Nick Bougas

Nick Bougas was born in 1955 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He is a film director and producer, best known for culty documentaries like the Death Scenes series (1992), Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen series (1993), Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey (1993) and The Goddess Bunny (1994). Throughout the 1980's and 90's he was also an illustrator who provided irreverent graphics for a host of underground and counterculture publications like Answer Me!, The Black Flame, Malefact, Exit and Brutarian. Nick spent a busy 30 years in Hollywood, California and became one of the most knowledgeable and best respected local collectors of vintage film memorabilia and rare recordings. Throughout the 1980's, while researching major true crime cases for various film and print projects, Nick began directly corresponding with many infamous high-profile criminals and had soon amassed a huge collection of inmate art, poetry, letters and personal effects. This pioneer practice intrigued many and helped to launch what is now a controversial and widely practiced hobby called "Murderabilia collecting". He has contributed text and exclusive images from his massive personal archive to countless book, magazine and video projects over the past four decades, particularly those pertaining to Horror and Science Fiction films, Human Oddities and True Crime. He also compiled a popular series of audio disks entitled "Celebrities at their Worst" which featured candid off-color bloopers and rants by noted entertainers.