BIOGRAPHY

CHARLES SCHNEIDER and Screaming Mad George have collaborated on one another's bizarre projects for over twenty years. They met as fresh faced fear freaks in New York City, each attending different art schools at the time. George created some of his first amazing effects for Schneider's short f film adaptation of Lord Dunsany's "The Three Infernal Jokes," featuring great fantasist-editor Lin Carter in his only known film performance. They moved to Los Angeles at about the same time a few years thereafter. Many more team-ups followed. Charles and SMG co-translated JIGOKU, a twisted Japanese Manga, for Blast Books. Schneider also wrote a draft of ANIMUS for George.

Schneider has written and directed horror theatre for many years around Los Angeles. This theatre is fully rooted in the Grand Guignol tradition. Though now focusing on film, many audiences will never forget his blood-drenched epics such as THE METHODS OF COLIN SPIKES, which he is making into a feature film. "This film," he claims, "will make the viewer wish the director had been decapitated when very young."

Schneider worked for many years in the music video industry, penning scenarios for Paula Abdul, Steve Winwood, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson. Billy Idol, U2 etc. Madonna for such directors such as David Fincher, Dominic Sena and Michael bay. He has also directed several videos, including clips for Too Free Stooges, Kerri Anderson, Motorpsycho (Hollywood Records), The Ocean Blue, Seventeen Pygmies. He recently completed an incredible Victorian Madhouse fever-dream for Los Angeles based band THE CENTIMETERS. This video featured make-up and computer work by S.M. George and creatures designed by Zen ("From Beyond" resonator designer) Mansley.

He has even worked for Disney, penning the script for Disney's Spooky Haunted Mansion SingAlong in 1998. Truly eclectic, Schneider wrote the script for Marvel Comics WOODSTOCK: THE COMIC! He even wrote "The Worry Bird" for Daniel Clowes Lloyd Llewellyn comic, a rare Clowes collaboration.

He edited the Feral House book CAD: A Handbook for heels, teaching a new generation how to act like old creeps.

In 2000 he wrote twelve episodes of the award winning animated series POOCHINI. Bay, etc. at Propaganda Films.

Schneider has worked as an actor, favoring the weird and horrific always. He played Joey MaCobb in Ghost World, Professor Gilman in Tombstone and Arthur in Full Moon's ZARKORR! He has played many bits in Brian Yuzna's horror pictures including a barrel zombie, half of a Herbert West mutant spider creature in and a burning Satanist in "Faust." For completists, he can also be glimpsed at the start of "House" as a rabid horror fan and in Beetlejuice hanging by the neck in the underworld office.

Go to http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0312823/photogallery for some lurid gore pix of an early Schneider effort, which played as a cult film at SMG's early CBGB's MAD shows.

He also paints and draws. The Outre gallery in Melbourne, Australia is the chief source for his fine and hideously grotesque paintings.

Victor Garcia produced DIABLO the first English language Latin-themed horror film for an November 2003 release. This feature presentation features the surreal make-up effects work of Screaming Mad George (POLTERGEIST II, BIG TROUBLE LITTLE CHINA). Garcia serves as Co-Producer for Ann Lu's EROSION, currently filming in Los Angeles.

He also served as one of the Producers of TEA WITH GRANDMA, through Fahn Field, LLC. This short film starring Tippi Hedren recently won the Grand Prize for International Short Film, at the 10th annual Chichester Film Festival in West Sussex, UK, as well as Grand Jury Prize winner for the New York Independent International Film Festival. TEA WITH GRANDMA was also accepted to the 2001 IFFM, LA Short Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival as well as many other international film festivals.

Garcia served as CEO/CFO for Major Havoc Entertainment; a company focused on the production, co-production and worldwide distribution of television series from Tsuburaya Productions, Japan. He associate produced MACROSS II, and later produced GIANT ROBO Episode II, two landmark Japanese anime films for Manga Entertainment.

Prior to establishing Major Havoc, Victor served as a consultant with Popular Arts Entertainment and later helped finance and produce JAM CENTRAL for ESPN.