todd cobery was born and raised in the boston area.  at an early age, todd developed an interest, and eventually an obsession, with movies and filmmaking.  one genre of films spoke to todd in a louder voice than the rest, however.  what was this genre?  horror, and lots of it.  todd spent virtually every waking minute watching the latest italian horror bootleg or trying to find the best consistency for fake blood.  he stayed up all night reading the latest issue of fangoria or watching dawn of the dead for the umpteenth time.  his life was consumed by horror films.  he would dream of being able to put together visions that held up to those of his idols…fulci…argento… carpenter…craven…romero.  he had only a shaky home video camera and a group of friends who shared little interest in his passion, so time and time again his “film projects” died quickly after they began.

eventually todd  made his way out to tropical minneapolis for a change of scenery.  by this time in his life, he was convinced that nobody actually made films.  these filmmakers he read about were fictitious.  it was a crazy dream that he would never be able to achieve.  after many years off, todd decided to go back to school to get a practical degree…accounting (literally translated: “that which sucks life”).  it was during this particularly low point of todd’s life that he discovered his school was offering a 16mm film class.  filmmaking on real film.  needless to say, todd jumped at the chance to take a course on filmmaking from a talented professional in the industry.  the filmmaking bug hit todd hard.  by this point in his life, horror was not the only type of film that got his blood pumping…but it was still a favorite.

todd finally started to do what he had always dreamed of…make films.  he started off by making incoherent garbage, but quickly moved his way up to blood soaked incoherent zombie garbage.  what was this zombie epic you may ask…the eight minute tour-de-force “the dead won’t die”.  this black and white short is drenched with hershey syrup blood.  cobery followed dwd up with, you guessed it, “the dead won’t die 2: the dead still won’t die.”  the follow up was twice as long, twice as gory, and twice as incoherent.  after the dwd films, todd moved on to short comedies…of the two-minute variety.  he shot “man gets hit in groin by football” and “breakfast” in one day.  the two films went on to win the grand prize and third runner up respectively at the national projects two-minute film trials held in minneapolis in october of 2000.  todd has taken his love for no-budget gore to a new level and is currently experimenting with non horror material with slightly higher production aspirations, but will always stay true to his exploitation roots.

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