Scott Spiegel
Biography: Scott Spiegel (born December 24, 1957) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor. He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Evil Dead II with longtime friend, film director Sam Raimi, with whom he attended Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan. Spiegel played the role of Scotty in Raimi's Within the Woods, which served as a precursor to The Evil Dead. When Spiegel first moved to Los Angeles, he shared a house in with directors Raimi and Joel Coen, producer Ethan Coen and actresses Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Kathy Bates. He shared yet another house with roommate and film editor Bob Murawski (Spider-Man). In the early 1990s, he introduced film director Quentin Tarantino to producer Lawrence Bender, who helped Tarantino get Reservoir Dogs made. Spiegel grew up in what was then "rural" Birmingham, Michigan. He attended Walnut Lake Elementary school and then went on to attend West Maple Jr. High School. It was here that Scott met Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Spiegel worked at the local grocery market across from Walnut Lake Elementary School and it is from this market that Scott would later draw upon the memories to come up with classic scenes that would eventually be worked into many of the scenes of the movies he would either write or direct. In 1999, Spiegel directed the direct-to-video sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn, Texas Blood Money. Spiegel formed the production company Raw Nerve with film directors Eli Roth, and Boaz Yakin. Raw Nerve produced the film Hostel (2005), directed by Roth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Spiegel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: December 24, 1957
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Within the Woods
1978-10-30
Within the Woods
Overview: The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Wild Malibu Weekend!
1992-01-01
Wild Malibu Weekend!
Overview: National beauties compete in a TV game show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Skinned Alive
1990-02-01
Skinned Alive
Overview: Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning people alive before killing them. When their van breaks down, they are put up by a friendly couple.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Robot Ninja
1989-12-04
Robot Ninja
Overview: A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
1992-01-01
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
Overview: A documentary detailing the making of the cult favorite "Plan 9 from Outer Space," featuring interviews with cast members and prominent filmmakers about the film, its lasting legacy, and its creator, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
2014-01-31
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Overview: Invaluable is the feature-length documentary film about Tom Sullivan, creator of the special make-up effects in "The Evil Dead", "Evil Dead II", and "Army of Darkness". This film contains footage and places never before seen until now and features interviews with Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel, Josh Becker, Ted Raimi, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York, Ellen Sandweiss, Tom Sullivan, and many more.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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Red
1993-01-03
Red
Overview: Based on the true story of Louis "Red" Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-03
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022-05-04
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Overview: Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-04
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The Case of the Topanga Pearl
1976-01-01
The Case of the Topanga Pearl
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Blind Waiter
1980-02-01
The Blind Waiter
Overview: Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Darkman
1990-08-24
Darkman
Overview: Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Dark Ascension
Dark Ascension
Overview: The gates of Heaven & Hell have been broken and the afterlife is in ruins. One group of new arrivals must find a way to put things right to prevent an eternal battle between good & evil.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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Spider-Man
2002-05-01
Spider-Man
Overview: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Spider-Man 2
2004-06-25
Spider-Man 2
Overview: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
1969-01-01
Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
Overview: Professor needs a brain to have his monster, Igor, alive. Wrong brain causes monster to kill the creator and then Inspector Klutz shoots the monster.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Evil Dead
1981-09-10
The Evil Dead
Overview: In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-10
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The Sappy Sap
1985-07-01
The Sappy Sap
Overview: Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-01
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Babysitter Wanted
2007-07-19
Babysitter Wanted
Overview: When she takes a job babysitting a young boy for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling outside the windows. Angie gets the drop on the would-be killer, but quickly discovers that her nightmare has just begun.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-19
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Shock Cinema: Volume One
1991-01-01
Shock Cinema: Volume One
Overview: An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Girl I Want
1990-08-29
The Girl I Want
Overview: A brainy girl turns bimbo and a football star turns brainy in order to attract each other's attention, only to discover that they liked each other the way they were in the first place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-29
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Curse of the Werewolf
1974-01-01
Curse of the Werewolf
Overview: American horror short from 1974.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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A Night in a Sanitarium
1973-01-01
A Night in a Sanitarium
Overview: American horror short from 1973.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985-10-13
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Overview: Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker, however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader. Stryker teams up with some marine friends to form an assassination squad and annihilate the gang of crazed killers.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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The Dead Next Door
1989-11-10
The Dead Next Door
Overview: The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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Drag Me to Hell
2009-05-27
Drag Me to Hell
Overview: After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-27
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Oedipus Rex
1972-01-01
Oedipus Rex
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
2011-12-13
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
Overview: Documentary about the making of "Intruder".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-13
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Clockwork
1978-01-01
Clockwork
Overview: A very wealthy, but lonely woman is stalked in her home by a violent serial killer.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Evil Dead II
1987-03-13
Evil Dead II
Overview: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-13
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Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
2011-11-15
Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
Overview: A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-15
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Nude Bowling Party
1995-01-15
Nude Bowling Party
Overview: Two teams, one consisting of two models and one of two dancers compete in a bowling contest. Since there are prizes both for the winning team and for the sexiest bowler, the four girls strip totally by the third frame, and bowl the rest of the game wearing only bowling shoes and socks. This movie is set up as a take-off of "Bowling for Dollars", complete with announcers and fake commercials.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-15
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2001 Maniacs
2005-05-12
2001 Maniacs
Overview: On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a taste of them!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-12
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Where Truth Lies
1996-12-28
Where Truth Lies
Overview: Doctor Ian Lazarre is a hopeless alcoholic. After the tragic death of his wife and the failure of his second marriage, liquor is his only friend. As a last resort, he commits to an experimental rehab with bizarre methods.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999-03-16
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Overview: A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.
Genres: Crime Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-16
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The Quick and the Dead
1995-02-09
The Quick and the Dead
Overview: A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Lionheart
1990-06-07
Lionheart
Overview: Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-07
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Intruder
1989-01-27
Intruder
Overview: The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
2012-10-07
Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Overview: A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and rarely a final guy... this is a documentary which is designed for both the biggest fan of "mad maniac" movies and the person who may only have seen HALLOWEEN and SCREAM. Either way, this is a documentary that proves the SLASHER FILM is truly FOREVER!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-07
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Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
1982-04-01
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
Overview: Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
2009-07-28
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Overview: This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-28
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Acting and Reacting
1978-01-01
Acting and Reacting
Overview: An early Josh Becker short starting Bruce Campbell with appearances by Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Stryker's War
1980-07-04
Stryker's War
Overview: A wounded Vietnam Vet and his pal's save a small town from a crazed cult leader and his maniac killer gang
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-04
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Torro. Torro. Torro!
1981-01-01
Torro. Torro. Torro!
Overview: A lawnmower goes on a rampage.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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QT8: The First Eight
2019-10-21
QT8: The First Eight
Overview: A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021-01-02
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Overview: Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey Keitel a fairy and how did we all almost become diehard fans of Paul Calderon? Here’s a story about Quentin Tarantino. The director who needs no introduction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-02
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