Chuck Parello

Writer/Director Chuck Parello, a Chicago native and graduate of the city's Columbia College, had been running director John McNaughton's development company for over three years when he was hired to write a sequel to McNaughton's chilling cult classic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) for a Chicago-based film company. The company was so impressed by Parello's tension-filled script for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 (1996), which plunged the sociopathic main character into the dark world of arson for profit, that they also asked him to direct the piece. Shot during a frigid Chicago winter, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 (1996) earned kudos during its theatrical release from critics who said it was a genuinely creepy and entirely worthy follow-up to McNaughton's film. The production company Tartan Films was struck by Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 (1996) as well so they asked Parello to write and direct Ed Gein (2000). The delectably disquietin