Amy Lynn Best

Amy Lynn Best (b. November 11972, Topeka, Kansas) is an actress, producer and director of independent horror movies.
Biography
Amy Lynn Best moved with her family moved to Pittsburgh, PA a year after she was born. She studied classical theater and dance growing up and attended the University of Pittsburgh for Civil Engineering. She found the career path not to her liking. She met her future husband, , a film student at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and she, Watt and a third partner, Bill Homan, formed Happy Cloud Pictures in 1997 and produced the 16mm feature film The Resurrection Game. A zombie-noir, according to their official website, the film is a cross between a zombie film and a detective story. In The Resurrection Game, Best plays Sister Bliss, a dominatrix/zombie killer.

Severe Injuries was the first feature film Best directed. A horror/comedy, it tells the story "Melvin Hubble is the last in a long line of unsuccessful serial killers. Fulfilling his father's dying wish, Melvin sneaks into the Ro Ro Ro sororityhouse on the night of a big party and completely fails to strike fear into the hearts of the inhabitants. Unbeknownst to Melvin and the girls, there is another killer lurking in the house - one just as inept, but lacking in the courage of Melvin's convictions." This movie was distributed internationally and online through SRS Studios.

At this point, Best started to focus on independent film, specifically in the low-budget horror film industry. She produced and directed a documentary called The Spicy Sisters Slumber Party, (with spicy sister attempting to stand in for scream queen) with indie actresses like former soap-opera star Robyn Griggs, Lilith Stabs, Were-Grrl star-turned-stuntwoman Jasi Cotton Lanier and Ryli Morgan. While the focus of the documentary is the ongoing "round-table"-style discussion of the industry, Best put the group in the context of a slumber party, with all of the women dressed in pajamas. Guest stars Linnea Quigley and Debbie Rochon also appear in brief segments.

Best and Watt have put on their own horror convention, Genghis Con, PA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2005 and 2006. During the Genghis Con II: The Wrath of Con, Best co-ordinated a "blood wrestling" event with other actresses like April Monique Burril (of Chainsaw Sally fame).

Also in 2006, Best produced and co-directed the vampire movie Abattoir, released in 2007 by Bloody Earth Films under the title A Feast of Flesh. In A Feast of Flesh, Best plays Elizabet, the madame of a brothel of vampires.

In addition to her film work, Best co-created the women-in-horror website Pretty-Scary.net, with actress/journalist Heidi Martinuzzi and designer Jen Whilden. She also writes a Pretty-Scary column for the print magazine Sirens of Cinema.

Non-Happy Cloud Pictures movies that Amy has appeared in include Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots (directed by Paul Scrabo), Day of the Axe 3 (dir. Ryan Cavaline), Marty Jenkins and the Vampire Bitches (dir. Henrique Couto) and Fifth City (dir. Eric Thornett).

Best currently lives in Waynesburg, PA with "4 cats, 3 dogs and 2 horses."

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