Rebekah_McKendry

Rebekah McKendry

Rebekah McKendry

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Rebekah McKendry (born October 10, 1979) is an American film director, producer, film journalist, and academic. She is best known for her work on Tales of Halloween (2015) and All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017).

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Career

In 2005, McKendry joined the team at Fangoria Entertainment and was heavily involved in project development and production as Director of Marketing. In 2015, she left Fangoria to work for Blumhouse Productions, becoming the Editor-in-Chief of Blumhouse.com.[1][2]

Along with Elric Kane and Rob Galluzzo, McKendry hosted the Killer POV podcast, which ran for 140 episodes on Geeknation.[3] In 2016, the team moved to Blumhouse.com and were joined by Ryan Turek to form the Shock Waves podcast.[4]

McKendry co-directed her first feature film with her husband David Ian McKendry titled All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017) starring Constance Wu, Jonathan Kite, Amanda Fuller, and Brea Grant.[5]

McKendry is currently a professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts.[6]

In 2021, McKendry co-wrote a horror film reboot of the 2000 film Bring It On with writer Dana Schwartz. The film is being produced by SYFY.[7]

Education

McKendry has a doctorate focused in Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Filmography

Film

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Short films

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Television

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References

  1. "Jason Blum: Announcing the Launch of Blumhouse.com". Red Seat Ventures. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  2. "Blumhouse.com Gets Horror Makeover Online - Dread Central". Dread Central. 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  3. Kiefer, Halle (2021-05-16). "Let's See Those (Undead) Spirit Fingers for Syfy's Bring It On: Halloween". Vulture. Retrieved 2021-08-31.

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