Marli Lee is a writer/director.

At age 14, she began writing for The Buffalo News, covering the local music scene and interviewing bands such as Paramore and Panic! At The Disco. After college, she turned to Film and TV, honing her skills in development and production before writing and directing the horror short film, KNOCK KNOCK, which premiered at the 2023 Sitges Fantastic Film Festival. She has written for Lee Daniels Entertainment and Red Hour Productions, and is in active development on 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 writer/ directors: Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Craven, Rod Serling.

Favorite movies: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Now and Then (1995), You’ve Got Mail (1998), El Espinazo del Diablo (2001), El Orfanato (2007), IT Chapter 1 (2017)

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, sushi, pizza, cinnamon rolls, cannolis

Favorite records: In Rainbows by Radiohead, Be the Cowboy by Mitski, Tornaluna by Vanessa Zamora, Anónimo by Juana Aguirre

KNOCK KNOCK

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

SING ME A SONG

a Christmas Horror Story in six parts

If you shut her out, she’ll shut you in.

Watch the full short on Instagram this Christmas.