Gans, Christophe

(March II, 1960, Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France - )

   A movie buff and genre film lover since his child­hood, he studied at the IDHEC, where he directed his first short, Silver Slime, a tribute to Dario Argento ("silver" in Italian) and Mario Bava ("slime" in Italian). In the late 1970s, he created a fanzine dedicated to fantastic and sci-fi movies (Rhésus Zéro). In 1983, he co-founded the film magazine Starfix. He made his professional directing debut filming a segment of Necronomicon.

 Filmography

1981 ◘ Silver Slime (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Necronomicon / USA: Necronomicon: Book of Dead / US video: H.P Lovecraft's Necronomicon, Book of the Dead (segment "The Drowned"; also co-screenwriter; France / USA)

        ◘ Crying Freeman (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; Canada / France / Japan / USA)

2001 ◘ Le Pacte des Loups / USA and Canada: Brotherhood of the Wolf (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2006 ◘ Silent Hill (USA / Canada / France)