Biography

Though born in Southern California, it was during his high school years in Ellicott City MD, a suburb of Baltimore, that Kevin Klemm developed his love of filmmaking. Using money saved from a series of summer jobs, Kevin bought his first Super Eight sound camera and started making movies. After High School he studied film production at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he got the opportunity to work on Don Dohler's Galaxy Invader. This was followed by Blood Massacre, also by Don Dohler, although this version was later shelved and re-made a number of years later.

Kevin Klemm moved out to Los Angeles in 1986 and landed a job at Universal, where he stayed for the next eighteen years.

Always fascinated by Special Make-Up Effects, Kevin taught himself prop fabrication, specifically corpses. He started making corpse props to decorate his yard for Halloween, and got so many requests he started selling them on E-Bay. This led to his forming of The Ed Gein Collection (named after the grave-robber Ed Gein) and he started selling his work to Haunted Attractions such as House of Shock and Netherworld. Robert Rhine, a comic book writer, got in touch with Kevin and asked if he could borrow a corpse prop and use it to decorate his booth at the San Diego Comic Con. The corpse was a big hit, with everyone thinking it was a real cadaver. Everyone wanted to have their picture taken with the corpse, girls especially. This lead Robert Rhine to exclaim- "What's up with the girls and corpses?" The rest is history, as Kevin Klemm and Robert Rhine joined forces and created Girls and Corpses Magazine. Kevin's corpse work has been profiled in such magazines as Maxim, Entertainment Weekly, Bizarre, Penthouse and Total Guitar Magazine.

Kevin was then discovered by the Dark Art / Low Brow art scene and was asked to participate in one of the first ever Hyaena Gallery art shows. He has since had shows in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and his work can be found in the collections of such celebrities as Musician/Filmmaker Rob Zombie and Writer Neil Gaiman.

Kevin Klemm is now concentrating on writing and producing, but will create a corpse if the right project comes along...
- IMDb mini biography by: Kevin Klemm