Eric Red
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Eric Red (born Eric Joseph Durdaller on February 16, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a screenwriter and director, best known for writing the horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark.
Red attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated in 1983. His thesis script, The Hitcher, was produced in 1986, and is considered a cult-horror classic.
A major studio remake of The Hitcher was released in 2007, with Red on board as a consultant.
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Selected filmography
- 100 Feet, writer/director (2008)
- Stopping Power, writer (2008)
- Bad Moon, writer/director (1996)
- Undertow, writer/director (1996)
- Body Parts, writer/director (1991)
- Blue Steel, writer (1990)
- Cohen and Tate, writer/director (1989)
- Near Dark, writer (1987)
- The Hitcher, writer (1986)
- Telephone, writer/director (1986)
- Gunmen's Blues, writer/director (1981)
Fatal car crash
Red was determined to be at fault in a car accident that caused two deaths on May 31, 2000. No criminal charges were brought, but a jury in a civil suit found that he had acted intentionally. The suit, which awarded over a million dollars to the families of the two men killed in the accident, was appealed to state and federal courts which confirmed the original jury finding.[1]
References
- ^ LA Weekly story - Death Race
External links
- Eric Red at the Internet Movie Database
- EyeForFilm.co.ukInterview with Eric Red about 100 Feet and Nightlife
