WHO THE HELL AM I?

Every time I read someone's "ABOUT ME" and it speaks in the third person, it feels sorta distancing. So I'm not gonna do that, or at least not yet. I typed this in an attic with my dogs gnawing their bones a few feet away and Iggy Pop blaring. My name is Jackson Murray. I'm a broadly a filmmaker, mostly a writer. I live in Milwaukee with my beautiful family. I was born and raised in the rolling rural hills outside Wilton, WI (pop. 533). If you’ve seen or read the weird, wonderful WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, that’s pretty much my neck of the woods.

I love lush Mario Bava spookshows, the satirical spectrum between Verhoeven and Altman, Cronenberg’s New Flesh, the Coens’ tonal tapdances, Del Toro’s haunting imagery, the humanity of John Huston's work, the trail-blazing textures of David Lynch, John Carpenter's hallowed frames, the punk absurdism of Alex Cox, Powell & Pressburger’s Technicolor wonderlands, and Joe Dante’s silliness. I think BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the greatest movie ever made.

And I’d love to share my work with you.