Victor Salva

His all-time favorite monster film is Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).

Grew up watching "Creature Features" (1971) on TV. This sparked his early interest in the horror/thriller genre.

Is a convicted child molester. In 1988 he confessed to five felony counts of sexual relations with a 12-year-old boy who he videotaped in sexual situations. Salva sent a year in state prison for the crimes.

In 1995, the boy he molested (then in his 20s) publicly boycotted the film Powder (1995) to bring attention to Salva's sexual misdeeds, which contributed to the film's less-than-stellar box office.