Joe Zaso

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Joe Zaso
Born Joseph Zaso
November 20, 1970 (1970-11-20) (age 41)
Queens, New York City, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actor, director
Website
http://www.cinemaimages.net/josephzaso.html

Joseph Zaso (born on November 20, 1970 in Queens, New York City) is an American actor and filmmaker.

He is a b-movie regular and has been involved in the low budget science fiction and horror industry since 1990. Zaso, an avid bodybuilder, is usually cast as husky villains.

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[edit] Biography

Joe Zaso is of Sicilian-Italian and Russian ancestry.[1]

[edit] Movie career

He formed his own film production company Cinema Image Productions in 1986 and since then he has primarily produced and acted in horror films.[2] Zaso broke into the film industry with the horror musical It's Only a Movie (1990), which he wrote, directed, and appeared in. He followed it up with several producing jobs, including the Italian giallo-inspired Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas.

He teamed up with New York director Kevin Lindenmuth on several pictures, including Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1998), Rage of the Werewolf (1999), and Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust (2000). He also worked with German horror director Andreas Schnaas on both Demonium (2001) and Nikos (2003).

Zaso has also appeared as an extra in the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and on the popular daytime TV series, Days of our Lives.

Zaso appeared as the Jersey Devil in a special promotional video created for the New Jersey Devils hockey team, which played in the Prudential Center before all 2007/2008 games.

Zaso's role in the 2012 comedy-horror movie, Supernaturalz, directed by Kevin Sean Michaels, is that of Burl Bonnie, a crazed husband who is suspects his wife is a witch who has tried to kill his daughter.

According to his MySpace profile, Zaso admires the work of film directors Dario Argento, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Alfred Hitchcock.[3]

[edit] Filmography

  • It's Only a Movie! (1990)
  • Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas (1996)
  • Guilty Pleasures (1997)
  • Creaturealm: From the Dead (1998)
  • Evil Streets (1998)
  • Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1998)
  • Rage of the Werewolf (1999)
  • Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust (2000)
  • Date with a Vampire (2001)
  • Demonium (2001)
  • Nikos (2003)
  • The Adventures of Young Van Helsing: The Quest for the Lost Scepter (2004)
  • And Then They Were Dead... (2004)
  • Red Midnight (2005)
  • Demon Resurrection (2005)
  • Angel's Blade (2006)
  • Barricade (2007)
  • Darkness Surrounds Roberta (2007)
  • Timo Rose's Beast (2008)
  • Supernaturalz (2012)

[edit] References

Braincell (2010) Perry St. (2010) BearCity (2010) Virus X (2011)

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