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      David Hess

      David Hess

      Highest Rated: 75% American Grindhouse (2010)

      Lowest Rated: 20% Avalanche Express (1979)

      Birthday: Sep 19, 1936

      Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

      David Hess is most known for playing psychotic killers in graphic horror movies. He is less known for his career as a songwriter, penning tunes for such country and pop stars as Sal Mineo, Pat Boone, and Conway Twitty. Hess' most infamous acting role in the horror genre, by far, was Krug Stillo, the merciless rapist-killer in Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left"; it remains one of cinema's most brutal slasher movies, despite the fact that it was adapted from Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" and significantly edited to make it less "hardcore." Hess also wrote and performed on the film's soundtrack, which was employed as a stark contrast to the onscreen action: comic, upbeat musical themes in the midst of rape, mutilation, and murder. He collaborated with the Italian director of "Cannibal Holocaust" fame, Ruggero Deodato, two times, most notably in "House on the Edge of the Park," playing a Krug Stillo-like maniac and committing sexual violence wherever he goes. A few years later, Hess worked again with Wes Craven, for the adaptation "Swamp Thing," once again playing the villain, Ferret. For Eli Roth's 2002 gore-ridden horror film "Cabin Fever," Hess both wrote and performed several songs, and he played a slasher film director looking for inspiration in the gory meta-horror "Smash Cut" (2009). Hess died of a heart attack in 2011, aged 75.

      Highest rated movies

      American Grindhouse
      Last House on the Left
      Swamp Thing
      House on the Edge of the Park
      Avalanche Express

      Photos

      LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, David Hess, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, 1972. LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, David Hess, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, 1972. LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, Jeramie Rain, David Hess, 1972 LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, David Hess, Gaylord St. James, 1972 LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, Marc Sheffler, David Hess, 1972 LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, Jeramie Rain, David Hess, Sandra Cassel, Fred J Lincoln, 1972 LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, Marc Sheffler, David Hess, 1972 SWAMP THING, from left: David Hess, Adrienne Barbeau, 1982, © Embassy Films SWAMP THING, David Hess (center), 1982, © Embassy Pictures

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Deodato Holocaust Alex / Robert Ritchie (Character) - 2019
      75% 71% American Grindhouse Unknown (Character) $4.6K 2010
      No Score Yet 20% Smash Cut Able Whitman (Character) - 2009
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Go Together Aldo Modisco (Character) - 2007
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Absence of Light Whiplash (Character) - 2006
      No Score Yet 17% Zodiac Killer Mel Navokov (Character) - 2005
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Nutcracker John Gard/Clyde Fairfax (Character) - 2001
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Is the Monster ... You or Me? Producer - 1995
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Jonathan of the Bears Maddock (Character) - 1993
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Buck at the Edge of Heaven Unknown (Character) - 1991
      No Score Yet 26% Let's Get Harry Mercenary (Character) $141.0K 1986
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Body Count Robert Ritchie (Character) - 1986
      60% 41% Swamp Thing Ferret (Character) - 1982
      43% 38% House on the Edge of the Park Alex (Character) - 1980
      No Score Yet 20% To All a Good Night Director - 1980
      20% 12% Avalanche Express Geiger (Character) - 1979
      No Score Yet 66% Hitch-Hike Adam Konitz (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet 73% Autostop rosso sangue (Hitch Hike) Unknown (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet 26% The Swiss Conspiracy Sando (Character) - 1976
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Montana Trap Sleeve (Character) - 1976
      65% 50% Last House on the Left Krug Stillo (Character),
      Original Music
      - 1972

      TV

      Credit
      93% 90% The Good Wife Jonathan Dobbs (Guest Star) 2010
      56% 64% The A-Team Ben Al Fradeen (Guest Star) 1986
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1985