Mark Thomas McGee

Mark Thomas McGee (born 1947) is an American actor, writer and director. He has written a number of screenplays, most notably for Fred Olen Ray. He also wrote the cult classic Equinox (1970) when only a teenager.^[1]

He is also the author of a number of books, including ones on American International Pictures, Roger Corman, Robert Lippert and Sam Katzman.^[2]

He wrote a book on Roger Corman and told Corman that he wanted to write a script for him. McGee did drafts of Sorority House Massacre II (1989) that were not used. He also wrote an un-used script for Joe Solomon and did a week's work on the script for Transylvania Twist with Jim Wynorski. He was fired at the behest of Roger Corman. However when Wynorski hired MgGee to work on the script for Hard to Die Corman did not object.^[3]

Select screenplay credits

• Equinox (1970)
• Bad Girls from Mars (1990)
• Sorority House Massacre II (1990)
• Hard to Die (1990)
• Inner Sanctum (1991)
• Stepmonster (1993)
• Sins of Desire (1993)
• Mind Twister (1994)
• Possessed by the Night (1994)
• Sorceress (1995)
• Witch Academy (1995)

Select books

• J. D. Films: Juvenile Delinquency in the Movies with R.J. Robertson (1982)
• Fast and Furious: Story of American International Pictures (1987)
• The Little Shop of Horrors Book with John McCarty (1988)
• Faster and Furiouser: Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures (1996)
• Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts (1998)
• Beyond Ballyhoo: Motion Picture Promotion and Gimmicks (2001)
• The Rock and Roll Movie Encyclopedia of the 1950s (2002)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Making of a Classic (2012)
• You Won't Believe Your Eyes: A Front Row Look at the Sci-Fi Horror Films of the 50s (2013) with R.J. Robertson
• Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert (2014)
• Katzman, Nicholson, Corman Shaping Hollywood's Future (2016)

References

External links

• Mark Thomas McGee on IMDb