Sean Cain

Sean Cain is an American director, editor, producer and writer. He was born in Concord in 1970 and came from the San Francisco Bay Area. His first feature, the low budget psychological horror Naked Beneath the Water, served as his graduation project from San Francisco State's cinema program in 1995. His college colleagues rejected it, yet it found an audience on VHS via underground horror magazines. After noticing that low budget horror titles from VHS were gaining new life on DVD in early 2002, he re-shot roughly 60% of the film and got proper DVD distribution in 2008. He created Velvet Hammer Films with business partner Jim Wright, and has since directed six more films, among them Silent Night, Zombie Night, Breath of Hate, Jurassic City, Terror Birds and Eruption LA. His seventh film, Dead By Dawn, is a return to his horror roots. In 2009, Michael Gingold of Fangoria called him the Indie Horror Specialist.