Has always thought Casablanca surpasses Citizen Kane as best film of all time.

Used a doctored library card to check The Exorcist out of the library at age 12. His parents found out anyway.

Used phony I.D. to sneak into both the re-release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 1980s and Cannibal Holocaust. Never to buy beer or get into a bar.

Thinks, hokey as the film is, that THEM! (yes, giant ants) has a genuinely terrifying moment in the scene where James Whitmore must decide to save himself, or save a child.

Chose a scene from Day of the Dead as his senior high drama monologue. Got an A.

If he had one film to take back or un-see, it would be Salo: 120 Days of Sodom.

"Perhaps one of the only films I find offensive. Trash masking as art using the flimsiest of premises in order to lay out one's own sick fantasies on screen, including pedophilia and other forms of child abuse. One of the few films I can think of which has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever. I would trade unseeing it with having to re-see one of Joel Schumacher's BATMAN films, and that says something..."

Can't believe (but appreciates) that "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is still popular at the goth clubs. Then again, can't believe he's still going to the clubs, either...

Thinks John Carpenter's true masterpiece is The Thing; not Halloween.

Once had a story accepted for the Hellraiser comic book series. At the time, the story would not run for nearly a year and a half so declined the contract. Instead "Corporate Ladder" ran in Cry for Dawn Vol. 7. The Hellraiser comic series was cancelled the issue before that story would have run.

Prolific short story writer though he is, Joe's non-horror fiction has appeared in (at last count) over 4 million magazines worldwide--for adult publications and mens' magazines.