Award winning filmmaker and novelist Owen Egerton is the screenwriter and writer/director of several films including Blood Fest (Rooster Teeth, Warner Media) and Mercy Black (Blumhouse, Universal). Working in horror, comedy, and occasionally animation, Egerton has written for Fox, Disney, Warner Brothers, HBO and more. He’s written several novels including The Book of Harold the Illegitimate Son of God and Hollow which landed on NPR's Best Books of 2017. Egerton is also one of the comics behind the Alamo Drafthouse’s Master Pancake Theater and host of the Fantastic Debates at the Fantastic Fest.