Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas is a film critic and editor of Video Watchdog. The latter started in 1985 as a magazine column investigating the changes made to various films (usually horror, cult and fantastic) when they appeared on video. These early columns were collected in The Video Watchdog Book (1992). In 1990 Lucas launched Video Watchdog as a separate magazine. Its focus on even-tempered, thoughtful and extremely detailed articles quickly made Video Watchdog one of the key sources of serious film criticism. This achievement is even more remarkable considering that the magazine focuses on films outside the mainstream that generally receive glancing, tongue-in-cheek comments when they're noticed at all.
Lucas has put this experience to good use in his biography Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark (2005).
Lucas is also a novelist. Throat Sprockets (1994) is a haunting, stylish story about a man obsessed with a disturbing, half-forgotten film. Most film buffs might identify with the rudiments of the premise but Lucas created a unique, imaginative novel. His second novel is The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula (2005) which moves a secondary character from Dracula onto center stage.