Ted Newsom is a writer, actor and filmmaker whose works range from big budget (the original screenplay for Spider-Man in 1985) to micro-budget (he starred as twin maniacs in Ron Ford’s thriller Dead Season.). Along the way he wrote and directed the TV series 100 Years of Horror, the BBC production Flesh & Blood, the Hammer Heritage of Horror, and the award-nominated all-star sci-fi spoof The Naked Monster. Currently he and Brinke Stevens are taking meetings about the Sinbad script they wrote with Ray Harryhausen—oh, and writing for Diabolique, of course.