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Ed Polgardy, president of Black Hat Magic Productions, is an acclaimed comic book creator-writer-editor, an Emmy-Award-winning television producer-director, and a successful feature film writer-producer-director.
Polgardy co-created the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series “From The Darkness” and “From The Darkness: Blood Vows”, and wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's “From Dusk 'Til Dawn”.
As Senior Editor at Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics, he developed, wrote, and edited several hit titles, including “The Good Guys” and “Dark Dominion” (penciled by “Spider-Man” co-creator Steve Ditko).
Polgardy also held the Editor-in-Chief position at BIG Entertainment where he worked with
celebrity concept creators John Jakes, Mickey Spillane, Tom Clancy, and Neil Gaiman.
The resulting intellectual properties were licensed to Miramax, Alliance Entertainment, and ABC TV.
Polgardy’s TV work includes producing and directing: “Today’s Environment”, starring Ed Begley, Jr.
, “Millennium”, hosted by Peter Weller, “The Best of Wine and Food”, featuring George Hamilton, “.
COM” and “.
COM Kids”, starring Mark Hamill, “Elegance with Ivana”, featuring Ivana Trump, “Women in Charge”, with Nancy Glass, “First Priority”, hosted by Hunter Tylo, “Healthy Solutions”, starring Mariette Hartley, and “Monsterama”, featuring Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson.
Polgardy also helped create Price/Parker, a television production company where he developed, produced, and directed “Identity”, a female-empowerment show that aired on The Learning Channel.
Moving into fictional programming, Polgardy produced “Oh Jerome, No” (starring Mamoudou Athie, Natasha Lyonne, and Georgina Campbell), a short-form television series—eight 12-minute episodes—that aired on “Cake” on Fox's FXX Network.
As a screenwriter, Polgardy has had a number of his feature film scripts optioned and green-lit for production.
Polgardy produced the motion pictures “Masked Mutilator” (featuring Brick Bronsky, Glenn Hetrick, and James DeBello), which he also co-wrote, “The Halfway House” (starring cult-film icon
Mary Woronov), “The Ghostmaker” (starring Aaron Dean Eisenberg), “Window Of Opportunity” (with producing partner John Densmore, legendary rock-‘n’-roll drummer from The Doors), “Dark Desire” (featuring Kelly Lynch and Michael Nouri), “Megachurch Murder” (starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Corbin Bleu and Romeo Miller), and “The Wretched” (featuring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Kevin Bigley, and Azie Tesfai), which was number one at the U.
S.
box office for five weeks straight in 2020.
He line produced “Boiler Maker” (starring John Savage), and co-produced “Laid to Rest” (featuring Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker).
As a second unit director, Polgardy worked on “Death’s Door”, “Laid to Rest”, “Dark House”, “The Ghostmaker” and “The Wretched”.
Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.
A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
Julia, better known as Jewel to her friends and family, is a teenage runaway who is unwilling to live within the rules and boundaries set by her parents. She has run away once before, and her father's connections have kept that quiet. This time, however, an election cycle is about to begin and the scandal of a runaway daughter has congressman Robert Jennings desperate. Desperate enough to have half the NYPD out quietly looking for his daughter, and desperate enough to pay privately to have her found and brought back home. The problem for those looking for her, though, is that she is no longer on the streets, and is instead imprisoned in an underground bunker, having been kidnapped by a sadistic serial murderer. Jewel knows exactly how much longer she has left to live, but will it be long enough for anybody to find her?
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
As a group of intrepid explorers descend upon King Island in search of elusive female heroine Tarzeena, an evil scientist schemes to use his revolutionary radio brain control devise to transform her into the ultimate love slave. With her loyal gorilla Tabonga by her side, Tarzeena stands as the undisputed queen of King Island. But the malevolent Dr. Mortimer is eager to have this island queen all to himself, and he's willing to resort to some hi-tech tomfoolery in order to make that happen. Of course all's fair in love and brain surgery, and as Dr. Mortimer attempts to capture Tarzeena so that he can insert the device in her head, a group of bold adventurers arrive on the island to find out once and for all whether this feral female heroine truly exists.
Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts was a documentary focused on horror hosts; screened on the horror channel Monsters HD in 2004.