Tim Sullivan

Deeply affected by the 2013 death of his 'spiritual mentor' Ray Manzarek (with whom he was adapting a film version of Manzarek's novel The Poet in Exile), Sullivan took an extended break from the industry (and Los Angeles) to focus on health, friends and family. It was during this time Sullivan created and developed several projects he will produce and direct upon his return to filmmaking in 2020, among them The Beverly Hills Klown Massacre (from his own script commissioned by Tobe Hooper), Queer Fear (a gay-centric horror anthology), and the branded franchise Night Songs (2020), which explores the paranormal romance between a music journalist and a vampiric young rock star featuring songs co-written by Sullivan with Doug Rockwell, Andreas Carlsson and Eric Singer of KISS.

Re-joining forces with Detroit Rock City director Adam Rifkin for the comedy/horror anthology Chillerama (2011), Sullivan contributed the musical segment I Was a Teenage Werebear starring Sean Paul Lockhart, followed by the Rifkin written and directed Burt Reynolds vehicle The Last Movie Star (2017), on which Sullivan earned an Associate Producer credit.

Sullivan's mainstream directorial debut was the well-received Lion's Gate's horror-comedy, 2001 Maniacs (2005) starring Robert Englund and Lin Shaye. This was followed by Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2005) (as co-writer and producer) and Driftwood (2006), a supernatural thriller about troubled youths at a reform camp, starring Raviv Ullman and Diamond Dallas Page.

Having released the long-awaited MANIACS sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Sullivan gained additional notoriety as celebrity director of Vh1's hit series Scream Queens (2010), as well as creator and host of Shock N Roll, his weekly talk and video blog on leading web network Fearnet.

Throughout his career Sullivan has worn many hats, including acting. Much like Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino, he has cast himself for roles in his own films. He was production manager for the independent films If Looks Could Kill (1986) and America Exposed, (1990) and produced Detroit Rock City which starred Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington and Natasha Lyonne. After working in development at New Line Cinema for five years, Sullivan formed his own production company, New Rebellion Entertainment.

A monster kid raised on Forrest J Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland fanzine, Sullivan's career began as a teenager when he landed a job as a production assistant on the 1983 cult horror film Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn. Sullivan majored in film studies at New York University, and his first writer/director/producer credit was the short A Christmas Treat (1985), for which he won Fangoria magazine's Short Film Search Award. While attending NYU, Sullivan wrote the music news for MTV. After graduating, he worked as a production assistant on such award-winning films as Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Coming To America, and The Godfather Part III.

Timothy Michael "Tim" Sullivan (born July 2, 1964 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter.