Scott Spiegel
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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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.5 |
Birthday | 1957-12-24 |
Place of Birth | Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
Also Known As | Peter Perkinson, Scott Spiegal, Scott Speigel, |
1978
Within the Woods
5.7/64
The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.
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Within the Woods
1992
Wild Malibu Weekend!
2.8/4
National beauties compete in a TV game show.
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Wild Malibu Weekend!
1990
Skinned Alive
5.7/17
Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning...
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Skinned Alive
1989
Robot Ninja
5/15
A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.
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Robot Ninja
1992
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
7/10
A documentary detailing the making of the cult favorite "Plan 9 from Outer Space," featuring interviews with cast members and prominent filmmakers abo...
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Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
1977
It's Murder!
5.6/7
The film tells the story of a family whose uncle is murdered. The son gets everything because he's in the will. The detective is trying to find out wh...
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It's Murder!
1993
Red
5.4/23
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, profa...
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Red
1990
Darkman
6.432/1306
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been bur...
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Darkman
Dark Ascension
0/0
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...
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Dark Ascension
2011
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
10/1
Documentary about the making of "Intruder".
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Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
2002
Spider-Man
7.3/18565
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to b...
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Spider-Man
2004
Spider-Man 2
7.278/14769
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 th...
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Spider-Man 2
1985
The Sappy Sap
5.2/5
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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The Sappy Sap
2007
Babysitter Wanted
5.448/172
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...
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Babysitter Wanted
1991
Shock Cinema: Volume One
2.5/2
An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.
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Shock Cinema: Volume One
1990
The Girl I Want
2/1
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...
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The Girl I Want
1972
Oedipus Rex
2/1
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Oedipus Rex
1985
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
4.957/23
Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker, however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker take...
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1989
The Dead Next Door
4.9/63
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...
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The Dead Next Door
2009
Drag Me to Hell
6.422/3570
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 th...
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Drag Me to Hell
1978
Clockwork
5.1/18
A very wealthy, but lonely woman is stalked in her home by a violent serial killer.
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Clockwork
1987
Evil Dead II
7.55/3007
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 anci...
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Evil Dead II
2011
Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
7.2/8
A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.
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Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
1995
Nude Bowling Party
5.5/8
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...
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Nude Bowling Party
2005
2001 Maniacs
5.34/253
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 an...
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2001 Maniacs
1999
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
4.6/443
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 w...
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1995
The Quick and the Dead
6.55/1666
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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The Quick and the Dead
1990
Lionheart
6.5/996
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-...
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Lionheart
1996
Where Truth Lies
3.9/7
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...
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Where Truth Lies
1989
Intruder
6.302/258
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
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Intruder
2012
Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
5.8/10
A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstruc...
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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
1982
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
6.3/6
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
2009
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
0/0
This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock...
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Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
1978
Acting and Reacting
6.8/28
An early Josh Becker short starting Bruce Campbell with appearances by Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel.
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Acting and Reacting
1980
Stryker's War
5.9/4
A wounded Vietnam Vet and his pal's save a small town from a crazed cult leader and his maniac killer gang
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Stryker's War
1981
Torro. Torro. Torro!
5.9/7
A lawnmower goes on a rampage.
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Torro. Torro. Torro!
2019
QT8: The First Eight
7.193/148
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 scanda...
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QT8: The First Eight
1977
Six Months to Live
6/2
Early Sam Raimi/Scott Spiegel short.
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Six Months to Live
1985
Sam Raimi Early Shorts
6.7/3
The Sam Raimi Super 8 shorts.
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Sam Raimi Early Shorts
2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
7.3/8756
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to c...
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
1976
The Case of the Topanga Pearl
0/0
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The Case of the Topanga Pearl
1980
The Blind Waiter
7/1
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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The Blind Waiter
2014
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
8.5/2
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 "...
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Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
1988
The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Sam Raimi
0/0
An early profile of the filmmaker, fresh off Evil Dead II and ready to begin production of Darkman for Universal. Raimi and his collaborators Scott Sp...
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Sam Raimi
1969
Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
0/0
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.
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Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
1981
The Evil Dead
7.301/3839
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.
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