Tim Lucas was born on May 30,1956 and is a film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher and editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog.
18 Facts About Tim Lucas
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Tim Lucas subsequently spent most of his childhood in the homes of various relatives and caregivers, seeing his widowed mother only on weekends, when she took him to drive-in theaters.
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Tim Lucas began writing professionally in 1972 when he became a regular reviewer and correspondent for the influential fantasy film magazine Cinefantastique.
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In 1984, Lucas began reviewing Betamax and VHS releases for the Chicago-based magazine Video Times.
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The books were formally credited to "The Editors of Video Times" with Lucas receiving credit only on the copyright pages.
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In October 2016, Tim Lucas said Video Watchdog would cease publication with its 184th issue.
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Tim Lucas' Spirits of the Dead, is a 232-page monograph about the 1968 anthology film based on three Edgar Allan Poe tales, directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini.
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Tim Lucas makes frequent contributions of liner notes, audio commentaries and archival materials to DVD and Blu-ray releases.
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In 2013 Tim Lucas debuted the column "Tales from the Attic" as a regular feature in the magazine Gorezone, beginning with issue number 28.
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Tim Lucas is the subject of a chapter-long interview in Xerox Ferox: The Wild World of the Horror Film Fanzine by John Szpunar.
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From 1988 to 1992, Lucas contributed comics stories to Stephen R Bissette's horror anthology Taboo, including three that formed the genesis of Lucas' first novel, Throat Sprockets.
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In 2006, Tim Lucas became a published poet when he placed several poems in issues 13 and 14 of the Manchester, England-based journal The Ugly Tree.
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Tim Lucas wrote the 2005 novel The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula, a complement to Bram Stoker's Dracula that focuses on the character of Renfield and how the circumstances of his tragic past predisposed him to become the ideal pawn for the Lord of the Undead.
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In 2020 Tim Lucas announced that two previously unpublished novels, The Only Criminal and The Art World, would be published by Riverdale Avenue Books, and that the new novella The Secret Life of Love Songs would be published by PS Publishing.
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Tim Lucas earlier had co-written her song "Merry Christmas Anyhow", released under the credit Dorothy Moskowitz Falarski in December 2019.
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In November 2010, Tim Lucas made his directorial debut at The Factory Digital Filmmaking School of the Douglas Education Center, with a promotional trailer and dialogue scene for a proposed feature film adaptation of his novel Throat Sprockets, executive produced by Robert Tinnell.
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Since 2000, Tim Lucas has recorded numerous feature-length audio commentaries for DVD and Blu-ray releases.
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That same year, Tim Lucas was nominated for Writer of the Year, Reviewer of the Year, and Best Cmmentary and other categories.