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Phil Condit started his movie-making career at the tender age of thirteen animating clay dinosaurs in his backyard. That same year he bought his first issue of Forest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland. A lifelong love affair began. All through middle school and high school he consumed as much horror, sci-fi and fantasy as time would allow between generating hours of 8mm (standard - not super - it hadn’t been invented yet) horror films. But he’s a Johnny-come-lately filmmaker being two years the junior of Steven Spielberg.
After college, Phil figured it was time to grow up and took a job with a documentary film facility that made films on psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Over the following thirty years the documentary facility produced more than thirty award winning documentaries.
One of the first documentaries was about Tourette’s Syndrome. Most people now knows that Tourette’s Syndrome is a combination of uncontrollable tics and involuntarily uttering curse words - and that is in large part due to the film. The filmmakers created the first diagnostic definition of exactly what the disease is and disseminated it worldwide.
Phil satisfied his love of horror films by watching as many as he could talk his family into going to see, until cable and VHS opened the floodgates allowing him to feast on the genre. He has a particular love of horror films of such a low budget that you can see the seams around the edges.
When the economic downturn began in 2009, Phil’s usual business dropped off precipitously. Many people in that situation went back to school to learn a new profession. Phil decided that if he wasn’t making any money, he didn’t have to be a grown up anymore, so he returned to his teenage roots of making horror movies. He embarked upon a career change to make horror feature films.
After college, Phil figured it was time to grow up and took a job with a documentary film facility that made films on psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Over the following thirty years the documentary facility produced more than thirty award winning documentaries.
One of the first documentaries was about Tourette’s Syndrome. Most people now knows that Tourette’s Syndrome is a combination of uncontrollable tics and involuntarily uttering curse words - and that is in large part due to the film. The filmmakers created the first diagnostic definition of exactly what the disease is and disseminated it worldwide.
Phil satisfied his love of horror films by watching as many as he could talk his family into going to see, until cable and VHS opened the floodgates allowing him to feast on the genre. He has a particular love of horror films of such a low budget that you can see the seams around the edges.
When the economic downturn began in 2009, Phil’s usual business dropped off precipitously. Many people in that situation went back to school to learn a new profession. Phil decided that if he wasn’t making any money, he didn’t have to be a grown up anymore, so he returned to his teenage roots of making horror movies. He embarked upon a career change to make horror feature films.
EMPRESS VAMPIRE
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
After the first screening of his first feature film, Empress Vampire, Phil said,”There is no greater thrill than to sit in a darkened theater and watch an audience spellbound by your creation - laughing or cringing on cue to the action on the screen - and then applaud at the end. I’m hooked.”
PHIL CONDIT, self portrait.
