hello everyone to another round of “welcome to the Insta-hood” Were I interview exciting and fascinating people. Today we meet fellow IG-er: Jesse Nelson

1. Tell me a little about yourself.:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ” I am Jesse Nelson from right outside Philadelphia and I am 1/2 of DiabolikDVD and 1/4 of Exhumed Films.  I live in an old, old, old farmhouse with my wife, 2
   kids, 3 cats, a dog and a lot of chickens plus mounds of movies, books
   and toys. It is chaos!”
2.  How did you come up with your concept of  DiabolikDVD.com ?:                         “When we started Exhumed Films 20 years ago we would bring VHS tapes to
   sell at the shows. Three of us used to work at a video store and the
   owners were constantly selling off tapes and I spent a lot of time at
   the flea markets in those early ebay days when you could still find
   things.  We soon realized we needed some more things to sell at shows
   and  moved over to importing DVDs – mostly from Hong Kong.  We watched
   a lot of Hong Kong action and horror movies those days and there were
   also some oddballs Japanese titles available from Hong Kong.   For a
   long time we didn’t even have a US distributor. We only bought titles
   from overseas, but as things progressed, so did we and eventually we
   were bringing things in from all over and also moved over to more of a
   horror/cult focus than we were initially.”
3.  What are your top five personal favorite movies on your website and why?:        “VIY / BNN – back in the early days there was a Russian import of this
   film that we carried. We bought them from a shop near coney island in
   NYC and had to order only by fax but I was so thrilled to finally see
   this film and it still remains a favorite and an all time best seller
   of diabolik.Farewell Uncle Tom – I know this is a rough one and it really isn’t a
   favorite film of mine (though I did go out of my way to see it at
   Fantastic Fest a few years ago and Exhumed Films has shown it), but
   what I love is that this film exists on home video at all.  It really
   is amazing that films like this have been released despite the content
   and I don’t have to buy some crummy burned disc of it.

   Equinox – I have loved this film for so long, I have the poster in my
   office, we own a 35mm print, I have the press books and the 8mm
   digest.  When I read that Criterion was doing a special edition with
   both versions of the film, I really couldn’t get over it.
   
   The Thing – Pick the arrow version or pick the scream factory version,
   I don’t care, I am not interested in debating.  They both look
   fantastic to me and it is Carpenter’s best film.  I watched this so
   many times on VHS back in the 80s that it was a revelation to finally
   be able to watch it on Laserdisc, DVD and now Blu-Ray.

   Suspiria – Amazing. The Synapse steelbook is probably one of the best
   releases we have ever had and right up there in the top 5 best sellers
   as well.”

4. . What interests/ activities do you enjoy personal that outside your
   business interest.                                                                                                                         “I spend a lot of time working. Probably too much says my family! But I
   also love reading and playing video games.  The books in my life
   probably take up about as much room as my movies and lets not even
   talk about toys and other little things I pick up all time !   Of
   course watching movies is probably my biggest passion.”
5.  Do you have any exciting things coming up for your business that
   you would like to share? ” A lot of things we work out aren’t really planned too far in advance. We are working a lot more conventions this year than in years past.
   Double what we did last year and triple what we did two years ago.  We
   also have something else coming up that we can’t talk about yet, but
   it should be amazing!  My goal is always to have a better year than
   last and while we can’t please everyone, I really do make the best
   effort to try.”

For more information, questions or to contact Jesse please used the following contact info:

http://www.facebook.com/DiabolikDVD
\https://twitter.com/diabolikdvd
http://pinterest.com/diabolikdvd/
http://www.facebook.com/ExhumedFilms

Thank you Jesse for giving me a chance to interview  you!

Until next time!