Jeff Larson

Jeff Larson’s the kind of guy who swapped tractor rides for traffic jams—a farm kid out of Northeast Ohio who somehow ended up making movies in Los Angeles. He snagged his B.A. in Communications from John Carroll University, then bolted for the West Coast in ’03 to chase an MFA in Film Production at Loyola Marymount. While everyone else was probably losing their minds over finals, Jeff was busy cranking out three legit short films—writing, directing, producing, the whole shebang. After school, he didn’t just sit around waiting for a break. He got into the trenches with KCET-PBS and Independent Media, even shot a behind-the-scenes for the Pirelli Group with big names like Kathryn Bigelow and Uma Thurman. Not exactly small potatoes. By 2010, Jeff hooked up with filmmaker Bobby Roe and producer Zack Andrews to launch Foreboding Films. That fall, they rolled into Dallas and started shooting a wild doc about Halloween haunted houses, “The Houses October Built.” The story didn’t end there—by 2012, they’d reworked the film with Fox/New Regency, and in 2014, RLJ/Image dropped it in theaters and on VOD. Best Buy’s even got the Blu-Ray, complete with the OG 2010 doc where Jeff did pretty much everything except sell popcorn. These days, he’s cooking up new horror scripts, chasing that sweet spot between scary and hilarious, and looking for backers for his low-budget, 80s-style horror-comedy, “Grandma.” Gotta say—guy’s got range.