Alan Rowe Kelly

Alan Rowe Kelly is an award-winning director, writer & genre star of independent horror movies. His production company, SouthPaw Pictures, is based out of Paterson, NJ.

His debut film I'LL BURY YOU TOMORROW (2002) won numerous awards at film festivals worldwide, most notably for BEST HORROR FEATURE @ the 2002 Telluride Indiefest. His second film, THE BLOOD SHED (2007), followed suit with a BEST FEATURE win at the 2007 Dark Carnival Film Fest.

Alan Rowe has completed the horror anthology GALLERY OF FEAR. He wrote and directed three of the tales; A FAR CRY FROM HOME, CRITIC'S CHOICE and DOWN THE DRAIN, and also served as co-producer and art director on the fourth story, Anthony G. Sumner's BY HER HAND. GALLERY OF FEAR boasts an all-star genre cast!

A FAR CRY FROM HOME won BEST ACTOR (Alan Rowe Kelly) @ the 2009 Terror Film Festival along with BEST SPECIAL FX, and received the JURY AWARD @ the 2009 LONG ISLAND GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL.

Alan Rowe has appeared in numerous films such as I'LL BURY YOU TOMORROW, THE BLOOD SHED, GALLERY OF FEAR, SLICES OF LIFE, CONTACT, VINDICATION, KODIE, SATAN HATES YOU, SCULPTURE , RIVER OF DARKNESS, PSYCHO STREET, RAZOR DAYS. THE BIG BAD and the upcoming TALES OF POE.

Presently, Alan Rowe is in production for a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO for Bart Mastronardi's TALES OF POE . He has completed scripts for SPORE!, A MURDER OF CROWS, UNHALLOWED GROUND, HELL'S BELLES,YOU BETTER WATCH OUT! and is updating the 1948 Edna Sherry suspense tale SUDDEN FEAR (a classic 1952 Joan Crawford film noir thriller) for the screen in which he will play a famous playwright marked for murder. Alan Rowe has also published a book called WHARTON - a history log of the small North New Jersey mining town where he was born and raised, and wrote the forward for Brian Harris' book about independent horror cinema titled FILM BRAWL.

Favorite Quotes
No guts, no glory!

Favorite TV Shows
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES

Interests and Activities
Writing, acting, location scouting, hiking, driving "anywhere" for long periods of time.

Favorite Books
The Alchemist, The Mist, Swan Song, The Dead Shall Inherit The Earth, On the Beach

Favorite Music
Bossa Nova, cool jazz, Steely Dan, Chet Baker, Julie London, Disco! (go figure! LOL!)

Favorite Movies
House on Haunted Hill (Original), The Uninvited, The Poseidon Adventure, The Red Shoes, On The Beach, All About Eve, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Haunting, Horror Hotel, Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sudden Fear and 'Everything' by Val Lewton, Roger Corman, John Lewellyn Moxey, Curtis Harrington, Ida Lupino, Robert Aldrich and Alfred Hitchcock,

Favorite Talent
Barbara Stanwyck, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Cagney, Bette Davis, Beverly Garland, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Ruth Roman, Shelley Winters, George Sanders, Richard Widmark, John Lund. Jerry Murdock, Katherine O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Simone Signoret & Debbie Rochon.