Nationality American Notable works Horror comics | Name Robert Tinnell Role Film director | |
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Area(s) Director, producer, writer Awards Fantasporto Film Festival Best Director AwardThe Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, 2004, 2005 Movies Kids of the Round Table, Airspeed, Believe, Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art Similar People Ricky Mabe, Roc LaFortune, Charles Powell, Bronwen Booth, Johnny Morina | ||
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Robert Tinnell (born April 27, 1961 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is a film screenwriter, director, and producer. He is also the author of several comic books and graphic novels, notably with a horror slant.
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Biography
Tinnell's work as a director includes the films Kids of the Round Table (1995), Believe (2000), and Frankenstein and Me (1996), the latter of which was very popular with fans of classic horror. Tinnell has frequently acknowledged his passion for horror, particularly classic horror films. Hammer Film Productions aficionados seek out Frankenstein and Me because of a sequence inspired by the 1960 Terence Fisher film Brides of Dracula, which starred Peter Cushing. Tinnell's film actually recreates a windmill set that is used in the Hammer film. In the same film, Tinnell meticulously recreated a scene reminiscent of Night of the Living Dead as well as other horror classics. All of the sequences featured children in the adult roles. Burt Reynolds and Louise Fletcher starred in Frankenstein and Me, alongside a young Ryan Gosling. (Stars Elisha Cuthbert and Gosling both had early film roles for Tinnell.)
As a producer, Tinnell worked in both the music video world as well as feature films. Among his credits as producer are the MTV Award-winning Paula Abdul music video "Straight Up," directed by David Fincher, and the notorious cult film Surf Nazis Must Die (released through Troma).
Tinnell is best known in comics for a series of horror graphic novels, including The Black Forest, The Wicked West, The Living and The Dead, and Sight Unseen. His book Feast of the Seven Fishes was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – Reprint. While promoting Feast of the Seven Fishes, Tinnell was a guest on several popular radio cooking shows, including The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, the Rocco Dispirito Show, and KCRW's Good Food.
Currently, Tinnell is writing The Chelation Kid, a webcomic dealing with his son's autism, and EZ Streets, in collaboration with Mark Wheatley, as well as various screenwriting and directing projects. He is the director of the web series Here There Be Monsters, filmed by students of The Factory Digital Filmmaking Program at Douglas and with make-up effects created by the students of Tom Savini's Special Makeup Effects Program at Douglas Education Center.
Personal life
Tinnell is the brother of film producer and graphic novel publisher Jeffrey Tinnell. Robert lives in West Virginia with his wife, Shannon, and two children, Isabella and Jack. Isabella is an aspiring actress.