Mark Savage (Australian film director)


Mark Savage is a US-based Australian film and television director, screenwriter, and film producer specializing in thrillers, horror, crime, cult, action and exploitation-themed films. He is influenced by European and Asian genre cinema, and has written critical reviews and articles for the Herald Sun, Asian Cult Cinema', Filmnet and Fatal Visions.
Savage wrote, produced and directed his first feature Marauaders in 1986, since then genre entries have included Sensitive New Age Killer , Trail of Passion , Defenceless , Kinderplay , FertIsle , Stressed To Kill and Purgatory Road
During 2017 and 2018 Purgatory Road was released in the United States and Australia and in 2019 on DVD and Blu-ray in Canada and America.
The film was acclaimed in reviews and at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, and the original score by Glen Gabriel received a Hollywood Music in Media Awards nomination.
In production for 2020, Savage is directing Painkiller, an action/thriller exploring the subject of an opioid epidemic set in Florida United States, with a cast including Michael Pare and Bill Oberst Jr..