Chris Kobin

Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California.

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)