NIAGARA FALLS — An impartial observer might note that by all accounts he is a nice looking man with a pleasant disposition.

Myles is a Niagara Falls native who is working on his forth album of gentle, melodic digital music he says is perfect to listen to while settling back with a nice glass of wine and a loved one.

So, you wouldn’t think he’d get a big charge out of the gruesome character he plays as the star of a film he recently co-produced called “Mental Scars.”

But, horror is his genre of choice lately. Not only does he have the starring role in the full-length film, but he and his co-producer, Mischa Perez have just created the first interactive horror magazine iPhone application. The August edition of DEAD ZONE, now available for those with iPhones, iPads, or can download a preview application on iTunes.

The Niagara University grad, who dedicated his entire self-produced third album, called “A Journey Home,” to his hometown, is one of those people who quit his work-a-day world job to follow his passion of film making. Myles was a security manager for the Department of Homeland Security. It helped that a colleague, Mischa Perez, had the same ambition as each man seem to find a kindred spirit in the other.

Myles fascination with horror films came to life when he starred as Freddy Krueger in the pair’s mini-fan film, which they called “The Nightmare Ends at Halloween.” The film received 4 million hits online and won Myles an autographed Halloween card from Robert Englund, the actor who played Freddy Krueger in “Nightmare on Elm Street” film series.

“He was blown away by me. He said, ‘How do you get your voice like that,’” Myles said proudly about Englund’s reaction to Myles’ rendition of Freddy’s voice.

The team of amateur producers got a lot of attention for the fan film. “Before you know it we were on KTLA in Los Angeles,” said Myles.

After all the attention they received for their short film, the men were inspired to create more mayhem in a movie Myles wrote called “Mental Scars.” That film was shot in surround sound and on 35-millemeter rather than less professional video tape, thanks to the $500,000 investment of Ron Bard, a noted psychic who Forbes business magazine once wrote was so sought after he can ask $5,000 per hour for a consultation.

“Mental Scars,” is about a Native American protecting the sacred land of his ancestors, driven to kill by the power mad corporate executives who want to take his land. Myles wrote the script, stars in the movie and even wrote the score himself.

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The movie, completed last year and now available from Amazon, Net Flix, Best Buy and other media outlets, led Myles and Perez into the upper echelons of horror film superstars, including a friendship with horror icon Englund.

Their close contact to those of such interest to other horror movie producers and fans, spurred their next idea of creating an interactive horror film magazine as an iPhone application. After about a year of creating the technology and getting approval from Apple, the pair went live on iPhone with an “ap” called DEAD ZONE MAGAZINE, an interactive digital product with music, video, stories and even a creepy vibrating response when a page is turned.

The first edition of DEAD ZONE is available at 1.99 for a single subscription or $10.99 for a six months subscription. The August issue include an interview with cult horror movie superstar Michael Barryman of “The Hills Have Eyes,” and Devil’s Rejects, and “The Goonies.” A preview can be downloaded for free on iTunes.

The pair is in the process of creating an even scarier virtual application where readers can go into different rooms and even into a retail store to purchase products such as a clothing line by renowned tattoo artist Ed Hardy. That magazine ap will be available for other phones including Blackberries.

These days Myles and Perez also have another movie in the works, “Mental Scars II,” written by Perez.

Myles will most likely be exploring ways to be even scarier in his next incarnation as the creepy main character, David Taggart. He is probably going to have to do something about that ever-present smile.

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