Before creating Terfer Productions in 2004, Dutch filmmaker and actor Johnny Terris started out doing underground/guerrilla style short films in the late 80's/early 90’s in Nova Scotia Canada.

Starting at 16 years of age after leaving home at 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, horror and complete annihilation of family values and structure.

His first directorial debuts, "The Stardust Memory" and "The Whores, 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) as well as the trailer trash comedy "The Whores" were his first films, done at the age of 14 on a 40$ budget and shot with a VHS camcorder in his parents home. Both films were re-digitized with music, color correction and added special effects in 2004 and had been for a limited time, released uncut and remastered on the DVD "The Underground Collection" with optional directors commentary. A year later came the film "Destination Disturbed", a black and white ode to David Lynch's cult classic Eraserhead, featuring two young women who decent into complete madness inside a trailer.

His next film, the transgressive "Room 405" strayed away from the trashy black comedy of his previous films and edged into a darker cinematography and tone. The first edited version saw his very first use of heavy metal music; a style that would follow in most of his later work.

He shot the film "Dominos" 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.

In 2005, he released "Sordid"; a grotesque horror experiment through sex, death and rebirth which sold out the first 200 copies within a 24 hour period. 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” had proved Terris to be the 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 about the effects the governmental chemical warfare and radiation poisoning. In the film, two young men are left behind in a bombed out town as a supernatural horror begins to engulf their lives.

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 his earlier work likened and compared to early John Waters and the Cinema of Transgression underground film movement.

He is currently working on brand new projects for 2009, including two new film "The Eighth Circle" and "The Witch", a lead role in award winning director/cinematographer Steve Ashlee's newest thriller/horror film and two books; an autobiography on his films and life titled "Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass: Memoirs Of An Underground Filmmaker" and "Cinematically Raped".