Bill Heintz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where he co-founded the independent horror film company Terror Optics in 2001 with director Jason Matherne. He played lead roles and provided production design for the company's first two feature length films Attack Of The Cockface Killer and Stabbed In The Face. He went on to providing the musical score for their next two films Goregasm and Grimewave as well as penning the short films Peepshow Creep, Creepy Dean and Weirdos. On Terror Optics' fifth feature film, Silk Scream, Heintz wrote, co-produced, scored, acted and did production design. Over the years Heintz has played minor roles in such films as Terminator Genisys, Dracula 2000, G.I.Joe 2: Retaliation, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Django Unchained. He stays active in the New Orleans music scene with his bands The Pallbearers, The Unnaturals, The Bills and Dummy Dumpster. Heintz records and releases music under his independent record label Sheer Terror Records. In 2009 he founded the annual punk rock music festival Creepy Fest which takes place every July in New Orleans over the span of four nights. He often contributes artwork and writing to Antigravity Magazine, Paranoize Zine and Orgy Of The Weird comic book and has been designing live music playbills since 1995.