Dutch filmmaker and actor Johnny Terris started out doing guerrilla style short films in the late 80's/early 90’s in Nova Scotia Canada and although not too widely known within North America due to his own personal refusal to promote himself, is without a doubt one of the original and pinnacle unknown forces in the underground film genre for the last 20 years.

He completed his first film in 1987 at 14 years of age and leaving home two years later with a stolen videocamera and a foot high mohawk, his films viciously delve into the blood-soaked/shock-slicked combo of transgressive punk-styled nihilistic violence and complete annihilation of family values and structure.

His next three films; a trio of trashed out underground comedies, were passed around through various colleges and parties and started to pick up a small following in the early 90’s with the younger punk and indie crowds.

"The Stardust Memory" (which follows an unstable plot of a mother and daughter team who go insane after drinking contaminated tap water), the trailer trash comedy "The Whores" and the comedic but unsettling “Destination Disturbed” (about two young prostitutes who go mad and murder each other inside a trailer) had been for a limited time, released uncut and remastered on the DVD "The Underground Collection" with optional directors commentary.

His next film, the transgressive "Room 405" strayed away from the trashy black comedy of his previous films and edged into darker cinematography and tone complete with graphic sex, masochism, urination, scarification and saw his first use of heavy metal music; a style that would follow in most of his later work.

"Dominos" was next in the mid/late 90's, about a mentally unstable underground film director and his horde of backstabbing misfit actors. To this day "Dominos" remains incomplete, missing the last 5 minutes, and has not been released on DVD.

Filmed entirely in Alabama and years before Bruce LaBruce depicted gay sex and horror, Terris blended gay pornography and horror in his next film "Sordid"; a grotesque horror experiment through sex, death and rebirth. The uncut version of "Sordid" was first released on his second DVD release; "Scruff", a collection of short films done for the new millennium. The title film “Scruff” proved Terris to be the very first director to ever depict gay metalheads in a masculine, rough and non-campy way.

The DVD is rounded out with the horror short "Inside Inoxia"; a film loosely based on the effects the chemical warfare and radiation poisoning about two young men who get trapped inside a bombed out town as, not only reaping the percussion of a nuclear fallout, but also dealing with the supernatural horror that begins to engulf their lives.

In 2004 he was featured in a television commercial for Safehouse Women’s Shelter in which he played an abusive husband and refused payment for the job because it was such a good cause. He also played the disobedient and lazy husband in the comedic short film “Faux Paw” which was screened to a sold out audience at Carver Theater in Birmingham Alabama. One year later he played a psychiatrist in Steve Ashlee’s drama thriller “Silent Alarm”, who oversees the mental breakdown of a depressed young man addicted to painkillers and emotional trauma who is unable to speak or tolerate speech.

This year he just completed his latest film in 5 years, titled "Scrubland" about the insanity that goes on behind the closed doors of a remote cabin, told through the eyes of six different groups of people who visit there within a 5 year period. Part horror, part comedy and explicitly avante-garde, the film in done in grindhouse/drive-in throwback format.

Heavily influenced by and often described as an underground Dario Argento by peers in regards to his stylized imagery and cinematography, his films have been compared to both Japanese and Italian/European horror cinema as well as likened and compared to early John Waters and the Cinema of Transgression underground film movement.

He is currently working on brand new projects for 2010 which includes a lead role in Steve Ashlee's newest thriller/horror film "God Lies" set to shoot on location in Kelowna British Columbia.