Rebekah McKendry

Rebekah McKendry
Born	Rebekah McKendry (1979-10-10) October 10, 1979 (age 45)
Occupation(s)	Director, Producer, Film Journalist, Professor
Years active	2005 - Present
Notable work	Tales of Halloween (2015), All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017)
Spouse	David Ian McKendry ​ ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	2

Rebekah McKendry (born October 10, 1979) is an American film director, producer, film journalist, and academic. She is best known for her work on Tales of Halloween (2015) and All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017).

Career

In 2005, McKendry joined the team at Fangoria Entertainment and was heavily involved in project development and production as Director of Marketing. In 2015, she left Fangoria to work for Blumhouse Productions, becoming the Editor-in-Chief of Blumhouse.com.[1][2]

Along with Elric Kane and Rob Galluzzo, McKendry hosted the Killer POV podcast, which ran for 140 episodes on Geeknation.[3] In 2016, the team moved to Blumhouse.com and were joined by Ryan Turek to form the Shock Waves podcast.[4]

McKendry co-directed her first feature film with her husband David Ian McKendry titled All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017) starring Constance Wu, Jonathan Kite, Amanda Fuller, and Brea Grant.[5]

McKendry is currently a professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts.[6]

In 2021, McKendry co-wrote a horror film reboot of the 2000 film Bring It On with writer Dana Schwartz. The film is being produced by SYFY.[7]

Education

McKendry has a doctorate focused in Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2018	All the Creatures Were Stirring[8]	Yes	Yes	Yes
2019	Psycho Granny	Yes	No	No
2022	Glorious	Yes	No	No
2023	Elevator Game	Yes	No	No

Executive producer only

Year	Title	Director	Notes
TBA	The Dead Thing	Elric Kane	Post-production

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2011	Zombie's Day Out	No	No	Yes	also actress: Co-Worker
	Feather	No	No	Yes	also choreographer
2012	The Dump	Yes	Story	Yes
2013	Wednesday the 13th	No	No	Executive
	The Barista	Yes	No	Yes
	Scary Mask	No	No	Yes
	Witches Brew	Yes	No	No
2014	Found	Yes	No	Yes
2015	Zombies Gone Wild!	No	No	Yes	Documentary short
	Eli Roth on Your Vice and the Genius of Martino	No	No	Yes
	Exquisite Corpse	Yes	Yes	No
2020	Separation	Yes	Yes	No

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Producer	Notes
2011	Zombies March	No	Executive	TV movie
2012-2013	Blood and Guts with Scott Ian	No	Yes
2012	The Double Life of Deanna Sinclair	Story	No	1 episode
	Inside Horror	Yes	No	1 episode
2021	2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	No	Yes	TV special
2022	Bring It On: Cheer or Die	Yes	No	TV movie

Awards and nominations

Year	Festival	Award	Nominated work	Result
2018	Chattanooga Film Festival	Audience Choice Award	All the Creatures Were Stirring	Won
	Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards	Best Independent Film		Nominated

References

1. "Jason Blum: Announcing the Launch of Blumhouse.com". Red Seat Ventures. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
2. "Blumhouse.com Gets Horror Makeover Online - Dread Central". Dread Central. 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
3. "Bob Odenkirk returns to Nerdist a more experienced man". 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
4. "'Killer POV' lives! The horror podcast team reassembles as 'Shock Waves'". EW.com. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
5. McNary, Dave (2015-12-15). "Constance Wu, Jonathan Kite to Star in Horror-Comedy 'All the Creatures Were Stirring'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
6. "USC Cinematic Arts | School of Cinematic Arts Directory Profile".
7. Kiefer, Halle (2021-05-16). "Let's See Those (Undead) Spirit Fingers for Syfy's Bring It On: Halloween". Vulture. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
8. "Christmas decor turns demonic in 'All the Creatures Were Stirring' movie poster". Entertainment Weekly.

External links

• Rebekah McKendry at IMDb
• Blumhouse.com
• Shock Waves podcast Archived 2017-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Killer POV podcast
• Interview with McKendry