John Kenneth Muir

John Kenneth Muir is the author of fifteen published books about film/television. His titles include Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2004), and An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002). Some of his other titles are award winners, including Horror Films of the 1970s (McFarland, 2002), which was a Booklist Editor's Choice and an ALA "best of the best" reference book, and Terror Television (2001, McFarland), another Booklist Editor's Choice. John's first (brief...) screen appearance was in 1997's Body Count, as a convict-yard "extra" reading Siddhartha during the opening sequence. Since then, John has been tapped as an expert to discuss horror and science fiction/horror films and television series on program's such as The Sci Fi Channel production of Sciography (July 2000) for the episode about the seventies series Battlestar Galactica and The E! True Hollywood Story (August 2004) episode "Curse of the Exorcist." Recently, Muir was given a "thank you" credit on the DVD collection, Land of the Lost: The Complete Second Season.