Don Coscarelli

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Don Coscarelli (born February 17, 1954) is a Libyan-born American film director and screenwriter best known for horror films. His credits include the Phantasm series, The Beastmaster, and Bubba Ho-Tep.

He directed the first installment of the American TV series Masters of Horror called "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" which was based on a short story by Joe R. Lansdale. Coscarelli is currently working on Bubba Nosferatu, a sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep, also written by Joe R. Lansdale. He co-directed his first movie Jim, The World's Greatest at the age of nineteen with Craig Mitchell. Phantasm was his first collaboration with longtime partner Lawrence Rory Guy, who would later be better known as Angus Scrimm.

[edit] Filmography

• Jim, The World's Greatest (1975)
• Kenny & Company (1978)
• Phantasm (1977)
• The Beastmaster (1982)
• Phantasm II (1988)
• Survival Quest (1990)
• Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
• Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
• Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
• Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005)
• Bubba Nosferatu (2008; announced [1])

[edit] External links

• Page at phantasm.com
• Don Coscarelli at the Internet Movie Database
• Coscarelli interviewed by Fortean Times