Top 10 People Of Horror We Want Back Part 9

We recently looked over at another site and saw a similar list that really disappointed us.  What this list represents are actors and directors that strayed away from the genre before we were ready and hope to one day see again.


2. Fred Dekker

Career Highlights:
Tales From The Crypt
House
The Monster Squad
Night Of The Creeps


Now even though Fred Dekker's resume is a little light compared to some of the other talented individuals on this list I must stand by my ranking.  It could be that the few films he was involved with just happen to be some of my favorites.  It could be that his films were released at a point in my adolescence when I was just discovering the horror genre and wanted to have my own M0nster Squad".  Or it could simply be that Fred Dekker was and, we all hope still is, an amazing writer and director.  Dekker attended film school at UCLA along with his fellow classmates and friends Shane Black (writer of Predator), Ed Solomon, and Chris Matheson (writers of the Bill & Ted films).  It was there that he built his writing skills leading to him making his writing debut with the Sean S. Cunningham produced and Steve Miner directed horror comedy House.   In the same year (1986) he made his directing debut with the cult classic Night Of The Creeps starring Tom Atkins.  A film that still remains one of its kind full of aliens, zombies, and creepy crawlies; that was just released on DVD  last year for the first time.  His next writer/director was The Monster Squad another horror comedy that spoke to the child and horror fan in all of us as which follows a group of middle school friends as they try to stop Dracula, The Creature, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman from attacking their small town.  Through the later end of the 80's into the 90's he focused more on writing with credits for 5 episodes of Tales From The Crypt, one of which he directed, and several non horror features.  Sadly his last directing effort was the disappointing Robocop 3; a film that was riddled with production issues from the beginning that left us with a fowl taste in our mouths.  Afterwards we never saw another directing or even writing credit from Fred Dekker now making it almost a 10 year hiatus.  With a rejuvenation in the popularity of Night Of The Creeps and Monster Squad he has begun to roam the convention circuit where the fans are letting him know that they want him back.  Let's hope he takes the offer.