Izzy Lee is an American filmmaker and writer, known for her short films Re-Home (2019),[1] The Obliteration of the Chickens (2019),[2] My Monster (2018), and Innsmouth, which she produced through her company Nihil Noctem.
[7][8] Lee began showing an interest in horror in kindergarten and later attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she received a BFA in illustration.
Club,[10] as well as from author and film festival programmer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, who stated that "...Izzy Lee... is going to be massive once she gets the break that she deserves" in Entertainment Weekly.
[15][16] The short received some media attention for Lee's choice to feature a predominantly female cast, which she did in order to "make [Lovecraft] roll over in his grave a little by having the cast 98% female and switching the gender roles.”[17] Her short film Re-Home (2019) started as a reaction to the promise of a wall built between the United States and Mexico.
The author Bracken MacLeod[26] provided the voiceover for the experimental, Werner Herzog-influenced The Obliteration of the Chickens (2019),[27] while Lee herself narrated Disco Graveyard (2020).