Overview

• He died on September 1 at age 67, according to obituaries published this week.
• His credits include co-writing Evil Dead II (1987) and Clint Eastwood’s The Rookie (1990), and directing Intruder (1989), Hostel: Part III, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, and My Name Is Modesty.
• He served as executive producer on the Hostel franchise and co-founded the Raw Nerve production banner with Eli Roth.
• A formative member of Sam Raimi’s Michigan filmmaking circle, he later shared a Los Angeles home with Raimi, the Coen brothers, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, and Kathy Bates, and appeared in Raimi’s films with a voice role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
• Variety recounts that he introduced producer Lawrence Bender to Quentin Tarantino in the early 1990s, and he is survived by two brothers and a niece.