Writer/director Eric Red was born as Eric Joseph Durdaller on February 16, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was raised in Manhattan. He specializes in hard, edgy pictures that have tough, no-nonsense tones and frequently address the darker aspects of human nature. Red attended the AFI Conservatory, which he graduated from in 1983. Eric was ...
Having a little girl hacking her privates bloody with a crucifix, sticking her mother's face in it, and then turning her head 180 degrees around is without question the most horrific and transgressive set piece in American horror. That the sequence in The Exorcist (1973) was staged in broad daylight added to the terror, as did the incredible subliminal sound work. This unequalled masterpiece remains a great influence on my work, and I'm always trying to achieve that sense of reality and suspension of disbelief.
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I love horror movies because they have such tremendous energy, and a lot of them don't go far enough. I've attempted to give my pictures a real human level.
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I want to give evil poignancy instead of making it straight-out monstrous. People aren't black and white. They live in gray areas, and I like giving my heroes and villains different shadings.
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Fact
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Graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York in 1978.
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Studied Screenwriting at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, California.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
100 Feet
2008
written by
The Hitcher
2007
1986 film / screenplay
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
2003
Video characters
Bad Moon
1996
screenplay
Undertow
1996
TV Movie written by
The Last Outlaw
1993
TV Movie written by
Body Parts
1991
screenplay
Blue Steel
1990
written by
Cohen and Tate
1988
written by
Near Dark
1987
written by
Telephone
1986
Short
The Hitcher
1986
written by
Gunmen's Blues
1981
Short
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Night of the Wild
2015
TV Movie
100 Feet
2008
Bad Moon
1996
Undertow
1996
TV Movie
Body Parts
1991
Cohen and Tate
1988
Telephone
1986
Short
Gunmen's Blues
1981
Short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Telephone
1986
Short
Gunmen's Blues
1981
Short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Last Outlaw
1993
TV Movie co-executive producer
Near Dark
1987
co-producer
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Last Outlaw
1993
TV Movie second unit director
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Hitcher: 'How Do These Movies Get Made?'
2003
Video documentary short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
That $#!% Will Rot Your Brain: How the Monster Kids Transformed Popular Culture
2014
Documentary
Himself
A Look Back at 'Cohen & Tate'
2013
Video short
Himself
This Week in Horror
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Hitcher: 'How Do These Movies Get Made?'
2003
Video documentary short
Himself
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1992
Saturn Award
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
$10 Million
