William Malone (director)
William Malone ( born 1953 in Lansing, Michigan ) is an American film director of horror films.
Life
At the age of 14, he turned home videos with a 8mm camera and redesigned monster masks for Halloween. At 19 he moved to Los Angeles and began to work at the Don Post Studios in the field Costumes and Makeup as well as a makeup artist. Among other things, he was also responsible for the design of the mask of Michael Myers in the horror movie Halloween. Later he began to study directing at UCLA and turned in 1980 with a budget of 74,000 dollars his first film, the sci- fi horror Scared to Death. 1985 succeeded Malone Creature with the breakthrough.
He spent the next 14 years mainly with television productions. So he turned an episode of Freddy 's Nightmares as well as some consequences of the hit HBO series Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt ).
Through its collaboration with Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis in Tales from the Crypt 1999 he got the order to lead the remake directed to William Castle classic Haunted Hill ( House on Haunted Hill ). The horror thriller was the first film of Silvers and Zemeckis ' newly established production company Dark Castle Entertainment and Halloween '99 was a hit at the U.S. box office.
2002 was followed by the flop FearDotCom with Natascha McElhone and Stephen Dorff. His directorial work The Fair Haired Child in the Showtime TV series Masters of Horror was the most watched episode of the entire season. Recently William Malone worked on the horror thriller Parasomnia.