Mike Bracken is a 29-year-old writer and bohemian living in Oakland, Calif. with his girlfriend and a mountain of movies, books, and video games. He's also the film section editor here at CultureDose.com.A notorious recluse, your chances of spotting Mike Bracken in the wild are about as likely as you having a Bigfoot sighting-and yet, there's no evidence to prove that Mike and the Sasquatch are in fact the same person.
He likes many things, including, but not limited to: Italian horror films, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Michele Soavi, Chow Yun-Fat, Anthony Wong, Takeshi Kitano, Simon Yam, Johnny To, Tsui Hark, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Takashi Miike, John Saxon, John Morghen, David Hess, George Romero, Mystery Science Theater 3000, cult films, mondo documentaries, samurai movies, cannibal flicks, NHL hockey (go Penguins!), and old-school hip-hop. Mike also likes talking about himself in the third person-it makes him feel special.
Dislikes: most mainstream horror films (especially the Scream clones), bandwagon-jumping fanboys who think they're Hong Kong cinema authorities because they know Yuen Woo Ping's name, John Woo's American films (same applies to Jet Li), the current state of hip-hop, Jorg Buttgereit's films, and those misguided individuals who think Day of the Dead is better than Dawn of the Dead.
Mike has written fiction, poetry, reviews-and other assorted crap-for a diverse group of print and online publications (to name a few, Deadbolt Magazine, Cinescape, Secret Scroll Digest, RPGFan, and various places you've probably never heard of). You can also catch him as The Horror Geek on Comedy Central's game show Beat the Geeks.
