
Casper Kelly (birthname: Christopher Casper Kelly) is a filmmaker who specializes in twisted horror and is best known for his Adult Swim animated series episodes including for Stroker & Hoop, the cult favorite Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Kelly had his first feature film credit as a lead producer and cast member on director/co-writer Panos Cosmatos’s astonishing surrealist horror movie, Mandy (2018), starring Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough, with Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouere, Richard Brake and Bill Duke, co-written by Aaron Stewart-Ahn, produced (in part) by Elijah Wood via his SpectreVision along with Belgian-based Umedia and U.S.-based XYZ Films, and which was released by RLJE Films after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and becoming a cult classic.
Kelly made his theatrical feature debut as a director/writer of “Fun Size,” a segment of the anthology horror movie and eighth installment in the V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/Halloween (2025), starring Riley Nottingham, Lawson Greyson, Jenna Hogan and Jake Ellsworth, produced (in part) by Shudder Original Films/Bloody Disgusting/Image Nation Abu Dhabi and distributed by Shudder after launching at Fantastic Fest. Kelly was director/co-writer of his first full-length theatrical release, the surrealist horror comedy, Buddy (2026), co-written by Jamie King, starring Cristin Milioti, Keegan Michael-Key, Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt and Clint Howard, produced by BoulderLight Pictures/Low Spark Films and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before a wide release by Roadside Attractions/Saban Films.
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Author: Casper Kelly has published a short story collection, More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer, in 2012.
AKA: Kelly’s cheeky nickname is Casper “Not So Friendly Ghost” Kelly.
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