Marli Lee is a writer-director from Buffalo, New York. She makes horror films.

In 2023, she wrote and directed the horror short film, KNOCK KNOCK, which premiered at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival the same year. She is currently in active development on The Queen starring Halle Berry with Lee Daniels Entertainment producing and an untitled horror project with Vertigo Entertainment.

Here’s some of her favorite things in no particular order. Please talk to her about them when you see her. She’d also love to know what yours are:

Favorite directors and writers: Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Craven, Rod Serling.

Favorite movies: El Espinazo del Diablo (2001), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), It Chapter 1 (2017), El Orfanato (2007), Enough (2002)

Favorite books: Winesburg, OH by Sherwood Anderson, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Favorite foods: Croissants, mole negro, tacos, cinnamon rolls, cannolis

Favorite color: Yellow

Favorite records: In Rainbows by Radiohead, Be the Cowboy by Mitski, Tornaluna by Vanessa Zamora.

Currently listening to: Anónimo by Juana Aguirre

KNOCK KNOCK

Home alone, a woman is tormented by an evil entity that feeds on loneliness.