John McCarty

John McCarty is a full time author. His book Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to "The Sopranos" (Da Capo Press, 2004), was produced as a major documentary by Hugh M. Hefner's Alta Loma Entertainment, for the Starz/Encore cable network; it aired in 2005 and 2006 and has been released on DVD by Image-Entertainment. Additionally, he is the co-producer, co-writer, and co-director of "The Fearmakers: Masters of Screen Suspense and Terror," a 10-episode documentary series of profiles of some of the world's most influential makers of classic suspense and terror films, among them Tod Browning, Jack Arnold, Terence Fisher, Roman Polanski, Roger Corman, and Tobe Hooper. The series is based on his 1994 book of the same title published by St. Martin's Press. It was released on DVD by Elite Entertainment, Inc. in May 2007. The author of more than 20 non-fiction books of his own on film and entertainment subjects, John has appeared in conjunction with his work