Amy Lynn Best is a trained dancer and actress who started in the business by co-producing the independent feature horror film, The Resurrection Game, and co-stars as the pop psychologist turned zombie exterminator, Sister Mary Bliss.
Like many independent film producers, Amy learned the film business from the ground up. On the short haunted house film Tenants, for instance, Amy studied cinematographer from that film's director of photography, Bill Fuller. Out of necessity, she learned the basics of grip work, camera operation, and the fine art of line producing. In addition to acting in and producing The Resurrection Game, Amy served the film as art director, additional photographer and craft services. On one shooting date in particular, she fed the cast and crew two specially-made lasagnas, then denied herself her own nourishment due to the fact that she still had to go before the camera in a skin-tight leather-and-spandex costume.
A Pittsburgh native, Amy studied acting and dancing since she was three years old. She has acted or worked on many films and made her feature directorial debut on Happy Cloud Pictures' Severe Injuries. Amy's most notable cameo is in Paul Scrabo's Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots, a funny parody of the b-movie industry starring Debbie Rochon. An outspoken advocate for women in the horror industsry, Amy co-created the Women in Horror Website Pretty-Scary.
In her spare time an accomplished horseback rider and animal lover.
Amy's Filmography
2010 Little Big Boy: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Duncan. Amy. (Post-production) Kim Sønderholm
2009 Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation. Crystal, producer. (Post-Production) Happy Cloud Pictures
2009 George Romero Presents-Deadtime Stories. Nurse Fletcher. (In-production) 72nd Street Films.
2008 Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut. Director, Amy Lee Parker. (Post-Production) Happy Cloud Pictures
2007 A Feast of Flesh. Elizabet, co-producer. Bloody Earth Films.
2007 Retreat. Dr. Carolyn Parker, co-producer. Countess Bathoria's Graveyard Pictures Show.
2006 Blood Bath: Blood Wrestling Volume I - Herself, co-producer. Happy Cloud Pictures.
2006 High Stakes. Lucy, co-producer.
JD Casey Productions
2006 Marty Jenkins and the Vampire
Bitches. Featured actress(Stephanie). Freak Productions.
2005 Exterminator City. Cameo.
Clive Cohen.
2005 Loaded Dice. Girl in
Bar. Serious Greene Productions.
2004. Spicy Sisters Slumber
Party. Director, herself, co-producer. Happy
Cloud Pictures
2003. Severe Injuries.Director,
co-star (Lauren), co-producer. Happy Cloud Pictures
2003 Dr. Horror's Erotic House
of Idiots. Featured actress (Morgan). PS Productions.
2002 Were-Grrl (a.k.a Were-Dyke).
Director, Co-star (Gypsy Woman), co-producer, story.
Happy Cloud Pictures
2002 The Resurrection Game.
Co-star (Sister Bliss), co-producer, additional photography, make-up, craft
services
2001 Day of the Ax 3. Featured
actress (Cheryl Smith). 4th Floor Pictures
2000 American Nightmare.
Production assistant, additional make-up, extra. Highland Myst Pictures
1997 Tenants. Lead actress
(Monica), co-producer, additional photography. Hiderduck Pictures (currently
found as an extra on the Sub Rosa DVD release of Campfire Tales.)
1995 Neck Up. Featured
actress (Fifi), co-producer. Hyderduck Productions