Grady Hendrix

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Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Biography: Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which was adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Hendrix also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. He is a co-founder of the New York Asian Film Festival.

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Matthew Polly On "Game Of Death"

Matthew Polly analyzes the film and its impact...

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Lost & Found: The True Hollywood Story of Silver Screen Cinema Pictures International

In 1984, a massive fire destroyed the entire 17-year output of an exploitation movie studio. But the...

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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the ...

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Hong Kong's Greatest Comedian

A video essay by film historian and author Grady Hendrix...

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Re-Enter the 'New York Ninja'

A profile on martial artist John Liu and the making of his "lost" U.S. directorial debut, 'New York ...

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