David Schmoeller

David Schmoeller (born 1947) is a film and television director who has primarily worked in the medium of horror.
== Biography ==
David Schmoeller was born December 8th, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky and was raised and educated in Texas. After completing his Masters in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas, he worked as an interpreter for ABC Sports for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Schmoeller then spent six months as an intern working on the conspiracy thriller film Capricorn One. Around the same time, David Schmoeller completed his thesis film, a horror short entitled The Spider Will Kill You. He followed that up with his first feature film Tourist Trap, which features similar themes and was also about a deranged loner with a stranger relationship with mannequins. The film wasn't a hit in its initial release but reappraisal has garnered it a cult following and praise from horror author Stephen King in his book of critical media essays Danse Macabre. The film was the first partnership with executive producer Charles Band, who would go on to produce more of Schmoeller's films through his own production company and through Empire International Pictures and Full Moon Features.
For his second major film, Schmoeller directed the 1982 thriller The Seduction starring Morgan Fairchild and Andrew Stevens, which was poorly received by critics. In 1986, he released the horror film Crawlspace, about a sinister Nazi doctor, portrayed by famously difficult actor Klaus Kinski and inspired Schmoeller to release a documentary short about his experiences titles Please Kill Mr. Kinski in 1999.
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