Joe Wawrzyniak
Writer, trash film historian, longtime horror movie lover, oddball
music aficionado, and general hardcore weird cinema buff Joseph Andrew
Wawrzyniak was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world on June 1, 1972 in
Neptune, New Jersey. He has a younger brother named Erik and an older
sister named Lisa. Joe and his siblings were raised by their registered
nurse mother Helen after Joe's father Joseph Anthony Wawrzyniak died
from cancer when Joe was only six years old. Wawrzyniak attended Moss
Elementary School in his sleepy suburban hometown of Metuchen, New
Jersey. Joe majored in baking at Piscataway Vocational Technical High
School, where in between watching countless obscure flicks on VHS and
penning amateur movie reviews in a private journal he somehow managed
to graduate with honors and win the Golden Cookie Award for Bakeshop
Excellence. Wawrzyniak went on to attend Kean College in Union, New
Jersey; he earned a (largely worthless) B.A. in English-Writing, began
writing film reviews for the college newspaper, and even pulled off the
miraculous feat of graduating with a 3.56 grade point average. Joe has
written numerous articles and/or film reviews for such classy
publications as "VEX," "The Exploitation Journal," "Cult Movies" (his
inexhaustibly thorough and comprehensive overview on Bigfoot cinema was
nominated for a Rondo Award for Best Article in 2003), "Shock Cinema,"
"Film Geek," "Screem," "They Won't Stay Dead!," "Cashiers du Cinemart,"
and "Psychoholics Unanimous." Moreover, Joe has a regular column of
album reviews called "The World According to Wawrzyniak" on the music
website www.JerseyBeat.com. Tall (6' 2") and lanky, with a deep manly
voice, rapidly receding and often uncombed dirty blonde hair, and a
disposition that could most kindly be described as "nerdy," Wawrzyniak
appears as a trash film historian (i.e., himself) in the documentary
short "Grindhouse Gorilla: Making the Bloody Ape." Under his Internet
alias of Woodyanders (it's an amalgam of letters from his first, middle
and last names), he has written countless film reviews and penned
hundreds of mini-bios for the IMDb. Joe still lives in Central New
Jersey, where he can be frequently spotted at local grocery stores and
funky mom'n'pop retail outlets purchasing all kinds of wild and tacky
movies on DVD at dirt cheap prices.