DAVE ALEXANDER
WRITER/CO-PRODUCER
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Dave earned a degree in Film and Media Studies from the University of Alberta and worked as a freelancer for publications such as Spin, Maxim and the Edmonton Journal newspaper, before moving to Toronto in 2005 to take a job at Rue Morgue – the world’s largest horror magazine.
The co-owner and former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue, he’s appeared in numerous documentaries about the horror genre, including Zombiemania, Pretty Bloody, Fury of the Demon, Black Christmas Legacy, Why Horror?, 24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters and Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business. Currently he’s Rue Morgue’s Special Projects Manager and a writer and editor for the Rue Morgue Library line of supplements, which he also created. In 2017 he released his first book: Movie Monsters: A Creature Feature Companion.
Dave’s current career in film and television sees him as the co-creator, co-writer, co-producer and host of Untold Horror, the in-production documentary series about fright films that didn’t get made and the famous creators behind them. His partners on Untold Horror include filmmakers Mark Pollesel (co-creator, co-writer, co-producer), Kevin Burke (editor, animator, co-producer) and Into the Wild Blue director/producer Bob Barrett (director, co-producer). Dave is also an executive producer on the horror shorts anthologies Minutes Past Midnight and Galaxy of Horrors, and has several other fiction and non-fiction features in the works.
His love of Canadian history and pop-culture – the stranger and more mysterious, the better – makes him a natural fit for Into the Wild Blue. And if there’s an Arrow hidden away in a barn in Alberta, he’s certainly not going to tell…