Chris Kobin

Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California. Chris Kobin in front of the Carleton Hotel at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal Kobin, a graduate of Ridgewood High School (New Jersey), Macalester College and Loyola Law School, turned down an offer from a Century City law firm and became a car salesman while trying to break into Hollywood. The John Landis film Slasher: an IFC Original was based on Kobin's experiences traveling the country staging "slasher sales".

Career Kobin has produced the Made-For-TV Movies Payback ABC TV (1997), A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle CBS TV(2000), and Slasher: an IFC Original (2004). Feature Films which Kobin has written or co-written include Gothic Harvest (2019), 2001 Maniacs (2005), Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006), Driftwood (2006. and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010).

Film festival premieres

Kobin's films have premiered in the following film festivals:

Screamfest Horror Film Festival: Gothic Harvest (2019) Telluride Film Festival: Hollywood Don't Surf! (2011) North American Premiere Cannes Film Festival: Hollywood Don't Surf! (2010) Screamfest Horror Film Festival: Snoop Doggs Hood of Horror (2006) South by Southwest: Slasher (2004) Slamdance Film Festival: The Girl Next Door (1999).

Filmography

The Hart Family Tragedy (2020) Gothic Harvest (2019) Hollywood Don't Surf! (2011) 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010) Driftwood (2006) Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006) 2001 Maniacs (2005) Slasher: an IFC Original (2004) A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle (2000) The Girl Next Door (1999) Payback (1997)

Television series

Flipping Vegas A&E Network (2011 - 2014)