Scott Spiegel

Scott Spiegel

Born: December 24, 1957
in Birmingham, Michigan, USA
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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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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Title: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Character: Soul of the Damned (voice)
Released: May 4, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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QT8: The First Eight
Title: QT8: The First Eight
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Title: Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Title: Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Character: Himself
Released: October 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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!
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Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
Title: Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
Character: Self
Released: December 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of "Intruder".
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Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
Title: Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.
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Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Title: Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Character: Self
Released: July 28, 2009
Type: Movie
This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
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Drag Me to Hell
Title: Drag Me to Hell
Character: Mourner at Death Feast
Released: May 27, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Babysitter Wanted
Title: Babysitter Wanted
Character: Dr. Spiegel
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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2001 Maniacs
Title: 2001 Maniacs
Character: Strolling Minstrel #2
Released: May 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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!
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Spider-Man 2
Title: Spider-Man 2
Character: Man on Balcony
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
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...
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Spider-Man
Title: Spider-Man
Character: Marine Cop
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Title: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Character: Porno Director
Released: March 16, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Where Truth Lies
Title: Where Truth Lies
Character: Prison Guard
Released: December 28, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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The Quick and the Dead
Title: The Quick and the Dead
Character: Gold Teeth Man
Released: February 9, 1995
Type: Movie
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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Nude Bowling Party
Title: Nude Bowling Party
Character: Joe Pornofsky
Released: January 15, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Red
Title: Red
Character: The caller
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
Title: Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Wild Malibu Weekend!
Title: Wild Malibu Weekend!
Character: Make-Up Shemp #1
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
National beauties compete in a TV game show.
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Shock Cinema: Volume One
Title: Shock Cinema: Volume One
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.
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The Girl I Want
Title: The Girl I Want
Character: Guy 2
Released: August 29, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Darkman
Title: Darkman
Character: Dockworker
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Lionheart
Title: Lionheart
Character: Pool Fight Bookie
Released: June 7, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Skinned Alive
Title: Skinned Alive
Character: Phink
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Robot Ninja
Title: Robot Ninja
Character: Marty Coleslaw
Released: December 4, 1989
Type: Movie
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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The Dead Next Door
Title: The Dead Next Door
Character: Richards
Released: November 10, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Intruder
Title: Intruder
Character: Bread Man
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Sam Raimi
Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Sam Raimi
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 1988
Type: Movie
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 Spiegel, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell discuss early Super-8 productions, their breakthrough horror film Evil Dead, and their compromised sophomore effort Crimewave.
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Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Character: Self
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: TV
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.
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Evil Dead II
Title: Evil Dead II
Character: Fake Shemp
Released: March 13, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Character: Pin Cushion
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sappy Sap
Title: The Sappy Sap
Character: Man
Released: July 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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Sam Raimi Early Shorts
Title: Sam Raimi Early Shorts
Character: Scotty / Various (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The Sam Raimi Super 8 shorts.
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Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
Title: Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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The Evil Dead
Title: The Evil Dead
Character: Fake Shemp
Released: September 10, 1981
Type: Movie
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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Torro. Torro. Torro!
Title: Torro. Torro. Torro!
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A lawnmower goes on a rampage.
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Stryker's War
Title: Stryker's War
Released: July 4, 1980
Type: Movie
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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The Blind Waiter
Title: The Blind Waiter
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.
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Within the Woods
Title: Within the Woods
Character: Scotty
Released: October 30, 1978
Type: Movie
The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.
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Clockwork
Title: Clockwork
Character: Serial Killer
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A very wealthy, but lonely woman is stalked in her home by a violent serial killer.
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Acting and Reacting
Title: Acting and Reacting
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An early Josh Becker short starting Bruce Campbell with appearances by Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel.
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Six Months to Live
Title: Six Months to Live
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Early Sam Raimi/Scott Spiegel short.
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It's Murder!
Title: It's Murder!
Character: Police Detective
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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 who murdered the uncle, while trying to avoid ending up dead as well.
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The Case of the Topanga Pearl
Title: The Case of the Topanga Pearl
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Oedipus Rex
Title: Oedipus Rex
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Inspector Klutz Saves the Day
Title: Inspector Klutz Saves the Day
Character: Igor the Monster
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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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Dark Ascension
Title: Dark Ascension
Character: Man in Hell
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.