Director Marcus Nispel (1963)

Friday the 13th (2009) is a slasher film, helmed by director Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. On this ominous date in June of 1980, a young Jason Voorhees witnesses his mother’s beheading at the hands of a camp counselor, who was trying to escape Mrs. Voorhees’s murderous rampage around Camp Crystal Lake. Nearly three decades later, five friends—Wade, Richie, Amanda, Mike, and Whitney—arrive for a camping trip at Crystal Lake with hopes of stumbling upon a hidden marijuana crop in the ...

The American slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), was directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Scott Kosar. On August 18, 1973, five young adults – Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and friends Morgan, Andy, and Pepper – were traveling to a concert after purchasing marijuana in Mexico. While driving through Texas, they picked up a distressed hitchhiker who spoke incoherently about ‘a bad man’ before tragically taking her own life. In need of assistance, the group stopped at a nearby gas station where Luda Mae instructed them to meet Sheriff ...