Michael Varrati

Michael Varrati is an American screenwriter, director, columnist, and actor whose work often blends horror with television movies. Born in New Mexico, he studied on-camera acting at Kent State University with Rohn Thomas and began writing and interviewing for the horror magazine Ultra Violent. He wrote the Dreams segment of the anthology Tales of Poe and collaborated with Richard Griffin on The Sins of Dracula and Flesh for the Inferno, which Horror Society named Best Independent Horror Film of 2015. His television scripts include the holiday films A Christmas Reunion and A Christmas in Vermont, the thriller The Twisted Nanny, and the disaster film End of the World (2018). Through June Gloom Productions he wrote and directed The Office is Mine and What's Left Inside, and he wrote and directed on The Boulet Brothers' Dragula. He hosts the Queer Fear panel at San Diego Comic-Con and created the Dead for Filth podcast.