Biography

John Harrison is a freelance writer and film historian based in Melbourne, Australia who has written for such film-related publications as Fatal Visions, Cult Movies, Is it Uncut?, Filmink, The Headpress Journal, Monster!, Weng's Chop and Metro, as well as penning reviews and liner notes for many DVD and VHS releases from Something Weird Video. John has also written the best-selling Headpress book Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks (which featured a chapter on film tie-in paperbacks), and has recently composed the booklet essays for the Australian Blu-ray releases of Thirst, Dead Kids, Snapshot and The Survivor for Glass Doll Films.

Currently, John is co-writing Cartwheels & Halos and Rolling With The Punches, two books on the life of actress/singer and former Hollywood stunt woman Marneen Fields, whom he married in Las Vegas in March of 2016. He is also working on a third book called Wildcat!, about the films of Marjoe Gortner, a former child evangelist who turned to acting as an adult and starred in a number of entertaining and interesting exploitation and drive-in films.

John has also appeared regularly on film-related radio and television shows such as Film Buff's Forecast and Video in Focus, and has provided live on-stage introductions for various screening put on by the Cinemaniacs film society in Melbourne, including The Warriors, Flash Gordon, Bloodsucking Freaks and, most recently, Bless the Beasts and Children.
- IMDb mini biography by: John P. Harrison