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Eli Craig

Highest Rated: 92% Little Evil (2017)

Lowest Rated: 23% The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Birthday: May 25, 1972

Birthplace: Los Angeles County, California, USA

Eli Craig was born into a show business family, but didn't begin his own acting career until he was in his late 20s. The son of actress Sally Field, Craig had decided when he was younger that he wanted to stay away from show business. He got a degree in psychology, and worked for a time as an Outward Bound guide. But eventually, he was lured back to Hollywood. Craig had a co-starring role in "Deal of a Lifetime," about a high school nerd who exchanges his soul for a date with the popular girl. In 2000, Craig played the younger version of Hawk, Tommy Lee Jones's character, in Clint Eastwood's adventure about elderly astronauts, "Space Cowboys." He also had a role in "The Rage: Carrie 2," which was essentially a remake of Brian DePalma's classic 1970s horror film, "Carrie." It was on that set that Craig decided he'd be better off making his own films. He applied and was accepted to U.S.C. After graduation, he directed commercials, music videos, and short films for several years, before writing the script for "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" with fellow U.S.C. alumnus, Morgan Jurgenson. The script was partly inspired by Craig's experience bringing nervous city kids into the woods for Outward Bound. He directed the horror-comedy, which flips the typical college-kids-get-lost-in-the-woods-and-murdered-by-hillbillies scenario on its head. Tucker (Tyler Labine) and Dale (Alan Tudyk) are nice guys, but when the paranoid kids mistake them for psychopaths, all sorts of bloody violence ensues.

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Highest rated movies

92% 47% Little Evil Watchlist
86% 85% Tucker & Dale vs Evil
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23% 33% The Rage: Carrie 2
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Clown in a Cornfield
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14% Deal of a Lifetime
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Clown in a Cornfield Director - 2024
92% 47% Little Evil Director,
Screenwriter
- 2017
86% 85% Tucker & Dale vs Evil Director,
Screenwriter
$223.6K 2010
No Score Yet 14% Deal of a Lifetime Kevin Johnson (Character) - 1999
23% 33% The Rage: Carrie 2 Chuck (Character) $17.8M 1999

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79% 84% Brothers & Sisters Director 2010