
February 16, 1961 · 65 years old
Eric Red (born February 16, 1961) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for writing the horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark.

A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.

A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.

A rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest - only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

After being bitten by a werewolf in the jungle, Ted looks for a cure. His lawyer sister, with a son and dog, invites him to park his camper by her house in the woods and live out of her fridge.

After losing his arm in a car accident, a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer.

Left for dead by his bank robbing gang, a marauder joins a posse to seek revenge.

When a little boy witnesses a mob hit, he is kidnapped by two professional assassins who are not what they seem.