwriter, Gingold's credits include Leeches,[16][4] Halloween Night, Shadow: Dead Riot,[4] and Ring of Darkness.[16] He has also appeared as an actor in The Suckling, The Blood Shed, A Return to Salem's Lot, Troma's War, The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Sweatshop and has had a recurring role in the Light & Dark Productions' series of movies including Fear of the Dark,[16] The Tenement,[16] Sins of the Father, and Fairview Falls. As of 2017, he had completed a script titled The Doll for Italian filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, and the two were seeking financing.[17]

He has published two books containing vintage horror-movie advertisements: Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s (2018) and Ad Nauseam II: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s (2019).[18] An expanded edition of the first book, with 125 more pages and a slight retitling, was published in 2021 with a foreword by genre filmmaker Joe Dante. As a filmmaker, he completed the Super8 movie Mindstalker by 1998,[2] but it does not seem to have been distributed.

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On December 8, 2016, Gingold lectured at Brooklyn's Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies on horror film and television shot in New York City.[3] With writer Chris Poggiali, he presented the lecture "Horror on the Hudson: Westchester County in Horror Cinema" at the First Annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, held in October 2019 in Tarrytown, New York.[19]

Bibliography

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  • Gingold, Michael (2017). Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies. Dark Heart of Cinema. FAB Press. ISBN 978-1903254950.. Foreword by filmmaker Frank Henenlotter
  • Gingold, Michael, ed. (2018). Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s. 1984 Publishing. ISBN 978-1948221054..
  • Gingold, Michael, ed. (2019). Ad Nauseam II: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s. 1984 Publishing. ISBN 978-1948221122..
  • Gingold, Michael, ed. (2021). Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s (Expanded ed.). 1984 Publishing. ISBN 978-1948221184.. Foreword by Joe Dante.

As book contributor

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  • Contributor, Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph, eds. (1994). The Motion Picture Guide. Cinebooks. p. 644.
  • Contributor, Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1995. Dell Publishing. 1994.
  • Contributor, Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1996. Dell Publishing. 1995. p. 3. ISBN 978-0440221142.
  • Essay: Halloween[20] in Ackerman, Christian, ed. (2018). My Favorite Horror Movie: 48 Essays By Horror Creators On The Film That Shaped Them. Black Vortex Cinema. ISBN 978-1732270206..

References

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  1. ^ a b "Michael Gingold". Birth. Movies. Death. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Lindenmuth, Kevin J. (1998). Making Movies on Your Own: Practical Talk from Independent Filmmakers. McFarland & Company. p. 9. ISBN 978-0786405176.
  3. ^ a b Fisher, Kieran (December 8, 2016). "Exclusive Interview: Michael Gingold Talks New York Horror and His Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies NYC Seminar". Diabolique. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Michael Gingold". The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  5. ^ Staff (2015-10-02). "Announcement: Michael Gingold is new editor-in-chief of Fangoria". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  6. ^ Winfrey, Graham (June 1, 2016). "Fangoria Editor-in-Chief Michael Gingold Fired After 28 Years – Guillermo del Toro and Others Offer Support". IndieWire. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  7. ^ Winfrey, Graham (June 1, 2016). "Fangoria Editor-in-Chief Michael Gingold Fired After 28 Years – Guillermo del Toro and Others Offer Support". Indiewire. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  8. ^ Johnston, Rich (February 13, 2017). "The Future Of Fangoria, And Issues Over Payment – We Asked Josh Hadley". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  9. ^ "About Rue Morgue". Rue Morgue. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  10. ^ Staff (February 15, 2018). "Beloved Horror Magazine 'Fangoria' Returns to Print Publication After Unofficial Hiatus". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  11. ^ "Contributor: Michael Gingold". Fangoria. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  12. ^ Contributors list in Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph, eds. (1994). The Motion Picture Guide. Cinebooks. p. 644.
  13. ^ Contributors list in Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1995. Dell Publishing. 1994. p. 7.
  14. ^ Contributors list in Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1996. Dell Publishing. 1995. p. 3. ISBN 978-0440221142.
  15. ^ "Michael Gingold". Indiewire. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  16. ^ a b c d "Michael Gingold at Home in 'The Tenement'". Film Threat. December 17, 2004. Retrieved December 17, 2021. Gingold plays a virtually-irredeemable filmmaker named 'Winston Korman', who, sadly, pisses off the wrong guy in the movie's opening tale. ... For Gingold, 'The Tenement' is the second outing on a Glen Baisley production. His first role was in Baisley's 2001 self-distributed 'Fear of the Dark', [in which] Gingold played the unnamed coroner of Baisley's fictional town, Fairview Falls. ... For Gingold, who does work on the side as a screenwriter ('Leeches', 'Ring of Darkness') ...[r]oles in such films as 'The Tenement' and Kevin Lindenmuth's 'Alien Agenda' series, were done for fun and for favors.
  17. ^ Evry, Max (November 14, 2017). "Michael Gingold Talks Frightfest's Guide to Monster Movies". ComingSoon. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  18. ^ Squires, John (July 3, 2019). "Exclusive First Look: Michael Gingold's 'Ad Nauseam II' Highlights the Horrors of the 90s and 2000s". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  19. ^ "SHIFF Schedule" (PDF). Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival. 2019. p. 21. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  20. ^ "My Favorite Horror Movie: Michael Gingold on John Carpenter's Halloween". HalloweenMovies. October 15, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
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