Liam Regan

Liam Regan was born in 1985 and raised in South Yorkshire United Kingdom he was exposed to the horror genre at five years old by secretly watching What Ever Happened to Baby Jane 1962 without his parents consent Growing up on a heavy dose of horror movies from the 80s he quickly took an interest in independent cinema after discovering Troma Entertainments back catalog and purchasing The Toxic Avenger Part II 1989 from his local Blockbuster video store Liam studied screenwriting and filmmaking by working on the movie sets of Lloyd Kaufman Return to Nuke Em High Volumes 1 2 before embarking on his Banjo project with his own production company titled Refuse Films formally Cincest Films The initial idea of Banjo was based on an accident Liam encountered during a trip to London the following day after a screening of Darren Lynn Bousmans Mothers Day at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square he was inspired to take the idea and create a treatment that was quickly developed into a fifteen page short film screenplay titled Confessions of Peltzer Filmed during Easter 2012 the short film Confessions of Peltzer premiered at the TromaDance film festival in New Jersey the following year Once the short film premiered at TromaDance Liam began receiving messages about how revolting and obscene the short was which then inspired him further to begin writing a feature length screenplay with the characters from his first short film the screenplay was titled Banjo Banjo the feature length movie was filmed during the Summer of 2014 in South Yorkshire UK The feature length movie had its first test screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 with a 107 minute workprint and the final cut with the running time of 82 minutes was officially selected by Film4 FrightFest to have its world premiere on August 31st in Leicester Square London Banjo went on to play 20 further festivals and its title changed to My Bloody Banjo in late 2016 with Acort International and Maxim Media Entertainment serving as worldwide sales agents My Bloody Banjo was released on DVD VOD in the US in November 2016 along with the uncensored version screening on the VOD platform Troma NOW in early 2017 Liam returned to Tromaville during the Summer of 2018 working on Lloyd Kaufmans latest opus Shakespeares Shitstorm in New York City due to be released in Summer 2019