Scott Spiegel

Known for ActingBorn 1957-12-24Died 2025-08-20Birmingham, Michigan, USA

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 early 1990s, he introduced film director Quentin Tarantino to producer Lawrence Bender, who helped Tarantino get Reservoir Dogs made. Spiegel grew up in what was then "rural" Birmingham, Michigan. He attended Walnut Lake Elementary school and then went on to attend West Maple Jr. High School. It was here that Scott met Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Spiegel worked at the local grocery market across from Walnut Lake Elementary School and it is from this market that Scott would later draw upon the memories to come up with classic scenes that would eventually be worked into many of the scenes of the movies he would either write or direct. In 1999, Spiegel directed the direct-to-video sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn, Texas Blood Money. Spiegel formed the production company Raw Nerve with film directors Eli Roth, and Boaz Yakin. Raw Nerve produced the film Hostel (2005), directed by Roth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Spiegel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist

Pulp Fiction

Clockwork

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Evil Dead II

QT8: The First Eight

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'

Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion

The Evil Dead

The Making of High Noon

The Blind Waiter

Acting and Reacting

Drag Me to Hell

Lionheart

The Quick and the Dead

Darkman

Intruder

Hit List

Hostel

Hostel: Part II

Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter

The Incredibly Strange Film Show Sam Raimi

The Rookie

Torro. Torro. Torro!

Stryker's War

Within the Woods

Attack of the Helping Hand!

Red

Babysitter Wanted

2001 Maniacs

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever

Oedipus Rex

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

Hostel: Part III

Nude Bowling Party

The Sappy Sap

Pulp Fiction: The Facts

Hatred Of A Minute

Skinned Alive

The Dead Next Door

Robot Ninja

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure