Jim Towns
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Jim Towns is a successful genre filmmaker with over twenty years experience in the indie film business. He's best known as the writer/director of the horror films House of Bad (2013), End Times (2023), and The Beast Inside (2024).
Born in Pittsburgh, PA and raised by a single mother, Towns grew up influenced by superhero and horror comics, animation, and movies- especially old Universal horror films like Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
After receiving his BFA in Sequential Art from Savannah College of Art and Design, he showed successfully in galleries in New York City for several years before returning to Pittsburgh to co-direct his first feature with childhood friend Mike McKown. Prometheus Triumphant (2006) was a black and white silent feature inspired by the German Expressionist masterpieces The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.
Prometheus was released to critical acclaim, and Towns and McKown followed it up with Stiff (2010), a dark romantic comedy about a suicidal office worker's relationship with a beautiful but troubled female necrophiliac. Jim's solo directorial debut was the successful indie horror heist film House of Bad (2013), starring then-ingenue Sadie Katz. He next wrote and directed the post-apocalyptic father/daughter film End Times (2023), featuring Jamie Bernadette and Craig Stark.
Over the next several years Towns would co-direct the feature documentary A Guitar Story, serve as series director for the martial arts series 52 Masters (2018), and co-host a successful podcast: The Borgo Pass Horror Podcast-which focuses on the very Universal Monster films which gave him his start. He's also the author of the novels American Cryptic, Bloodsucker City, and Whiskey Stories.
Towns created the streaming series Immortal Hands (2021) for Golden Media Group, and directed the pilot. His most recent film, The Beast Inside (2024), reunites him with Sadie Katz, and tells the story of a possessed woman forced to exorcise her own demons.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA and raised by a single mother, Towns grew up influenced by superhero and horror comics, animation, and movies- especially old Universal horror films like Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
After receiving his BFA in Sequential Art from Savannah College of Art and Design, he showed successfully in galleries in New York City for several years before returning to Pittsburgh to co-direct his first feature with childhood friend Mike McKown. Prometheus Triumphant (2006) was a black and white silent feature inspired by the German Expressionist masterpieces The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.
Prometheus was released to critical acclaim, and Towns and McKown followed it up with Stiff (2010), a dark romantic comedy about a suicidal office worker's relationship with a beautiful but troubled female necrophiliac. Jim's solo directorial debut was the successful indie horror heist film House of Bad (2013), starring then-ingenue Sadie Katz. He next wrote and directed the post-apocalyptic father/daughter film End Times (2023), featuring Jamie Bernadette and Craig Stark.
Over the next several years Towns would co-direct the feature documentary A Guitar Story, serve as series director for the martial arts series 52 Masters (2018), and co-host a successful podcast: The Borgo Pass Horror Podcast-which focuses on the very Universal Monster films which gave him his start. He's also the author of the novels American Cryptic, Bloodsucker City, and Whiskey Stories.
Towns created the streaming series Immortal Hands (2021) for Golden Media Group, and directed the pilot. His most recent film, The Beast Inside (2024), reunites him with Sadie Katz, and tells the story of a possessed woman forced to exorcise her own demons.
