Starred and costarred in many films, his hero turn in Evil On Queen Street is what he is best remembered for.
Also directed almost every film he had appeared in from 2001-2008.
Born on September 5th, 1973 in Sterling, IL.
His early childhood was what could be expected for someone his size, he usually had a run in with the local bullies on a regular basis.
After more then a few attacks, Matt decided to learn how to defend himself.
He studied two forms of martial arts, Jeet Kune Do and Kenpo.
These fighting skills not only helped him to overcome the local bullies, but he has incorporated them in to most of his films.
His entire filmmaking venture began in 1988 when a camcorder was first brought into the household.
After shooting a few experimental short films (both horror with Killseeker and comedy with 3 Stooges inspired works), he decided to try his hand at a serious short horror film.
With only a few of the roughest of editing tools, he began work on Evil On Queen Street in 1996 and this 40 minute short film would take him until 2001 to fully finish.
In between that time, Matt was busy writing scripts.
One was a Spider-man script, another was Meteor: The Hidden 3, and the other was known a Eve Of Terror.
Matt sent Spider-man to every major movie studio he could find the address of, but to his disappointment received no response from any of the companies.
He thought about sending the Meteor script to New Line Cinema who had released the second Hidden film and sending Eve Of Terror to some of the other studios.
But after the disappointment of Spider-man, he decided against it.
New online capabilities became available to Matt, and soon he was busy trying to show off his work on the internet.
He placed his finished version of the short Evil On Queen Street on his web site, known then as Matt Spease Productions.
He checked out the works of such online indy filmmaking companies like Timberwolf Digital.
With this he decided to make the company official and starting working on films to sell on the web site.
His first work for Matt Spease Productions was a Star Wars spoof with 3 Stooges elements known as The Stooges - Episode V: Die, Stooges, Die.
The production was very rough and was shot with the same camcorder that Matt had growing up, needless to say the camcorder was in dire need of being retired.
Then there was the lightsaber effects, which were a major pain that Matt grew tired of rather quickly.
Pro Wrestler Violet Flame starred in the film as the Princess and Matt basically played all other roles in the film himself.
That film was only a mild success and Matt wanted to move forward to a film that was more his style.
In 2003 the company became Dark Night Films.
Eve Of Terror was then dusted off and was given the working title Copycat.
This film was eventually released as The Chameleon Killer with Violet Flame again playing the lead.
The film was released to a huge success online and is a major favorite among the fans of Dark Night Films.
This thriller follows two sets of couples, Franklin and Bella Sloane and Rod and Carol Everett, as they end up trapped in the Sloane house during a snow storm. Soon they begin to be picked off by a mysterious killer.
This film follows a couple and their altercations with snake creatures, who they inadvertently kill the male one - which makes the female plot a course of revenge on them and their friends.
The comical misadventures of a genius man who after creating a female robot, must pretend that she's his girlfriend after his family mistake her for a real girl.
The first vampire himself Vlad Tepes arrives in the sleepy community of Willcox and quickly turns an innocent private nurse into his vampire queen. He then has her commit acts of murder on the communities less desirable and draining them of their blood, while also supplying him with a female representing all 8 blood types to become his brides. Damien Cruz investigates the murders and disappearances, which at first he believes Nicole or the mysterious priest Father Nero could be responsible for. But what will happen when Vlad realizes how close Damien is getting to discovering his evil deeds.
When a murder spree breaks out, Sheriff Hagan suspects that Julie, one victim's daughter, may know more than she's letting on. His investigation leads to a series of red herrings and mysteries as his prime suspects all turn up dead or missing. Can he find the killer, discover what Julie is hiding and uncover the mystery surrounding his town?
Witness the explosive return of Nick Wilson, in this new sequel/reboot for the character from the Evil On Queen Street series. Nick Wilson (Matt Spease) is now in a relationship with Sarah Thompson (Caitlyn Bailey) and things seem to be going well for him, until a man from his past comes calling. Erich Denham used to be a member of Nick's old group of thieves, but now he's in charge of the group and wants Nick out of the way because he believes Nick can't be trusted. The group murders not only Nick, but Sarah as well. What they didn't count on was that Lucifer would give Nick the opportunity to avenge his and Sarah's deaths, but he has a special twist to the stipulation though and Nick soon finds out that he is now a woman. But hell hath no fury like this woman scorned, so Nick sets out to get revenge. Erich and the rest of the group responsible for their deaths are now marked with a strange tattoo on their wrist, this tattoo disappears whenever they are killed
All is finally quiet around Queen Street, Nick has a new love interest in former bounty hunter Electra Murphy, Damien has been placed on a top secret assignment out of town, and Anderson is now the top detective and has a new partner Jaqueline 'Jackie' Romero. But when Nick inadvertently revives The Demon, who in turn unleashes an army of undead creatures to walk the earth, Anderson stumbles upon this rising army, an action packed battle will ensue and Nick, with the returning Damien & Electra will be forced to team up with Alexia's dysfunctional sister, Sarah and her con man boyfriend, Victor as they board themselves up in Nick's house to try an escape the undead attack..
A man with horrible psychological problems snaps and goes on a short murder spree before being gunned down by the local Sheriff and his deputy. What should be the end of the story is only the beginning as an ambitious doctor decides to test his latest experimental drug on the body of the man. In a Frankenstein-like twist, the drug works all-too-well, and the man comes back, now with super human strength and is near indestructible.
After killing Alison Sumner and being seemingly killed by Robert Kersey, James Kirby is being transferred to the local morgue. But he isn't dead and kills the coroner and his assistant before escaping into the night. Now anyone who encounters this unstoppable creature is in danger of losing their lives. Who can finally stop this madness, once and for all.
Death returns, after the events that occurred in the film Chameleon Killer, more mysterious murders begin again in Acid Falls. Sheriff Garris is beginning to doubt his own sanity, as the murders begin to mirror that of the murders done by the Chameleon Killer. Is this a copycat? Or is the Chameleon truly back for vengeance? As this mystery is revealed, the truth is much more frightening than anything imaginable.
A small town is haunted by a mysterious killer who bases each murder on a different movie slasher.
An evil cyborg named Nick Holliday plots to rule the battle ravaged earth with the help of his Vampire half brother Pete and the hypnotic powers of Flannigan Drake.