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  George Mihalka

  George Mihalka is a Hungarian-born Canadian filmmaker best known for directing the cult horror classic My Bloody Valentine. A defining entry in the early slasher canon, the film has built a lasting international fan base and remains one of Canada’s most iconic genre exports. Mihalka continues to be celebrated as a key figure in genre cinema, with My Bloody Valentine enduring as a landmark film that helped shape the modern slasher tradition. Known for the ease with which he moves between drama, action, and comedy across theatrical features and television in both English and French, his work has earned over 50 nominations and awards internationally. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Directors Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Trailblazer Award at the Fantasia International Film Festival (2025). A master storyteller, Mihalka has expanded his directing career into roles as a showrunner, executive producer, and production executive. He recently directed and showran Ominous for Bell Media, and most recently served as co-creator and executive producer on Hunyadi: The Rise of the Raven, a 10-hour medieval drama shot in Hungary.

   
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  Andrea Subissati, Bloody Judge 2026

  Andrea Subissati is an award-winning writer, podcaster and content creator. Just don’t say her name five times in a mirror.

  In 2010, her masters thesis on the social impact of zombie cinema was published under the title When There’s No More Room In Hell: The Sociology of the Living Dead. Since then, she has been published in The Undead and Theology (2012), The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015) Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017) and Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film (2020).

  Andrea joined the staff of Rue Morgue magazine in 2014 and became Executive Editor in 2017.

  In addition to writing, she is co-host and producer of the award-winning Faculty of Horror Podcast with Alexandra West. She hosts Rue Morgue TV and has appeared in the horror documentary Why Horror? (2014), CTV’s Pop Life, Banger TV‘s Locked Horns and Hollywood Suite’s A Year In Film.

  Andrea is co-founder of the Toronto-based horror lecture series The Black Museum with Paul Corupe, and also spearheaded Rue Morgue’s annual Spooky Flea Market.

  Andrea stalks the streets of Toronto, Ontario, with her undead Pomeranian Dante. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.