Gary Piland

Gary Piland's the kid the other kids' parent wouldn't let play with them - too much imagination, zero common sense. He fell in love with scary movies at an early age, helped found a popular regional hard rock band, Limousine in 1976 and eventually discovered the Macintosh in 1984. From there he moved to the Internet, web design, copywriting and opened his design and web development firm, Umbrella, in 2003. Gary always wanted to write, direct and produce horror flicks, so in 2010 he founded Roaring Rat Films, his indie horror film company based in Topeka, Kansas. (Yes, *that* Topeka, Kansas.) With the able assistance of his production partner, Klik Kreative Studios - and the incredible actors, musicians and production talent right here in the midwest - he has written, directed, shot, edited and produced five movies so far. Three zombie-comedy shorts: "Zombie Laundry" The original Roaring Rat Films zombie comedy short. 2010 "Zombie Chigger" A walk in the woods goes horribly wrong. 2012 "Zombie Tattoo Parlor" Love never dies. 2014 And two feature-length zombie-thrillers: "Zombie Beauty Pageant" Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. 2016 "Zombie, Kansas" Death in the heartland. 2017 As of February 2018, Gary has two Roaring Rat Films releases, "Zombie, Kansas: Death in the heartland." and "Zombie Beauty Pageant: Drop. Dead. Gorgeous.", on iTunes and Amazon. Roaring Rat Films' current project, "Blackstone", will be shot early 2018 and released fall 2018. Gary's mission? Make cult-classic feature-length horror movies. Oh, and get the other kids to come out and play.