
Victor Salva
Directing
Biography
Victor Ronald Salva (born March 29, 1958) is an American film director and screenwriter. The self-described protégé of Francis Ford Coppola, he is best known for writing and directing the horror films Jeepers Creepers (2001), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), and Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017). In 1988, Salva was convicted of sexually abusing child actor Nathan Forrest Winters during the production of Clownhouse (1989), he also videotaped one of the encounters and was found to possess child pornography, though this was not publicized until 2006. Protests against his films soon followed, including boycotts organized by Winters. Despite this, he has continued to work in the industry and has made the films Powder (1995), Peaceful Warrior (2006), Rosewood Lane (2011), and Dark House (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Salva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
Jeepers Creepers

A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.
Fear Itself

When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
Jeepers Creepers 2

Taking place on the last day of the Creeper’s twenty-three-day feeding frenzy, as the skeptical Sergeant Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.
Jeepers Creepers 3

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.
Powder

A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
Peaceful Warrior

Three teenage brothers are terrorized by a trio of escaped mental patients disguised as clowns.
Clownhouse

A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
Dark House

Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
Rosewood Lane

A father and his two sons go on holiday together hoping to reconcile some of their differences, but when the arrival of two escaped convicts interrupts their vacation, the three men must cooperate in order to survive.
Rites of Passage

Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Nature of the Beast

A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
Hitchcocked!
A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.
Something in the Basement
A broken-down sheriff is forced to join forces with an obsessed Victorian vampire hunter to defeat an undead force consuming a small frontier town in 1892 New Mexico.
Purgatory

It is Samantha's wedding day- but she gets a note saying her groom-to-be is a serial killer.
Fear Itself: In Sickness and in Health

As children, Rheanna and Annette are happy. However, after an evening of ghost stories and games with their friend Tara, what started as innocent fun soon turns into a nightmare. Rheanna, the youngest is murdered by the Old Hag Syndrome, leaving both Annette and her mother Pamela scarred. An older Annette, desperate to be closer to her mentally unstable mother, becomes an intern at the psychiatric hospital where her mother resides. After a number of paranormal encounters, some resulting in mysterious deaths, Annette becomes convinced that the Old Hag Syndrome is supernatural rather than psychological threat. The haunting and death of Pamela and the haunting of Tara's only daughter, pushes Annette to fight this creature before more lives are lost. As Annette is plunged into her own personal nightmare, the forces of evil conspire against her as she prepares to make her final stand, with the help of both hardened skeptic, Alex and the man of faith, Tumeric.