Scott Spiegel

Acting

Scott Spiegel

Born — Died

1957-12-24 — 2025-08-20

Place of birth

Birmingham, Michigan, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

96 titles

Scott Spiegel (December 10, 1957 – August 20, 2025) was 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 earl…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

QT8: The First Eight poster
7.2

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.

QT8: The First Eight

2019

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever poster
5.2

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!

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever

2012

Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist poster
8.5

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.

Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist

2014

Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2' poster
7.2

A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.

Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'

2011

Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder poster
10.0

Documentary about the making of "Intruder".

Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder

2011

2000s · 9 titles

Spider-Man poster
7.4

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.

Spider-Man

2002

Spider-Man 2 poster
7.3

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...

Spider-Man 2

2004

Drag Me to Hell poster
6.5

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.

Drag Me to Hell

2009

2001 Maniacs poster
5.4

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!

2001 Maniacs

2005

Babysitter Wanted poster
5.5

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.

Babysitter Wanted

2007

Pulp Fiction: The Facts poster
5.0

Behind the scenes of the legendary classic film by Quentin Tarantino.

Pulp Fiction: The Facts

2002

The Cult of Ichi poster
NR

Documentary on Ichi the Killer, The Cult of Ichi, features a number of folks – writers, producers, directors, actors, magazine editors, authors- from the horror genre. - screenanarchy.com

The Cult of Ichi

2007

Hatred Of A Minute poster
5.0

A tragic love story/psychlogical thriller, Hatred of a Minute, is the story of a medical transcriptionist that becomes a serial killer because of his physically and mentally abusive past. His mind spirals out of control as a war between good and evil; right and wrong unfold in front of his eyes in the form of personal angels and demons.

Hatred Of A Minute

2002

Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare poster
NR

This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.

Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare

2009

1990s · 12 titles

The Quick and the Dead poster
6.6

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

The Quick and the Dead

1995

Lionheart poster
6.6

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.

Lionheart

1990

Darkman poster
6.4

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.

Darkman

1990

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money poster
4.6

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.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

1999

Nude Bowling Party poster
5.2

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.

Nude Bowling Party

1995

Skinned Alive poster
5.1

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.

Skinned Alive

1990

The Girl I Want poster
4.0

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.

The Girl I Want

1990

Shock Cinema: Volume One poster
4.0

An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.

Shock Cinema: Volume One

1991

Where Truth Lies poster
3.7

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 last resort, he commits to an experimental rehab with bizarre methods.

Where Truth Lies

1996

Red poster
5.7

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.

Red

1993

Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion poster
7.2

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.

Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion

1992

Wild Malibu Weekend! poster
3.4

In this sun-soaked comedy, a Malibu game show, Bikini Showdown, pits quirky contestants against one another for $10,000 and a shot at Hollywood fame. Sweet country girl Mary (Barbara Moore), fierce Kelly (Kathy Pasmore), and ambitious Natalie (Shauna O'Brien) dive into outrageous challenges.

Wild Malibu Weekend!

1995

1980s · 11 titles

Evil Dead II poster
7.5

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.

Evil Dead II

1987

The Evil Dead poster
7.3

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.

The Evil Dead

1983

Intruder poster
6.2

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

Intruder

1989

The Dead Next Door poster
4.8

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.

The Dead Next Door

1989

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except poster
4.8

Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns, he tries to live a quiet life in his cabin and go back out with his girlfriend, Sally.

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

1985

The Sappy Sap poster
5.1

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

The Sappy Sap

1985

Robot Ninja poster
4.5

A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.

Robot Ninja

1989

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter poster
6.1

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter

1982

Stryker's War poster
5.9

A wounded Vietnam Vet and his pals save a small town from a crazed cult leader and his maniac killer gang

Stryker's War

1980

The Blind Waiter poster
7.0

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

The Blind Waiter

1980

Torro. Torro. Torro! poster
5.8

A lawnmower goes on a rampage.

Torro. Torro. Torro!

1981

1970s · 13 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Evil Dead II poster
7.5

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.

Evil Dead II

1987

Hostel: Part III poster
5.1

Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.

Hostel: Part III

2011

Hostel: Part III poster
5.1

Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.

Hostel: Part III

2011

The Rookie poster
5.9

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

The Rookie

1990

2001 Maniacs poster
5.4

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!

2001 Maniacs

2005

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money poster
4.6

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.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

1999

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money poster
4.6

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.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

1999

Intruder poster
6.2

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

Intruder

1989

Intruder poster
6.2

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

Intruder

1989

My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure poster
4.4

Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.

My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure

2004

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except poster
4.8

Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns, he tries to live a quiet life in his cabin and go back out with his girlfriend, Sally.

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

1985

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter poster
6.1

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter

1982

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter poster
6.1

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter

1982

Attack of the Helping Hand! poster
5.8

General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.

Attack of the Helping Hand!

1979

Attack of the Helping Hand! poster
5.8

General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.

Attack of the Helping Hand!

1979

Attack of the Helping Hand! poster
5.8

General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.

Attack of the Helping Hand!

1979

The Blind Waiter poster
7.0

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

The Blind Waiter

1980

The Blind Waiter poster
7.0

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

The Blind Waiter

1980

The Blind Waiter poster
7.0

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

The Blind Waiter

1980

I'll Never Heil Again poster
NR

A re-working of the classic 'Three Stooges' WWII short 'You Natzy Spy!' (1940).

I'll Never Heil Again

1975

I'll Never Heil Again poster
NR

A re-working of the classic 'Three Stooges' WWII short 'You Natzy Spy!' (1940).

I'll Never Heil Again

1975

Hit List poster
6.2

A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

Hit List

1989

Night Crew poster
NR

A pre-EVIL DEAD Super 8 short from Scott Spiegel and Sam Raimi that became the basis for INTRUDER.

Night Crew

1979

Torro. Torro. Torro! poster
5.8

A lawnmower goes on a rampage.

Torro. Torro. Torro!

1981

Torro. Torro. Torro! poster
5.8

A lawnmower goes on a rampage.

Torro. Torro. Torro!

1981

James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow" poster
NR

Parody of a James Bond film starring Bruce Campbell.

James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow"

1976

Inspector Clutz Saves the Day poster
NR

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.

Inspector Clutz Saves the Day

1969

Inspector Clutz Saves the Day poster
NR

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.

Inspector Clutz Saves the Day

1969

Nightmares poster
NR

The true story that became the basis one of the greatest horror movies of all time, following a journalist attempting to uncover the truth behind several unexplained deaths

Nightmares

2026

Curse of the Werewolf poster
NR

American horror short from 1974.

Curse of the Werewolf

1974

The Singing Nutzs poster
NR

A comical take on the title of the 1966 Debbie Reynolds film 'The Singing Nun'.

The Singing Nutzs

1974

The Singing Nutzs poster
NR

A comical take on the title of the 1966 Debbie Reynolds film 'The Singing Nun'.

The Singing Nutzs

1974

The James Hoffa Story poster
NR

The kidnapping of Jimmy Hoffa outside The Machus Red Fox goes awry.

The James Hoffa Story

1975

All the World's a Stooge poster
NR

Bruce tries to teach Spiegel, Taylor, & Quill how to play tennis, but he hasn't go tthe balls!

All the World's a Stooge

1974

A Night in a Sanitarium poster
NR

American horror short from 1973.

A Night in a Sanitarium

1973

No Dough Boys poster
NR

Spiegel, Taylor, & Quill get jobs, get fired, get chased, get beaten.

No Dough Boys

1974

Half-Wits-Holiday poster
NR

Super-8 remake of the classic 'Three Stooges' pie fight flick Half-Wits-Holiday (1947), shot silent, with an original stooges soundtrack on tape.

Half-Wits-Holiday

1974

Wrath poster
NR

A horrific murder that took place over two hundred years ago gives birth to a vengeful creature, The Easter Witch, who returns to exact revenge on the unsuspecting locals of a California coastal town in the mid-1980's.

Wrath

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Wrath poster
NR

A horrific murder that took place over two hundred years ago gives birth to a vengeful creature, The Easter Witch, who returns to exact revenge on the unsuspecting locals of a California coastal town in the mid-1980's.

Wrath

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Wrath poster
NR

A horrific murder that took place over two hundred years ago gives birth to a vengeful creature, The Easter Witch, who returns to exact revenge on the unsuspecting locals of a California coastal town in the mid-1980's.

Wrath

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