Sean S. Cunningham

Sean S. Cunningham was born on Dec 31, 1941 in USA. Sean S. Cunningham's big-screen debut came with The Last House on the Left directed by Wes Craven in 1972. Sean S. Cunningham is known for Friday the 13th: The Game directed by Randy Greenback, Kane Hodder stars as Jason Voorhees and Thom Mathews as Tommy Jarvis. The upcoming new movie Sean S. Cunningham plays is The Fall of Camp Blood which will be released on May 13, 2022.

Like William Girdler, Oliver Hellman or even Ed Wood, Sean S. Cunningham had a successful career of starting films cheap and fast. Originally from New York, Cunningham had a vast knowledge of directing films and came to Hollywood. He started about the same time Wes Craven did. Cunningham meets Craven and decided to make a comedy-romance film called Together (1971). Then they both shocked the world with the rape and ultra-violence of La Dernière Maison sur la gauche (1972). Craven directed the flick and Cunningham financed and produced. However Cunningham wanted to get a mix of comedy and horror and made Case of the Full Moon Murders (1973) and then started other comedy films like Manny's Orphans (1978) and Here Come the Tigers (1978) . Struggling in Hollywood Cunningham saw John Carpenter's La Nuit des masques (1978) and wanted to make a follow up type film but would possibly regret it. Cunningham brought Vendredi 13 (1980) into the cinema in 1980, a year of many other horror films. Vendredi 13 (1980) was a shocking, gory and violent film about camp counselors being slashed by a killer and had Betsy Palmer in the lead role. Little did Cunningham know that Friday the 13th would have never ending sequels. Cunningham gladly avoided all of them and Friday the 13th remains one of the most popular horror films in history. Instead Cunningham wanted to make it big when he brought a best-selling novel to the screen, Otages (1982) with Rip Torn, but it was a disappointment. Cunningham went downhill with the over sexed teen comedy La fièvre du printemps (1983) and Représailles (1985). Cunningham then produced House (1985) and several of its sequels. Cunningham next entered the world of underwater terrors after Abyss (1989) was released. Cunningham did a follow up called M.A.L., mutant aquatique en liberté (1989), but it was a flop, however it beat another 1989 underwater thriller Leviathan (1989) at box office receipts. Cunningham was finished with directing and moved on to producing films and teaching. He produced House III (1989), My Boyfriend's Back (1993) and Friday the 13th's last sequel Jason va en enfer (1993). Cunningham then did yet another follow up to Friday the 13th with Jason X (2001).