St. John attended
Lakeland High School. Both he and Ferrara attended and graduated from
New York University. Under the pseudonym
Nicholas George, St. John wrote the screenplay for Ferrara's 1976
pornographic film,
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy. He went on to write the screenplay of Ferrara's directorial debut,
The Driller Killer (1979). St. John also tried to dissuade Ferrara and
Harvey Keitel, who played the titular role, from even making it. Despite this, St. John wrote the scripts of Ferrara's subsequent films
Body Snatchers both released in 1993. The last two films that St. John has written to date are Ferrara's
The Addiction (1995) and
The Funeral (1996). In 2005, it was reported that St. John co-wrote a script with Danish filmmaker
Nicolas Winding Refn titled ''Billy's People''. However, the script was never made into a film due to
box office disaster results from Refn's films
Bleeder (1999) and
Fear X (2003). Ferrara said of St. John in 2015, "We started making films when we were 16, and then at a certain point he just had enough, you dig? He didn't dig the business, he didn't dig the spirituality of the business, didn't dig the lifestyle; and at the height of his game, of our game, he just said: enough." It has been said that St. John and Ferrara's longtime collaboration ended as a result of a falling-out. ==Filmography==