Low-budget (sub-$1 million) or micro-budget (sub-$100k) thriller/horror/genre features with a focus on new, unique, and/or socially relevant material. What haven't I seen before, and why do I need to see it now? What have you got for me that I won't be able to call by page five?
High-dollar, big-budget, high-concept projects that would cost several million to hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm also not interested in material that bashes the viewer over the head or is too on-the-nose in trying to convey its point; in sci-fi terms, I want the Next Generation approach to allegorical storytelling, not TOS. I'm also not currently after sci-fi or fantasy epics, television programs, podcasts, gore-based horror, or rape/revenge stories.
Preston Fassel is a producer, author, and journalist whose work has been featured in Fangoria, Variety, Rue Morgue, the Houston Press, and Oklahoma Magazine. From 2017 to 2020, he was a creative executive for Fangoria magazine's production label, Fangoria Presents, where he greenlit Grady Hendrix's Satanic Panic. His debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno- also published by Fangoria- was named one of the ten best horror novels of 2018 by Bloody Disgusting and won the 2019 Independent Publishers' Award for Horror. From 2020 to 2025 he served as an independent script consultant and advisor, helping secure a Netflix option and shopping agreements for several writers with whom he worked. In 2022, he served as an associate producer on Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay's BAD GIRL BOOGIE. In 2024, he produced the found footage thriller .ASK alongside then-Dread Central editor-in-chief Mary Beth McAndrews. In 2025, he was appointed the Creative Director and Head of Development for Little Spark Films, a genre studio based in Dallas, Texas.
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