About
The Company
THR Pro, LLC is a film production company that for over 27 years has specialized in independent horror and suspenseful thrillers, ranging from short to feature length productions.
A Brief History of THR Pro, LLC
THR Productions, Ltd was founded in 1999 by independent filmmaker Pete Jacelone shortly after the completion of his first feature film, Psycho Sisters.
"I had so much fun shooting Psycho Sisters with my friend, executive producer Mike Raso of Ei Independent Cinema (now Pop Cinema), I knew I'd be doing it again, so I decided to form a film company to help with my efforts, so I started THR Productions."
Following the release of Psycho Sisters, under the newly formed THR Productions, Ltd, Jacelone produced and directed a number of independent short films and features.In 2015 THR Productions Ltd became THR Pro, LLC and continues to produce feature length and short film projects with an affinity to horror-themed content.
THR Pro, Currently
THR Pro is currently producing a number of short film projects and several feature films.
The company self-distributes many of its films in addition to seeking collaborative distribution opportunities with other companies.
Collaborators
Pete Jacelone (filmmaker, CEO)
Pete Jacelone is New Jersey born writer, producer, director, and editor.
His first film was Psycho Sisters (1998), which he co-produced and directed. He is also known for producing and directing The Erotic Mirror (2002), Beef (2007) Sculpture (2009), The Pogo Film Project (2012) and Creepy Clowns: The Lunatic'ler (2016).
He has also acted in numerous indie films including Ghoul School (1990), Polymorph (1996) and Creepy Clowns (2016).
Through the years he has collaborated with other indie filmmakers including W.A.V.E. Productions, Factory 2000, Shock-O-Rama, Seduction Cinema and ScreamKings.
Some of his producer credits include DUCK! The Carbine High Massacre, (1999), Shock 2000 (2000), Camp Slaughter (2005), Frat House Massacre (2008) and Road Hell (2011).
In 2015 Jacelone founded Lawrence Psychiatric Institute Productions, an independent micro-budget division of THR Pro. Currently, Jacelone, under LPI Productions, is producing several ongoing psycho-horror themed web series including The Bizarre Cases of Dr. Lawrence and The Search for the Mortician’s Apprentice.
Jacelone also co-produced a series of Picayune Productions under the direction of Los Angeles filmmaker Roland Brown including several Psycho Sisters sequels and the long awaited Another Comic Ruse and Sole Sistahs series which are sequels to Brown's popular underground feature film: Comic Ruse.
Jacelone is also co-producing with William Hellfire (one of the founders of Factory 2000) a remastered feature film compilation of "lost" Todd Russell/Factory 2000 content called Your Eyes Are Bleeding, which is being re-mastered for Blu-ray release along with the original W.A.V.E. version of Psycho Sisters and several other "vintage" SOV (Shot on Video) productions.
He has also written and directed numerous psycho-horror themed feature length and short films including Chad’s Dental Nightmare (2018), Gerry the Psychopath (2019), Virtual Wraith (2019), The Secret Pool (2020), Feral Cravings (2022), The Teen Horror Show (2022), SINS (2023), and others.
He is currently working on a series of fictional historically accurate feature films about serial killers. He covered John Wayne Gacy and Dean Corll in The Killer Clown Meets The Candy Man (2019), Jeffrey Dahmer in The Cannibal Killer (2020), Albert Fish in Cooking with Fish (2020), and Dennis Nilsen in BLEEP: A Serial Killer’s Dog (2022). The culmination of this serial killer project will be a multi-film story featuring a number of other famous serial killers including Ted Bundy, Zodiac, Son of Sam, Aileen Wuornos, and others, all meeting up together, to discuss their unique styles of serial murder. The project is tentatively called: They Walk Among Us and should be finished in 2023.
Roland Brown (filmmaker)
Roland Brown is an American writer, film producer, cinematographer and editor born and bred in Southern California.
He is perhaps best known for his work on Terry Austin's Cosmic Visions and Marvel Comics' adaption of Orson Scott Card's Red Prophet. While penning supernatural comic book tales for Dabel Brother's Productions and My Comics Incorporated, his work caught the eye of Marvel Comics.
In addition to freelance comic book work, he also writes and directs quirky indie horror films including the double feature Comic Ruse (2006) and LPI Productions' Return of the Psycho Sisters (2015), Cult of the Psycho Sisters (2016), Psycho Sisters Possessed (2018) as well as the popular underground sequels to his 2009 feature Comic Ruse, Another Comic Ruse: Motel Sick (2017), Another Comic Ruse: Comic Conned (2018), Sole Sistah: A Comic Ruse Tale (2019).
Brown is currently working on another as yet untitled production which will combine the Comic Ruse and Psycho Sisters indie-film franchises due to be released in 2020.
R. Lowborn (writer, director, actor)
R. Lowborn made his debut in a deleted scene in Picayune Productions' Comic Ruse. Ascending from production assistant on an anti-graffiti PSA, Lowborn made himself invaluable when he created Guerrilla Thrilla Productions and found that his style as an actor, writer and director meshed well with THR Pro's more idiosyncratic horror films.
Anthony Belluscio (composer/musician)
Anthony started playing piano at age 10. He studied music theory and set up a home studio and has been cranking out tunes ever since. His early efforts were played by Richard Ginsberg, on WFMU on his radio show: "Synthetic Pleasure" alongside a then undiscovered Yanni. He was later formally trained in orchestration and composition at Fairleigh Dickinson University, by Stanley Purdy, a former Hollywood Composer who composed for several Mickey Spillane projects.
Collaborative projects with Pete Jacelone include Sculpture (2009), Deep Into The Rabbit Hole (2011) CREEPY CLOWNS: The Lunatic'ler (2017), The Killer Clown Meets the Candy Man (2018), Virtual Wraith (2019), The Cannibal Killer (2020) and The Secret Pool (2020).
Pamela Kramer (casting)
Pete's first encounter with Pamela Kramer was on the set of Timothy O’Rawes GHOUL SCHOOL. A horror comedy featuring Joe Franklin and Jackie the Jokeman, to which she was the Casting Director. Years later, Pamela was the Casting Director for Jacelone’s film remake of PSYCHO SISTERS. Through the years Pamela has assisted in casting THR productions including CREEPY CLOWNS, and The Bizarre Cases of Dr. Lawrence. She is a well-known Casting Director /Producer/Make-up Artist & owner of Bradley Baron, casting company in the tri-state area.
Pamela also teaches a horror film class "Dying for the Camera" an acting class relating specifically to horror films. It is the only class of its kind in the country.
Trevor Wright (writer)
Trevor Wright is an American screenwriter, producer and journalist and frequent collaborator with Pete Jacelone and THR PRO.
He began his filmmaking journey as a post production intern for New Dominion Pictures, working on the television programs The New Detectives and FBI Files.
Upon completion of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's intensive screenwriting program he was sought after by Hollywood producers eager to shop his 2003 superhero comedy Danger Ranger.
Sony, Fox and Mandalay all showed interest in developing the script.
To date, he has written over a dozen short and feature films, which have all seen production.
In 2008, he co-wrote Pete Jacelone's horror opus Sculpture as well as the horror comedy The Green Monster. Most recently he co-wrote Jacelone's Creepy Clowns: The Lunatic'ler and Chad's Dental Nightmare.
Edward X. Young (actor, cinematographer)
Edward X. Young studied film & television production, acting, and journalism at Seton Hall University, acting and stage directing at Brookdale College, business administration at Monmouth University, and film production at New York University.
Besides acting in over 60 independent films, Ed is an accomplished musician, director, special effects artist and cinematographer. His directorial debut was the controversial short film Two Men One Box. He also performed regularly with punk rock icon David Peel's band, and was the title character in David Lee Madison's Mr. Hush.
Through the years he has acted in multiple THR Productions, including Deep in the Rabbit Hole, Creepy Clowns, Sins, Gerry the Psychopath and Chad's Dental Nightmare, The Killer Clowm Meets the Candy Man, The Cannibal Killer, of which the latter two he also co-produced.
He was also cinematographer for Alien Encounter, Gerry the Psychopath, Chad's Dental Nightmare, The Cannibal Killer, and numerous Bizarre Cases of Dr. Lawrence shorts in which he also plays Dr. Xavier.
Multi-talented Young has also performed special effects for Pete Jacelone and Mar Omega's Sideshow of Psychosis head twister short, Gerry the Psychopath (2019), Sins (2020), The Cannibal Killer (2020) and The Secret Pool (2020).
Mar Omega (filmmaker, artist, entertainer)
Mar Omega is an American Renaissance Man. He is a comic book artist, set designer, prop fabricator, actor, stunt man, sideshow entertainer, camera operator, and director.
Omega worked on the comic book, Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Crypt from Monsterverse Comics. He is creating his own comic books, Cat World Baastion, and a comic book prequel to Sideshow of Psychosis.
Mar has appeared in several fan films, such as Friday The 31st, Escape Big Trouble in New Jersey, and his own Highlander-Based film, Quickening. He played the lead in the original film, Redimere, and has done extra work on the Friday Night Lights tv series, and on Purgatory Blues.
He has worked on several projects with Pete Jacelone, including physical effects and stunts on Creepy Clowns: The Lunatic'ler (2016). He also did set design and creature concept design on Sculpture (2009). Through the years Mar also designed DVD cover art and title menus for some of Pete's projects.
Mar collaborated with Pete in 2015 and co-produced and directed a short film based on his Sideshow of Psychosis, called Head Twister Heckler. Currently, two more short films for Sideshow of Psychosis are in pre-production, as well as an upcoming feature film of the same name.
Justin Williams (cinematographer)
Justin Williams is a 2016 graduate from East Stroudsburg University with a BA degree in Media Communications. He's interned at various studios such as LongShot Productions and Manhattan Place Entertainment. He's also freelanced as a camera operator at the Headliners Dance Competition of 2017.
He has worked with Pete Jacelone as an associate producer and cinematographer. His THR PRO projects include, Gerry the Psychopath, Alien Encounter, Chad's Dental Nightmare and Sins, The Killer Clown Meets the Candy Man and The Cannibal Killer: The Real Story of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Carlos William Gonzalez (filmmaker, director, producer, writer, actor, cinematographer)
Carlos William Gonzalez is a young independent filmmaker. He graduated from Bergen Community College with an Associate's degree in Film Studies and studying Communications in Montclair State University. He has worked in several media categories such as filming weddings, sweet 16's, gaming conventions, independent commercials, and was staff photographer at Montclair State University. Carlos directed, wrote, produced, and acted in his film Arcade Paradise the Ultimate Gaming Sanctuary and 2020's upcoming movie Collector's Madness documentary. He has several more film and advertising projects in production.
Carlos works with Pete Jacelone as cinematographer and actor. His THR Pro credits include Virtual Wraith, Sins, Coulrophobia, Jake's Terrifying Daymare, The Cannibal Killer: The Real Story of Jeffrey Dahmer, The Secret Pool, and others. "THR Pro is one of the best companies I have ever worked for and always looking forward to their upcoming film projects."