- Born
- Nicknames
- Jonas Wolchero
- Jonas Wolcheras
- Mr J Zombie
- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Jonas was born in Gothenburg at Östra Sjukhuset 15th of April 1973. He spent his childhood most of the time in Skåne until he went to school. Jonas began a career as a tourist guide, but then moved on to become a journalist. He started his first company (commercials) 1996 when he moved back to his hometown. There he tried many different works, salesman, sampler, telephone salesman, merchandiser. 1997 Jonas went to Gothenburg University to study Film Theory. After less than a year he couldn't go on any further. Jonas wanted to make film instead of becoming a film critic . He started his film career in 1999 for a Swedish version of Blair Witch Project "Yvonne", but it failed because the guy who owned the camera and the editing software moved to the UK. 2002 he started to make his first short with the title "Deadly Milk". During a nightmare he called his friend Jonas Lübeck in the middle of the night and explained to him about a future film project. He got Jonas Lübeck on board and from March to May 2002 the film was shot. It had it's premier at Fantastic Film Festival, Lund the same year with the title "Zombienoid".
In December 2002 he and his friends starts to make another huge project Mutant "The New Era" Nearly 100 people got involved, but this project had to go and only three trailers were made.
In July 2003 Jonas Wolcher starts with another and much bigger project called "Zombienoid II", which later change to "Die Zombiejäger". The movie is ready in September 2005 and shown at Fantastic Film Festival, Lund.
In fall 2006 a new project "Dragonetti" in progress. It takes nearly 4 years to finish. The movie has it's premier in September 2010 at Fantastic Film Festival, Lund the same year. The Swedish Title is Dragonetti The Ruthless Contact Killer.
During the making of "Dragonetti", Jonas also works as a DVD-author and editor for the production "Sektor 236".
In 2012 Jonas Wolcher starts to write a horror drama with cannibalism as the theme. He gets help with Brian Bell and Vargman Bjärsborn to create Cannibal Fog, one of the strangest Swedish horror drama of 2014. The movie is shown at Weekend of Horrors, Germany and at Mórbido Mérida in Mexico the same year.
Jonas Wolcher has worked with special effects since 1998, for movies, music videos and lectures "impressive horror makeup easy and effective".
Now Jonas Wolcher has been involved in several projects such as Sektor 236, Barracuda, WeekEND, Root of Darkness, Hermit, Monster Killer, Coctail Apocalypse among many.
During film festivals and Horror conventions Jonas is always trying to give the visitors as a happy visit as possible. He gladly signing autographs and love a good chat with you.
Jonas Wolcher loves to tell stories right away without so much explanation of the past. Cannibal Fog is his first attempt to make a drama in the cannibal genre instead of putting everything onto the effects.
The strength of Jonas Wolcher is his ability to find music that fits for each specific scene to keep the mood and the rhythm in the movie. He's also very good at artwork and marketing. The expression "to Wolche, or Wolcha" something comes from Jonas Wolcher's ability to market something with no budget.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Joe Shmuckatelli - Jonas has been involved in several projects from all over the world and directed 3 movies of his own. Die Zombiejäger was the second full zombie feature ever made in Sweden. Cannibal Fog was the first urban cannibal movie produced in Sweden. Hermit: Monster Killer which he produced was the first scifi monster comedy made since 1959. Root of Darkness was the first of it's kind horror drama dedicated to the master of art Ingmar Bergman. Jonas is not only good at directing and producing. He began working with special effects and masks in the late 1990s. He's an auteur with an eye for details and twisted stories.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Glasspegeln
- Jonas Wolcher created New Swedish Genre Cinema in 2017 and have moved back to the west coast, living in an old hotel which looks like a haunted house. A perfect spot for a horror producer and director. In 2018 He got engaged in several genre movie projects worldwide and specifically one is a viking action drama, The Tale of Two Swords.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Glasspegeln
- Jonas is now living with Helen Brundestål and in 2020 together they founded Ranrikestudios in Hamburgsund, Sweden. They wanted to make a studio available for the people living in the West Coast of Sweden far from big cities as Gothenburg and because it's a perfect spot to build a film industry at. The Beast Beneath Lake Bullaren is the studios first produced movie.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Glasspegeln
- SpousesJessica Wolcher(September 2005 - September 2019) (divorced, 1 child)Pia Wolcher(September 1993 - July 2005) (divorced, 1 child)
- Swedish Flags
- The number of the beast 6.6.6. appears at least one shot in his own movies.
- Transistions
- Music-video like movies with a very large amount of soundtracks.
- Makes music videos like small films. Very artistic and aesthetic. Lots of transitions
- The expression "to Wolche, or Wolcha" something comes from Jonas Wolcher's ability to market something with no budget.
- By sharing his experience and contacts with other Jonas Wolcher has become a very important asset to low budget film makers and now has connections worldwide.
- Jonas Wolcher likes to be in his own movies. did his first appearance in Zombienoid (2002) where he played one of the extras who got dragged down nearby a fence. He's in the last scenes during the end credits. In 2017 he finally got his first talking character as "Prius" in Precision - The Child Drug Trafficking (2017), an Ugandan action movie directed by Sserunnya Kaddu Earnest.
- Jonas Wolcher asked Jonathan in Sturm Cafe the EBM band to write the main theme for his first feature. The band wrote the song and Jonas helped the duo Sturm Cafe to improve the theme. The song Die Zombiejäger was also the name of the movie. Since the birth of the song In 2005 it became a super smash hit and has been played many times on the dance floor. Actor Christian Van Caine made a remix of the song Die Zombiejäger.
- Jonas Wolcher is a Swedish film maker and distributor and has been called Creator of new Swedish Genre Cinema. The film festival Stuff MX in Mexico and Jonas Wolcher have created an award: The Dino Genre Cinema Awards. Dino Publishing JW's mascot "Dino" has become the grand price in a form of a statue and a distribution offer for theatrical release in Sweden.
- "By meeting and greeting old and new fans in the flesh the money keeps rolling in. It's essential to be polite and service minded. "The audience pays you to make the next project because they believe in you. Don't screw it up. Without the fan-base the film maker is nothing".
- Zombies zombies zombies! I am a sucker for zombies!
- "This was offer I could not resist. It was like a dream come true. I've always loved science fiction and spaceships"
- 1. Gör den. 2. Gör den. 3. Gör den.
- I have a crush for the broken and odd looking. I find that attractive and even beautiful. I tell a story and the add injured or broken people.
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