Biography

Joe Randazzo is an independent screenwriter and producer. His screenplays have won over 20 awards since 2006. His most celebrated work, "Ripper," won or placed in the Best Screenplay category at over a dozen film festivals. Joe is also the co-writer on two comedy shorts with Dave Campfield: "Caesar & Otto meet Dracula's Lawyer," featuring horror favorites Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rochon, and "The Perfect Candidate" starring Joe Estevez, Robert Z'Dar, and Maria Olsen. Randazzo also produced and co-wrote "Caesar and Otto's Deadly XMas," a parody of the 1980s "Santa Slasher" sub-genre featuring CKY front man Deron Miller, Lloyd Kaufman, and Linnea Quigley, among other genre legends. "Deadly Xmas" has been well received both critically and on the festival circuit, garnering several screenwriting awards, as well as nominations for Best Feature at several festivals. The film was widely praised by Ain't It Cool News, HorrorHound magazine, MJ Simpson, and many others, receiving stellar reviews leading up to it's release on DVD, VOD, and OnDemand Pay-Per-View in November of 2013. He has since written a screen adaptation of Julie C. Morse's novel "Out of the Box," a nominee at the 2014 Beverly Hills Film Festival and 2nd Place screenplay at The Indie Gathering, and "Threshold," which was nominated at the 2017 Beverly Hills Films Film Festival and won Best Screenplay at the 2016 Eerie Horror Film Festival. He is also nearing completion on four slasher movie screenplays with his "Perfect Candidate" co-story writer, Sean Steffen.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephen Finley

Joe was raised in Brooklyn, New York by immigrant parents and speaks fluent Italian.

I've always been drawn to that aesthetic of the surreal and the macabre. It always seemed to call to me, and the forced solitude of being the class misfit only fueled my appreciation for that aesthetic.