Victor Salva's career has been one of moderate commercial success flooded with controversy. Salva is a B-filmmaker making movies with basic plots and characters. Salva grew up outside of San Francisco watching schlock horror films on television. A self-confessed Jaws baby, he began channeling his filmmaking ambitions while in high school. In 1986 he made the short film Something in the Basement (1986), a low-budget chiller he made in his own backyard. The short caught the attention of filmma ...[Read Story]