Jeff Burr

Director JEFF BURRwas born in 1963 in Ohio. He grew up in Dalton, Georgia. Burr avidly watched low-budget independent movies at the local drive-in theater and made Super-8 pictures as a kid. Burr attended the University of Southern California for three years, where he met fellow student and aspiring filmmaker Kevin Meyer. The two of them dropped out of USC to complete "Divided We Fall," an acclaimed Civil War drama that wound up winning a plethora of awards at various film festivals all over the world. Burr made his first fright feature in 1987 with the superbly creepy and disturbing horror anthology winner "The Offspring." Burr then directed a handful horror sequels: "Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy," "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III," "Pumkinhead II: Blood Wings," and the fourth and fifth "Puppetmaster" movies. With the strong, gritty and harrowing World War II action drama "Straight Into Darkness" rating as a definite recent career highlight. In addition to directing, Jeff Burr has also played small roles in such movies as "The Mangler Reborn," "Dark Asylum," "High Tomb," and "Fear of a Black Hat."

Filmography

Jeff Burr - filmography

Devil's Den on DVD (2006)
Starring: Devon Sawa, Kelly Hu, Ken Foree
Director: Jeff Burr
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A strip club with no cover charge is too good to be true in this sexy horror movie. The dancers may be gorgeous, but their beauty belies a blood thirst endowed by Satan himself. A group led by Devon Sawa (FINAL DESTINATION) must fight these she-demons in a battle with eternal consequences. DEVIL'S ..read more »

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Straight Into Darkness on DVD (2005)
Starring: Ryan Francis, Scott MacDonald
Director: Jeff Burr
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Jeff Burr, known for his slasher sequels (PUMPKINHEAD 2, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3), ventures into new terrain with STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, a genre-bending and macabre tale set during WWII. Two Allied soldiers, the philosophical Losey (Ryan Francis) and psychotic Deming (Scott McDonald), are en ..read more »

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Phantom Town (1999)
Starring: John Patrick White, Taylor Locke, Lauren Summers
Director: Jeff Burr
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A sixteen year-old boy and his two siblings set out to find their missing parents, leading them to a ghostly abandoned town in the middle of the desert. However it doesn't take them long to discover that the town is not as abandoned as it first seemed...

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Pumpkinhead 2 - Blood Wings (1994)
Starring: Andrew Robinson, Ami Dolenz, Soleil Moon Frye
Director: Jeff Burr
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After a group of teenagers indirectly cause an old witch to be burned, they accidentally revive Pumpkinhead. This time Pumpkinhead is inhabited by the soul of a deformed orphan killed 30 years before. He goes on a bloody rampage after his tormentors and the teenagers. Meanwhile, a local sheriff ..read more »

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Eddie Presley on DVD (1993)
Starring: Duane Whitaker, Robert Lowden, Rick Askew
Director: Jeff Burr
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Eddie Presley is a faded Elvis impersonator whose life has also faded away. Fed up with living a life of broken dreams, Eddie decides it's time for one last comeback from the King of Elvis impersonators. Fighting against the doubters and the impresarios that refuse to book him, Eddie finally lands ..read more »

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface on DVD (1990)
Starring: Kate Hodge, R.A. Mihailoff, William Butler
Director: Jeff Burr
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Two friends begin a simple, uneventful drive to the Florida coast to deliver a car. But the trip soon becomes a voyage to hell when they hit the backroads of a barren Texas county and meet up with a monstrous serial killer LEATHERFACE and his cannibalistic family. Through all the gore, it's really ..read more »

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The Stepfather 2 on DVD (1989)
Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Caroline Williams
Director: Jeff Burr
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The unrepentant sociopathic killer has escaped from a psychiatric hospital and assumed a new identity. Posing as a family therapist he begins to court a divorced woman and wins over her son in order to satisfy his bloody urges.

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Frankenstein And The Werewolf Reborn on DVD
Starring: Ashley Lyn Cafagna, Ben Gould, Jaason Simmons
Director: Jeff Burr, David DeCoteau, David Decoteau
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A teenager investigates her Uncle's laboratory and discovers something alive and made from the dead... Another teenager experiences a cold welcome from the locals when she visits her cousin's village...

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Jeff Burr facts

5 most recent films

Devil's Den - 2.5 stars
Straight Into Darkness - 2.5 stars
Phantom Town - 0.5 stars
Pumpkinhead 2 - Blood Wings - 2.5 stars
Eddie Presley - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Stepfather 2 - 3.0 stars
Straight Into Darkness - 2.5 stars
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface - 2.5 stars
Devil's Den - 2.5 stars
Frankenstein And The Werewolf Reborn - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Phantom Town - 0.5 stars
Eddie Presley - 2.0 stars
Pumpkinhead 2 - Blood Wings - 2.5 stars
Frankenstein And The Werewolf Reborn - 2.0 stars
Devil's Den - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jonathan Brandis - 2 times - show films
Jim Metzler - 2 times - show films
Meg Foster - 2 times - show films
Taylor Locke - 2 times - show films
Caroline Williams - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David DeCoteau - 1 times - show films
David Decoteau - 1 times - show films
Chip Gubera - 1 times - show films

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