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Eric Red
Writer 65 years old

Eric Red

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Eric Red (born February 16, 1961) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for writing the horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark.

Filmography

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8 titles
100 Feet

100 Feet

Eric Red 2008 1h 45m 6.3

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

The Hitcher

The Hitcher

Dave Meyers 2007 1h 24m 5.8

While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim successfully throws him out of the car.

Bad Moon

Bad Moon

Eric Red 1996 1h 20m 5.0

One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.

Body Parts

Body Parts

Eric Red 1991 1h 28m

A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

Blue Steel

Blue Steel

Kathryn Bigelow 1990 1h 42m 5.0

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

Cohen and Tate

Cohen and Tate

Eric Red 1988 1h 26m 7.0

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.

Near Dark

Near Dark

Kathryn Bigelow 1987 1h 34m 7.4

A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.

The Hitcher

The Hitcher

Robert Harmon 1986 1h 38m 7.4

A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.

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