Bob Freville

Bob Freville is a writer and filmmaker from New York. His work as a journalist has spanned more than two decades, starting with publication in small New York-based newspapers like The Babylon Beacon and Good Times Magazine before flooding the internet. He has contributed to Creem, Get Underground, Horror Sleaze Trash, Ink Mag, Kotori, and Kush, among others. Today, Freville maintains a Substack newsletter entitled The Modern Custodian, which is infrequently updated with in-depth news reporting, entertainer interviews, cartoons, criticism, and more. His film career began with enrollment in a Digital Filmmaking Class at Huntington, NY's Cinema Arts Centre, where he worked on the Glenn Andreiev film "Sharp & Sudden." Freville worked as a Production Intern. In 2004, he raised $3,000 with co-producer Jake McGee, to shoot his first short feature film. "Of Bitches & Hounds," an avant-garde allegory about domestic abuse from the point of view of a man-dog, was shot on location in Kent, Ohio, in the apartment star/co-producer Jake McGee, had been renting with co-star Melissa King. After creative differences with two consecutive film editors, "Of Bitches & Hounds" finally wrapped post-production in 2007. The film saw its premiere at the unlikely Peabody's Rockstar, a Cleveland night spot famous for industrial rock music. It was subsequently rejected by all major film festivals. 2007 marked Freville's official acting debut in the duel roles of Mason and Johnny in James Neyman's "The Slasher." Freville, McGee and Neyman would go on to work together on 2009's "Irish Car Bomb". Freville wrote, produced and directed his first long feature film, under his and McGee's new production company Intrepid Aspirations, LLC. "Hemo," a dramatic send-up of vampirism and addiction, was distributed by Troma Team Releasing.