Marc Selz

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Marc Selz is an American film director and producer who specializes in slasher films. Selz is a 1988 graduate of Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois and studied at Columbia College Chicago. He completed his first feature, Short Cut Road in 2003, quickly followed by The Rockville Slayer in 2004. In 2006, he was set to shoot his third feature, Satanic Panic, but had to push back production until 2007 due to time constraints. Because of the shooting delay, some parts had to be recast, including roles orginally set to star veteran B-movie actesses Felissa Rose and Brinke Stevens. The film is loosley based on the "satanic cult" killings that occurred during the 1980s and 1990's. Satanic Panic began filming in the summer of 2007 with most principal photography completed in September. The remaining scenes were finally shot in June of 2008. Marc has jokingly referred to Satanic as "the Star Wars of low budget horror movies" because of the time it has taken to complete. Marc stated, "Karl (co-writer Karl Sundstrom) and I started writing Satanic in September/October of 2005. This would make it three years in the making because it should be finished sometime in September. This would make it like Star Wars. Star Wars came out in 1977 and it took Lucas three years to release The Empire Strikes Back." Satanic Panic was initially planned as a straight to DVD project but there is word of a potential limited theatrical release due to industry buzz of the film.